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Deviance - Anthropological Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Deviance - Anthropological Perspectives (Hardcover)
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In this volume composed of a number of cross-cultural case studies
in deviance, the authors show how an anthropological comparative
study can shed new light on the subject. Anthropologists have
tended to avoid studying deviance as a phenomena in and of itself,
concentrating instead on particular sorts of deviance such as
sorcery, alcoholism, and suicide. Anthropology's total immersion in
the culture being studied is well suited to a fuller understanding
of deviance. An anthropology of deviance is likely to create new
models that challenge many of the sociological assumptions
currently used to interpret and understand deviance. The results of
fieldwork in the Arctic, the West Indies, India, Europe, Africa,
and the Far East are presented in individual ethnographic essays,
and the data is formulated into three new theoretical models that
address the differences between smart and proper behavior, the
distinction between soft and hard deviance, and the social and
political uses of staged deviance. These innovative models provide
a context in which the data collected cross-culturally make sense
in general and make deviance more understandable. Anthropology
lends a greater objectivity to the study of deviance through a
great concern with the validity of data, a focus on small-scale
systems and a meticulous scrutiny and acknowledgment of the models
that will be used to interpret the data. This unique book improves
not only our understanding of deviant behavior, but of
sociocultural order as well.
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