Arguments with Ethnography: Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion Volume 70

by Ioan Lewis

Overview

A critique of the globalisation of the culture principle, arguing that theory is dependent on the actual study of peoples.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845202804
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/1999
Series:	LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology , #70
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. History 'Functionalised', 2. A historico-functionalist debate: (Ernesto De Martino, Michel Leiris and E.E. Evans-Pritchard), 3. Deconstructing Descent, 4. Frontier Fetishism and the 'Ethiopianisation' of Africa, 5. Writing Nationalism in the Horn of Africa, 6. Present and Past in North-East African Spirit-Possession, 7. The 'Wise Man's Choice': Conversion Theories, 8. Shamans and Sex: a Comparative Perspective, 9. Ethnography and Theory in Anthropology, Bibliography, Index