Partial Connections
Available with a new Preface, Marilyn Strathern's seminal book challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials, focusing on a problem normally thought of as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. Revealing unexpected replications in modes of thought and in the presentation of ambiguous images, Strathern has fashioned a unique contribution to the anthropological corpus.
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Partial Connections
Available with a new Preface, Marilyn Strathern's seminal book challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials, focusing on a problem normally thought of as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. Revealing unexpected replications in modes of thought and in the presentation of ambiguous images, Strathern has fashioned a unique contribution to the anthropological corpus.
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Partial Connections

Partial Connections

by Marilyn Strathern
Partial Connections

Partial Connections

by Marilyn Strathern

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Available with a new Preface, Marilyn Strathern's seminal book challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials, focusing on a problem normally thought of as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. Revealing unexpected replications in modes of thought and in the presentation of ambiguous images, Strathern has fashioned a unique contribution to the anthropological corpus.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780759107601
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/03/2005
Series: ASAO Special Publications Series , #3
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 188
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Marilyn Strathern is the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, England. She is the 2003 recipient of the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology. Her many writings include The Gender of the Gift(University of California Press), After Nature(Cambridge University Press), and Women In Between(Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, Inc).

Table of Contents

Part 1 Writing Anthropology Chapter 2 Ethnography as Evocation Chapter 3 Complex society; incomplete knowledge Chapter 4 Feminist critique Chapter 5 Intrusions and comparisons Part 6 Partial Connections Chapter 7 Full of trees, full of flutes Chapter 8 Center and periphery Chapter 9 Historical critique Chapter 10 Prosthetic extensions
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