Description
The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value.
The essays presented here, all by leading anthropologists, take a variety of positions on the matter of the retreat of the social. All demonstrate that if anthropology and other social sciences are to fulfill the task of a critical understanding of the diverse realities in which we all must live, these disciplines will find it impossible to so do without a strong concept of the social.
Author: Bruce Kapferer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 09/01/2005
Pages: 132
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.28d
ISBN13: 9781845451752
ISBN10: 1845451759
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Social Science | Methodology
- Social Science | Anthropology | General