Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology [Hardcover]

Henrietta L. Moore (Editor), Todd Sanders (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 19, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0631229140 | ISBN-13: 978-0631229148 | Edition: 1

The 57 articles collected in this volume---together with the editors’ introduction---provide an overview of the key debates in anthropological theory over the past century.

• Provides the most comprehensive selection of readings and insightful overview of anthropological theory available
  
• Identifies crucial conceptual signposts and new theoretical directions for the discipline
  
• Discusses broader debates in the social sciences: debates about society and culture; structure and agency; identities and technologies; subjectivities and translocality; and meta-theory, ontology and epistemology

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“Anthropology in Theory is a dazzling collection and Moore and Sanders have impeccable taste in theory. Their selection of readings---an exhibit of famous voices (from Boas to Bourdieu), visionary positions (from functionalism to poststructuralism) and clarion and root concepts (from cultural pattern to cultural hybridity)---is not only well-designed; the book is certain to be a boon to the practice of teaching anthropology in the new millennium.” Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago

“This volume offers intellectual questions and debates by which anthropology has come to know itself as a discipline. The editors challenge us to recognize new forms of imagination emerging within and outside of anthropological practice. In this effort, they surpass themselves.” Debbora Battaglia, Mt. Holyoke College

"This book breaks fascinating ground in its breadth of coverage and depth of analysis. The editors have done an exemplary job of engaging the study of Anthropology from myriad angles in an attempt to show the student that mastery of this discipline takes a keen eye and a mind willing to go beyond surface debate into the core of each 'theory'."
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The 57 articles collected in Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, together with the editors' introduction, provide the most comprehensive selection of readings and incisive overview available of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century. Anthropology in Theory identifies crucial conceptual signposts for the continued resurgence of the discipline and new theoretical directions. Moreover, it demonstrates both the vitality and value of anthropological theorizing within the discipline, as well as how such anthropological projects are fundamentally reconfiguring broader debates in the social sciences: debates about society and culture; structure and agency; identities and technologies; subjectivities and translocality; meta-theory, ontology and epistemology; language and meaning; subjectivity and objectivity; and localities and globalities.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 680 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (September 19, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0631229140
• ISBN-13: 978-0631229148
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.8 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,571,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brain Bending, May 4, 2008

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I have a love hate relationship with this book. It is as difficult as any Chem, O-Chem or Physics text.

It started with all hate...Passe I thought to myself. All this theory is so old school. So then. As this book moved into the Post Modernists I detached myself a bit and then started to get warm fuzzy feelings about the theory and how I was using it in my day to day life and how well all this verbosity and inference was going to and has served me well in my current classes. Months later I find myself digging through it and my class work to find some Foucault for references. With a mix of Anthropologists and many social scientists I think I might be inspired to take on a few units for a minor in Sociology.

If you are using this as a school text. Do not doubt the importance of the introductory pages. I would repeat myself but I know if you have to read this book you are a bright soul.

Good Luck with that theory class!

;-)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great condition, February 21, 2011

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This book is huge and heavy- but they packaged it really well and there was no damage! It was also in better than new condition