Social and cultural anthropology : a very short introduction / John Monaghan and Peter Just.

This book on social and cultural anthropology combines an account of the discipline's guiding principles and methodology with examples of anthropologists at work. The book ends with an assessment of its position and a look forward to its future.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Monaghan, John, 1955-
Other Authors: Just, Peter
Other title:Social & cultural anthropology.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Series:Very short introductions.
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Table of Contents:
  • A dispute in Donggo: fieldwork and ethnography
  • Bee larvae and onion soup: culture
  • A brief encounter: society
  • Fernando seeks a wife: sex and blood
  • La Bose becomes Bakar: caste, class, tribe, nation
  • A feast in Nuyoo: people and their things
  • A drought in Bima: people and their gods
  • Ñañuu María gets hit by lightning: people and their selves
  • Afterword: Some things we've learned.