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Questions of anthropology

"Each essay in this book starts with a question posed by individual ethnographic experience and then goes on to frame this question in a broader, comparative context. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Questions of Anthropology presents an introduction to the purpose and value of Anthropology today."--Jacket
eBook, English, 2007
Berg, Oxford, UK, 2007
1 online resource (xii, 372 pages) : 1 illustration.
9781847883728, 9781000180695, 1847883729, 1000180697
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What does it mean to be alone? / Catherine Allerton
How do we know who we are? / Janet Carsten
What is going to happen next? / Charles Stafford
Why, exactly, is the world as it is? / Eva Keller
How does ritual matter? / Fenella Cannell
What makes people work? / Olivia Harris
What kind of sex makes people happy? / Laura Rival
How do women give birth? / Michael Lambek
What happens after death? / Rita Astuti
How does genocide happen? / Michael Stewart
Why are some people powerful? / Luke Freeman
How do we know what is true? / Christina Toren
Afterword: Questions of ("Zafimaniry") anthropology / Jonathan Parry
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010