Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; General introduction; 1998 debate Social anthropology is a generalizing science or it is nothing; 1989 debate The concept of society is theoretically obsolete; 1990 debate Human worlds are culturally constructed; 1991 debate Language is the essence of culture; 1992 debate The past is a foreign country; 1993 debate Aesthetics is a cross-cultural category; Index
Summary
Every year, leading anthropologists meet to debate a motion at the heart of current theoretical developments in their subject, and this book includes the first six of these debates, from 1988 to 1993
