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Author Fardon, Richard.

Title Power and knowledge : anthropological and sociological approaches : proceedings of a conference held at the University of St. Andrews in December 1982 / edited by Richard Fardon
Published Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press, 1985

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Description 216 pages ; 26 cm
Contents Introduction : a sense of relevance / Richard Fardon -- Anthropological approaches: from cognition to ideology / Maurice Bloch ; Controlling the U-turn of knowledge / David Parkin ; Knowing power and being equivocla : three Melanesian contexts / Marilyn Strathern ; Power as a representational model / David Riches ; Power, agnation and marriage in the Middle East / Ladislav Holy ; Secrecy and sociability : two problems of Chamba knowledge / Richard Fardon -- Sociological approaches: Ideology, culture and theoretical sociology / Reinhard Kreckel ; Constructed space and the subject / Paul Q. Hirst ; The practices of rationality : Michael Foucault, medical history and sociological theory / Bryan S. Turner
Analysis Power Social aspects - Anthropological perspectives
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Ethnology -- Congresses.
Knowledge, Sociology of -- Congresses.
Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses.
Power (Social sciences) -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Fardon, Richard.
LC no. 86128113
ISBN 0707304431