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1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) |
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Studies in the ethnographic imagination |
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Studies in the ethnographic imagination.
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| Summary |
Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences, constructed and institutionalized, transformed and (sometimes) effaced, empowered and (sometimes) resisted? How do local cultures articulate with global forms? How is the power of some people over others built, sustained, eroded, and negated? How does the social imagination take shape in novel yet collectively meaningful ways? Addressing' these questions, the essays in this volume--several never before published--work towards an "imaginative sociology," demonstrating the techniques by which social science may capture the contexts that human beings construct and inhabit. In the introduction, the authors offer their most complete statement to date on the nature of historical anthropology. Standing apart from the traditional disciplines of social history and modernist social science, their work is dedicated to discovering how human worlds are made, and signified, forgotten and remade |
| Analysis |
Ethnology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-326) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Description based on print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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Ethnology -- Methodology.
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Ethnology -- Methodology
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Ethnology -- Philosophy
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Ethnologie
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Methodologie
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Culturele antropologie.
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Wetenschapsfilosofie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Comaroff, Jean
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| LC no. |
91045642 |
| ISBN |
9780429033872 |
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0429033877 |
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