Exotic No More
Subtitle: Anthropology on the Front Lines
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: July 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780226500133
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Sociology - General; Philosophical anthropology; Social Science; Sociology; Social Science / Sociology / General; Field work; Anthropological ethics; Anthropology
First sentence: For far too long, social anthropology has been seen as an academic discipline dedicated to the study of abstruse customs of out-of-the-way tribes.
Description: The contributing anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contributions that anthropology can make to contemporary society. They cover issues ranging from fundamentalism to forced migration, human rights to environmentalism.