Ethnographic puzzles
Subtitle: essays on social organization, symbolism and change
By: Kaj Århem.
Publisher: Athlone Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Ethnology -- Methodology; Ethnology -- Philosophy; Symbolic anthropology; Social change
Description: "This study assesses how versatile are the techniques of classical anthropology when confronted by the ethnographically unfamiliar. Organised around the themes of cultural meaning, social structure and social change, each essay opens with an empirical problem - an ethnograpic puzzle - which it seeks to elucidate through orthodox and heterodox uses of standard techniques. Case material is drawn from the Amazon, East Africa and Northern India."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.