The Rebirth of Anthropological Theory /

The Rebirth of Anthropological Theory / / Stanley Barrett.

Innovative and often controversial, Barrett's study ranges over the entire scope of anthropological theory. It provides a fresh interpretation of the history of theory and mounts an alternative perspective, built around dialectics, that is eminently suitable to post-colonial anthropology.He arg...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Barrett, Stanley,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1992
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • PART I. The Current State of Anthropological Theory: A Critique
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. An Overview of Theory
  • 3. Paradigms or Pseudo-paradigms
  • 4. Conceptual Contradictions
  • 5. Theory as Myth
  • 6. Structuralism and the Second Burial of Émile Durkheim
  • PART 2. Contradiction as the Basis of Social Life: A Solution
  • 7. Contradictions in Everyday Life
  • 8. Neutralizing Mechanisms
  • 9. The Illusion of Simplicity
  • 10. Reflections on Our Future
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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