It Happens Among People : : Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth / / ed. by Robert P. Weller, Keping Wu.
Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus expan...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1. Humility First: Fredrik Barth in His Own Words—and Mine
- 2. Transacting Knowledge and Value: Fredrik Barth and the Tactics of Mutual Incomprehension
- 3. Cosmologies in the Remaking: Variation and Time in Chinese Temple Religion
- 4. Building Infrastructure and Making Boundaries in Southwest China
- 5. On Nomads of South Persia
- 6. The Language of Trust and Betrayal
- 7. Khan and Sufi: Two Types of Authority in Swat, Northern Pakistan
- 8. Values and the Value of Secrecy: Barthian Reflections on Values and the Nature of Mountain Ok Social Process
- 9. Paradigm Change in Chinese Ethnology and Fredrik Barth’s Influence
- 10. An Overall Generative Approach: Fredrik Barth’s Contribution to Anthropological Research and Writing
- Afterword. A Rooted Cosmopolitan Remembered
- Index