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One discipline, four ways [electronic resource] : British, German, French, and American anthropology / Fredrik Barth ... [et al.] ; with a foreword by Chris Hann.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Halle lecturesPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 406 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780226038278 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226038270 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: One discipline, four ways.DDC classification:
  • 306 22
LOC classification:
  • GN17 .O48 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Britain and the commonwealth / Fredrik Barth -- The German-speaking countries / Andre Gingrich -- French-speaking countries / Robert Parkin -- United States / Sydel Silverman.
Summary: One Discipline, Four Ways offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology--British, German, French, and American. The result of lectures given by distinguished anthropologists Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman to mark the foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, this volume not only traces the development of each tradition but considers their impact on one another and assesses their future potentials. Moving from E.B. Taylor all the way through the development of modern fieldwork.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 Link to resource Available

"The twenty chapters of this volume derive from a series of lectures titled Four traditions in anthropology, which were organized to mark the inauguration of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany, in June 2002"--Fwd.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-387) and index.

Britain and the commonwealth / Fredrik Barth -- The German-speaking countries / Andre Gingrich -- French-speaking countries / Robert Parkin -- United States / Sydel Silverman.

One Discipline, Four Ways offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology--British, German, French, and American. The result of lectures given by distinguished anthropologists Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman to mark the foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, this volume not only traces the development of each tradition but considers their impact on one another and assesses their future potentials. Moving from E.B. Taylor all the way through the development of modern fieldwork.

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