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What is Anthropology? Anthropology, Culture and Society Series Editors: Doctor Jamie Cross, University of Edinburgh and Professor Christina Garsten, Stockholm University Recent titles: The Limits to Citizen Power: Anthropology and Development: The Gloss of Harmony: Participatory Democracy and Challenges for the The Politics of Policy Making the Entanglements of the State Twenty-first Century in Multilateral Organisations Victor Albert KAty gArdner edited by birgit müller And dAVid lewis Becoming Arab in London: Contesting Publics Performativity and the Undoing Organisational Anthropology: Feminism, Activism, of Identity Doing Ethnography In and Ethnography rAmy m. K. 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And nils zurAwsKi What is Anthropology? Second Edition Thomas Hylland Eriksen First published 2004; second edition 2017 by Pluto Press 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA www.plutobooks.com Copyright © Thomas Hylland Eriksen 2004, 2017 The right of Thomas Hylland Eriksen to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7453 9966 9 Hardback ISBN 978 0 7453 9965 2 Paperback ISBN 978 1 7868 0090 9 PDF eBook ISBN 978 1 7868 0092 3 Kindle eBook ISBN 978 1 7868 0091 6 EPUB eBook This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental standards of the country of origin. Typeset by Stanford DTP Services, Northampton, England Simultaneously printed in the United Kingdom and United States of America Make everything as simple as possible. But no simpler. (Einstein) He who speaks no foreign language knows nothing about his own. (Goethe) Contents Series Preface viii PART 1 ENTRANCES 1 Why Anthropology? 3 2 Key Concepts 19 3 Ethnography 41 4 Theories 60 PART 2 FIELDS 5 Reciprocity 83 6 Kinship 98 7 Nature 117 8 Thought 136 9 Social Identity 152 Bibliography 167 Index 171 Series Preface Anthropology is a discipline based upon in-depth ethnographic works that deal with wider theoretical issues in the context of particular, local conditions – to paraphrase an important volume from the series: large issues explored in small places. This series has a particular mission: to publish work that moves away from an old-style descriptive ethnography that is strongly area-studies oriented, and offer genuine theoretical arguments that are of interest to a much wider readership, but which are nevertheless located and grounded in solid ethnographic research. If anthropology is to argue itself a place in the contemporary intellectual world, then it must surely be through such research. We start from the question: ‘What can this ethnographic material tell us about the bigger theoretical issues that concern the social sciences?’ rather than ‘What can these theoretical ideas tell us about the ethnographic context?’ Put this way round, such work becomes about large issues, set in a (relatively) small place, rather than detailed description of a small place for its own sake. As Clifford Geertz once said, ‘Anthropologists don’t study villages; they study in villages.’ By place, we mean not only geographical locale, but also other types of ‘place’ – within political, economic, religious or other social systems. We therefore publish work based on ethnography within political and religious movements, occupational or class groups, among youth, development agencies, and nationalist movements; but also work that is more thematically based – on kinship, landscape, the state, violence, corruption, the self. The series publishes four kinds of volume: ethnographic monographs; comparative texts; edited collections; and shorter, polemical essays. We publish work from all traditions of anthropology, and all parts of the world, which combines theoretical debate with empirical evidence to demonstrate anthropology’s unique position in contemporary scholarship and the contemporary world. Dr Jamie Cross Professor Christina Garsten Part 1 Entrances
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