Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology - Couverture souple

Goodenough, Ward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521281962 ISBN 13 : 9780521281966

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

How are different cultures to be described and compared? This book provides a clear and concise discussion of the theoretical issues involved in ethnographic description and comparative study. Taking up the classic problems in the study of of social organisation, Professor Goodenough describes the major issues in the cross-cultural study of kinship and the family, revealing the kinds of constants, both formal and functional, on which such study must be based. The result is new definitions of marriage, family and parenthood for use in cross-cultural analysis and a greater understanding of this form of analysis itself. The statement on the interdependence of description and comparison in cultural anthropology and its implications for a science of culture, provides fresh insights into cross-cultural analysis for both the theoretical and the practical anthropologist.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521281962
• ISBN 13: 9780521281966
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188