Anthropology: Why It Matters - Couverture rigide

Ingold, Tim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1509519793 ISBN 13 : 9781509519798

Editeur : Polity Press, 2018

Synopsis

Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. How can we fashion a world that has room for everyone, for generations to come? What are the possibilities, in such a world, of collective human life? These are urgent questions, and no discipline is better placed to address them than anthropology. It does so by bringing to bear the wisdom and experience of people everywhere, whatever their backgrounds and walks of life.

In this passionately argued book, Tim Ingold relates how a field of study once committed to ideals of progress collapsed amidst the ruins of war and colonialism, only to be reborn as a discipline of hope, destined to take centre stage in debating the most pressing intellectual, ethical and political issues of our time. He shows why anthropology matters to us all.

Introducing Polity's Why It Matters series: In these short and lively books, world-leading thinkers make the case for the importance of their subjects and aim to inspire a new generation of students.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tim Ingold is Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of over fifteen books and a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1509519793
• ISBN 13: 9781509519798
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 140
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