The Anthropological Circle: Symbol, Function, History (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 37) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521232368 ISBN 13: 9780521232364

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Synopsis

Anthropology is both outside of history and within it. Histories of anthropology tend to summarise particular authors' intellectual differences; but, as Marc Augé argues in this book, first published in English in 1982, these differences may in fact be intrinsically derived from intellectual divisions within anthropology as obvious as they are irreconcilable. Augé identifies, in contemporary debates in French anthropology, the paths that perhaps allow us to transcend these oppositions. On doing so, he explores and clarifies the relationship that anthropology enjoys with history, on the intellectual plane, and with politics, on the historical plane. His argument is stimulating and challenging, and will interest all social anthropologists and sociologists concerned with the theoretical foundations of their disciplines, as well as demonstrating to historians and political scientists what anthropology has to offer them.

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Anthropology is both outside of history and within it. Histories of anthropology tend to summarise particular authors' intellectual differences; but, as Marc Augé argues in this book, first published in English in 1982, these differences may be intrinsically derived from intellectual divisions within anthropology as obvious as they are irreconcilable.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• ISBN 10: 0521232368
• ISBN 13: 9780521232364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English