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

Augé, Marc

ISBN 10: 0521285488 / ISBN 13: 9780521285483

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1982

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Title: The Anthropological Circle: Symbol, Function...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 1982

Binding: Soft cover

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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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Paperback. Pub Date: 1982 Pages: 296 Publisher: Camidge. University Press Anthropology is both outside of history and within it the Histories of anthropology tend to Summarise particular Authors' intellectual Differences; but. As Marc Aug 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. Aug 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 t...