Anthropology and the Individual: A Material Culture Perspective (Materializing Culture) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847884954 ISBN 13: 9781847884954

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person. Contributors draw on approaches from material culture to create fascinating portraits of individuals, offering analytical insights that convey ethnographic encounters with often extraordinary people from Turkey, Spain and Britain to Albania, Cuba, Jamaica, Mali, Serbia and Trinidad. Exploring relationships to places and spaces such as social networking sites, to persons such as parents, to ethical concerns such as fairness and to concepts such as the ideology of struggle, Anthropology and the Individual shows how the study of the individual can provide insights into society without losing a sense of the particularity of the person.

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Review:

...the portraits all contain a wealth of knowledge and rich data that will make this book a useful secondary source for those working in the areas it touches on, both geographical and theoretical. Abby Loebenberg, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK

About the Author:

Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology, University College London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1847884954
• ISBN 13: 9781847884954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Miller Daniel