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Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory
Robert Ulin
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Description for Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory
Hardback. This text confronts the major theoretical issues involved in cross-cultural interpretation. It introduces students to rationality among the ancestors of anthropology before proceeding to a wide-ranging evaluation of the Anglo-American rationality debates. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
Understanding Cultures confronts the major theoretical issues involved in cross-cultural interpretation. The book introduces students to rationality among the ancestors of anthropology before proceeding to a wide-ranging evaluation of the Anglo-American rationality debates. At issue is the opposition between scientific models of understanding human action and those models that emphasize human action as symbolic and meaningful, thus privileging an interpretive framework. This long-awaited second edition includes a new chapter on globalism and cultural diaspora that challenges conventional notions of bounded culture and bounded self and has important implications for refiguring the rationality debates, fieldwork, and cross-cultural interpretations more generally.
Understanding Cultures confronts the major theoretical issues involved in cross-cultural interpretation. The book introduces students to rationality among the ancestors of anthropology before proceeding to a wide-ranging evaluation of the Anglo-American rationality debates. At issue is the opposition between scientific models of understanding human action and those models that emphasize human action as symbolic and meaningful, thus privileging an interpretive framework. This long-awaited second edition includes a new chapter on globalism and cultural diaspora that challenges conventional notions of bounded culture and bounded self and has important implications for refiguring the rationality debates, fieldwork, and cross-cultural interpretations more generally.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631221142
SKU
V9780631221142
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About Robert Ulin
Robert C. Ulin is Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Western Michigan University. His books include Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory, (1984) and Vintages and Traditions: An Ethnohistory of Southwest French Wine Cooperatives, (1996). He is also the author of numerous articles on social theory and the anthropology of Europe and is a Fellow of ... Read more
Reviews for Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory
"Understanding Cultures is an exceptional work of anthropological theory, a book which is simultaneously good to think with, good to teach with, good to write with, good to read with. What makes it so good is not merely Robert Ulin's capacity to engage critically and cogently with a wide array of complex ideas, his willingness to root anthropological discourses deeply ... Read more