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The Retreat of the Social: The Rise and Rise of Reductionism (Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis, 6) by George Baca; Rohan Bastin; Thomas Ernst; Jonathan Friedman; Keith Hart; André Iteanu; Roger Just; Bruce Kapferer; Jukka Siikala; Christopher C Taylor is a social science available to read on EtoBox.

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<p> The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value.</p> <p> The essays presented here, all by leading anthropologists, take a variety of positions on the matter of the retreat of the social. All demonstrate that if anthropology an

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Author

George Baca; Rohan Bastin; Thomas Ernst; Jonathan Friedman; Keith Hart; André Iteanu; Roger Just; Bruce Kapferer; Jukka Siikala; Christopher C Taylor

Publisher

Berghahn Books, Incorporated

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781782387190

Category

social science

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Philosophy

Updated

2026-03-25