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Adapting Wittgenstein's Concept Of The Human Species As 'a Ceremonial Animal', Wendy James Writes Vividly And Readably. Her New Overview Advocates A Clear Line Of Argument: That The Concept Of Social Form Is A Primary Key To Anthropology And The Human Sciences As A Whole. Weaving Memorable Ethnographic Examples Into Her Text, James Brings Together Carefully Selected Historical Sources As Well As References To Current Ideas In Neighbouring Disciplines Such As Archaeology, Paleoanthropology, Genetics, Art And Material Culture, Ethnomusicology, Urban And Development Studies, Politics, Economics, Psychology, And Religious Studies. She Shows The Relevance Of Anthropology To Pressing World Issues Such As Migration, Humanitarian Politics, The New Reproductive Technologies, And Religious Fundamentalism--publisher Description. I: The Quest For Pattern. Key Questions In Anthropology -- Dialogues With Grand Theory -- Ii: Shape And Rhythm In Social Forms. Species, Space, And Time -- Life In Motion : Daughters Of The Dance -- Ritual, Memory, And Religion -- Iii: Language And The Making Of Persons. Speech And Social Engagement -- The Dialectics Of Gender And Generation -- Human Bodies, Social Pe

Author

Wendy James; Michael Lambek

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199263332

Subjects

Anthropology, Social_sciences