ABSTRACT
The social anthropologists represented in this volume share the view that, together, ethnography and theoretically informed comparison constitute a single, plausible enterprise, and they reject both the postmodernist criticism of ethnography as epistemologically problematic, and the opposing view that no theory could possibly do justice to the insights and complex descriptions of ethnography. In this volume, the first papers taken from the first conference of the newly-formed European Association of Social Anthropologists, the contributors discuss the various models at the disposal of the modern ethnographer. Their concerns range through structuralism, postmodernism and world systems theory, and the volume as a whole offers a lively account of the state of general theory in social anthropology today.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Individuals and networks
part |2 pages
Part II Parts and wholes The individual and society
chapter 4|30 pages
Parts and wholes: refiguring relationships in a post-plural world
part |2 pages
Part III Models of society, the individual, and nature