| Breaking the Frames: Anthropological Conundrums 2017 Edition Contributor(s): Stewart, Pamela J. (Author), Strathern, Andrew J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319471260 ISBN-13: 9783319471266 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $56.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Sociology - Social Theory - Social Science | Methodology |
| Dewey: 300.1 |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.65 lbs) 104 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern note that this mode of analysis risks fabricating over-essentialized dichotomies between viewpoints. The authors advocate a mindful, nuanced, people-centered approach to all theorizing-one that avoids total system approaches (-isms) and suggest that theory should relate cogently to ethnography. Mindful anthropology, as this book envisages it, is not a specific theory but a philosophical aspiration for the discipline as a whole. |