Actions, Norms and Representations: Foundations of Anthropological Enquiry

by Holy Ladislav, Ladislav Holy, Milan Stuchlik

Book Overview

The verbal statements of the actors and the researchers' own observations of their behaviour constitute two basic kinds of data which every anthropologist collects during his or her fieldwork. Yet the nature of social reality, and its availability to the observer, remains a fundamental methodological problem for the social anthropologist. In this book the authors argue that the difference between these two kinds of data is not merely a casual difference...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521274931
• ISBN13: 9780521274937
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"