Anthropology and Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau

by Eric Gable

Book Overview

Anthropology and Egalitarianism is an artful and accessible introduction to key themes in cultural anthropology. Writing in a deeply personal style and using material from his fieldwork in three dramatically different locales--Indonesia, West Africa, and Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson--Eric Gable shows why the ethnographic encounter is the core of the discipline's method and the basis of its unique contribution to understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253222753
• ISBN13: 9780253222756
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher