Breaking the Frames: Anthropological Conundrums

by Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J Strathern, Andrew J. Strathern

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319471260
• ISBN13: 9783319471266
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"