From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences

by Bjorn Thomassen, Arpad Szakolczai, Bjørn Thomassen

Book Overview

Presenting a ground-breaking revitalization of contemporary social theory, this book revisits the rise of the modern world to reopen the dialogue between anthropology and sociology. Using concepts developed by a series of 'maverick' anthropologists who were systematically marginalised as their ideas fell outside the standard academic canon, such as Arnold van Gennep, Marcel Mauss, Paul Radin, Lucien L vy-Bruhl and Gregory Bateson, the authors argue...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108438385
• ISBN13: 9781108438384
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"