The World of the Anthropologist

by Marc Augé and Jean-Paul Colleyn

Book Overview

Anthropology is changing. Traditionally seen as the comparative study of cultural diversity, Anthropology now faces an increasingly globalised world, a world in which societies are not discrete or unique but are all, to some degree, connected. The role of the anthropologist is now less the comparative study of specific cultures than the study of the flow of goods, persons and ideas in the contemporary world. The World of the Anthropologist is a guide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845204476
• ISBN13: 9781845204471
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.6"