Partial Connections

by Marilyn Strathern and Marilyn Strathern Professor University of Cambridge

Book Overview

This book challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace: that of scale or proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with a minute attention to the cultural details of social life, attempting to conserve a sense of proportion between them. Strathern gives equal weight...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847676986
• ISBN13: 9780847676989
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"