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Shifting contexts : transformations in anthropological knowledge / edited by Marilyn Strathern.

Contributor(s): Strathern, Marilyn | Association of Social Anthropologists. Decennial Conference (4: 1993: Oxford)
Language: English Series: ASA Decennial Conference series. The uses of knowledge : global and local relationsPublisher: London : Routledge, 1995.Description: xi, 193p. ; 24cm.ISBN: 0415107954Ownership: WBF Trust
Contents:
Forgotten knowledge / Mary Douglas; Exhibiting knowledge: the trees of Dubois, Haeckel, Jesse and Rivers at the Pithecanthropus centennial exhibition / Mary Bouquet; Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world / T. Ingold; Transformations of identity in Sepik warfare / Simon Harrison; Human rights and moral knowledge: arguments of accountability in Zimbabwe / R. Werbner; Globalisation and the new technologies of knowing / A.P. Cheater; Cultures in collision: the emergence of a new localism in academic research / Stephen Hill, T. Turpin; The nice thing about culture is that everyone has it / M. Strathern.
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Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves KFC [STR-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L65527
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One of five books produced from the Fourth Decennial Conference of ASA, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, July 1993 (Pref.).

Includes bibliographical references and notes.

Forgotten knowledge / Mary Douglas; Exhibiting knowledge: the trees of Dubois, Haeckel, Jesse and Rivers at the Pithecanthropus centennial exhibition / Mary Bouquet; Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world / T. Ingold; Transformations of identity in Sepik warfare / Simon Harrison; Human rights and moral knowledge: arguments of accountability in Zimbabwe / R. Werbner; Globalisation and the new technologies of knowing / A.P. Cheater; Cultures in collision: the emergence of a new localism in academic research / Stephen Hill, T. Turpin; The nice thing about culture is that everyone has it / M. Strathern.

WBF Trust.

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