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Title:

LANDMARKS
REFLECTIONS ON ANTHROPOLOGY

By:

Andrew Strathern

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ISBN 10:

0873384792

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9780873384797

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Publisher:

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

7 April, 1993

Pages:

184

Description:

Addresses a wide range of questions relevant to the history of anthropology and its importance for contemporary issues. Drawing on his own research, Strathern advances the call for holistic models of human behaviour which reconceptualise the relationship between body and mind.

Synopsis:

"Landmarks" addresses a wide range of questions relevant to the recent history of anthropology and its importance to contemporary issues. These questions include the significance of anthropology for Third World studies; the debate on whether anthropology is a scientific or a humanistic subject; anthropology as a means of reflecting on ourselves as well as others; and the criticisms of anthropological work that have emerged out of postmodernism. Drawing on his research findings in Papua New Guinea since 1964, and his more recent work on the cross-cultural study of medicine, the author examines the extent to which we can achieve understanding between different cultures and the relative merits of approaches that stress indigenous categories or those of the observer. He concludes that the discipline now requires reconstruction rather than deconstruction, and advances the call for holistic models of human behaviour which reconceptualise the relationship between body and mind.

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bibliography, index

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Kent State University Press

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