Anthropology & egalitarianism : ethnographic encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau
Eric Gable (Author)
This book introduces key themes in cultural anthropology. The author writes about his fieldwork in three dramatically different locales - highlands Sulawesi, rural Guinea-Bissau, and Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson - and shows why the ethnographic encounter is the core of the discipline's method. The author explores the development of the idea of culture through the experience of cultural contrast, anthropology's fraught relationship to racism and colonialism, and other enduring themes
Print Book, English, ©2011
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2011