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Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology de Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology: Anthropology, Culture and Society

Autor Thomas Hylland Eriksen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 iul 2023

Bazându-ne pe recenziile academice și pe succesul celor patru ediții anterioare, putem afirma că Small Places, Large Issues reprezintă una dintre cele mai solide resurse didactice pentru studiul antropologiei socioculturale. Această a cincea ediție, publicată de PLUTO PRESS, nu este doar o actualizare formală, ci o recalibrare a disciplinei pentru provocările secolului XXI. Structura cursului urmărește o progresie logică, de la fundamentele teoretice și istorice ale muncii de teren, către analize complexe ale rudeniei, religiei și sistemelor politice, culminând cu problematici globale presante.

Descoperim aici o integrare sistematică a temelor de gen și digitalizare, elemente care traversează acum întreg textul, reflectând transformările sociale recente. Introducerea capitolelor dedicate antropologiei medicale și schimbărilor climatice ancorează volumul în realitatea imediată, oferind studenților instrumentele necesare pentru a înțelege crizele contemporane. Merită menționat că autorul păstrează stilul accesibil care l-a consacrat, reușind să explice concepte dificile prin exemple etnografice concrete.

În contextul operei lui Thomas Hylland Eriksen, acest volum acționează ca o sinteză teoretică ce completează lucrările sale mai specifice. Dacă The Paradox of Svalbard sau Climate, Capitalism and Communities explorează nișe ecologice și politice precise, Small Places, Large Issues oferă cadrul general în care aceste studii de caz sunt inserate. Comparativ cu Social and Cultural Anthropology for the 21st Century: Connected Worlds de Marzia Balzani, care se concentrează pe interconectivitatea globală, lucrarea de față menține un echilibru mai riguros între fundamentele clasice ale disciplinei și noile direcții de cercetare, fiind mai potrivită pentru un curriculum academic exhaustiv.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780745348193
ISBN-10: 074534819X
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 22 chapter frontispieces
Dimensiuni: 152 x 234 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Seria Anthropology, Culture and Society

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui student sau pasionat de științe sociale care dorește o înțelegere profundă a diversității umane. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă globală asupra modului în care funcționează societățile, de la structuri de rudenie la impactul digitalizării. Este un instrument esențial pentru a decoda complexitatea lumii actuale, oferind un echilibru rar între rigoarea academică și un stil narativ captivant.

Despre autor

Thomas Hylland Eriksen este profesor de antropologie socială la Universitatea din Oslo și o figură centrală în antropologia europeană contemporană, servind în trecut ca președinte al EASA. Renumit pentru capacitatea sa de a traduce concepte academice complexe pentru publicul larg, Eriksen a scris numeroase lucrări de referință, printre care se numără și What Is Anthropology?. Cercetările sale se concentrează pe identitate, naționalism și, mai recent, pe impactul globalizării și al crizei climatice asupra comunităților locale, teme care se regăsesc integrate și în acest manual fundamental.

Descriere scurtă

‘Remains among the most brilliant summaries of key ideas animating anthropology. In his famously accessible writing style, Eriksen introduces fundamental questions that shape human life, and provides an overview of the discipline’s contribution to the pressing issues of our times. A must-read’ Ursula Rao, Director, Anthropology of Politics and Governance, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

‘This is not just another book in the library of anthropology; it is an entire anthropological library in one book’ Tim Ingold, Emeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen

‘A masterful introduction’ Vered Amit, Professor Emerita, Concordia University

This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world.

Presenting a clear overview of anthropology, it focuses on central topics such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and political systems, offering a wealth of examples that demonstrate the enormous scope of anthropology and the importance of a comparative perspective. Using reviews of key works to illustrate his argument, for over 25 years Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s lucid and accessible textbook has been a much respected and widely used undergraduate-level introduction to social anthropology.

This fully updated fifth edition features brand new chapters on climate and medical anthropology, along with rewritten sections on ecology, nature and the Anthropocene. It also incorporates a more systematic engagement with gender and digitalisation throughout the text.

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and former President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). He is the author of numerous classics of anthropology, including Ethnicity and Nationalism and What is Anthropology?

Recenzii

'A masterful introduction to the wide range of subjects studied by anthropologists as well as to the distinctive perspectives they bring to bear on these matters.'
Vered Amit, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Concordia University
'In almost three decades since it was first published, this book has evolved with its subject, magnificently corroborating its author’s thesis, that the best anthropology addresses timeless themes of the human condition through a relentless focus on the contemporary. In a novelty-obsessed age, Eriksen’s encyclopaedic tour of comparative anthropology teaches us to build on classical foundations. This is not just another book in the library of anthropology; it is an entire anthropological library in one book.'
Tim Ingold, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
'Remains among the most brilliant summaries of key ideas animating anthropology. In his famously accessible writing style, Eriksen introduces fundamental questions that shape human life, and provides an overview of the discipline’s contribution to the pressing issues of our times. The new version will not only appeal to beginners, but is also a must-read for established professionals.'
Ursula Rao, Director, Anthropology of Politics and Governance, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology
'Draws students into exploring our human diversity in all its intriguing manifestations, offering a wonderful way to grasp the excitement of anthropology and its focus on what it means to be human.'
Rob Borofsky, Center for a Public Anthropology
'Authoritative, challenging, accessible, up-to-date, this is a splendid introduction to modern social anthropology. I would press it on anyone who wants a better grasp of the diversity of human ways of living. And it is a must-read for students.'
Adam Kuper, Centennial Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics
'This classic volume is quite simply the best introduction there is to social and cultural anthropology. Deeply grounded in the history of anthropological thought, it is also thoroughly up to date. More than that, it is unfailingly engaging, clear and accurate. There is no better place to go to begin to learn why anthropology has been and remains a vital discipline in the contemporary world.'
Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
'Small Places, Large Issues shows us Thomas Hylland Eriksen in his admirable triple capacity as an anthropologist: the scholar, with depth and breadth of knowledge, and with a critical sense; the statesman, negotiating with fairness between anthropological camps; and the journalist, with a sense of what is new, zooming between close-up and Big Picture, and writing clearly about it all.'
Ulf Hannerz
'This wonderfully lucid introduction to social and cultural anthropology readily captures students' attention. By delineating the past and present development of the discipline, Eriksen underscores continuities and challenges that inform the practice of anthropology in today's world. In presenting anthropology as a means for elucidating large issues through the analysis of small places, the book speaks eloquently to anthropology's intellectual vibrance and practical value.'
Noel Dyck, Professor of Social Anthropology, Simon Fraser University

Notă biografică

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and former President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). He is the author of numerous classics of anthropology, including Small Places, Large Issues, Ethnicity and Nationalism and What is Anthropology?

Cuprins

Series Preface
Preface to the fifth edition
1. Anthropology: Comparison and Context
2. A Brief History of Anthropology
3. Fieldwork and Ethnography
4. The Social Person
5. Local Organisation
6. Person and Society
7. Kinship as Descent
8. Marriage and Relatedness
9. Social differentiation 1: Gender and Age
10. Social differentiation 2: Caste and Class
11. Religion and Ritual
12. Language and Cognition
13. Politics and Power
14. Political identity 1: Ethnicity and the Politics of Identity
15. Political identity 2: Nationalism and Minorities
16. Economic Anthropology 1: Exchange and Consumption
17. Economic Anthropology 2: Production and Technology
18. Humanity and the Biosphere
19. Complexity and Change
20. Medical Anthropology
21. Anthropology and the Paradoxes of Globalisation
22. The Anthropology of Climate Change
Epilogue: Making Anthropology Matter
Bibliography
Index