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Paperback Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove Book

ISBN: 0631199187

ISBN13: 9780631199182

Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove

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Ernest Gellner explores here the links between anthropology and politics, and shows just how central these are. The recent postmodernist turn in anthropology has been linked to the expiation of colonial guilt. Traditional, functionalist anthropology is characteristically regarded as an accessory to the crime, and anyone critical of the relativistic claims of interpretative anthropology (as Ernest Gellner is) is likely to be charged (as he sometimes...

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