Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse
(Book #67 in the Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology Series)
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Despite the enormous amount of work that has attempted to combine historical and anthropological approaches in recent years, few books have outlined the underlying premises that make integration of the two fields difficult. In Out of Time, Nicholas Thomas argues that a "historical perspective" cannot simply be added to conventional anthropology, which systematically takes ethnography "out of time." Drawing examples from the Polynesian anthropological...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0472083775
ISBN13:9780472083770
Release Date:May 1996
Publisher:University of Michigan Press
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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