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Paperback Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse Book

ISBN: 0472083775

ISBN13: 9780472083770

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...

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