Anthropology: why it matters

by Ingold, Tim

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Title Statements

Full title :Anthropology : why it matters / Tim Ingold.

Summary

Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. How can we fashion a world that has room for everyone, for generations to come? What are the possibilities, in such a world, of collective human life? These are urgent questions, and no discipline is better placed to address them than anthropology. It does so by bringing to bear the wisdom and experience of people everywhere, whatever their backgrounds and walks of life. In this passionately argued book, Tim Ingold relates how a field of study once committed to ideals of progress collapsed amidst the ruins of war and colonialism, only to be reborn as a discipline of hope, destined to take centre stage in debating the most pressing intellectual, ethical and political issues of our time. He shows why anthropology matters to us all.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Polity Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

The Physical Object

Description:v, 145 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781509519798, 1509519793, 9781509519804, 1509519807
oclc:on1019834628
LC Classification:GN345
Dewey Decimal:301.01

On taking others seriously -- Similarity and difference -- A discipline divided -- Rethinking the social -- Anthropology for the future.

Subjects

Anthropologie Anthropologie -- Philosophie Anthropology -- Philosophy Ethnologie Ethnology Kulturanthropologie social anthropology Sozialanthropologie Wichtigkeit