Prés. de l'éd.: The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail, relying on archaeology, two turning points of human history: the emergen…
"In the late nineteenth century, the budding field of anthropology was said by Edward Burnett Tylor, one of its foremost early practitioners, to enable the "great modern nations to understand themselves, to weigh in a just balance their own merits and defects, and even in some m…
"In Praise of Historical Anthropology is based on a fundamental conviction: the study of society cannot be undertaken without considering the weight of history and separations between disciplines in academics need to be bridged for the benefit of knowledge. Anthropology cannot b…
"In Praise of Historical Anthropology is based on a fundamental conviction: the study of society cannot be undertaken without considering the weight of history and separations between disciplines in academics need to be bridged for the benefit of knowledge. Anthropology cannot b…
