Serendipity in Anthropological Research explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology. It conceives of anthropological research as a lifelong nomadic journey of discovery in which the world yields an infinite number of unexplored issues and innumerable ways of st…
Challenging the idea that fieldwork is the only way to gather data, and that standard methods are the sole to route to fruitul analysis, this book explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology.
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Challenging the idea that fieldwork is the only way to gather data, and that standard methods are the sole route to fruitful analysis, 'Serendipity in anthropological research' explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology. It conceives of anthropological researc…
Serendipity in Anthropological Research explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology. It conceives of anthropological research as a lifelong nomadic journey of discovery in which the world yields an infinite number of unexplored issues and innumerable ways of st…
Pt. 1. Religion, experience and change -- pt. 2. Ritual, myth and creativity -- pt. 3. Work, play and gendifer -- pt. 4. Studies of world religions -- pt. 5. Perspectives on violence and globalization -- pt. 6. Emergent themes.
This companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Although anthropology has expanded greatly over time in terms of the diversity of topics in which its practitioners engage, many of the broad themes and to…
