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Arguments with ethnography : comparative approaches to history, politics and religion / Ioan M. Lewis.

Arguments with ethnography : comparative approaches to history, politics and religion / Ioan M. Lewis.
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ISBN 0485195704 :
0485195704 (cloth : alk. paper)
Author Lewis, I. M. (Ioan Myrddin), 1930-
Title Arguments with ethnography : comparative approaches to history, politics and religion / Ioan M. Lewis.
Publisher and/or associated date/s London : Athlone Press, 1999.
Description xvii, 167 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Monographs on social anthropology no.68
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. History 'Functionalised' -- 2. A historico-functionalist debate: (Ernesto De Martino, Michel Leiris and E. E. Evans-Pritchard) -- 3. Deconstructing Descent -- 4. Frontier Fetishism and the 'Ethiopianisation' of Africa -- 5. Writing Nationalism in the Horn of Africa -- 6. Present and Past in North-East African Spirit-Possession -- 7. The 'Wise Man's Choice': Conversion Theories -- 8. Shamans and Sex: a Comparative Perspective -- 9. Ethnography and Theory in Anthropology.
Summary Arguments with Ethnography presents a major critique of the globalisation of the culture principle in anthropology. The study contends that the subjective anthropology promoted through postmodernism represents an extreme development of long established, highly patronising and misleading evaluations in the anthropologist's creative role in the construction of theory. Arguing that theory-building is dependent on the actual study of peoples - a study which is empirically based and historically sensitive - the book advocates the "fieldwork mode of production and reproduction".
Subjects Ethnology -- History
Ethnology -- Philosophy
Ethnology -- Religious aspects
Political anthropology
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