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Ernest Gellner explores here the links between anthropology and politics, and shows just how central these are.

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Ernest Gellner explores here the links between anthropology and politics, and shows just how central these are. The recent postmodernist turn in anthropology has been linked to the expiation of colonial guilt. Traditional, functionalist anthropology is characteristically regarded as an accessory to the crime, and anyone critical of the relativistic claims of interpretative anthropology (as Ernest Gellner is) is likely to be charged (as he sometimes is) with being an ex post imperialist. Ernest Gellner argues that cultures are crucially important in human life as constraining systems of meaning. Cultural transition means that the required characteristics are transmitted from generation to generation, leading, he shows, to both greater diversity and to far more rapid change than is possible among species where transmission is primarily by genetic means. But the relative importance of semantic and physical compulsion needs to be explored rather than pre-judged. The weakness of idealism, which at present operates under the name of hermeneutics, is that it underplays the importance of coercion, and that it presents cultures as self-justifying and morally sovereign: this line of argument, the author demonstrates, is fundamentally flawed.

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Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
0631199187
ISBN-13
9780631199182
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Author
Ernest Gellner
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Genre
Social Science
Number of Pages
284 Pages

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9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
15 oz

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Lc Classification Number
Gn492.G45 1995
Publication Name
Anthropology and Politics : Revolutions in the Sacred Grove
Table of Content
Preface. 1. The Politics of Anthropology. 2. Origins of Society. 3. Culture, Constraint and Community. 4. Freud's Social Contract. 5. Past and Present. 6. James Frazer and Cambridge. 7. Pluralism and the Neolithic. 8. The Highway to Growth. 9. A Marxist Might-have-been. 10. War and Violence. 11. Tribe and State in the Middle East. 12. Maghreb as Mirror for Man. 13. Lawrence of Moravia. 14. Anthropology and Europe. 15. The Coming Fin de Millenaire. 16. The Uniqueness of Truth. Acknowledgments. Index.
Copyright Date
1995
Lccn
95-014738
Dewey Decimal
306.2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes

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