Anthropology and the Predicaments of Holism

Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-15

  Bubandt, Nils ^a   Otto, Ton ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

"a certain nervousness, rising at times to something near panic"; "Anthropologists Do It in Context"; "Landscape Gardeners Do It Horizontally"; "one of the cornerstones of twentieth century ethnography"; "Photographers Do It in the Dark"; "the anthropological perspective"; Anthropology and the Predicaments of Holism; Holism in Anthropological Self Representation; The Abject Heart of Anthropology; The Structure of the Book: Four Kinds of Experiments in Holism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885500669     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324426.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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