An examination of the contexts in which people make different orders of knowledge as a prelude to questioning assumptions about the size of knowledge implied in the contrast between global and local perspectives. Editor(s): Strathern, Marilyn. Series: ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations, facsims.,plans. BIC Classification: HPK; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 295. . 1995. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Shifting Contexts: Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge (ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415107946
ISBN 13: 9780415107945
Binding: Hardcover
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To suppose anthropological analysis can shift between global and local perspectives may well imply that the two co-exist as broader and narrower horizons or contexts of knowledge. The proof for this can be found in ethnographic accounts where contrasts are repeatedly drawn between the encompassing realm and everyday life or in value systems which sumultaneously trivialise and aggrandise or in shifts between what pertains to the general or to the particular.

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