ACTIONS NORMS AND REPRESENTATIONS Foundations of Anthropological Inquiry (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 45)

HOLY Ladislav, STUCHLIK Milan

ISBN 10: 0521254922 / ISBN 13: 9780521254922

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1983. 0521254922, 1984

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1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (top corners of boards bumped - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover). Pp. viii + 137 (coloured ink stamp on title page and previous owner's address sticker on front endpaper).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ACTIONS NORMS AND REPRESENTATIONS Foundations of Anthropological Inquiry (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 45)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 0521254922
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521254922
• ISBN 13: 9780521254922
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology

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Synopsis

The verbal statements of the actors and the researchers' own observations of their behaviour constitute two basic kinds of data which every anthropologist collects during his or her fieldwork. Yet the nature of social reality, and its availability to the observer, remains a fundamental methodological problem for the social anthropologist. In this book the authors argue that the difference between these two kinds of data is not merely a casual difference in the way in which the information comes to the anthropologist. Rather, it connotes the difference between the areas or domains of the social reality under study. One of these domains is formed by the notions or ideas people hold (i.e. their norms and their representations of the world and the existing state of affairs) and the other by the actions which they actually perform.

Book Description

The nature of social reality, and its availability to the observer, remains a fundamental methodological problem for the social anthropologist. In this book the authors argue that the difference between these two kinds of data is not merely a casual difference in the way in which the information comes to the anthropologist.