Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object - Softcover

Hastrup, Kirsten; Olwig, Karen Fog

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415150027 ISBN 13: 9780415150026

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

Siting Culture will be essential reading to the many students of culture who are looking for ways of siting culture in the diffuse and complex theoretical space of present day anthropology.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

So far, much of the critical analysis of the role of place in culture has been carried out at a more general level of theoretical debate. Siting Culture argues that it is only through rich ethnographic studies that anthropologists may explore the significance of place in the global space of relations which mold the everyday lives of people throughout the world. It does this by examining the concept of culture through a number of case studies from Europe, Africa, Oceania, Latin America, and the Caribbean in order to probe the methodological and theoretical implications of the divergent scholarly and popular concepts of culture.

About the Author:

Karen Fog Olwig is Senior Lecturer and Kirsten Hastrup is Professor of Anthropology, both at the University of Copenhagen.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0415150027
• ISBN 13: 9780415150026
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328