Summary
John Monaghan, Peter Just: Social and Cultural Anthropology
Using vivid examples from their own research in Indonesia and Mexico, John Monaghan and Peter Just give the reader a sense of what it's like to be an anthropologist engaged in the unique fieldwork that sets anthropology apart from other social sciences. They provide both a concise and comprehensible description of the 'big' questions that have interested anthropologists since the beginning of this scientific field: what is unique about human beings? How are groups of people - family, class, tribe, state - formed, what holds them together? What is the nature of belief, economic exchange, being?
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