2nd Edition

Social Anthropology An Alternative Introduction

By Angela P. Cheater Copyright 1989
    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of underdevelopment than the primitive or the exotic, it draws on material which evokes current problems of policy and administration in the Third World. The author raises questions of vital importance to contemporary investigation and analysis, and pointers to the future for anthropology.

    1 Theoretical Underpinnings 2 Marginalised Economic Activities in the World System 3 Relations of Production in Peasant and Commercial Agriculture 4 Industrialisation and Proletarianisation 5 Relations of Appropriation in Systems of Exchange 6 Ascriptive Social Relations 7 Voluntary Social Relations 8 The Political Dimension 9 Issues of Law and Social Control 10 Ideology and Social Control 11 Ideology and the State

    Biography

    Angela P. Cheater