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"Understanding Cultures confronts the major theoretical issues involved in cross-cultural interpretation. The book introduces students to rationality among the ancestors of anthropology before proceeding to a wide-ranging evaluation of the Anglo-American rationality debates. At issue is the opposition between scientific models of understanding human action and those models that emphasize human action as symbolic and meaningful, thus privileging an interpretive framework.
This long-awaited second edition concludes with a chapter on globalism and cultural diaspora that challenges conventional notions of bounded culture and bounded self and has important implications for refiguring the rationality debates, fieldwork, and cross-cultural interpretations more generally."--BOOK JACKET.
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Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory
September 1, 2001, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory
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Understanding Cultures: Perspectives in Anthropology and Social Theory
March 1988, University of Texas Press
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Understanding cultures: perspectives in anthropology and social theory
1984, University of Texas Press
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Understanding cultures: perspectives in anthropology and social theory
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"Any time an author revisits old theoretical grounds in producing a new edition of a book it is a welcome opportunity to reflect on intellectual directions that he or she pursued over the years as well as the more general state of theory in contemporary anthropology and beyond."
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