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Available with a new Preface, Marilyn Strathern's seminal book challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials, focusing on a problem normally thought of as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. Revealing unexpected replications in modes of thought and in the presentation of ambiguous images, Strathern has fashioned a unique contribution to the anthropological corpus.

Marilyn Strathern is William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, England

Writing Anthropology

xiii

Preface

xxvii

Acknowledgements

xxxiii

Writing Anthropology

1

(56)

Ethnography as evocation

5

(12)

Complex society, incomplete knowledge

17

(12)

Feminist critique

29

(12)

Intrusions and comparisons

41

(16)

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57

(64)

Full of trees, full of flutes

61

(16)

Center and periphery

77

(14)

Historical critique

91

(14)

Prosthetic extensions

105

(16)

Footnotes

121

(14)

References

135

(16)

Index to Proper Names

151

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