Conceptualizing Society / Edition 1

by Adam Kuper

Overview

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415061247
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/02/1992
Series:	European Association of Social Anthropologists
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1480L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Adam Kuper (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I Individuals and networks 1 Towards greater naturalism in conceptualizing societies 2 The global ecumene as a network of networks Part II Parts and wholes: the individual and society 3 Comparison, a universal for anthropology: from ‘re-presentation’ to the comparison of hierarchies of values 4 Parts and wholes: refiguring relationships in a post-plural world Part III Models of society, the individual, and nature 5 Societies of nature and the nature of society 6 What goes without saying: the conceptualization of Zafimaniry society