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By George E. Marcus

Using cultural anthropology to investigate debates that reverberate in the course of the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer glance heavily at cultural anthropology's previous accomplishments, its present predicaments, its destiny course, and the insights it has to supply different fields of analysis. the result's a provocative paintings that's vital for students attracted to a serious method of social technological know-how, artwork, literature, and historical past, in addition to anthropology. This moment variation considers new demanding situations to the sphere that have arisen because the book's unique publication.

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