Small places, large issues : an introduction to social and cultural anthropology /
Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
- 3rd. ed.
- London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2010.
- x, 364 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Anthropology, culture, and society .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-331) and index.
Introduction : comparison and context -- A brief history of anthropology -- Fieldwork and its interpretation -- The social person -- Local organisation -- Person and society -- Kinship as descent -- Marriage and alliance -- Gender and age -- Social hierarchies -- Politics and power -- Exchange and consumption -- Production and technology -- Religion and ritual -- Modes of thought -- Complexity and change -- Ethnicity -- The politics of identity : nationalism and minorities -- The global, the local, and the glocal -- Epilogue : and so what?