Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Ranging from the Pacific islands to the Arctic north and from small villages to modern nation states, this concise introduction to social and cultural anthropology reveals the rich global variation in social life and culture. The text also provides a clear overview of anthropology, focusing on central topics such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and political systems, offering a wealth of examples that demonstrate the enormous scope of anthropology and the importance of a comparative perspective. Unlike previous texts on the subject, Small Places, Large Issues broadens the study to incorporate the anthropology of complex modern societies, thus providing a unique key text for all students of social and cultural anthropology. Using reviews of key monographs to illustrate his argument, Eriksen's lucid and accessible text remains an established introductory text in anthropology. This new edition is updated throughout and includes a new chapter on the history of anthropology. It also shows clearly and comprehensively, through numerous new examples, why classic studies of small-scale societies are relevant for the study of complex phenomena such as nationalism, consumption and the Internet. In this way, the book bridges an often perceived gap between "classic" and "contemporary" anthropology.

An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropolog

Small Places, Large Issues - Second Edition

تاريخ الأنثروبولوجيا

An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

Small Places, Large Issues - Fourth Edition

innføring i sosialantropologi

Små steder - store spørsmål

Anthropological Perspectives (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

Ethnicity And Nationalism

Doba horúca

The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity's indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen breathes new life into the discussion around global modernity, bringing an anthropologist's approach to bear on the three interrelated crises of environment, economy and identity. He argues that although these crises are global in scope, they are perceived and responded to locally, and that contradictions abound between the standardising forces of information-age global capitalism and the socially embedded nature of people and local practices.Carefully synthesising the ethnographic and comparative methods of anthropology with macrosocial and historical material, Overheating offers an innovative new perspective on issues including energy use, urbanisation, deprivation, human (im)mobility, and the spread of interconnected, wireless information technology.

An Anthropology of Accelerated Change

Overheating

A new edition of the classic anthropology textbook which shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world

What Is Anthropology?

Du site de l'éditeur: This concise introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture. The text provides a clear overview of anthropology, focusing on central topics such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and political systems, offering a wealth of examples that demonstrate the enormous scope of anthropology and the importance of a comparative perspective. Unlike other texts on the subject, Small Places, Large Issues incorporates the anthropology of complex modern societies. Using reviews of key monographs to illustrate his argument, Eriksen's lucid and accessible text remains an established introductory text in anthropology. This new edition is updated throughout and increases the emphasis on the interdependence of human worlds. There is a new discussion of the new influence cultural studies and natural science on anthropology. Effortless bridging the perceived gap between 'classic' and 'contemporary' anthropology, Small Places, Large Issues is as essential to anthropology undergraduates as ever.

Small Places, Large Issues

Fuori controllo. Un'antropologia del cambiamento accelerato

An Intellectual Biography

Fredrik Barth

Zdenka Sokolíčková

Climate change has meant that the future of the Arctic is important to the future of the world. This book is a glimpse into the changes affecting a community within the Arctic circle.

Climate Change and Globalisation in the Arctic

The Paradox of Svalbard

Hva er meningen med livet? Spørsmålet har vært stilt gang på gang, til alle tider og i alle kulturer. I denne bokas syv kapitler nærmer forfatter Thomas Hylland Eriksen seg spørsmålet, og gir ikke ett, men mange ulike svar. «Ingen fornuftige mennesker har noen gang trodd at livets mening dreier seg om å skaffe seg så mange ting som mulig», skriver Thomas Hylland Eriksen i denne boka, og tilføyer: «I en viss forstand er vi fremdeles like utenfor huleåpningen, eller på torget i Aten, eller under banyantreet, i lotusstilling, foran Gautama Buddhas føtter.» Menneskeheten har gjort enorme fremskritt innen teknologi og vitenskap, men når det gjelder spørsmål om livets mening og det gode samfunn, er vi samtidige med alle mennesker som har levd. Derfor har vi noe å lære av både urfolkene uten skrift og stat, antikkens tenkere og streberne på hamsterhjulet. Thomas Hylland Eriksen Eriksen høster innsikter fra alle. Denne boka er et destillat av seksti års væren i en verden som er blitt større for hvert år. Det hender riktignok at forfatteren ikke gir svar, men i så fall er han i det minste i nærheten av spørsmålet.

Syv meninger med livet

Rethinking Communication for Development

Media and Glocal Change

Astrid B. Stensrud

An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating

Climate Capitalism and Communities

An anthropological perspective on the devastating environmental consequences of global capital's growth imperative.

An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating;an Anthropology of Environmental Overheating

CLIMATE, CAPITALISM AND COMMUNITIES

The turn of the millennium is characterized by exponential growth in everything related to communication – from the internet and email to air traffic. Tyranny of the Moment deals with some of the most perplexing paradoxes of this new information age. Who would have expected that apparently time-saving technology results in time being scarcer than ever? And has this seemingly limitless access to information led to confusion rather than enlightenment? Eriksen argues that slow time – private periods where we are able to think and correspond without interruption – is now one of the most precious resources we have. Since we are theoretically 'online' 24 hours a day, we must fight for the right to be unavailable – the right to live and think more slowly. It is not only that working hours have become longer – Eriksen also shows how the logic of this new information technology has permeated every area of our lives. Exploring phenomena such as the internet, wap telephones, multi- channel television and email, Eriksen examines this non-linear and fragmented way of communicating to reveal how it affects working conditions in the economy, changes in family life and, ultimately, personal identity. Eriksen argues that a culture lacking a sense of its past, and therefore of its future, is effectively static. Although solutions are suggested, he demonstrates that there is no easy way out.

Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age

Tyranny of the Moment

MOOSE LOOSE’ Elgen er løs fra 1974 er et fyrverkeri av en jazzplate, med tærne dyppet i i fusion, funk og prog. Albumet er utgitt på Plateselskapet Mai – en nokså utypisk plate fra dette selskapet. Bandet bestod av fire legendariske jazzartister: Pål Thowsen på trommer, Sveinung Hovensjø på bass, Brynjulf Blix på tangenter og Jon Eberson på gitar. Bandnavnet kom fra en barnebok med engelske og norske tekster, hvor målet var å lage noe helnorsk («Moose») og også låte løst («Loose»). Men navnet har også en annen historie, noe som kommer frem her. Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962) er best kjent som sosialantropolog og forfatter, men han har også et livslangt kjærlighetsforhold til musikken som befinner seg i de uregjerlige grenseflatene mellom jazz, rock, pop og samtidsmusikk. Han blåser selv på en og annen treblåser når situasjonen tilsier det. Nå har han intervjuet bandmedlemmene i Moose Loose. Han har skrevet et essay der han utforsker den spesielle kulturen som gjorde norsk jazz på 1970-tallet så kreativ, med et sideblikk på den allmenne samfunnsutviklingen, i et forsøk på å forstå hva som gjorde dette tiåret så spesielt.

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