Anthropology : A Continental Perspective

The University of Chicago Press

AnthropologyA Continental Perspective\nAuthor(s): Christoph Wulf, Deirdre Winter, Elizabeth Hamilton, Margitta Rouse, Richard J. Rouse\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226925066, 978-0226925066\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in German, Christoph Wulf's \""Anthropology\"" sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines - with breathtaking scope - all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced around the globe and through the years. Seeking a central way to understand anthropology in the midst of many different approaches to the discipline, Wulf concentrates on the human body. An emblem of society, culture, and time, the body is also the result of many mimetic processes - the .