Grasping the Changing World - 9780415102025

Taylor & Francis

Resulting from the EASA conference in Prague, this book addresses the crises of identity, purpose and interest in the changing world examineing how social anthropology must update its methodology as it is applied to comparisons across space and time > \nAs different societies merge into one global society and face the concomitant crisis of identity, of purpose and interest, social anthropology urgently needs to bring its methodology up to date: new methods are needed to analyse, compare and understand different cultures across space and time.\nGrasping the Changing World collects papers read at the second biannual EASA conference in Prague in 1992. The conference took place in an extraordinary 'postmodern' setting. With the fall of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe old certainties and time-honoured concepts had become obsolete; at the same time, anthropology too was in upheaval, and long-established patterns of thought seemed inadequate to grasp the rapidly changing ;