The Anthropology of Values: Essays in Honour of Georg Pfeffer
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Edition
1st ed.
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9788131728208
Length
liv+501p., Illustrations; Figures; Tables; 23cm.
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This collection of essays addresses the notion of 'value' from a comparative and multi-disciplinary perspective, and aims at further stimulating contemporary theoretical and methodological discussions on the study of 'values'. The contributors analyse systems of symbolic and social classification, ritual performances, gift exchanges, local conceptualizations of the person, gender identity, indigenous political systems, and the interplay between ...
