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Small Places, Large Issues

Anthropology, Culture and Society

Series Editors:
Professor Vered Amit, Concordia University
and
Professor Christina Garsten, Stockholm University

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Small Places,
Large Issues

An Introduction to Social
and Cultural Anthropology

FOURTH EDITION

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

First published 1995
Revised fourth edition published 2015 by Pluto Press
345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA

www.plutobooks.com

Copyright Thomas Hylland Eriksen 1995, 2001, 2010, 2015

The right of Thomas Hylland Eriksen to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Series Preface

Anthropology is a discipline based upon in-depth ethnographic works that deal with wider theoretical issues in the context of particular, local conditions to paraphrase an important volume from the series: large issues explored in small places. This series has a particular mission: to publish work that moves away from an old-style descriptive ethnography that is strongly area-studies oriented, and offer genuine theoretical arguments that are of interest to a much wider readership, but which are nevertheless located and grounded in solid ethnographic research. If anthropology is to argue itself a place in the contemporary intellectual world, then it must surely be through such research.

We start from the question: What can this ethnographic material tell us about the bigger theoretical issues that concern the social sciences? rather than What can these theoretical ideas tell us about the ethnographic context? Put this way round, such work becomes about large issues, set in a (relatively) small place, rather than detailed description of a small place for its own sake. As Clifford Geertz once said, Anthropologists dont study villages; they study in villages.

By place, we mean not only geographical locale, but also other types of place within political, economic, religious or other social systems. We therefore publish work based on ethnography within political and religious movements, occupational or class groups, among youth, development agencies, and nationalist movements; but also work that is more thematically based on kinship, landscape, the state, violence, corruption, the self. The series publishes four kinds of volume: ethnographic monographs; comparative texts; edited collections; and shorter, polemical essays.

We publish work from all traditions of anthropology, and all parts of the world, which combines theoretical debate with empirical evidence to demonstrate anthropologys unique position in contemporary scholarship and the contemporary world.

Professor Vered Amit
Professor Christina Garsten

Preface to the Fourth Edition

This book, now in its fourth, revised and updated edition, is a rather conventional introduction to social and cultural anthropology. As the chapter titles indicate, the book does not represent an attempt to reinvent or revolutionise the subject. What I aim to do is simply to introduce the main tools of the craft, the theoretical discussions, the key figures, the main subject-areas and a representative selection of empirical fields studied by anthropologists. By conventional, incidentally, I do not necessarily mean boring. (Innovation is not always a good thing. Who wants to go to an innovative dentist? Or to fly with an innovative pilot keen to explore alternative knowledge systems?)

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