REVIEW ESSAY: ANTHROPOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS

Author: RAPOPORT R.N.

Source: Journal of Environmental Psychology, Volume 16, Number 2, 1996 , pp. 155-158(4)

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Abstract:

This essay is based on three books which have emerged in 1995 under the overall editorship of Marilyn Strathern. They are part of a series of five representing the output of the 4th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists, held at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, in July 1994. The books are:

Shifting Contexts: Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge . Edited by Marilyn Strathern. London: Routledge, 1995. 193 pp. ISBN 0 415 10794 (hbk); ISBN 0 415 10795 (pbk).

The Pursuit of Certainty: Religious and Cultural Formulations . Edited by Wendy James. London: Routledge, 1995. 316 pp. ISBN 0 415 10790 3 (hbk); ISBN 0 415 10791 1 (pbk).

Worlds Apart: Modernity through the Prism of the Local . Edited by Daniel Miller. London: Routledge, 1995. ISBN 0 415 10788 1 (hbk); ISBN 0 415 10789 X (pbk).

Robert Rapoport is Co-Director of the Institute of Family and Environmental Research London. Author or co-author of books and papers including Dual-Career Families, Families in Britain, Leisure and the Family Life Cycle, Fathers, Mothers and Others, and New Interventions for Children and Youth: Action Research Approaches.

Language: English

Document Type: Review article

Affiliations: Institute of Family & Environmental Research, London, NW3 7SX, U.K.

Publication date: 1996-01-01