Anthropology - Why It MattersPaperback
Anthropology - Why It MattersPaperback Humanity is at a crossroads. How can we fashion a world that has room for everyone, for generations to come? We face mounting inequality, escalating political…
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Anthropology - Why It MattersPaperback
Humanity is at a crossroads. How can we fashion a world that has room for everyone, for generations to come? We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions.
These are urgent questions, and no discipline is better placed to address them than anthropology. What are the possibilities, in such a world, of collective human life? It does so by bringing to bear the wisdom and experience of people everywhere, whatever their backgrounds and walks of life.In this passionately argued book, Tim Ingold relates how a field of study once committed to ideals of progress collapsed amidst the ruins of war and colonialism, only to be reborn as a discipline of hope, destined to take centre stage in debating the most pressing intellectual, ethical and political issues of our time.
He shows why