Diverse World-views in an English VillageA fascinating, highly readable anthropological account of the way the inhabitants of a small English village come to conceive of the world--how they imagine there is such a thing as "society" and such a thing as an "individual." Contrary to the expectations engendered by theory, social life appears as chaotic, multiple, and contradictory--a muddling through, facilitated by the ambiguous relationship between the formal appearance of behaviors and the actuality of their personal interpretation. Distributed by Columbia U. Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
The Historical Landscape | 11 |
The Landscape as Biography | 25 |
The Landscape as Community | 43 |
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