Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)

A Critique on the Book Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World

Document Type : Promotional

Author

Asghar Izadi-Jeiran

Associate Professor, Director of Research Core for Cultural Anthropology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2024.36502.2251
Abstract
“Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World” (forth edition, 2017) by Barbara Miller is a text book with aim to introduce cultural anthropology for students. The first chapter is about history and theory in cultural anthropology and the second chapter about research method in this discipline. The next nine chapters written in order to three axes including culture grounds, social organization, and symbolic systems. The last two chapters consider two contemporary issues: movement and development. Miller has made a good effort and innovations to appear a book which form tasteful and contents engaging. In doing so, she uses of nine techniques that make book unique among other textbooks in cultural anthropology. The strengths of book include: concrete engagement of redear, learning anthropological thinking, seeing applied dimension of cultural anthropology, introducing critical approaches, and providing contemporary changes in the subjects of chapters. Some weak points of the book include: ignorance of some contemporary theoretical currents, absence of a good discussion about the representation and analysis of ethnographic date, and unequal accesses of readers to additional packages of the book.

Keywords

Cultural Anthropology
Fieldwork
Culture
Globalization
Anthropolog

Subjects

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  • Receive Date 26 March 2024
  • Revise Date 01 July 2024
  • Accept Date 04 August 2024

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