A Return to Form.
After many years of implicit and explicit anti-formalisms of various kinds, anthropologists are beginning to rediscover the virtues and appeal of form. The figure of form is rising again, at the intersection between a concern with the recurrent and stable aspects of social and cultural life and an i...
| Publicado en: | Social Analysis Vol. 69; no. 1; pp. 46 - 61 |
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Berghahn Books
2025
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