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This approach to anthropology focuses on negotiating the social meanings used in making sense of the world, and on the processes of identification that create the difference between same and other.

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"Like the work of anthropology itself, [An Antyhropology for Contemporaneous Worlds] is difficult but well worth the effort."—Anthropology of Work Review

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Preface to the English edition An introductory word 1. Who is the other? 2. Others and their meaning 3. The proximal other, or the other next door 4. The others' norm 5. Knowledge and recognition anthropology's meaning and end 6. The conquest of space Conclusion: a changed world, a changed object Notes Complementary sources.

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/02/1998
      ISBN13: 9780804730358, 978-0804730358
      ISBN10: 0804730350
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This approach to anthropology focuses on negotiating the social meanings used in making sense of the world, and on the processes of identification that create the difference between same and other.

      Trade Review
      "Like the work of anthropology itself, [An Antyhropology for Contemporaneous Worlds] is difficult but well worth the effort."—Anthropology of Work Review

      Table of Contents
      Preface to the English edition An introductory word 1. Who is the other? 2. Others and their meaning 3. The proximal other, or the other next door 4. The others' norm 5. Knowledge and recognition anthropology's meaning and end 6. The conquest of space Conclusion: a changed world, a changed object Notes Complementary sources.

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