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The verbal statements of the actors and the researchers' own observations of their behaviour constitute two basic kinds of data which every anthropologist collects during his or her fieldwork. Yet the nature of social reality, and its availability to the observer, remains a fundamental methodological problem for the social anthropologist. In this book the authors argue that the difference between these two kinds of data is not merely a casual difference in the way in which the information comes to the anthropologist. Rather, it connotes the difference between the areas or domains of the social reality under study. One of these domains is formed by the notions or ideas people hold (i.e. their norms and their representations of the world and the existing state of affairs) and the other by the actions which they actually perform.

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Preface; Introduction; 1. Anthropological data and social reality; 2. Notions and actions; 3. The notional domain of phenomena; 4. The inference of notions; 5. Normative notions; 6. Representational notions; 7. Actions, norms and representations; References; Index.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 11/3/1983 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521274937, 978-0521274937
      ISBN10: 0521274931
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The verbal statements of the actors and the researchers' own observations of their behaviour constitute two basic kinds of data which every anthropologist collects during his or her fieldwork. Yet the nature of social reality, and its availability to the observer, remains a fundamental methodological problem for the social anthropologist. In this book the authors argue that the difference between these two kinds of data is not merely a casual difference in the way in which the information comes to the anthropologist. Rather, it connotes the difference between the areas or domains of the social reality under study. One of these domains is formed by the notions or ideas people hold (i.e. their norms and their representations of the world and the existing state of affairs) and the other by the actions which they actually perform.

      Table of Contents
      Preface; Introduction; 1. Anthropological data and social reality; 2. Notions and actions; 3. The notional domain of phenomena; 4. The inference of notions; 5. Normative notions; 6. Representational notions; 7. Actions, norms and representations; References; Index.

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