Anthropology at home / edited by Anthony Jackson

London ; New York : Tavistock Publications , 1987. 1st edition. Softcover. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: x, 221 pages; 24 cm. Notes: A selection of papers presented at the ASA conference held at the University of Keele in Mar. 1985. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: Reflections on ethnography at home and the ASA / Anthony Jackson -- The limits of auto-anthropology / Marilyn Strathern -- 'Remote areas': some theoretical considerations / Edwin Ardener -- Fieldwork up the M1: policy and political aspects / Judith Okely -- Deconstructing Swedishness: culture and class in modern Sweden / Orvar Lo �fgren -- Fieldwork among friends: ethnographic exchange within the Northern civilization / Kirsten Hastrup -- Social anthropology and the ethnology of France: the field of kinship and the family / Martine Segalen and Franc �oise Zonabend -- The politics of fieldwork in Brittany / Maryon McDonald -- The politics of anthropology in socialist Eastern Europe / Chris Hann -- Fieldwork at home: the USSR / Tamara Dragadze -- The anthropologist as citizen: the diffracted self? / A.P. Cheater -- The native anthropologist: constraints and strategies in research / Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes -- Anthropology becomes home: home becomes anthropology / Shalva Weil in collaboration with Michael Weil. Subjects: Ethnology Fieldwork; Congresses. Culturele antropologie. Anthropologie Recueils d'articles. Ethnology Europe. Anthropology; Congresses. Genre: Bibliography.