Description: A rigourous discussion of the central theoretical problems in anthropology, with refernce to recent debates in Europe and the US, as well as new developments in linguistic theory.
Review Quotes:
'Hastrup's book is fascinating a highly interesting account of the state of anthropological theorizing after the post-modernist attack on the empirical foundations of the subject.' - Michael Bollig, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 124(1999)