Stock ID #180075 Out of Time. History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse. NICHOLAS THOMAS.

Out of Time. History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse.

Ann Arbor. The University of Michigan Press. 1996. Reprint. Stock ID #180075

Map, 155pp, notes, bibliography, index, prior owner's inscription half title page, covers trifle shelf worn, a very good paperback copy.

"Despite the enormous amount of work that has attempted to combine historical and anthropological approaches in recent years, few books have outlined the underlying premises that make integration of the two fields difficult. In Out of Time, Nicholas Thomas argues that a historical perspective cannot simply be added to conventional anthropology, which systematically takes ethnography out of time.

Drawing examples from the Polynesian anthropological literature, he points to discredited social evolutionary ideas that have persisted even after apparently dramatic theoretical shifts and to the need to take seriously sources that anthropologists have previously dismissed." (Publisher's description).

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