What Is Anthropology pdf

Thomas Hylland Eriksen 是奥斯陆大学社会人类学教授。他出生于奥斯陆，曾在特立尼达和毛里求斯做过实地工作。他的研究领域包括身份认同、民族主义、全球化和身份政治。埃里克森完成了他的博士。 1991 年获得政治学学位，1995 年成为教授，时年 33 岁。1993-2001 年间，他担任 Samtiden 杂志的编辑。
埃里克森的相当一部分工作集中在普及社会人类学和传达基本的文化相对主义以及在挪威公共辩论中对挪威民族主义的批评。他编写了用于大多数斯堪的纳维亚大学的社会人类学入门课程的基本教科书。英文版《Small Places - Large Issues》一书也被用于许多其他国家的入门课程，并被广泛翻译，他的另一本主要教科书《种族与民族主义：人类学观点》也是如此。埃里克森经常为斯堪的纳维亚半岛的报纸撰稿。
2011 年，Eriksen 教授获得了欧洲研究委员会的高级资助。在“过热”的标题下，他现在指导研究全球化的三大危机——经济/金融、环境/气候和身份/文化。这个项目既是比较的又是跨学科的。 2012年底开始，2016年完工。

What Is Anthropology pdf 托马斯·海兰德·埃里克森

Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered anthropology before, this book explores the key issues in an exciting and innovative way. Eriksen explains how to see the world from below and from within – emphasising the importance of adopting an insider's perspective. He reveals how seemingly enormous cultural differences actually conceal the deep unity of humanity.

Lucid and accessible, What is Anthropology? draws examples from current affairs as well as anthropological studies. The first section presents the history of anthropology, its unique research methods and some of its central concepts, such as society, culture and translation. Eriksen shows how anthropology helps to shape contemporary thinking and why it is inherently radical.

In the second section he discusses core issues in greater detail. Reciprocity, or exchange, or gift-giving, is shown to be the basis of every society. Eriksen examines kinship in traditional societies, and shows why it remains important in complex ones. He argues nature is partly cultural, and explores anthropological views on human nature as well as ecology. He delves into cultural relativism and the problem of understanding others. Finally, he describes the paradoxes of identity – ethnic, national, religious or postmodern, as the case may be.