Philippine localities and global perspectives : essays on society and culture. / Raul Pertierra.
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TextQuezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press, [1995];copyright 1995Description: xi,216 pages 23 cmContent type: - text
- volume
- HN 110.24 .P434 1995
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Isagani R. Cruz Collection
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Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center | HN 110.24 .P434 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 3IRC0000003310 | ||
Filipiniana
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Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana | HN 110.24 .P434 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3AEA0000317077 |
This collection of essays by Raul Pertierra is a revelation. By focusing anthropological analysis on developments such as the nation-state and on the globalization of information, the essays suggest that, for an understanding of contemporary society, some acquaintance with anthropology is indispensable. At the same time the abstractions of the essays imply that anthropology is more than just narration and description. Like any social science, it ultimately seeks to transform a systematic theory about society that is grounded in empirical data. As such therefore it must at time take several steps beyond those famous, detailed descriptions of the discipline's ethnographies and posit abstract relationships that can account for the implicit patterns.
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