Shifting Contexts Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge

Shifting Contexts offers an original critique of current Western thinking: it does not take it for granted that 'global' and 'local' indicate orders of magnitude or scales of importance. Rather, it addresses the techniques by which people shift the contexts of their knowledge and thus endow phenomena with local or global significance. It is an unusual and original collection of essays by seven leading anthropologists, in the company of two specialists in research policy. This book examines certain contexts in which people (including anthropologists) make different orders of knowledge for themselves as a prelude to questioning assumptions about the 'size' of knowledge implied in the contrast between global and local perspectives.Strathern, Marilyn is the author of 'Shifting Contexts Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge' with ISBN 9780415107945 and ISBN 0415107946.