Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 December 2021
From the 1950s, the trend was towards dynamic approaches. The ideas of sociologists like Max Weber began to stir interest. In anthropology it was first the transactionalists like Fredrik Barth, and then the Manchester School. This chapter focuses on these dynamics and particularly on three important ethnographic debates: Friedman versus Leach, Wilmsen versus Lee, and Obeyesekere versus Sahlins. These debates highlight the fact that anthropology is not without dispute in its interpretation.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.