Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He is the author of numerous books, including Ethnicity and Nationalism, A History of Anthropology, Small Places, Large Issues, Tyranny of the Moment and Globalisation, all available from Pluto Press. Finn Sivert Nielsen worked in the anthropology departments at the University of Tromso, and the University of Copenhagen.

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Thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology.

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Thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology.

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Series preface Preface 1 - Proto-Anthropology 2 - Victorians, Germans and a Frenchman 3 - Four Founding Fathers 4 - Expansion and Institutionalisation 5 - Forms of Change 6 - The Power of Symbols 7 - Questioning Authority 8 - The End of Modernism? 9 - Global Networks Bibliography Index