Luke Eric Lassiter
Autore di Invitation to Anthropology
Sull'Autore
Luke Eric Lassiter is professor of humanities and anthropology as well as director of the Graduate Humanities Program at Marshall University.
Opere di Luke Eric Lassiter
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1968-02-29
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Danville, Virginia, USA
Muncie, Indiana, USA
Charleston, West Virginia, USA - Istruzione
- Radford University
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Margaret Mead Award (2005)
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 6
- Utenti
- 102
- Popolarità
- #187,251
- Voto
- 4.4
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 21
- Preferito da
- 1
Moreover, the text takes a truly open view of the world itself. Other viewpoints are explained with the writer admitting his own bias more often than not. He doesn't take a fool-proof view of the world (i.e. everything is relative) but by the same token, does explain why such a view is helpful. All in all, I feel that I learned a lot from this book - particularly the religion section with its use of David J. Hufford's view of "tradition of disbelief" in regards to religious ethnocentrism. I eagerly anticipate reading the rest of the texts for this course.… (altro)