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Putting the Folk in Their Place: Tradition, Ecology and the Public Role of Ethnology
2008
Anthropological Journal on European Cultures
In this essay, I shall argue that Ethnology can be seen as a scientific approach to the local that promotes a comparative understanding of the "own" and the "other" (and hence of encounters and conflicts) both among humans and between human and non-human subjects, viewed as part of a "local household". The three approaches are not competing with one another but flowing together, building on and mutually conditioning one another. Their starting point is topography, the thorough description of
doi:10.3167/ajec.2008.01701002
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