{"product_id":"the-retreat-of-the-social-9781782387190","title":"The Retreat of the Social","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n\tThe powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\tThe essays presented here, all by leading anthropologists, take a variety of positions on the matter of the retreat of the social. All demonstrate that if anthropology and other social sciences are to fulfill the task of a critical understanding of the diverse realities in which we all must live, these disciplines will find it impossible to so do without a strong concept of the social.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bruce Kapferer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49006289191163,"sku":"9781782387190","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_c8b40f24-952b-46ad-9c8a-43250bc24df6.jpg?v=1782346781","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-retreat-of-the-social-9781782387190","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}