Primitivism, Transgression, and other Myths: The Philosophical Anthropology of Georges Bataille
... Part I: Bataille’s primitivism to bring the same stylistic, textual, and representational concerns of fiction to bear on empirical writings about existing societies and cultures. This critique could prove disconcerting for an older Anglo-American tradition which sees ethnography as a thoroughly mod ...
... Part I: Bataille’s primitivism to bring the same stylistic, textual, and representational concerns of fiction to bear on empirical writings about existing societies and cultures. This critique could prove disconcerting for an older Anglo-American tradition which sees ethnography as a thoroughly mod ...
Ethnology West Indies 51_61
... perspective. However, a number of publications with diachronic dimensions cited in this section testify to the growing interest in and value of history for anthropologists. See, for example, Davis and Goodwin on Island Carib origins (item bi 93003022), Whitehead on Carib soldiering in the Caribbean ...
... perspective. However, a number of publications with diachronic dimensions cited in this section testify to the growing interest in and value of history for anthropologists. See, for example, Davis and Goodwin on Island Carib origins (item bi 93003022), Whitehead on Carib soldiering in the Caribbean ...
Leia mais... - Mariza Peirano
... lhemselves lo applying sociology and philosophy lo olher areas of interest, such as art, lileralure, music, and painling.4 Then, one fine day, I, who am a person of few impeluous independenl geslures, made one. J wenl lO lhe Facully of Medicine aI lhe time of enrollment, withdrew my application, and ...
... lhemselves lo applying sociology and philosophy lo olher areas of interest, such as art, lileralure, music, and painling.4 Then, one fine day, I, who am a person of few impeluous independenl geslures, made one. J wenl lO lhe Facully of Medicine aI lhe time of enrollment, withdrew my application, and ...
Programme - IPNA - Universität Basel
... and economy until today. However, defining and collecting evidence for migration/mobility events in the past is a challenging task in archaeology. The discussions on either demic or cultural diffusion of agriculture or whether cultural transitions can be explained with migration are just two promine ...
... and economy until today. However, defining and collecting evidence for migration/mobility events in the past is a challenging task in archaeology. The discussions on either demic or cultural diffusion of agriculture or whether cultural transitions can be explained with migration are just two promine ...
Shane Donaldson
... Frazer was not the first to use a comparative method, but he was the first to use it on such a grand scale. A direct methodological comparison between Frazer and the modern frameworks of anthropology would be dubious and questionable at best, given the subjective in-situ approach of modern ethnograp ...
... Frazer was not the first to use a comparative method, but he was the first to use it on such a grand scale. A direct methodological comparison between Frazer and the modern frameworks of anthropology would be dubious and questionable at best, given the subjective in-situ approach of modern ethnograp ...
Resenha A gringo studies Umbanda
... wish for the reader: “that you, too, in some distant way [...] might hear the mermaid’s song” (p. 161). His second chapter “tells of the paths of three people deeply involved with Umbanda” (p. 30): the first two are mediums, one of Umbanda branca (“white” Umbanda with more Spiritist/Kardecist than A ...
... wish for the reader: “that you, too, in some distant way [...] might hear the mermaid’s song” (p. 161). His second chapter “tells of the paths of three people deeply involved with Umbanda” (p. 30): the first two are mediums, one of Umbanda branca (“white” Umbanda with more Spiritist/Kardecist than A ...
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... the ‘know nothing’ Beats (Podhoretz 2001, 481). This says more about the reactionary political and cultural actors in mid-twentieth-century American life than it does about Kerouac and his novel. Kerouac’s book is primarily an ethnography of experience and a great celebration of American cultural li ...
... the ‘know nothing’ Beats (Podhoretz 2001, 481). This says more about the reactionary political and cultural actors in mid-twentieth-century American life than it does about Kerouac and his novel. Kerouac’s book is primarily an ethnography of experience and a great celebration of American cultural li ...
Why We Need Counsellogical Research
... characteristic of a given country in which such centres are set up, professional counsellors are trained, tasks of particular counselling facilities are appointed and their performance assessed. Discussions are in progress on the ideological and con‑ ceptual aspects of counselling, its theoretical ...
... characteristic of a given country in which such centres are set up, professional counsellors are trained, tasks of particular counselling facilities are appointed and their performance assessed. Discussions are in progress on the ideological and con‑ ceptual aspects of counselling, its theoretical ...
Anthropology and Source Criticism
... The Man-Eating Myth was welcomed with some moderate praise and much criticism – welldeserved and doubtless not unexpected by the author himself. Its legacy is nonetheless indisputable: by the time the book was published, anthropological studies devoted to cannibalism were still far from common, and ...
... The Man-Eating Myth was welcomed with some moderate praise and much criticism – welldeserved and doubtless not unexpected by the author himself. Its legacy is nonetheless indisputable: by the time the book was published, anthropological studies devoted to cannibalism were still far from common, and ...
Empathie
... women was facilitated by the fact that I am also a woman (which is what some of them thought since a person's definition in their society is based primarily on gender), it was nevertheless probably limited, as was my ability to really understand them because I am neither African nor married in a pol ...
... women was facilitated by the fact that I am also a woman (which is what some of them thought since a person's definition in their society is based primarily on gender), it was nevertheless probably limited, as was my ability to really understand them because I am neither African nor married in a pol ...
Ethnology: West Indies. - Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study
... perspective. However, a number of publications with diachronic dimensions cited in this section testify to the growing interest in and value of history for anthropologists. See, for example, Davis and Goodwin on Island Carib origins (item bi 93003022), Whitehead on Carib soldiering in the Caribbean ...
... perspective. However, a number of publications with diachronic dimensions cited in this section testify to the growing interest in and value of history for anthropologists. See, for example, Davis and Goodwin on Island Carib origins (item bi 93003022), Whitehead on Carib soldiering in the Caribbean ...
Conceptualizing the West in International Relations
... civilizational identities are likely to be characterized by conflict or co-operation, or presumptions about the potential for the transfer of ideas and institutions between civilizations. For some, such processes promise convergence and interdependence, for others, domination or imperialism. Therefor ...
... civilizational identities are likely to be characterized by conflict or co-operation, or presumptions about the potential for the transfer of ideas and institutions between civilizations. For some, such processes promise convergence and interdependence, for others, domination or imperialism. Therefor ...
virtuality - Faculty Websites
... bulging biceps, and so on. However, even in such cases our critical impulse should not foreclose examining how such ostensibly normative embodiments may have different meanings and consequences online - not least because, for instance, the male avatar with bulging biceps may be female in the actual ...
... bulging biceps, and so on. However, even in such cases our critical impulse should not foreclose examining how such ostensibly normative embodiments may have different meanings and consequences online - not least because, for instance, the male avatar with bulging biceps may be female in the actual ...
curriculum vitae - Anthropology, UC Berkeley
... Thesis title: Late Prehistoric Exchange Network Analysis in Carrizo Gorge and the Far Southwest (published by Coyote Press, 1994). Committee: J.W. Ball, L.L. Leach, N.H. Greenwood. A.B. Anthropology/Geology, San Diego State University (Cum Laude with Distinction in Anthropology) 1979. Phi Beta Kappa ...
... Thesis title: Late Prehistoric Exchange Network Analysis in Carrizo Gorge and the Far Southwest (published by Coyote Press, 1994). Committee: J.W. Ball, L.L. Leach, N.H. Greenwood. A.B. Anthropology/Geology, San Diego State University (Cum Laude with Distinction in Anthropology) 1979. Phi Beta Kappa ...
He may be lying but what he says is
... Castanda's books are fiction, he does nor see this as detracting from their value: "The dose parallels berween whar Castaneda describes and other areas of shanlanic experience show thar he is presenting genuine anthropological marerial ... rhe books bring rogether and commenr upon a wide range of ge ...
... Castanda's books are fiction, he does nor see this as detracting from their value: "The dose parallels berween whar Castaneda describes and other areas of shanlanic experience show thar he is presenting genuine anthropological marerial ... rhe books bring rogether and commenr upon a wide range of ge ...
The lightness of existence and the origami of “French” anthropology
... If we consider Latour’s book a kind of encyclopedic novel, that is, a text that attempts to register the European world of knowledge at the moment (like Finnegans wake [Joyce 1939], or Gravity’s rainbow [Pynchon 1973]), we can understand why there are few references but many well-known phrasings, an ...
... If we consider Latour’s book a kind of encyclopedic novel, that is, a text that attempts to register the European world of knowledge at the moment (like Finnegans wake [Joyce 1939], or Gravity’s rainbow [Pynchon 1973]), we can understand why there are few references but many well-known phrasings, an ...
Narrating Sense, Ordering Nature: Darwin`s
... Even the powerful monogenist thinkers who eventually paved the way for modern-day anthropological thinking—like American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan, whose pioneering work on kinship studies in the late 1850s was overshadowed by Darwin’s similar findings, and his British counterpart Edward Bur ...
... Even the powerful monogenist thinkers who eventually paved the way for modern-day anthropological thinking—like American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan, whose pioneering work on kinship studies in the late 1850s was overshadowed by Darwin’s similar findings, and his British counterpart Edward Bur ...
Understanding Organizational Culture
... variations. The centrality of the culture concept follows from the profound importance of shared meanings for any coordinated action. As Smircich (1985) says, organizations exist as systems of meanings that are shared to various degrees. A sense of common, taken for granted ideas, beliefs and meanin ...
... variations. The centrality of the culture concept follows from the profound importance of shared meanings for any coordinated action. As Smircich (1985) says, organizations exist as systems of meanings that are shared to various degrees. A sense of common, taken for granted ideas, beliefs and meanin ...
1 Defining Southeast Asia
... will disappear from the academic scene, but I do believe that the landscape of area studies is destined to become rather different in character and appearance. Whether or not we manage to present a firmly grounded Jacksonian justification for and defence of area studies on the basis of the importanc ...
... will disappear from the academic scene, but I do believe that the landscape of area studies is destined to become rather different in character and appearance. Whether or not we manage to present a firmly grounded Jacksonian justification for and defence of area studies on the basis of the importanc ...
The Neoliberal Challenge
... neoliberal state requires privatization of public assets by turning those segments of society that are run by the government over to private interests, where, presumably, competition for control over these previously government-run resources will lead to greater efficiency and increase productivity, ...
... neoliberal state requires privatization of public assets by turning those segments of society that are run by the government over to private interests, where, presumably, competition for control over these previously government-run resources will lead to greater efficiency and increase productivity, ...
8.COM 7.a.1 - Intangible Cultural Heritage
... nomination. The second test – evidence of their free, prior and informed consent – was deemed satisfactory in three cases, marginal in two and unconvincing in two. The Consultative Body considers that ‘widest possible participation’ does not refer to simply serving as sources of information or appro ...
... nomination. The second test – evidence of their free, prior and informed consent – was deemed satisfactory in three cases, marginal in two and unconvincing in two. The Consultative Body considers that ‘widest possible participation’ does not refer to simply serving as sources of information or appro ...
Eric Wolf: The Crosser of Boundaries. - Irene Portis
... static and rule-bound. In Wolf’s works the heroes are both the ethnologist and those boundarycrossing actors as conceptualized by the author. .In his later works, the relation of Wolf’s ongoing development of his theoretical stance and philosophical concepts to those to the above semiotic and pre-se ...
... static and rule-bound. In Wolf’s works the heroes are both the ethnologist and those boundarycrossing actors as conceptualized by the author. .In his later works, the relation of Wolf’s ongoing development of his theoretical stance and philosophical concepts to those to the above semiotic and pre-se ...
Marked Catalog Copy - East Carolina University
... ANTH 3002. Cultures of East Asia (3) (FC:SO) (P: ANTH 1000 or 2010 or 2200 or consent of instructor) ANTH 3003. Cultures of Africa (3) (FC:SO) (P: ANTH 1000 or 2010 or 2200 or consent of instructor) ANTH 3004. Cultures of the South Pacific (3) (FC:SO) (P: ANTH 1000 or 2010 or 2200 or consent of inst ...
... ANTH 3002. Cultures of East Asia (3) (FC:SO) (P: ANTH 1000 or 2010 or 2200 or consent of instructor) ANTH 3003. Cultures of Africa (3) (FC:SO) (P: ANTH 1000 or 2010 or 2200 or consent of instructor) ANTH 3004. Cultures of the South Pacific (3) (FC:SO) (P: ANTH 1000 or 2010 or 2200 or consent of inst ...
Kinship as classification: towards a paradigm of change
... human kinship (Allen et al. 2008), the latter being explicitly evolutionary in the contemporary sense (the volume includes contributions from social anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary psychology, primatology and linguistics). Not all those associated with Needham’s influence have been equally t ...
... human kinship (Allen et al. 2008), the latter being explicitly evolutionary in the contemporary sense (the volume includes contributions from social anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary psychology, primatology and linguistics). Not all those associated with Needham’s influence have been equally t ...
Kinship Terms in Arabic language
... whereby people conduct their social lives. When language is used in contexts of communication, it is bound up with culture in multiple and complex ways. But people use language differently because of the different linguistic varieties of each language. These varieties can be attributed to the cultur ...
... whereby people conduct their social lives. When language is used in contexts of communication, it is bound up with culture in multiple and complex ways. But people use language differently because of the different linguistic varieties of each language. These varieties can be attributed to the cultur ...
Cultural anthropology
Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans and is in contrast to social anthropology which perceives cultural variation as a subset of the anthropological constant. A variety of methods are part of anthropological methodology, including participant observation (often called fieldwork because it involves the anthropologist spending an extended period of time at the research location), interviews, and surveys.One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term ""culture"" came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: ""Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society."" The term ""civilization"" later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.The anthropological concept of ""culture"" reflects in part a reaction against earlier Western discourses based on an opposition between ""culture"" and ""nature"", according to which some human beings lived in a ""state of nature"". Anthropologists have argued that culture is ""human nature"", and that all people have a capacity to classify experiences, encode classifications symbolically (i.e. in language), and teach such abstractions to others.Since humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, people living in different places or different circumstances develop different cultures. Anthropologists have also pointed out that through culture people can adapt to their environment in non-genetic ways, so people living in different environments will often have different cultures. Much of anthropological theory has originated in an appreciation of and interest in the tension between the local (particular cultures) and the global (a universal human nature, or the web of connections between people in distinct places/circumstances).The rise of cultural anthropology occurred within the context of the late 19th century, when questions regarding which cultures were ""primitive"" and which were ""civilized"" occupied the minds of not only Marx and Freud, but many others. Colonialism and its processes increasingly brought European thinkers in contact, directly or indirectly with ""primitive others."" The relative status of various humans, some of whom had modern advanced technologies that included engines and telegraphs, while others lacked anything but face-to-face communication techniques and still lived a Paleolithic lifestyle, was of interest to the first generation of cultural anthropologists.Parallel with the rise of cultural anthropology in the United States, social anthropology, in which sociality is the central concept and which focuses on the study of social statuses and roles, groups, institutions, and the relations among them—developed as an academic discipline in Britain and in France. An umbrella term socio-cultural anthropology makes reference to both cultural and social anthropology traditions.