Pre-print - Matei Candea
... the cure. We can see this dichotomy playing out in the debates I briefly outlined above, with accusations of romanticism and cold-heartedness flying about between protagonists who increasingly make each other look like stereotypes. This normative dichotomisation of detachment and engagement has fed ...
... the cure. We can see this dichotomy playing out in the debates I briefly outlined above, with accusations of romanticism and cold-heartedness flying about between protagonists who increasingly make each other look like stereotypes. This normative dichotomisation of detachment and engagement has fed ...
The Domestication of Anthropology
... a human skeleton but separated from it by the reniains of a ffiat or blanket that lay over the hûman and under the lamb (Russell and Düring in press). The lamb Iay on its side, with its legs pulled awkwardly straight up, as they. must have been carefully held while the pit was fihled, perhaps to ~re ...
... a human skeleton but separated from it by the reniains of a ffiat or blanket that lay over the hûman and under the lamb (Russell and Düring in press). The lamb Iay on its side, with its legs pulled awkwardly straight up, as they. must have been carefully held while the pit was fihled, perhaps to ~re ...
History and Human Nature: Cross-cultural Universals and Cultural
... the experimental situation. The vacuum produced by the air-pump studied by Shapin and Schaffer (1985) would be a case in point. Up until then, the vacuum had been merely a theoretical entity. We can all think of plenty of parallels from right across the board of twenty-first century science. Most of ...
... the experimental situation. The vacuum produced by the air-pump studied by Shapin and Schaffer (1985) would be a case in point. Up until then, the vacuum had been merely a theoretical entity. We can all think of plenty of parallels from right across the board of twenty-first century science. Most of ...
Orientalism, Anthropology, and the Other Author(s)
... concept, should be written "against."The culture concept is problematic, says Abu-Lughod,because it focuses on difference, and in doing so it "operatesto enforce separations that inevitably carry a sense of hierarchy"(1991:137-138). Culture is thus "the essential tool for making other" (1991:143). A ...
... concept, should be written "against."The culture concept is problematic, says Abu-Lughod,because it focuses on difference, and in doing so it "operatesto enforce separations that inevitably carry a sense of hierarchy"(1991:137-138). Culture is thus "the essential tool for making other" (1991:143). A ...
Ferdinand de Saussure
... • Pets don’t fit neatly into both or either polarity of the nature-culture opposition. • Pets are highly tabooed as food for Australians and Americans. (dogs, cats) • When categories are problematic because they fail to fit neatly into clear, opposite categories, they are the focus of the greatest c ...
... • Pets don’t fit neatly into both or either polarity of the nature-culture opposition. • Pets are highly tabooed as food for Australians and Americans. (dogs, cats) • When categories are problematic because they fail to fit neatly into clear, opposite categories, they are the focus of the greatest c ...