Primitivism, Transgression, and other Myths: The Philosophical Anthropology of Georges Bataille
... ‘philosophical anthropology.’ If Bataille’s own cross-cultural studies did not survive as good ethnography, in ways I will discuss, at least on the direction set out here they are an interesting philosophical anthropology in Clifford’s sense – that of a holistic, comparative, and humanistic investig ...
... ‘philosophical anthropology.’ If Bataille’s own cross-cultural studies did not survive as good ethnography, in ways I will discuss, at least on the direction set out here they are an interesting philosophical anthropology in Clifford’s sense – that of a holistic, comparative, and humanistic investig ...
Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris`s Cultural
... symposia, except for those of Robert Carneiro and David Kennedy. These were invited afterwards and prepared only for this volume. Inasmuch as Harris’s work had a broad impact on all subfields of anthropology, we hope this book will be of interest to all anthropologists. Those contemporary anthropolo ...
... symposia, except for those of Robert Carneiro and David Kennedy. These were invited afterwards and prepared only for this volume. Inasmuch as Harris’s work had a broad impact on all subfields of anthropology, we hope this book will be of interest to all anthropologists. Those contemporary anthropolo ...
this PDF - HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
... Let us imagine that anthropologists from another planet—let us say Mars—were present at the butcher’s shop and witnessed our conversation. Imagine, too, that these anthropologists, like human anthropologists from earth, have little taste for law and economics or for studying arid treatises, and pref ...
... Let us imagine that anthropologists from another planet—let us say Mars—were present at the butcher’s shop and witnessed our conversation. Imagine, too, that these anthropologists, like human anthropologists from earth, have little taste for law and economics or for studying arid treatises, and pref ...
Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
... ethnographically focused than Boonzaier and Sharp’s volume, the present book attempts likewise to look askance at the ‘culture and society’ of anthropology as an academic discipline and relate its conceptual tools to wider philosophical and folk discourses. It echoes Boonzaier and Sharp too in claim ...
... ethnographically focused than Boonzaier and Sharp’s volume, the present book attempts likewise to look askance at the ‘culture and society’ of anthropology as an academic discipline and relate its conceptual tools to wider philosophical and folk discourses. It echoes Boonzaier and Sharp too in claim ...
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF AESTHETICS: A CROSS
... certain configurations of black-and-white markings (Gell 1995: 23-4). In this sense, what appears to be the disinterested appreciation of a well-marked calf, which prompts its display, is in reality another example of a non-Western inability to separate form from function. No doubt GeIr s argument i ...
... certain configurations of black-and-white markings (Gell 1995: 23-4). In this sense, what appears to be the disinterested appreciation of a well-marked calf, which prompts its display, is in reality another example of a non-Western inability to separate form from function. No doubt GeIr s argument i ...
SOMETHING ELSE Forthcoming in Common Knowledge, Vol. 13
... anthropologist of the past several decades, died of a broken heart on October 30, 2006, at the age of eighty—the result of “complications” following heart surgery. All this, according to initial death notices. Two days later, on November 1, the New York Times published an obituary.1 It was a friendl ...
... anthropologist of the past several decades, died of a broken heart on October 30, 2006, at the age of eighty—the result of “complications” following heart surgery. All this, according to initial death notices. Two days later, on November 1, the New York Times published an obituary.1 It was a friendl ...
The Anthropology of Money and Finance: Between Ethnography
... discipline. Rather than emphasize what money does, as the economists do -- a medium of exchange, reserve fund or means of accounting – anthropologists can approach it as an integral part of the hierarchies and networks of exchange through which it circulates. Its multiple meanings in turn keep socie ...
... discipline. Rather than emphasize what money does, as the economists do -- a medium of exchange, reserve fund or means of accounting – anthropologists can approach it as an integral part of the hierarchies and networks of exchange through which it circulates. Its multiple meanings in turn keep socie ...
Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and
... Thanks are also due to Jon Mitchell not just for the substantial work which he has devoted to this volume—along with several other EASA volumes—but for his own intellectual contribution. M ARILYN S TRATHERN Cambridge, August 1999 ...
... Thanks are also due to Jon Mitchell not just for the substantial work which he has devoted to this volume—along with several other EASA volumes—but for his own intellectual contribution. M ARILYN S TRATHERN Cambridge, August 1999 ...
Behavioral and Other Human Ecologies: Critique, Response and
... that it highlights the diverse elements of science. However it is unnecessarily complex and unrealistically precise as an evaluative tool. I had little success, for example, in trying to classify the parts of HBE I know well enough to understand their flaws and guess at their incompleteness. By cont ...
... that it highlights the diverse elements of science. However it is unnecessarily complex and unrealistically precise as an evaluative tool. I had little success, for example, in trying to classify the parts of HBE I know well enough to understand their flaws and guess at their incompleteness. By cont ...
fallkinship
... Anthropology’s love affair with kinship has cooled in recent decades (: : :) This trend has been construed by some observers as a clear (if not relieving) sign that the study of kinship is dead or moribund. Although such views remind one of Mark Twain’s remark that reports of his death had been grea ...
... Anthropology’s love affair with kinship has cooled in recent decades (: : :) This trend has been construed by some observers as a clear (if not relieving) sign that the study of kinship is dead or moribund. Although such views remind one of Mark Twain’s remark that reports of his death had been grea ...
Visions of Culture : an Introduction to Anthropological Theories and
... Sahlins and historic Oceana—there is a recurrent dialectic that occurs in the context of research. In general discussions of theory, the empirical contexts of fieldwork are too often ignored. This is a shame since ethnographic research is anthropology’s most important addition to the social sciences ...
... Sahlins and historic Oceana—there is a recurrent dialectic that occurs in the context of research. In general discussions of theory, the empirical contexts of fieldwork are too often ignored. This is a shame since ethnographic research is anthropology’s most important addition to the social sciences ...
The Use of Statistics in Sociocultural Anthropology
... Most statistical analysis in sociocultural anthropology consists of descriptions of relationships between two variables. Such bivariate analyses often have two goals; testing independence and measuring association. Two variables are independent if a knowledge of the numerical value (or category in t ...
... Most statistical analysis in sociocultural anthropology consists of descriptions of relationships between two variables. Such bivariate analyses often have two goals; testing independence and measuring association. Two variables are independent if a knowledge of the numerical value (or category in t ...
Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming
... Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (hereafter, following the standard local abbreviation, BiH), to highlight the utility of Deleuze’s suggestion that one should write for the benefit of a “missing people” (Deleuze 1997:4). Sarajevo is a city overflowing with “symptoms.” Years of trauma-oriented psychosoci ...
... Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (hereafter, following the standard local abbreviation, BiH), to highlight the utility of Deleuze’s suggestion that one should write for the benefit of a “missing people” (Deleuze 1997:4). Sarajevo is a city overflowing with “symptoms.” Years of trauma-oriented psychosoci ...
History and Theory in Anthropology
... quite diVerent questions from those which engaged RadcliVe-Brown with his interest in society as an interlocking set of relationships. Today’s anthropologists pay homage to both, though our questions and assumptions may be diVerent again. The organization of this book has both thematic and chronolog ...
... quite diVerent questions from those which engaged RadcliVe-Brown with his interest in society as an interlocking set of relationships. Today’s anthropologists pay homage to both, though our questions and assumptions may be diVerent again. The organization of this book has both thematic and chronolog ...
anthropology, mathematics, kinship
... shift from rough carpentry to cabinet-making. It provided anthropologists with a shared technical vocabulary that cleared away much of the confusion about “structure” in the social sciences. “Here in this new book,” Barnes said, “we have at last a comprehensive range of examples from graph theory be ...
... shift from rough carpentry to cabinet-making. It provided anthropologists with a shared technical vocabulary that cleared away much of the confusion about “structure” in the social sciences. “Here in this new book,” Barnes said, “we have at last a comprehensive range of examples from graph theory be ...
Popular Music Studies and the Problems of Sound, Society and
... I argue, following Wæver, that journals provide the greatest indicator of the vitality, scope, methodologies, theories, analytical techniques, discursive norms and interdisciplinary inclinations of a field. Academic journals have the potential for a quicker turn-around review and publication process ...
... I argue, following Wæver, that journals provide the greatest indicator of the vitality, scope, methodologies, theories, analytical techniques, discursive norms and interdisciplinary inclinations of a field. Academic journals have the potential for a quicker turn-around review and publication process ...
PRAGMATIC ANTHROPOLOGY
... considerable attention to cataloging measures that one can take to cultivate genuine character. After discussing individual character – the sort so prominent in his empirical theory of the higher faculty of desire – Kant also discusses other sorts of “character,” including the character of different ...
... considerable attention to cataloging measures that one can take to cultivate genuine character. After discussing individual character – the sort so prominent in his empirical theory of the higher faculty of desire – Kant also discusses other sorts of “character,” including the character of different ...
ANG 6186 (Section 6184) - Anthropology at the University of Florida
... considers how bodies are inscribed in the material world, in material culture, built environment and landscape, including how human bodies are constructed and how movements and engagements between bodies re-construct the material world. The course adopts a viewpoint that considers the “archaeology o ...
... considers how bodies are inscribed in the material world, in material culture, built environment and landscape, including how human bodies are constructed and how movements and engagements between bodies re-construct the material world. The course adopts a viewpoint that considers the “archaeology o ...
FULL-TEXT - Research Explorer
... therefore lived, participatory and emergent as and through modes of habitation: for Ingold, it is the act of drawing, which being manual and requiring a direct engagement with the elements, is not essentially a technical act and as such avoids the pitfalls of camera work, which confuses a mechanical ...
... therefore lived, participatory and emergent as and through modes of habitation: for Ingold, it is the act of drawing, which being manual and requiring a direct engagement with the elements, is not essentially a technical act and as such avoids the pitfalls of camera work, which confuses a mechanical ...
Aalborg Universitet Why all anthropology should be called techno-anthropology Birkbak, Andreas
... tekhne might be understood as art or craft, logia refers to systematic treatment, which together results in something like ’the systematic treatment of craft’. The second half of the n ...
... tekhne might be understood as art or craft, logia refers to systematic treatment, which together results in something like ’the systematic treatment of craft’. The second half of the n ...
IF YOU`RE THINKING OF LIVING IN STS / A Guide
... This paper grew out of a workshop at the School for American Research, which had produced the Writing Culture volume a decade earlier. So there was some expectation that the seminar might help to define what an anthropology of science and technology could be, especially in distinction from and in co ...
... This paper grew out of a workshop at the School for American Research, which had produced the Writing Culture volume a decade earlier. So there was some expectation that the seminar might help to define what an anthropology of science and technology could be, especially in distinction from and in co ...
The Psychology of Cultural Experience - Assets
... fieldwork and comparative analysis (e.g., Clifford 1998). Instead, these defining chapters by established scholars demonstrate that sound scientific methodologies can yield important data about the mutually constituted nature of culture and individual experience, and they reaffirm the possibility of ...
... fieldwork and comparative analysis (e.g., Clifford 1998). Instead, these defining chapters by established scholars demonstrate that sound scientific methodologies can yield important data about the mutually constituted nature of culture and individual experience, and they reaffirm the possibility of ...
REPORT OF THE ACCREDITATION COMMISSION
... sense, they sometimes seem to be too intensive for the students. From another point of view, the above difficulty is caused by a lack of Bachelor studies in this area in Latvia. As a unique Social Anthropology programme in Latvia, it has been developed in some sense as a combination of Bachelor and ...
... sense, they sometimes seem to be too intensive for the students. From another point of view, the above difficulty is caused by a lack of Bachelor studies in this area in Latvia. As a unique Social Anthropology programme in Latvia, it has been developed in some sense as a combination of Bachelor and ...
Sample Chapter - Duke University Press
... this autobiography. Life histories are produced in the framework of a wider investigation and are the product of the researcher’s own initiative in contacting the informant and spending a good deal of time in trying to set down his/her story in accordance with a certain thematic and historical focus ...
... this autobiography. Life histories are produced in the framework of a wider investigation and are the product of the researcher’s own initiative in contacting the informant and spending a good deal of time in trying to set down his/her story in accordance with a certain thematic and historical focus ...
Anthropology, humanism and civic responsibilities: a conversation with Thomas Hylland Eriksen
... scapegoats as soon as there is a social problem. THE: They have had politicians who have said very irresponsible things, really stigmatising and denigrating generalisations about minorities, and it goes on after the attack. Some even presented themselves as the true victims of the terrorist attack b ...
... scapegoats as soon as there is a social problem. THE: They have had politicians who have said very irresponsible things, really stigmatising and denigrating generalisations about minorities, and it goes on after the attack. Some even presented themselves as the true victims of the terrorist attack b ...
History of anthropology
History of anthropology in this article refers primarily to the 18th- and 19th-century precursors of modern anthropology. The term anthropology itself, innovated as a New Latin scientific word during the Renaissance, has always meant ""the study (or science) of man."" The topics to be included and the terminology have varied historically. At present they are more elaborate than they were during the development of anthropology. For a presentation of modern social and cultural anthropology as they have developed in Britain, France, and North America since approximately 1900, see the relevant sections under Anthropology.