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... expanded notion of performativity would then become crucial for developing a cultural account of economic processes. If circulation is to serve as a useful analytic construct for cultural analysis, it must be conceived as more than simply the movement of people, ideas, and commodities from one cultu ...
... expanded notion of performativity would then become crucial for developing a cultural account of economic processes. If circulation is to serve as a useful analytic construct for cultural analysis, it must be conceived as more than simply the movement of people, ideas, and commodities from one cultu ...
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... clothing that were functional earlier, in his time, he thought, were of decorative value; for instance, unused buttons behind the waist of a jacket, or cut-away collars always kept turned down. Another aspect of Tylor’s method was that he believed in the study of school children, for he thought that ...
... clothing that were functional earlier, in his time, he thought, were of decorative value; for instance, unused buttons behind the waist of a jacket, or cut-away collars always kept turned down. Another aspect of Tylor’s method was that he believed in the study of school children, for he thought that ...
flexible capitalism
... in the study of work. He observes that while one might ‘expect the subject of work to be as important a topic in anthropology as, for instance, exchange, magic [or] marriage . . . this is not the case . . . [T]here are only a few theoretically oriented anthropological monographs and collections of a ...
... in the study of work. He observes that while one might ‘expect the subject of work to be as important a topic in anthropology as, for instance, exchange, magic [or] marriage . . . this is not the case . . . [T]here are only a few theoretically oriented anthropological monographs and collections of a ...
Fundamental in socio-cultural Anthropology
... The word ‘primitive’ in the sense in which it has become established in anthropological literature does not mean that these societies are either earlier in time or inferior to other kinds of societies. Even though such societies are less developed than ‘developed societies’ in some respects they ar ...
... The word ‘primitive’ in the sense in which it has become established in anthropological literature does not mean that these societies are either earlier in time or inferior to other kinds of societies. Even though such societies are less developed than ‘developed societies’ in some respects they ar ...
Social Theory of International Politics, Chapters 3 and 4
... structure. But how about the relative weight of each component of this structure? The key is to understand how interests work. Materialists privilege material conditions, and try to show that they largely determine interests. Idealists privilege ideas, and try to show that they largely determine int ...
... structure. But how about the relative weight of each component of this structure? The key is to understand how interests work. Materialists privilege material conditions, and try to show that they largely determine interests. Idealists privilege ideas, and try to show that they largely determine int ...
Maurice Godelier and the study of ideology
... societies and in the first forms of class societies, our results permit us to take·a·step take a step towards·a towards a general theory of ideology (1973:337). Already after these general statements a couple of questions arise. In the first place, Godelier speaks about marxist anthropologists analy ...
... societies and in the first forms of class societies, our results permit us to take·a·step take a step towards·a towards a general theory of ideology (1973:337). Already after these general statements a couple of questions arise. In the first place, Godelier speaks about marxist anthropologists analy ...
An Overview of the Anthropological Theories
... 5.0.The Functionalist School The functionalist school had huge influence on the disciplines like sociology and anthropology. Ember, Ember and Peregrine (2011; 21) mentioned that functionalism ‘looks for the part (function) that some aspects of culture or social life plays in maintaining a cultural s ...
... 5.0.The Functionalist School The functionalist school had huge influence on the disciplines like sociology and anthropology. Ember, Ember and Peregrine (2011; 21) mentioned that functionalism ‘looks for the part (function) that some aspects of culture or social life plays in maintaining a cultural s ...
Egocentric and Sociocentric Structure in
... Behrens 1990), expert in generative mathematical models that match cognitive processes of language use to linguistic structure in relative products denoting relations such as (brother)°(father)=(uncle) where the output of composition is another term. His findings show that Morgan was intuitively cor ...
... Behrens 1990), expert in generative mathematical models that match cognitive processes of language use to linguistic structure in relative products denoting relations such as (brother)°(father)=(uncle) where the output of composition is another term. His findings show that Morgan was intuitively cor ...
Heirlooms, Nikes and Bribes: Towards a Sociology of Things
... processes are involved and how are these substantiated in things? To what extent is the trajectory of things – their movements between human beings – determining the meaning of things? One possible answer is that the social order prevalent in a certain society is reflected in the classification of t ...
... processes are involved and how are these substantiated in things? To what extent is the trajectory of things – their movements between human beings – determining the meaning of things? One possible answer is that the social order prevalent in a certain society is reflected in the classification of t ...
Barter in practice: a case study of liwac transaction in
... The items for which these goods exchanged are mostly second-hand shoes and clothes. Shoes are generally made of leather since these are believed to be easily renewable and marketable. Exchanging underwear is not acceptable not only because these items of clothing are cheap to buy, but because most p ...
... The items for which these goods exchanged are mostly second-hand shoes and clothes. Shoes are generally made of leather since these are believed to be easily renewable and marketable. Exchanging underwear is not acceptable not only because these items of clothing are cheap to buy, but because most p ...
A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation
... American Journal of Sociology that a relation is powerful or important it is certainly more convincing to designate it as "structural" than as "patterning." The term structure empowers what it designates. Structure, in its nominative sense, always implies structure in its transitive verbal sense. W ...
... American Journal of Sociology that a relation is powerful or important it is certainly more convincing to designate it as "structural" than as "patterning." The term structure empowers what it designates. Structure, in its nominative sense, always implies structure in its transitive verbal sense. W ...
Beyond Sontag as a reader of Lévi-Strauss: `anthropologist as hero
... To a large extent, this may still be how the practice of anthropology is viewed from outside the discipline. Yet, as anthropologists increasingly study groups that are not necessarily ‘non-Western’ or located abroad, as they study elites or their own societies, or celebrate their intervention into s ...
... To a large extent, this may still be how the practice of anthropology is viewed from outside the discipline. Yet, as anthropologists increasingly study groups that are not necessarily ‘non-Western’ or located abroad, as they study elites or their own societies, or celebrate their intervention into s ...
A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation
... American Journal of Sociology that a relation is powerful or important it is certainly more convincing to designate it as "structural" than as "patterning." The term structure empowers what it designates. Structure, in its nominative sense, always implies structure in its transitive verbal sense. W ...
... American Journal of Sociology that a relation is powerful or important it is certainly more convincing to designate it as "structural" than as "patterning." The term structure empowers what it designates. Structure, in its nominative sense, always implies structure in its transitive verbal sense. W ...
sewell 1992 - Rochelle Terman
... American Journal of Sociology that a relation is powerful or important it is certainly more convincing to designate it as "structural" than as "patterning." The term structure empowers what it designates. Structure, in its nominative sense, always implies structure in its transitive verbal sense. W ...
... American Journal of Sociology that a relation is powerful or important it is certainly more convincing to designate it as "structural" than as "patterning." The term structure empowers what it designates. Structure, in its nominative sense, always implies structure in its transitive verbal sense. W ...
emergence and the logic of explanation an argument for the unity of
... It does not come as a surprise that, due to the rise of self-organization concepts, the concept of emergence has been revisited. Actually, the latter may serve as a proper philosophical foundation of the former, if the selforganization paradigm is understood as a turn away from the mechanistic world ...
... It does not come as a surprise that, due to the rise of self-organization concepts, the concept of emergence has been revisited. Actually, the latter may serve as a proper philosophical foundation of the former, if the selforganization paradigm is understood as a turn away from the mechanistic world ...
History of Anthropological Theory
... humans were close to apes. This notion was perfectly consistent with the idea of a chain of being; apes were simply thought to have been created with less perfection. Early in the 18th century, an influential scientist, Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), classified plants and animals in a systema naturae ...
... humans were close to apes. This notion was perfectly consistent with the idea of a chain of being; apes were simply thought to have been created with less perfection. Early in the 18th century, an influential scientist, Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), classified plants and animals in a systema naturae ...
Longitudinal Social Network Studies and Predictive Social Cohesion
... political outcomes? What is it that makes a network cohesive in the sense that it affects institutional and socialcultural arrangements? What are some of the predictable consequences of network cohesion? The key conception in this project – successfully tested in six of our longitudinal case studie ...
... political outcomes? What is it that makes a network cohesive in the sense that it affects institutional and socialcultural arrangements? What are some of the predictable consequences of network cohesion? The key conception in this project – successfully tested in six of our longitudinal case studie ...
this PDF - HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
... part of anthropology today): primitive societies are supposedly simple, much simpler than ours are, and as a consequence, their intellectual categories (legal, economic, social, etc.) seem to confuse things that we can distinguish/analyze. My own position, by contrast, is that preliterate societies ...
... part of anthropology today): primitive societies are supposedly simple, much simpler than ours are, and as a consequence, their intellectual categories (legal, economic, social, etc.) seem to confuse things that we can distinguish/analyze. My own position, by contrast, is that preliterate societies ...
E. B. Tylor - Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement
... Both Andrew Lang and R. R. Marett referred to Tyler as their 'father, Parmenides', and D. H. Lawrence, speaking for the discerning general reader, recommended Primitive Culture to Lady Ottoline Morell and John Middleton Murry as 'a very good, sound substantial book, I had far rather read it than The ...
... Both Andrew Lang and R. R. Marett referred to Tyler as their 'father, Parmenides', and D. H. Lawrence, speaking for the discerning general reader, recommended Primitive Culture to Lady Ottoline Morell and John Middleton Murry as 'a very good, sound substantial book, I had far rather read it than The ...
kinship and Social Relations in Filipino Culture
... of aunt, or uncle, niece or nephew or son and father. As a relational principle, it emphasizes the importance of "sociological" rather than biological age. Seniority categorizes generations into younger and older members. For example, it defines the reciprocal rights and obligations between older an ...
... of aunt, or uncle, niece or nephew or son and father. As a relational principle, it emphasizes the importance of "sociological" rather than biological age. Seniority categorizes generations into younger and older members. For example, it defines the reciprocal rights and obligations between older an ...
Czech Structuralism in a nutshell
... On Czech structuralist metholology, Levý notes: Whereas the byword of positivism was ‘savoir pour prévoir’, the programme of the anti-positivist scientific phase, in which we find ourselves today, may be formulated as ‘savoir pour construire’. Structuralist tendencies in scientific disciplines inves ...
... On Czech structuralist metholology, Levý notes: Whereas the byword of positivism was ‘savoir pour prévoir’, the programme of the anti-positivist scientific phase, in which we find ourselves today, may be formulated as ‘savoir pour construire’. Structuralist tendencies in scientific disciplines inves ...
Problems in Cultural Anthropology 68230
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... mother’s brother) has the opposite effect: it enables men of a matrinineal group to live together, while dispersing the women through whom they are related. The Trobrianders of Melanesia are an example: men rather than women maintain power in within the village, and particularly so when a man succee ...
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... 34. In “Structuralism in Social Anthropology” Leach explains Levi-Strauss’ theory by comparing culture to language. Explain this metaphor in terms of grammar, particular languages, and the human ability to speak. 35. In the reading, “Thick Description: Toward an interpretive Theory of Culture”, Geer ...
... 34. In “Structuralism in Social Anthropology” Leach explains Levi-Strauss’ theory by comparing culture to language. Explain this metaphor in terms of grammar, particular languages, and the human ability to speak. 35. In the reading, “Thick Description: Toward an interpretive Theory of Culture”, Geer ...