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The article analyses the area of cultural activities outside the institutional circulation of culture, or within that framework but focusing on social values of art. Culture is understood here in its wide anthropological and sociological sense; by the subjects of culture, the author means individual producers, informal groups and social ...
9 paź 2003 · Download Citation | The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology | This book presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and...
5 wrz 2018 · Subsequently, the entry outlines the theoretical development of social and cultural anthropology during the twentieth century and the way in which this came to a moment of decisive crisis in...
27 sty 2018 · Andrea Boscoboinik. Université de Fribourg. References (43) Abstract. In this chapter, we present the major anthropological currents that directly or indirectly made use of the notion of...
It is a solidarity that recognises the individual’s freedom to live life as it is achieved and not ascribed. In spite of the inclusion of the title ‘Body’, the book is characterised by an understanding of human experience and social life as it is primarily cognitively conceived.
As societies evolve and adapt to new circumstances, anthropologists examine how these changes affect people's lives, identities, and relationships. They explore how globalization, migration, technological advancements, and other forces shape cultural practices and reshape social structures.
One prominent anthropological example of these approaches, entailing interest in extended sociality through a broadening of the boundaries of the human, is the already mentioned perspectivism of Viveiros de Castro (1998; human. Introduction
