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A contemporary of Khaldun, Ibn Battuta (1304–1369), was in his way just as significant for the history of anthropology. Not a major social theorist, Battuta is considered to be the most widely travelled person of the pre-industrial world.
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...
‘social anthropology’ is the more usual designation. In continental Europe, the word ‘anthropology’ often still tends to carry the meaning ‘physical anthropology’, though there too ‘social anthropology’ is now rapidly gaining ground as a synonym for ‘ethnology’. Indeed, the main
1. Introduction: semantic ambiguities of the concept of anthropology 2. Pioneers of Social Anthropology: Evolutionism and Society 3. The Idea of Society in British Anthropology: Functionalism 4. The French School: Structuralism 5. From Structuralism to Post-Structuralism and Their Influence on Agency Theory 6. Against Stability: Dynamic ...
Anthropology as a moral practice aims not to explain social phenomena (whether on the basis of evolutionary or structural or psychoanalytical laws) so much as to witness the ways in which people struggle to manage the common imperatives of human existence.
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 movements, NGOs, subjects of social economics, etc.
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...
