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7 sty 2008 · Anthropology: Humanity, Culture, and Social Life by Tim Ingold; A Dictionary of Cultural. and Critical Theory by Michael Payne. Review by: Herbert S. Lewis. American Anthropologist,...
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The books edited by Thomas Barfield and Tim Ingold are presented as works of and about anthropology and draw mostly upon the cultural and social anthropology developed in the United States and Britain from 1900 to the 1960s. (There is, of course, the hovering presence of Claude Levi-Strauss as well.)
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.
The Dictionary of Anthropology. Thomas Barfield. ed. Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 1997. 626 pp. Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture, and Social Life.
Association: a social group based on shared interest or voluntary participation. Band: Basic social unit in many foraging populations. Normally includes one hundred or fewer people, all related by kinship or marriage. Barter: direct exchange of items, without the intervention of money.
"The Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology is an accessible, hands-on guide to the hundreds of terms the student of anthropology and the general reader will encounter in dealing with anthropological and ethnographic literature.
I provide bibliographical references to a mixture of anthropological classics, related works from outside the field, and current ethnology, for both background reading and further research.
