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This concise introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across...
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.
The secret to the compulsive power of social structures is that they have an inside. They are not only external to actors but internal to them. They are meaningful. These meanings are structured and socially produced, even if they are invisible. We must learn how to make them visible.
INTRODUCTION. Is "class" an appropriate concept for anthropological analysis? Toward the end of his life, Lloyd Fallers concluded that "social stratification" (which he took to include class) does not exist (31, p. 3), or at least the term is so loaded with cultural bias that it should be abandoned.
2 kwi 2021 · A central reason for their appeal is their potential to promote anthropology’s distinctive pursuit of examining social life in concrete ethnographic contexts by offering more apposite tools for this purpose than the extensively discredited concepts of ‘society’ and ‘culture’.
9 paź 2003 · Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, it shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures translate into ...
21 kwi 2022 · ‘On the Concept of Social Class’ concerns a key term of modern social theory, that of social class. The conceptual thinking that has emerged in this context typically describes social differentiation as stratification and stratification as social class.
