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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. 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 ...
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.
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 ...
anthropological emphases on cultural processes. We concentrate in particu-lar on dialogic processes of collective identity, drawing several points from our own ethnographic studies of First Nations activism in Canada, the glob-al justice movement network, and women's activism in Nepal. Social Movements in the Everyday: A Decentered Approach
1 cze 2023 · In Social Anthropology, Olga Povoroznyuk (2021) relies on the heuristic of ‘ambiguous entanglements’ to contrast the official and the public knowledge with the hidden and underrepresented memories and perspectives of the indigenous Evenki population about the big historical infrastructural project of the Baikal-Amur Mainline in Siberia.
