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11 gru 2014 · The four books under review illustrate different ways of analyzing past societies through households, houses, and the conduct of everyday life. Grounded on the materiality, spatiality, and temporal...
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 concrete actions and institutions.
1 gru 2022 · Several of the chapters have led previous lives as journal articles, but tying them together in a larger argument demonstrates well why we also need books. It manages to strike the delicate balance between theoretically grounded arguments and rich, detailed empirical material.
He writes that if ‘a cultural sociology is concerned to explain social life as an expression of culture’, then ‘a sociology of culture, by contrast, is concerned to explain cultural life as an expression of the social’.
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’.
1 cze 2023 · With an extensive, critical review of classical anthropological debates, Pfeilstetter reminds us that objects or services in gift economies circulate between various groups based on the promise of reciprocity, forging close social ties wherein economic/entrepreneurial behaviour is expressed.
2 wrz 2024 · Reach an engaged target audience and position your brand alongside authoritative peer-reviewed research by advertising in Reviews in Anthropology. Publishes in-depth commentary and review of new books in anthropology, including biological, cultural, archaeological, and linguistic anthropology.
