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relativism replaced social evolutionism: interest in female roles and status then waned as males came to be seen as the crucial social actors. But women were not, and could hardly be, totally ignored - especially in a subject so devoted to, among other things, kinship terminology and structures: indeed, they became the moveable pieces
We can characterize the anthropology of women as falling into four categories so far: the study of women in relation to men and gender roles (“women and men”); large-scale cross-cultural theorizing about the position of women globally (“woman, culture, and society”); the study of women’s activities as valuable in and of themselves ...
Treating feminist anthropology as a traveling theory capable of addressing critical social problems beyond gender, this article aims not merely to recredit feminism in anthropology, but also to show its potential to transform anthropology into an antiracist, decolonial, and abolitionist project.
We are particularly committed to highlighting the unique strengths of feminist anthropology and seek submissions that champion and innovate many epistemological and methodological approaches that speak to issues of gender equity, inclusion, and radical possibility.
9 paź 2013 · In this article, I follow the anthropological tradition of symbolic systems analysis, and with it contribute to the debate concerning social representations throughout mass communication in general and, particularly, in advertising.
20 lut 2020 · Images are conceptualised through the lens of sociocultural psychology and analytically approached through the metaphor of ‘the social life of images,’ by which the life cycle of images is followed as they respond and borrow from one another in a continuous dialogue.
21 sty 2022 · Female breasts and noses, as well as their surgical modification, are imbued with specific meanings in the city, with large breasts, for example, connoting both erotic femininity and rural backwardness, depending on who has them and at what point in their life course.
