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Containing contributions from American and British social anthropologists and historians, the volume bridges the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture.
1 dzień temu · Cultural anthropology, also known as social anthropology, is the study of the learned behavior of groups of people in specific environments. Cultural anthropologists base their work in ethnography, a research method that uses field work and participant-observation to study individual cultures and customs.
The common narrative states that human beings have developed flexible biological and social features that have worked together in a wide variety of environmental and historical conditions to produce a diversity of cultures.
16 cze 2005 · This book not only summarizes what we know about people; it also offers a coherent, easy-to-understand though radical, explanation. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the author argues that culture shaped human evolution.
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.
“The Social Life of Things” by Arjun Appadurai explores the complex relationships between people and objects within various social, cultural, and economic contexts. The book investigates how objects acquire meaning, value, and significance through social interactions and exchanges.
Human beings have developed flexible biological and social features that have worked together in a wide variety of environmental and historical conditions to produce a diversity of cultures. Three features of this narrative are especially important to anthropologists.
