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What is Social Anthropology? While many people are familiar with cultural, linguistic, archaeological, and biological anthropology, less understand social an...
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.
12 gru 2016 · Ken Guest discusses the new "Social Life of Things" feature in the second edition of "Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age." http://books.wwnort...
27 sty 2018 · In this chapter, we present the major anthropological currents that directly or indirectly made use of the notion of society in their theoretical reflections and analyses of empirical data.
Explain how the perspectives of holism, cultural relativism, comparison, and fieldwork, as well as both scientific and humanistic tendencies make anthropology a unique discipline. Evaluate the ways in which anthropology can be used to address current social, political, and economic issues.
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 movements, NGOs, subjects of social economics, etc.
Presenting a ground-breaking revitalisation of contemporary social theory, this book revisits the rise of the modern world to reopen the dialogue between anthropology and sociology.
