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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.
Via “video interviews” you can enter and search the main video site; via “short portraits” you can access further information on anthropologists who worked in Germany before 1990 (and also before 1945).
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.
5 wrz 2018 · Subsequently, the entry outlines the theoretical development of social and cultural anthropology during the twentieth century and the way in which this came to a moment of decisive crisis in...
In the 2000s, after the founding of the Max Planck Institute for Anthropological Research in Halle in 1999, with a British social anthropologist (Chris Hann) and a “Bielefelder” (Günther Schlee) as founding directors, it became widely accepted in German anthropology (Bierschenk et al., 2016).
‘social anthropology’ is the more usual designation. In continental Europe, the word ‘anthropology’ often still tends to carry the meaning ‘physical anthropology’, though there too ‘social anthropology’ is now rapidly gaining ground as a synonym for ‘ethnology’. Indeed, the main
In research and teaching, the Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology at Goethe University provides contemporary and historical perspectives on social phenomena as processes and expressions of varied dynamics.
