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11 lis 2024 · Social anthropology is the subdiscipline of anthropology that investigates the cultural properties of human societies. Topics include cultural norms, morals, laws and customs, and...
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’.
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 ...
This book is different. Its purpose is to lay out a research program for a cultural sociology and to show how this program can be concretely applied to some of the principal concerns of contemporary life. A great aporia marks the birth of sociology—a great, mysterious, and unexplained rupture.
Social anthropology is defined as a field of study that focuses on understanding human societies and cultures through participant observation. It explores topics such as craft production, material culture, folklore, and the cultural significance of commodities within different societies.
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.
16 cze 2005 · The answers are often surprising, and along the way, the author explains how human desire, thought, feeling, and action are connected. Keywords: humans, society, human evolution, culture, victimization, genes, desire.