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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.
7 sty 2008 · Anthropology: Humanity, Culture, and Social Life by Tim Ingold; A Dictionary of Cultural. and Critical Theory by Michael Payne. Review by: Herbert S. Lewis. American Anthropologist, New...
This new dictionary provides concise, authoritative definitions for a range of concepts relating to cultural anthropology, as well as important findings and intellectual figures in the field.
Social anthropology is the study of human society and cultures through a comparative lens. Social anthropologists seek to understand how people live in societies and how they make their lives meaningful.
3 lut 2011 · Written by a researcher and librarian expert in the fields of social and cultural anthropology, this Concise Dictionary offers an invaluable reference to the terminology and accomplishments of this far-reaching and diverse field.
(or ethnology), social anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and psychological anthropology are the fields that examine the social and cultural creations of human groups.
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.