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The social anthropology of women is not a new topic. Women have been in there somewhere from the beginning of the discipline. According to Evans-Pritchard (1955) the relationship between the sexes was a favourite subject of Victorian British social anthropologists. Rogers (1978, op.cit. below, pp.125-6)
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.
16 cze 2005 · What makes us human? Why do people think, feel, and act as they do? What is the essence of human nature? What is the basic relationship between the individual and society? These questions have fascinated people for centuries.
9 paź 2003 · This book presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the ...
9 paź 2003 · This book presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. 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.
Treating feminist anthropology as a traveling theory capable of addressing critical social problems beyond gender, this article aims not merely to recredit feminism in anthropology, but also to show its potential to transform anthropology into an antiracist, decolonial, and abolitionist project.
an empirical focus on women to include gender as a mode of analysis (Lewin 2006), and broadened to include critical perspectives on social inequality. For example, Carol Stack (1975) developed a women-based theory of family structure and kinship in an African American community to write against the culture of poverty ideology.
