Anthropological Theory: An Introductory HistoryA comprehensive and accessible survey of the history of theory in anthropology, this anthology of classic readings contains in-depth commentary in introductions and notes to help guide students through excerpts of seminal anthropological works. The commentary provides the background information needed to understand each article, its central concepts, and its relationship to the social and historical context in which it was written. |
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... analysis must be real , simplify- ing , and explanatory . Thus the distinctive features which are the product of phonemic analysis have an objective existence from three points of view : psychological , physiological , and even physical ...
... analysis must be real , simplify- ing , and explanatory . Thus the distinctive features which are the product of phonemic analysis have an objective existence from three points of view : psychological , physiological , and even physical ...
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... analysis using phonemes and kinship analysis . Once this basic unit of kinship is isolated , the description of a structural system of kinship can easily be made . 9 In this passage , Lévi - Strauss begins to isolate the unit of kinship ...
... analysis using phonemes and kinship analysis . Once this basic unit of kinship is isolated , the description of a structural system of kinship can easily be made . 9 In this passage , Lévi - Strauss begins to isolate the unit of kinship ...
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... analysis which I have pre- sented does not lie in the facts but in the proce- dure . Instead of taking each myth as a thing in itself with a " meaning " peculiar to itself it is as- sumed , from the start , that every myth is one of a ...
... analysis which I have pre- sented does not lie in the facts but in the proce- dure . Instead of taking each myth as a thing in itself with a " meaning " peculiar to itself it is as- sumed , from the start , that every myth is one of a ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Sigmund Freud The Return of Totemism in Childhood 1913 | 67 |
The Foundations of Sociological Thought | 84 |
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