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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Page 390
... anthropology and ethnoscience as new paradigms that will revolutionize anthropology . This assessment of the place of cognitive anthropology was overoptimistic , however . It certainly did not have a revolutionary effect that rendered ...
... anthropology and ethnoscience as new paradigms that will revolutionize anthropology . This assessment of the place of cognitive anthropology was overoptimistic , however . It certainly did not have a revolutionary effect that rendered ...
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... anthropology should be accused of male bias . After all , several key early figures in an- thropology had been women , and the best - known anthropologist in America in the 1960s was Margaret Mead . However , statistically , anthropology ...
... anthropology should be accused of male bias . After all , several key early figures in an- thropology had been women , and the best - known anthropologist in America in the 1960s was Margaret Mead . However , statistically , anthropology ...
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... anthropology forces us to consider that the study of the human condition re- quires a division of labor in the research process . .. how do anthropologists escape from dogmatic orthodoxy ? They are driven by the research ques- tion ...
... anthropology forces us to consider that the study of the human condition re- quires a division of labor in the research process . .. how do anthropologists escape from dogmatic orthodoxy ? They are driven by the research ques- tion ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Sigmund Freud The Return of Totemism in Childhood 1913 | 67 |
The Foundations of Sociological Thought | 84 |
Copyright | |
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