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 382
... cognitive anthropology is an analogy between culture and language . One key source of this insight was Sapir , who has already been mentioned . Another was the work of Lévi - Strauss and , through him , that of the Prague School ...
... cognitive anthropology is an analogy between culture and language . One key source of this insight was Sapir , who has already been mentioned . Another was the work of Lévi - Strauss and , through him , that of the Prague School ...
Page 388
... cognitive anthropology have important implications for cultural anthropol- ogy . They entail a rethinking of the culture concept , the comparative method , and of ethnography . In this discussion culture has been identified with cognition ...
... cognitive anthropology have important implications for cultural anthropol- ogy . They entail a rethinking of the culture concept , the comparative method , and of ethnography . In this discussion culture has been identified with cognition ...
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... cognitive 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 ...
... cognitive 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 ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Sigmund Freud The Return of Totemism in Childhood 1913 | 67 |
The Foundations of Sociological Thought | 84 |
Copyright | |
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