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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... Primitive Culture , which is devoted to an analysis of religion . Many of Tylor's contemporaries suggested that since primitive religion was illogical and irrational , it did not lend itself to scientific study . These included Lewis ...
... Primitive Culture , which is devoted to an analysis of religion . Many of Tylor's contemporaries suggested that since primitive religion was illogical and irrational , it did not lend itself to scientific study . These included Lewis ...
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... primitive exchange in an en- tirely different light . The Kula is not a surreptitious and precarious form of exchange . It is , quite on the contrary , rooted in myth , backed by traditional law , and surrounded with magical rites . All ...
... primitive exchange in an en- tirely different light . The Kula is not a surreptitious and precarious form of exchange . It is , quite on the contrary , rooted in myth , backed by traditional law , and surrounded with magical rites . All ...
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... primitive culture derive from Roheim ( 1925 ) : primitive culture is autoplastic , ours is alloplastic . The primitive seeks to achieve his desires by self - manipulation , performing sur- gical rites upon his own body to produce ...
... primitive culture derive from Roheim ( 1925 ) : primitive culture is autoplastic , ours is alloplastic . The primitive seeks to achieve his desires by self - manipulation , performing sur- gical rites upon his own body to produce ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Sigmund Freud The Return of Totemism in Childhood 1913 | 67 |
The Foundations of Sociological Thought | 84 |
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