Anthropological Theory: An Introductory HistoryA comprehensive and accessible survey of the history of theory in anthropology, this anthology of classic and contemporary 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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... women , their pan - cultural second - class status could be ac- counted for , quite simply , by postulating that women are being identified or symbolically asso- ciated with nature , as opposed to men , who are identified with culture ...
... women , their pan - cultural second - class status could be ac- counted for , quite simply , by postulating that women are being identified or symbolically asso- ciated with nature , as opposed to men , who are identified with culture ...
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... women within the discipline , until recently , discussions of women in the anthropological literature were usually limited to introductory textbook chapters on marriage , family , and kinship . Beginning in the 1970s , how- ever , women ...
... women within the discipline , until recently , discussions of women in the anthropological literature were usually limited to introductory textbook chapters on marriage , family , and kinship . Beginning in the 1970s , how- ever , women ...
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... women among the highland Yanomamo he studied was very much better than that reported by Chag- non . Leacock concludes this section by claiming that Chagnon's failure to deal with the Yanomamo history and politics cast doubt on his ...
... women among the highland Yanomamo he studied was very much better than that reported by Chag- non . Leacock concludes this section by claiming that Chagnon's failure to deal with the Yanomamo history and politics cast doubt on his ...
Contents
Part | 5 |
CHARLES DARWIN AND ALFRED WALLACE On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties | 11 |
Outlook 18451846 | 67 |
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