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The Challenges of Storytelling Today. Interview with Paul Stoller [PDF]
Paul Stoller has conducted anthropological research for over thirty years. In 1978, he earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin (United States), with work on magic, religious practices and the possession of spirits in ...
Cristina Moreno Lozano +1 more
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Public Anthropology in the United States and Indonesia
This paper discusses the development of public anthropology in the United States and Indonesia. Drawing on literature reviews and archive studies, this article argues that public anthropology needs to be considered as a pragmatic strategy to elevate the ...
Imam Subkhan
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Understanding anthropological understanding [PDF]
In this article I argue for a merological anthropology in which ideas of `partiality' and `practical adequacy' provide a way out of the impasse of relativism which is implied by postmodernism and the related abandonment of a concern with `truth'. Ideas such as `aptness' and `faithfulness' enable us to re-establish empirical foundations without having ...
Zeitlyn, D, Zeitlyn, D
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Estimation of Stature from Intact Long Bones of Chinese Males in Comparison with American Whites and Negroes [PDF]
This study of estimation of stature from length of intact long limb bones is to be based on measurements of stature during life and of bones after skeletonization.A rather high degree of correlations between stature and long limb bones were determined ...
SHAO XIANG-QING(RESEARCH SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY;FUDAN UNIVERSITY;SHANGHAI)
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The paper deals with the current concept of “anthropology in crisis”, based on the collection ofpapers “The End of Anthropology”, dedicated to this particular issue. The positions presented in this book are used as a starting point for further discussion
Suzana Ignjatović
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Anthropology is the study of mankind (anthropos). Etymologically, anthropology comes from the word anthropos meaning man and logos meaning knowledge. Anthropology looks at humans as something complex in terms of physical, emotional, social, and cultural ...
Zaenuddin Hudi Prasojo +1 more
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Anthropology in the context that produced it [PDF]
This paper evaluates a definition of anthropology at home formulated by Marilyn Strathern in her book contribution ‘The Limits of Auto-Anthropology’. According to the definition, anthropology at home is anthropology carried out in the social context that
Terence Rajivan Edward
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Este artículo sostiene que aunque las antropologías colombiana y latinoamericana declararon haber abandonado cualquier influencia de la antropología clásica social británica a favor de una antropología marxista y comprometida (y más
Mauricio Caviedes Pinilla
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Science of people and anthropology of man [PDF]
A determination of a relationship between ethnology and anthropology with etymology as a starting point, loses a developmental dimension. Besides, a reduction in anthropology to the question:' What is a man' and discussion of 'general characteristics of ...
Kovačević Ivan
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