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History and Theory, 1993
This article tries to assess the component of French anthropology influenced by the Marxist paradigm, while also showing the links of Marxism to functionalism. With the collapse of the Marxist problematic one must establish a new anthropology that gives greater attention to history in "primitive" societies.
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This article tries to assess the component of French anthropology influenced by the Marxist paradigm, while also showing the links of Marxism to functionalism. With the collapse of the Marxist problematic one must establish a new anthropology that gives greater attention to history in "primitive" societies.
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Historical archaeology as anthropology
Historical Archaeology, 1988The title of this paper is not meant as the trumpet fanfare for a new debate over whether historical archaeology should be history or anthropology. Its purpose is to suggest that historical archaeology can be more than a social history that relies upon material culture as one of its primary sources of data.
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History and Historical Anthropology
Diogenes, 1990“A foreign culture is not revealed in its entirety and its depth except by its view of another culture […] A meaning is revealed in its depth for having encountered and come into contact with another meaning, a foreign meaning: between ...
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Reflections on Historical Anthropology
2016This essay targets a Chinese scholarly audience, who deserves a coherent presentation of the analytical themes that my South China colleagues and I have been concerned with. One cannot ignore history when one studies the unifying and diversifying cultural processes in an entity one terms “China.” Years of field research in South China has made one ...
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After the 'Death of Man': From Philosophical Anthropology to Historical Anthropology
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009The first part of the article (§§ 1-3) illustrates the critical relation the authors establish with the leading figures of philosophical anthropology in terms of their engagement with “world-openness” (Weltoffenheit). This notion cannot be reduced to the objectivity that confronts man as a spiritual being, as in Max Scheler, but rather makes it ...
Wulf, Christoph, Gebauer, Gunter
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Historical Anthropology of the Family
1986This historical anthropology of the family represents a new departure in family studies. Over the past ten years or so, the social scientific sociological analysis of the family has undergone a change, and has been obliged to reconsider its traditional view that industrialisation triggered a shift within society from the 'large family', which fulfilled
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Historical Anthropology of the Family
The American Historical Review, 1988[Susan Greenhalgh] +3 more
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African Widows: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
Journal of Women & Aging, 2003Variety characterizes widows' experiences around the world and in Africa south of the Sahara. This article explores the socioeconomic and cultural contexts of African widowhood, using anthropological studies in a number of African societies, including the author's research among Abaluyia of western Kenya.
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Anthropological and Historical Studies
2001Abstract Medical anthropologists and historians have described a number of” culture bound” syndromes, disorders found only in certain cultures or during certain eras. Many of these appear to be illness roles. Since anthropologists and historians have long made a point of addressing the functions such illnesses serve, their study can ...
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Historical Anthropology? Comparative Anthropology?
Arion: A Journal of the Humanities and the Classics, 2009Marcel Detienne, Janet Lloyd
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