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Understanding and Participant Observation in Cultural and Social Anthropology
1969There was a time when cultural and social anthropologists did not do participant observation. Sir James Frazer, famous anthropologist of yesteryear, was once asked if he ever lived amongst savages. It is reported that he held up his hands “as though to ward off even the thought” and answered “God forbid ...
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Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology
, 1988PART ONE: PREPARING FOR FIELD RESEARCH Anthropology and Social Science The Foundations of Social Research Anthropology and the Experimental Method Sampling Choosing Research Problems, Sites and Methods The Literature Search PART TWO: COLLECTING DATA ...
H. Bernard
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On Comparative Methods in Social-Cultural Anthropology and in Linguistics
Anthropological Quarterly, 1965Often even the most elementary type of empirical (social) research is supposed to be based on experimental inference. But experimentation presupposes certain conditions. To experiment means, it seems, to tamper with the natural situations. The idea of control is basic to it.
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Understanding Mind and Culture: Evolutionary Psychology or Social Anthropology?
Anthropology Today, 1995A partir des donnees archeologiques du Pleistocene, l'A. montre la maniere dont l'anthropologie sociale et la psychologie evolutionniste abordent l'esprit. La transition de l'esprit neanderthalien entre le paleolithique moyen et le paleolithique superieur s'explique par le passage d'une mentalite specifique a un domaine a une mentalite cognitivement ...
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Anthropology and Social Theory
2006In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive essays in this volume each advocate reconfiguring,
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Social and Cultural Anthropology
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2018J. Pina-Cabral
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Risk perception and social anthropology: Critique of cultural theory*
Ethnos, 1996’Cultural theory’, launched by social anthropologist Mary Douglas, has been highly influential in the inter‐disciplinary field concerned with the study of risk perception and risk communication. The theory derives from the grid‐group analyses that Douglas developed in the 1970s.
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Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
, 1999R. Rappaport
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Social/Cultural Anthropology: After Africa [PDF]
American Anthropologist, 1985 openaire +1 more source