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Trauma and disasters in social and cultural context

, 2010
Laurence J. Kirmayer, Hanna Kienzler, Abdel Hamid Afana and Duncan Pedersen 1 Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University and Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada 2 Department of ...
Laurence J. Kirmayer, Hanna Kienzler, Abdel-hamid Afana, D. Pedersen   +3 more
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The emotional dog and its rational tail: a social intuitionist approach to moral judgment.

Psychology Review, 2001
Research on moral judgment has been dominated by rationalist models, in which moral judgment is thought to be caused by moral reasoning. The author gives 4 reasons for considering the hypothesis that moral reasoning does not cause moral judgment; rather,
J. Haidt
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Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy

, 1990
Arjun Appadurai’s essay ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy’ popularized the idea of ‘global flows’. He argues that these flows are ‘disjunctive’ and ‘chaotic’ in character and that they supersede standard geographical thinking in ...
A. Appadurai
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Understanding and Participant Observation in Cultural and Social Anthropology

1969
There 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 ...
Michael Martin, Sidney W. Mintz, Judith B. Agassi   +2 more
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Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology

, 1988
PART 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, 1965
Often 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, 1995
A 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

2006
In 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, 2018
J. 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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