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Peter Loïzos, Marvin Harris • British Journal of Sociology
(1970)
With the agreement of author and publisher, pre-publication copies of The Rise of Anthropological Theory (New York: Crowell, 1968) were sent for review to 25 scholars. Of these, the followingf responded in time for their reviews to be inclu...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/588281
David Kaplan • Routledge eBooks
(2017)
Anthropological theory has been much discussed in recent years, yet the crucial questions still remain--how can it be defined, how is it developed, how is it to be applied, and how can one confirm it? The editors of Anthropological Theory a...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315082271
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2014)
To present the world anthropologies project (WA), this article explores the existence of three kinds of anthropological cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitics: imperial, liberal, and radical. Imperial cosmopolitics reproduces the hegemony of th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030139
Jon Bialecki, Naomi Haynes, Joel Robbins • Religion Compass
(2008)
Abstract This article surveys the literature that constitutes the newly emergent anthropology of Christianity. Arguing that the development of this sub‐discipline was impeded until recently by anthropology's theoretical framing and empirica...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00116.x
A Young • Annual Review of Anthropology
(1982)
ion. [In this connection, see analogous arguments by Navarro (126) and Assennato & Navarro (7, pp. 224--30) on the social production of knowledge of occupational medicine, and Latour & Woolgar (102) on the social production of biomedical kn...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.11.100182.001353
Alice E. Schlegel, Herbert Barry • Choice Reviews Online
(1991)
The anthropological study of adolescence -- An ethological approach to human social organization -- Looking at adolescent socialization across cultures -- Adolescents and their families -- Peer groups and community participation -- Marriage...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.29-2185
Veena Das • Annual Review of Anthropology
(1998)
▪ Abstract This essay explores the theme of Wittgenstein as a philosopher of culture. The primary text on which the essay is based is Philosophical Investigations; it treats Stanley Cavell's work as a major guide for the understanding and r...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.171
Samuel M. Wilson, Leighton C. Peterson • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2002)
▪ Abstract Information and communication technologies based on the Internet have enabled the emergence of new sorts of communities and communicative practices—phenomena worthy of the attention of anthropological researchers. Despite early a...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.31.040402.085436
David Avison, Michael David Myers • Information Technology and People
(1995)
Considers the potential role of anthropology as a source discipline for information systems. Although anthropology has been largely neglected in the IS research literature, it is argued that important insights can be gained by adopting an a...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09593849510098262
Sarah Pink • Routledge eBooks
(2006)
From an eminent author in the field, The Future of Visual Anthropology develops a new approach to visual anthropology and presents a groundbreaking examination of developments within the field and the way forward for the subdiscipline in th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203003596
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Finn Sivert Nielsen • Pluto Press eBooks
(2013)
This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. Avoiding geographical bias, the authors provide summaries of ‘Enlightenment’, ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’ anthropology, from the cultural theories ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183gzx9
Bryan Pfaffenberger • Annual Review of Anthropology
(1992)
At the onset of the 20th century, anthropologists such as Balfour, Marett, and Haddon could readily identify three spheres of strength in anthropological research: material culture, social organization, and physical anthropology (49). The s...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.21.100192.002423
Sidney W. Mintz, Christine M. Du Bois • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2002)
▪ Abstract The study of food and eating has a long history in anthropology, beginning in the nineteenth century with Garrick Mallery and William Robertson Smith. This review notes landmark studies prior to the 1980s, sketching the history o...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.032702.131011
Immanuel Kant • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2007)
Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been tran...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511791925
Jon Harald Sande Lie • Millennium Journal of International Studies
(2012)
Ethnography and anthropology are intrinsically linked, but recently other disciplines have started to draw inspiration from anthropological methods. The ongoing ethnographic turn in International Relations has spurred debate on what ethnogr...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829812463835
Fredrik Barth • Current Anthropology
(2002)
Whereas previous Sidney Mintz lectures have celebrated Mintzs work on inequality, racism, and ethnicity, I have chosen to speak to the broadest scope of his research and teaching in anthropology. A comparative perspective on human knowledge...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/324131
Keith M. Murphy • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2016)
In this review, I examine the recent turn to design in anthropology in three different configurations: anthropology of design, anthropology for design, and design for anthropology. Although these three configurations represent different cut...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-100224
Molly H. Mullin • Society and Animals
(2002)
Anthropology encompasses four distinct subdisciplines: biological anthropology, social anthropology (known as “cultural anthropology” in North America), archaeology, and linguistics. Beyond these basic four elds, one could further divide a...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/156853002320936854
(1995)
Abstract Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into “view”, and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural an...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198278801.001.0001
William A. Foley • Wiley eBooks
(2012)
Abstract Anthropological linguistics is the subfield of linguistics (and anthropology) concerned with the place of language in its wider social and cultural context, its role in forging and sustaining cultural practices and social structure...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0031