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Gerald D. Berreman • Current Anthropology
(1968)
The old formula fOT successful counterinsurgency used to be J0 troops for evtry guerrilla," one American specialist [in Thailand] remarked."Now the formula is ten anthropologists for each guerrilla" (Braeslrud 1967).I THE NOTION THAT contem...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/200923
Matei Candea • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2018)
Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these question...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108667609
William A. Foley • Wiley eBooks
(2020)
Anthropological linguistics is the study of language within the wider context of culture. It is concerned with how humans employ communicative culturally meaningful, or semiotic practices, as resources to forge large and small, transient or...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0031.pub2
Robert Desjarlais, C. Jason Throop • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2010)
This review explores the most significant dimensions and findings of phenomenological approaches in anthropology. We spell out the motives and implications inherent in such approaches, chronicle their historical dimensions and precursors, a...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092010-153345
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
Fenella Cannell • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
(2005)
This article critiques the way in which the discipline of anthropology has construed Christianity, arguing that too narrow and ascetic a model of Christianity has become standard and questioning the claims of the ‘secular’ social sciences t...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00239.x
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
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
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
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
Tim Ingold • Routledge eBooks
(2017)
There is more to education than teaching and learning, and more to anthropology than making studies of other people’s lives. Here Tim Ingold argues that both anthropology and education are ways of studying, and of leading life, with others....
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315227191
Pertti J. Pelto, Gretel H. Pelto • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1978)
This text is a comprehensive introduction to research methods in social and cultural anthropology. The Peltos focus their discussion on the essential elements of preparing and analyzing the supporting evidence from which generalizations abo...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511607776
Paul E. Farmer • Current Anthropology
(2004)
Any thorough understanding of the modern epidemics of AIDS and tuberculosis in Haiti or elsewhere in the postcolonial world requires a thorough knowledge of history and political economy. This essay, based on over a decade of research in ru...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/382250
Catherine A. Lutz, Geoffrey M. White • Annual Review of Anthropology
(1986)
Interest in has burgeoned in the last decade, not only in anthropology, but in psychology (e.g. 5, 77,113, 141), sociology (e.g. 72, 81), philosophy (e.g. 153, 177), history (e.g. 180), and feminist studies (e.g. 176). A concern to understa...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.15.100186.002201
Eduardo O. Kohn • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2015)
The turn to ontology, often associated with the recent works of Philippe Descola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour, but evident in many other places as well, is, in Elizabeth Povinelli's formulation, “symptomatic” and “diagnosti...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014127
• Routledge eBooks
(2002)
Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new case studies sited in a globalized world, have pushed comparative work aside. For t...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203463901
Edmundo R. Leach • Routledge eBooks
(2021)
The essential core of social anthropology is fieldwork–the understanding of the way of life of a single particular people. This fieldwork is an extremely personal traumatic kind of experience and the personal involvement of the anthropologi...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136460-1
• Culture and language use
(2024)
This collection presents new research on key topics in anthropological linguistics, with a focus on African languages. While Africanist linguists have long been concerned with sociocultural aspects of language structure and use, no comprehe...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/clu.23
Bialecki, Jon, Naomi Haynes, Robins, Joel • Duke University Press eBooks
(2006)
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 empirical interes...
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