Academic Articles & Research Papers

Anthropological Theory

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...

World Anthropologies: Anthropological Cosmopolitanisms and Cosmopolitics

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...

The Anthropology of Christianity

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...

The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness

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...

Adolescence: an anthropological inquiry

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...

Anthropology and Voice

Voice is both a set of sonic, material, and literary practices shaped by culturally and historically specific moments and a category invoked in discourse about personal agency, communication and representation, and political power. This rev...

Is Anthropology Alive? Social Responsibility in Social Anthropology

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...

WITTGENSTEIN AND ANTHROPOLOGY

▪ 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...

An Introduction to Anthropology

The Anthropology of Online Communities

▪ 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...

For An Anthropology Of Ethics And Freedom

There cannot be a developed and sustained anthropology of ethics without there being also an ethnographic and theoretical interest – hitherto largely absent from anthropology – in freedom. A possible way of studying ethics and freedom compa...

Anthropological Linguistics

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...

Recapturing anthropology: working in the present

Anthropology: An introduction to the study of man and civilization.

Anahuac: Or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern [1861] 392pp Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization [1865]386pp Primitive Culture [1871]468pp/436pp (2 volumes) Anthropology: An Introduction ...

Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions

Ethnicity has been a key concept in anthropology and sociology for many years, yet many people still seem uncertain as to its meaning, its relevance, and its relationship to other concepts such as `race' and nationalism. In Ethnicity: Anthr...

Rethinking Visual Anthropology.

For many years the field of visual anthropology has been dominated by a focus on the production and study of ethnographic film, leading many anthropologists to dismiss it as of little importance to their work. This book shows that the scope...

Phenomenological Approaches in Anthropology

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...

Anthropological Theory Today

The Contributors. 1. Anthropological Theory at the Turn of the Century. (Henrietta L. Moore). 2. From Private Virtue to Public Vice. (James G. Carrier and Daniel Miller). 3. Clash of Civilizations of Asian Liberalism?:An Anthropology of the...

The Future of Visual Anthropology

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...

THE CHRISTIANITY OF ANTHROPOLOGY*

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...