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Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel • Problemos
(2024)
This article examines the subtle nuances of Hobbes’s and Kant’s perspectives on rhetoric and materialism, contextualising them within the broader framework of political philosophy. Despite both philosophers being critics of rhetoric, their ...
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DOI: 10.15388/Problemos.2024.106.4
(1992)
Abstract This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time. In recent years a number of new galleries of non-Western art have been opened, many exhibitions ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198277330.001.0001
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
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
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
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
Diane Katherine Lewis • Current Anthropology
(1973)
Anthropology emerged from the colonial expansion of Europe. Colonialism structured the relationship between anthropologists and the people they studied and had an effect on methodological and conceptual formulations in the discipline. For e...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/201393
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
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
Immanuel Kant • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2012)
Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcri...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139028639
Judith Okely, Helen Callaway • Routledge eBooks
(1992)
1. Anthropology and autobiography: participatory experience and embodied Knowledge Judith Okely 2. Ethnography and experience: gender implications in fieldwork and text Helen Callaway 3. Automythologies and the reconstruction of ageing Paul...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203450536
Sarah Pink • Social Anthropology
(2010)
A focus on the senses has become a key theme in contemporary anthropology. In this short piece I suggest that this focus can be understood in terms of two strands, the original anthropology of the senses on the one hand, and the newer senso...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2010.00119_1.x
Simon W Hillson • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1996)
Teeth are one of the best sources of evidence for both identification and studies of demography, biological relationships and health in ancient human communities. This text introduces the complex biology of teeth and provides a practical gu...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139170697
Tim Ingold • Routledge eBooks
(2002)
* Provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary thinking in biological, social and cultural anthropology and establishes the interconnections between these three fields.* Useful cross-references within the text, with full biographical ref...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203036327
Henrika Kuklick • Choice Reviews Online
(2008)
List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania). 1. Anthropology before Anthropology: Harry Liebersohn (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Major Traditions . 2. North American...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.46-0387
Alessandro Duranti • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1997)
In this textbook, first published in 1997, Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field which studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. The theories and methods of li...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511810190
Tim Ingold • British Academy eBooks
(2008)
This lecture presents the text of the speech about the differences between anthropology and ethnography delivered by the author at the 2007 Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology held at the British Academy. It explains that the obj...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264355.003.0003