Download or read book The History of Ethnological Theory written by Robert Harry Lowie and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classic Anthropology written by John William Bennett and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Anthropology is Bennett's label for the work produced by anthropologists during the period 1915-1955, which many believe represents the most productive era in the discipline's history. It is also one that can never be repeated, given the fact that most of anthropology's basic data - the ideas and customs of tribal peoples - have been extinguished or greatly transformed by modernization and nationalization. The book is composed of some fifteen essays. Among the issues examined are: the emergence of a functionalist viewpoint in ethnology; the difficulties of developing a theory of human behavior because of the focus on culture; the "search" for concepts of culture to serve specialized needs; the neglect of social psychology by the "culture and personality" field; how value judgments emerged, willy-nilly - or conversely, were neglected, in ethnological research; how applied anthropology was challenged by "Action Anthropology"; and how the interdisciplinary anthropology of the late 1940s was submerged in the postwar effort to return the discipline to traditionalroots. Individual anthropologists whose work is examined include, among others. Bronislaw Malinowski, Leslie Spier, Alfred Kroeber, Ralph Linton, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Clyde Kluckhohn, Gregory Bateson, and Walter Taylor.
Download or read book Classic Anthropology written by John W. Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic anthropology is Bennett''s label for the work produced by anthropologists between 1915 and 1955. In this book, Bennett criticises classic anthropology for ne glecting the contemporary world and modern societies. '
Download or read book The Copy Generic written by Scott MacLochlainn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating look at the concept of the generic and its role in making meaning in the world. From off-brand products to elevator music, the “generic” is discarded as the copy, the knockoff, and the old. In The Copy Generic, anthropologist Scott MacLochlainn insists that more than the waste from the culture machine, the generic is a universal social tool, allowing us to move through the world with necessary blueprints, templates, and frames of reference. It is the baseline and background, a category that orders and values different types of specificity yet remains inherently nonspecific in itself. Across arenas as diverse as city planning, social media, ethnonationalism, and religion, the generic points to spaces in which knowledge is both overproduced and desperately lacking. Moving through ethnographic and historical settings in the Philippines, Europe, and the United States, MacLochlainn reveals how the concept of the generic is crucial to understanding how things repeat, circulate, and are classified in the world.
Download or read book Man and Culture written by Clark Wissler and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1923. A group of lectures given by Wissler at the State Universities of Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas and also before the Anthropological Society of St. Louis and the Galton Society of New York. The object of these lectures was to present the problems and scope of contemporary anthropology, and recognizing that the most pertinent question before us as a people, is the relation of civilization to man, the emphasis in these pages has been placed upon culture and its biological background.
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Sociology of Religion written by Various and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 5475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set collects together in 19 volumes a wealth of texts on Sociology of Religion. An invaluable reference resource, it contains classic books on a wide range of topics, including: religion and violence, religion and family life, religion and society, culture and class.
Download or read book Pathways of Power written by Eric R. Wolf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-01-03 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays was devised by the author to study how anthropology brought the study of complex societies and world systems in to its purview.
Download or read book Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany 1840 1920 written by Woodruff D. Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the roots of German imperialist ideology by examining the German cultural sciences of the 19th century and theirrelationship to politics.
Download or read book Ritual written by Catherine Bell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self-expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.
Download or read book Anthropology written by Christoph Wulf and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf’s Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines—with breathtaking scope—all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced around the globe and through the years. Seeking a central way to understand anthropology in the midst of many different approaches to the discipline, Wulf concentrates on the human body. An emblem of society, culture, and time, the body is also the result of many mimetic processes—the active acquisition of cultural knowledge. By examining the role of the body in the performance of rituals, gestures, language, and other forms of imagination, he offers a bold new look at how culture is produced, handed down, and transformed. Drawing such examinations into a comprehensive and sophisticated assessment of the discipline as a whole, Anthropology looks squarely at the mystery of humankind and the ways we have attempted to understand it.
Download or read book Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion written by Jean Jacques Waardenburg and published by Hague : Mouton, c1973-c1974.. This book was released on 1974 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gentlemen and Amazons written by Cynthia Eller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-02-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Eller is an excellent historian. She expertly lays out the development of the little known myth of matriarchal prehistory in a way that is both highly knowledgeable and readable. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of feminist thought and anthropology.” —Rosemary Radford Ruether, author of Goddesses and the Divine Feminine “Without a doubt, this is the best introduction into the mythological jungle of modern scholarship on matriarchy. Cynthia Eller’s book is not only perfectly researched, it is also intelligent and pleasantly written.” —Philippe Borgeaud, author of Mother of the Gods: From Cybele to the Virgin Mary
Download or read book The Quest written by Mircea Eliade and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning." "Each of these essays contains insights which will be fruitful and challenging for professional students of religion, but at the same time they all retain the kind of cultural relevance and clarity of style which makes them accessible to anyone seriously concerned with man and his religious possibilities."—Joseph M. Kitagawa, Religious Education
Download or read book Taboo truth and religion written by Franz Baermann Steiner and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Writings written by Franz Baermann Steiner and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 18 pieces by anthropologist Steiner (1909-52). They include deaccessions of labor and economics; a section from his dissertation on slavery; unpublished lectures on Aristotle, Simmel, and kinship; a selection of aphorisms; and extracts from his poetic cycle Conquests. In the introduction, Alder (German, King's College, London) and Fardon (West African anthropology, School of Oriental and African studies, London) relate his work to current concerns. Apparently only two volumes are planned. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Fundamental Forms of Social Thought written by Werner Stark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998, The Fundamental Forms of Social Thought is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.
Download or read book Race Culture and Evolution written by George W. Stocking and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1982-04-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but [Stocking's]: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual connections, and contextualization of ideas and movements in terms of broader social and cultural currents. Stocking writes very clearly; attacks important topics—race and evolution, the influence of scientism, the interaction between anthropology and other disciplines; and is methodologically very sophisticated. Though his main theme is the development of racialism and of opposition to it, his book bears on a range of issues very much alive in anthropology. . . . I would think no apprentice anthropologist ought to be pronounced a journeyman until he or she has absorbed what Stocking has to say."—Clifford Geertz, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
