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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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Open Access
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/324131
Roy G. D’Andrade • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1995)
In an historical account of the growth and development of the field of cognitive anthropology, Roy D'Andrade examines how cultural knowledge is organised within and between human minds. He begins by examining the research carried out during...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139166645
Maurice E. F. Bloch • Routledge eBooks
(2013)
This book examines the uses made of anthropology by Marx and Engels, and the uses made of Marxism by anthropologists. Looking at the writings of Marx and Engels on primitive societies, the book evaluates their views in the light of present ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315017952
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
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
• 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
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
Arturo Escobar • American Ethnologist
(1991)
Since the end of World War II, relations between industrialized nations and Third World countries have been greatly determined and mediated by the discourses and practices of “development.” Although anthropologists in general have not prob‐...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1991.18.4.02a00020
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro • Common Knowledge
(2011)
The article assumes that the expression “comparative relativism”—the title of the Common Knowledge symposium in which the essay appears—is neither tautological nor oxymoronic. Rather, the author construes the term as an apt synthetic charac...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2010-045
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
Eduardo Restrepo, Arturo Escobar • Critique of Anthropology
(2005)
This article seeks to complicate the picture of a simple anthropological tradition emanating from the West that defines anthropology as a modern form of expert knowledge. It introduces a broader frame - ‘world anthropologies’ - that allows ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x05053009
Catherine S. Dolan, Emma Gilberthorpe, Dinah Rajak • Wiley eBooks
(2017)
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology is the most complete reference resource for the field of anthropology and interrelated areas, providing an authoritative and expert overview of the concepts, research, and techniques that toget...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396
Tim Cain • Education Sciences
(2019)
A range of studies has identified barriers to evidence-informed practice in schools, many of which recommend school-university links as a means for removing these barriers. In England, public policy also promotes school-university partnersh...
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DOI: 10.3390/educsci9020097
Susy Katikana Sebayang, Desak Made Sintha Kurnia Dewi, Septa Indra Puspikawati, Erni Astutik et al. • Journal of Community Mental Health and Public Policy
(2020)
ABSTRACT
Gadget use among Indonesian adolescents is becoming more prevalent. Most Indonesian families own smartphones for various uses including for accessing the internet. Gadget and internet use has sharply increased during the Covid-19 p...
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DOI: 10.51602/cmhp.v3i1.47
Soumyadeep Bhaumik, Rebecca J Mathew • Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
(2015)
As of 2013, the latest statistics available, more than 400,000 individuals are lodged in Indian prisons. Prisoners represent a heterogeneous population, belonging to socially diverse and economically disadvantaged sections of society with l...
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DOI: 10.4103/2249-4863.161304
Caroline Lejeune • Développement Durable et Territoires
(2019)
Strong sustainability is a concept that originates from the fields of ecological economics and environmental ethics. The pragmatist currents of environmental ethics and ecological economics have deepened what could be a conception of sustai...
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DOI: 10.4000/developpementdurable.13741
Richard Wellen • Canadian Journal of Higher Education
(2004)
The prospect of tuition fee increases for public sector universities has attracted an enormous amount of attention in recent years as governments in all industrialized countries have responded to the converging pressures of increased demand...
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DOI: 10.47678/cjhe.v34i1.183447
Aroonrot Choosakun, Yaowapa Chaiittipornwong, Chunho Yeom • Infrastructures
(2021)
Smart mobility is becoming an alternative technology of transportation development for today and the future. Thailand has applied the intelligent transport system (ITS) to improve traffic and transport services. The success of the project i...
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DOI: 10.3390/infrastructures6030036