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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
Amanda J. Weidman • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2014)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030050
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
Paul Hockings, Marcus Banks, Howard Morphy • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
(1998)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3034522
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
Patrick Eisenlohr • American Anthropologist
(2002)
Linguistic Anthropology:. Reader. Alessandro Duranti. ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. 493 pp....
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2002.104.2.677
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
Jon Harald Sande Lie • Millennium Journal of International Studies
(2012)
Ethnography and anthropology are intrinsically linked, but recently other disciplines have started to draw inspiration from anthropological methods. The ongoing ethnographic turn in International Relations has spurred debate on what ethnogr...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829812463835
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
(1995)
Abstract Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into “view”, and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural an...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198278801.001.0001
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
Robert M. Hayden • American Anthropologist
(2005)
Anthropology in the Margins of the State. Veena Das and Deborah Poole, eds. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2004. 330 pp....
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2005.107.4.721
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
Margaret M. Lock, Vinh‐Kim Nguyen (2018)
An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural ...
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• 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
Ryan Cecil Jobson • American Anthropologist
(2020)
ABSTRACT This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate change and authoritarian governance both as objects of scho...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13398