Description And Comparison In Cultural Anthropology

Author : Ward H. Goodenough
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521237408

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Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology by Ward H. Goodenough Pdf

How are different cultures to be described and compared? This book provides a clear and concise discussion of the theoretical issues involved in ethnographic description and comparative study. Taking up the classic problems in the study of of social organisation, Professor Goodenough describes the major issues in the cross-cultural study of kinship and the family, revealing the kinds of constants, both formal and functional, on which such study must be based. The result is new definitions of marriage, family and parenthood for use in cross-cultural analysis and a greater understanding of this form of analysis itself. The statement on the interdependence of description and comparison in cultural anthropology and its implications for a science of culture, provides fresh insights into cross-cultural analysis for both the theoretical and the practical anthropologist.

Author : Alfred Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351522663

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Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology by Alfred Harris Pdf

The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures are intended to commemorate both the man and his work the latter being viewed as having provided an admirably broad and substantial base for anthropologists of later generations to build upon, as they have done and continue to do in diverse ways. Professor Goodenough's work, in the past and in this book particularly, emphasizes the vitality and fruitfulness of Morgan's contributions. Not only do these lectures carry forward Morgan's interests in kinship; they reflect as well his concern for comparative studies undertaken with the aim of ultimately understanding mankind. Moreover, Professor Goodenough has elucidated recent developments in the collection, analysis, and presentation of cultural data in ways that make it easier for all of us to see how his methods (in themselves specialized) can broaden and deepen our understanding of culture and of man. Morgan, himself a pioneer in method, would surely have been an attentive auditor-and discussant-at Professor Goodenough's Lectures, and in his seminars and the less formal events in which he participated while at Rochester, and to which he contributed so much. This volume is an expanded version of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures delivered at the University of Rochester, April 2 to 11, 1968. Alfred Harris was a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Rochester. He served as the chair of the anthropology from 1964-1971 and he was well known for being the editor of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures.

Author : Ward Hunt Goodenough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:258194749

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Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology by Ward Hunt Goodenough Pdf

Author : Matei Candea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108474603

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Comparison in Anthropology by Matei Candea Pdf

Presents a systematic rethinking of the power and limits of comparison in anthropology.

Author : André Gingrich,Richard Gabriel Fox
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 041526054X

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Anthropology, by Comparison by André Gingrich,Richard Gabriel Fox Pdf

An international group of anthropologists take a fresh look at various neglected approaches to comparison and present new approaches that are relevant to the globalized world of the 21st century.

Author : Nina Brown,Laura Tubelle de González
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 1641760443

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Perspectives by Nina Brown,Laura Tubelle de González Pdf

A collection of chapters on the essential topics in cultural anthropology. Different from other introductory textbooks, this book is an edited volume with each chapter written by a different author. Each author has written from their experiences working as an anthropologist and that personal touch makes for an accessible introduction to cultural anthropology.

Author : Michael Schnegg,Edward D. Lowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108487283

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Comparing Cultures by Michael Schnegg,Edward D. Lowe Pdf

Shows how comparative ethnographic methods can be successfully used to study important human concerns in anthropology.

Author : Abraham Rosman,Paula G. Rubel,Maxine Weisgrau
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759118515

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The Tapestry of Culture by Abraham Rosman,Paula G. Rubel,Maxine Weisgrau Pdf

The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology provides students and the interested public with a concise picture of the field of cultural anthropology today. From the first edition of Tapestry of Culture published in the early 1980s until now, anthropology has changed greatly, responding to scholarly and political influences as well as changing generations; the ninth edition reflects this ongoing transformation. The influence of postmodernism has generated new debates over theory and practice in anthropology. The content of Tapestry explains these debates, as well as what is still generally accepted and agreed upon by most anthropologists. This edition provides the instructor, student and lay public with the information necessary to enable them to critically read the literature of anthropology, more specifically ethnographic texts which are still the heart of this field. The approach of the book is to accommodate the various points of view in anthropology today. It shows how the concepts, ideas and behavior of other cultures are translated into our culture's terms. Though today many emphasize each culture's uniqueness, the presence of cultural similarities is compelling. Using a comparative approach, The Tapestry of Culture reveals cultural similarities, as well as the cultural differences.

Author : Paolo Heywood,Matei Candea
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501771583

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Beyond Description by Paolo Heywood,Matei Candea Pdf

Beyond Description brings anthropologists and other social scientists together to examine the problem of explanation. What is "an explanation?" What can it add? What makes it authoritative, clarifying, or misleading? Whom does it serve and how is it produced? These questions lie at the heart of recent public crises of confidence in expertise, political representation, and classic liberal visions of whom we can rely on for true and trustworthy accounts. In a world beset by events and processes that seem to defy expert predictions of their impossibility, and in which post-hoc accounts can often feel more like rationalizations than explanations, competing voices vie for public presence and seek to silence one another. Anthropology and the social sciences face such questions too, making contemporary explanatory practice both an empirical and a reflexive challenge. By combining ethnographic studies of practices of explanation in a range of contemporary political, medical, artistic, religious, and bureaucratic settings, the essays in Beyond Description offer critical examinations of changing norms and forms of explanation in the world and within anthropology itself.

Author : Shinji Yamashita
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Asia
ISBN : 1571813276

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Bali and Beyond by Shinji Yamashita Pdf

"...a succinct and thoughtful description and analysis of the development and haracter of Bali's 'touristic culture'...this is an excellent book for a student readerhip. It renders in straightforward language some quite difficult concepts." - Anthropos "This well-written, readable, and concise book forms an excellent introduction to the relationship between culture and tourism." - Focaal "...there is much to enjoy in this book; the writing is uncomplicated, lively and engaging: the conclusions are both daring and thought-provoking. Above all, thee is the author's readiness to engage with cross-cultural comparison in a theoretically driven and explicit way." - Social Anthropology Based on field research carried out over two decades, the author surveys the development of the anthropology of tourism and its significance, using case studies drawn from Indonesia, New Guinea and Japan. He argues that tourism, once seen as rather peripheral by anthropologists, has to be treated as a phenomenon of major importance, both because the size of the flows of people and capital involved, and because it is one of the major sites in which the meeting and hybridization of culture takes place. Tourism, he suggests, leads not to the destruction of local cultures, as many critics have implied, but rather to the emergence of new cultural forms. The central part of the book presents a detailed case-study of the island of Bali in Indonesia. It traces the development of tourism there during the colonial period, and the ways in which "Balinese traditional culture" was developed first by western artists and scholars in the colonial period, and more recently by Balinese government officials in the guise of "cultural tourism." The general theme of the "presentation of tradition" is also discussed in relation to Toraja funerals in the Indonesian province of Sulawesi, western visitors to the Sepik River in Papua-New-Guinea, and the small city of Tono in northern Japan which has become a center for the study of folk-lore.

Author : Raoul Naroll,Ronald Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037082422

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A Handbook of Method in Cultural Anthropology by Raoul Naroll,Ronald Cohen Pdf

Author : John H. Bodley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788160257

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Cultural Anthropology by John H. Bodley Pdf

An introductory cultural anthropology text, this book introduces basic concepts of cultural anthropology by comparing cultures of increasing scale and focusing on specific universal issues. "Understanding how tribes, states, and global systems work and how they differ might help citizens design a more secure and equitable world," says Bodley; it is this advocacy position that informs the text.

Author : David W. McCurdy,James Spradley,Dianna Shandy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 0205990797

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Conformity and Conflict by David W. McCurdy,James Spradley,Dianna Shandy Pdf

""Seeks to teach students the importance of culture and its influence on human life. By including examples of Western, North American cultures, the text makes cultural understanding and comparison more relatable to student audiences. The inclusion of current information and articles allows students to connect with major anthropological concepts through relevant events. The Fifteenth Edition reflects the changing nature of the discipline of anthropology by shifting its focusing to the more concerning issues of today... Articles throughout the text touch on all major subfields, including environmental, global, and medical topics, giving students a comprehensive introduction to the field.""--Publisher's description."

Author : Rita Felski,Susan Stanford Friedman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421409122

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Comparison by Rita Felski,Susan Stanford Friedman Pdf

An extended volume of New Literary History that considers the practice of comparison in literary studies and other disciplines within the humanities. Writing and teaching across cultures and disciplines makes the act of comparison inevitable. Comparative theory and methods of comparative literature and cultural anthropology have permeated the humanities as they engage more centrally with the cultural flows and circulation of past and present globalization. How do scholars make ethically and politically responsible comparisons without assuming that their own values and norms are the standard by which other cultures should be measured? Comparison expands upon a special issue of the journal New Literary History, which analyzed theories and methodologies of comparison. Six new essays from senior scholars of transnational and postcolonial studies complement the original ten pieces. The work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, R. Radhakrishnan, Bruce Robbins, Ania Loomba, Haun Saussy, Linda Gordon, Walter D. Mignolo, Shu-mei Shih, and Pheng Cheah are included with contributions by anthropologists Caroline B. Brettell and Richard Handler. Historical periods discussed range from the early modern to the contemporary and geographical regions that encompass the globe. Ultimately, Comparison argues for the importance of greater self-reflexivity about the politics and methods of comparison in teaching and in research.

Author : Marvin Harris,Orna Johnson
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015066861587

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Cultural Anthropology by Marvin Harris,Orna Johnson Pdf

Textbook on cultural anthropology