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Sharing Our Worlds: An Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology by Joy Hendry

Sharing Our Worlds: An Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology Joy Hendry ebook
Publisher: New York University Press
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780814737118
Page: 328

Oct 2, 2012 - We start seeing ourselves as commoners in relationship to others, with a shared history and shared future. I do this exercise in my Intro class where I have the students write down examples of culture, then I go around the room and fill the white board with their examples. One is the work of Peter Winch in his essay The Idea of a Social Science whose anthropological bend interprets and then applies Wittgenstein to his concepts of a social theory by attacking positivism (1958). Feb 24, 2012 - It is interested in original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems. Apr 13, 2014 - I next introduce four of these conclusions. Oct 22, 2013 - In many ways reading Wittgenstein is like being introduced to a new vantage point that highlights where we have been and where we should hope to go in terms of our theories concerning communication and language. _ He is the author of Claiming Scotland: National Identity and Liberal Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2000), Rethinking Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and Theorizing Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Pál Nyiri is Professor of Global History from an Anthropological Perspective at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. I concur with Robert Redfield's definition that a worldview is “the totality of ideas that people within a culture share about self, human society, natural and spiritual worlds (Wilco, 2004, p.146). Sep 25, 2013 - We recognize the categories and concepts we deploy as our own creation, “governmentality” is not an actually existing thing in the world but it is handy way for talking about or modeling it.