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Author : James Clyde Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780897270137
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Numerical Techniques in Social Anthropology written by James Clyde Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Clyde Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Numerical Techniques in Social Anthropology written by James Clyde Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Fischer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134978421
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists written by Michael Fischer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As increasing numbers of social anthropologists use a computer for wordprocessing, interest in other applications inevitably follows, Computer Applications in Social Anthropology covers research activities shared by all social anthropologists and introduces new methods for organizing and interpreting data. Lucidly written, and sympathetic to the particular needs of social anthropologists, it will be of immense value to researchers and professionals in anthropology, development studies and sociology
Author : Wim van Binsbergen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9078382333
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (783 download)
Download or read book Confronting the Sacred: Durkheim vindicated through philosophical analysis, ethnography, archaeology, long-range linguistics, and comparative mythology written by Wim van Binsbergen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) the soci0logist ?mile Durkheim formulated the most influential social-science theory of religion to date. Pivotal are the paired concepts ?sacred / profane?, the notion of ?collective representations?, and the hypothesis that through such religious symbols, society compels its members to venerate herself i.e. to submit to the social as an irreducible instance in its own right. Having grappled with this Durkheimian inheritance for half a century, the anthropologist of religion and intercultural philosopher Wim van Binsbergen in this book traces his own steps in confront_ing Durkheim's sacred, through theoretical criticism, through ethnographic application (to popular Islam in the segmentary social organisation of the highlands of Northwestern Tunisia), and by state-of-the-art long-range methods of linguistic and comparative mythological analysis. Thus, much to his surprise, he demonstrates the continued validity of Durkheim's insights in religion.
Author : Allen W. Johnson
Publisher : Hodder Education
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Research Methods in Social Anthropology written by Allen W. Johnson and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 1978 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mario Schmidt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789206863
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Money Counts written by Mario Schmidt and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantitative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity. Drawing from case studies including British jewelers, blood-money payments in Germanic law codes, and the quotidian use of money in cosmopolitical Moscow, a Western Kenyan village, and socialist Havana, the chapters in this volume offer new theoretical and empirical interpretations of money’s quantitative nature as it relates to abstraction, sociality, materiality, freedom, and morality.
Author : A.L. Epstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351484338
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Craft of Social Anthropology written by A.L. Epstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In social anthropology, as in other branches of science, there is a close relationship between research methods and theoretical problems. Advancing theory and shifts in orientation go hand in hand with the development of techniques and mutually influence one another. If the development of modern social anthropology owes much to its established tradition of fieldwork, it is also clear that the procedures that anthropological fieldwork should follow in the laboratory can never be prescribed in absolute terms nor become wholly standardized. Yet as anthropological analysis is refined, it becomes increasingly important that students in the field be aware of the need to collect basic kinds of data, and know how to set about doing so. In this volume, anthropologists who have worked closely together for many years at the Rhodes- Livingstone Institute for Social Research, Lusaka, and/or in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, discuss within a common framework modern fieldwork methods as tools for examining a number of problems of current anthropological interest. Elizabeth Colson, J. Clyde Mitchell, and J. A. Barnes stress aspects of the role of quantification in social anthropology and indicate a range of problems that can be illuminated by the use of quantitative techniques. Equal importance is attached by all contributors to the collection and analysis of detailed case material, a topic explored in J. van Velsen's essay. A. L. and T. S. Epstein, V. W. Turner, and M. G. Marwick consider the kinds of data relevant to anthropological discussion in the fields of economics, law, ritual, and witchcraft, and the methods by which such material may be collected. The volume is introduced by Max Gluckman, former director of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute and former head of the department of social anthropology and sociology, University of Manchester.
Author : Marcus Banks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134899602
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions written by Marcus Banks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnicity has been a key concept in anthropology and sociology for many years, yet many people still seem uncertain as to its meaning, its relevance, and its relationship to other concepts such as `race' and nationalism. In Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions the major anthropological and sociological approaches to ethnicity, covering much of the significant literature and leading authors, are outlined clearly and concisely.
Author : T. M. S. (Terry) Evens
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857458582
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book The Manchester School written by T. M. S. (Terry) Evens and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology. Anticipating practice theory, and implicitly politically charged, it was developed as a tool to bring into account what orthodox structural functionalism was ill-equipped to address, namely, problems such as change, conflict, deviance, and individual choice. Edited by two students of Gluckman, the volume comprises reprinted pieces by Gluckman and his colleague Clyde Mitchell, a Coda by Mitchell’s student, Bruce Kapferer, contributions by Gluckman’s students and/or friends and colleagues, including Ronnie Frankenberg, Kapferer, Evens, Handelman, and Sally Falk Moore, as well as a number of contributions from other practitioners of the extended case. Apart from the reprinted pieces by Gluckman and Mitchell, all the contributions have been written for this volume. These essays, historical, theoretical, and ethnographical, serve to highlight and critically examine the fundamental features of the extended-case method, in order to advance its substantial, continuing merits.
Author : Harvey Russell Bernard
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 075911241X
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Research Methods in Anthropology written by Harvey Russell Bernard and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2011 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents topics such as treatment of sampling, interviewing, participant observation, taking and managing field notes, analyzing data, and text analysis. The author also discusses recording equipment, voice recognition software, computer-based questionnaire methods, internet-based surveys, and word processors as text managers.
Author : H. Russell Bernard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0759120722
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology written by H. Russell Bernard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, now in its second edition, maintains a strong benchmark for understanding the scope of contemporary anthropological field methods. Avoiding divisive debates over science and humanism, the contributors draw upon both traditions to explore fieldwork in practice. The second edition also reflects major developments of the past decade, including: the rising prominence of mixed methods, the emergence of new technologies, and evolving views on ethnographic writing. Spanning the chain of research, from designing a project through methods of data collection and interpretive analysis, the Handbook features new chapters on ethnography of online communities, social survey research, and network and geospatial analysis. Considered discussion of ethics, epistemology, and the presentation of research results to diverse audiences round out the volume. The result is an essential guide for all scholars, professionals, and advanced students who employ fieldwork.
Author : Maurice Bloch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136548653
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology written by Maurice Bloch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the first evaluation among British and American anthropologists of the relevance of Marxist theory for their discipline, the studies in this volume cover a wide geographical and social spectrum ranging from rural Indonesia, Imperial China, Highland Burma and the Abron kingdom of Gyaman. A critical survey assesses the value of some key ideas of Marx and Engels to social anthropology and places in historical perspective the changing attitudes of social anthropologists to the Marxist tradition. Originally published in 1975.
Author : Braxton M. Alfred
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461247446
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Elements of Statistics for the Life and Social Sciences written by Braxton M. Alfred and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written to myself at about the time I began graduate studies in anthropology-the sort of thing a Samuel Beckett character might do. It is about the conduct of research. In a very real sense the purpose is partially to compensate for the inadequacies of my professors. Perhaps this is what education is about. The effort has not been an unqualified success, but it has been extremely gratifying. I was trained in anthropology. After completing the Ph. D. I went to Stanford on a post-doctoral fellowship. At the time, this was a novelty and the depart ment was not prepared for such a thing. To stay occupied I began attending lectures, seminars, and discussion groups in mathematics and statistics. This was about the luckiest choice I ever made. The excitement was easily as intense as that which I experienced upon encountering anthropology. On one oc casion I innocently and independently proved a theorem that had first been done 2000 years earlier. It is currently used as an exercise in high school mathematics so it is neither difficult nor arcane. Learning all this did not tarnish my sense of discovery. (On reflection I am puzzled by my failure to have seen all this "beauty" when I was exposed to it as an undergraduate. The unparalleled excellence of the Stanford program was undoubtedly responsible for my belated conversion.
Author : Paul Spencer
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191583448
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Pastoral Continuum written by Paul Spencer and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998-01-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Spencer presents the definitive study of the ways of life of the cattle-herding peoples of East Africa, drawing on many years of research. This region has offered a prime example of a traditional culture resisting the inevitability of change; it provides the best-known and most extensive instance both of cattle-pastoralist society and of social organization based primarily on age. Pastoral peoples were once dominant in the East African interior, but development of the market economy has progressively polarized the region and forced them into the most marginal, drought-ridden areas; in this ecological trap they have become a peripheral underclass. The Pastoral Continuum examines the richness and resilience of their cultures and illuminates the role of indigenous practices and institutions in adaptation and survival. The pastoralists' systems of age organization in particular are notable for their resilience: it is demonstrated that these are bound up with problems of growth and succession in family enterprises, and that marriage is a critical link in the web of alliance that governs the problematic relations between old and young. Spencer's exploration of the development of the pastoralist phenomenon yields a unique view of its place in the modern world and its prospects for the future. This landmark work by a leading authority will be of lasting value to any reader interested in traditional social systems of this kind.
Author : Pertti J. Pelto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521292283
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (922 download)
Download or read book Anthropological Research written by Pertti J. Pelto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-02-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive text on research methods in social and cultural anthropology, covering tools, counting and sampling, fieldwork and research design. Originally published by Harper & Row, 1970.
Author : National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Grants and Awards for the Fiscal Year Ended ... written by National Science Foundation (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521334327
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Human Mating Patterns written by C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-12-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the causes and consequences of different mating patterns in man with particular reference to historical, biological, medical and demographic factors. Each of these reference points are covered in carefully edited and integrated papers for advanced students and research workers in human biology and genetics.
