Anthropology/Introduction
Social and Cultural Anthropology
[edit | edit source]Key Themes
[edit | edit source]- Social relations
- Approaches to Memory and Nation
- Archaeology of the mind
- Self Emotion and Culture
- The Sensuality of the Social: Experience and Representation
- Engendering the Social: Feminism and Anthropology
- Social Relations as Persons
- Language
- Material culture
- Bodies
- Ethnography: Writing Culture
Influential Thinkers
[edit | edit source]- Lévy-Bruhl - rationality and relativism
- Dilthey - Hermeneutics and the interpretation
- Whorf - Linguistic relativity
- Turner - Anthropology of change
- Boas - Historical Anthropology
- Gramsci - Hegemony and counter-hegemony
- Bakhtin - The anthropology of performance
- Lévi-Strauss - Structural anthropology
- Bourdieu - Habitus and Practise Theory
- Foucault - Discourse and power/knowledge
- Harris - Cultural Materialism and scientific approach
- Geertz - Symbolic anthropology