Anthropology/Introduction

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Social and Cultural Anthropology[edit | edit source]

Key Themes[edit | edit source]

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