Breaking the Frames

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Breaking the Frames ...

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Pamela J. Stewart Department of Anthropology University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Andrew J. Strathern Departme ...

PREFACE After spending many decades in thefield of social/cultural anthropology, working in many countries and with colleagues a ...

supposed demise of structural-functionalism; and some kind of concern with the results of actions and their place in widerfields ...

viewpoint based on long and wide experience are driven out or marginalized. This kind of institutionalized boundary-making clear ...

this theme in the context of a dichotomy between universalists and particularists, centering partly around ideas of Noam Chomsky ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would like to thank the staff at Palgrave Macmillan who have assisted us in the production of this book, espe ...

Pittsburgh, Summer School at the University of Otago campus), that we were running during our stay in Dunedin. We worked on a pa ...

CONTENTS 1 Framing History 2 Change 3 Processes 4 Individuals 5 Nature Versus Culture: A Mistaken Conundrum 6 Retreat of the So ...

ABOUT THEAUTHORS Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern) and Andrew J. Strathernare a wife-and- husband research team who are basedin the ...

CHAPTER 1 Framing History AbstractRetrospective histories of anthropology often involve accounts of how one viewpoint supersedes ...

This was the prevalent founding myth of the development of a scientific basis for anthropology during the major part of the twen ...

and others whose work stemmed from nineteenth-century evolutionary traditions of enquiry. Frazer sought generalizations about hu ...

philosophy separating mind and body and privileging mind as the origins of action. Performance theory, by contrast, starts from ...

such a perspective in one of his own works (Psyche’s Task, published in 1927). What each of them took, however, from their ownfi ...

Jarvie took this crustacean-like, shell-hardened interpretation of the work of these two‘founders’(who, tellingly, disagreed wit ...

including the rationality of cargo cult actions. His approach is also based on methodological individualism, that is, the idea t ...