Breaking the Frames
the leader was not an established‘big-man’, and his group was one that had sunk in prestige in the local network of exchanges of ...
He also suggests that both Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown were inclined through theirfieldwork in small-scale situations to thin ...
CHAPTER 2 Change AbstractChange is a complex concept, but change is normal in the history of societies. Synchronic accounts do n ...
We want to take up this issue from our breaking the frames perspective. First, what does the term‘change’mean? The answer is tha ...
by itself, however, is not likely to be the sole cause of change, since it is always inserted into processes that involve existi ...
imaginations fed on an increasing amount of information reaching the Hagen area from outside, through labor migration and thefir ...
skepticism and scoffing by the leader of a neighboring clan of the Kawelka tribe. Again, such a circumstance of skepticism and d ...
gain influence and resources by persuading large numbers of supporters to put energy into making the cargo arrive by intense rit ...
What price, then, in all this, both of structural-functional analysis, Jarvie’s charges against it, and of his alternative of me ...
not merely individuals. They gather into themselves all manner of collective concerns, mythological themes, responses to class r ...
lost sight of the kinds of comparisons and generalization that the earlier armchair anthropologists had sought. If this was so, ...
approach to anthropology would keep us open in this way. It can be counterpoised creatively to approaches that steer practitione ...
machine, will seek to look through it (globalization) to the diverse circum- stances that compose it, rather than simply labelin ...
CHAPTER 3 Processes AbstractFredrik Barth’s work is exemplary for the study of social pro- cesses. He used his ethnographic stud ...
words, ethnographic experience is the primary source of‘breaking the frames’, but only if it is already linked in a thoughtful w ...
to maintain men’s houses in which they fed their supporters. The chief point here is that supporters could shift their allegianc ...
for it to work. Barth objects, as we do, to the importation of frames that are the product of extraneous concerns other than the ...
As with all of his work, Barth was seeking tofind a way to understand the meanings in Baktaman rituals that would avoid the pitf ...
not allowed. We arrive at the paradoxical point that knowledge was protected by not being passed on as much as by communicating ...
packed only a single large suitcase to take into thefield, which he handled himself, and the pair departed before long for the O ...
«
1
2
3
4
5
6
»
Free download pdf