Breaking the Frames
they have different purposes, not the same ones. However, we can usefully ask why in Hagen there could be a greater stress on bi ...
moment, the new frame has to reincorporate back into itself an aspect of the old to arrive at an adequate synthesis. Overall, th ...
Fredrik Barth’s work has been centrally important because of his capa- city to break frames and make new ones. With the Pathan s ...
CHAPTER 4 Individuals AbstractTheorizing about the individual has a long history in anthro- pology, but has often been vitiated ...
who commit crimes are seen as enemies of society, loners. Collectivities differ in terms of how they handle individuals. Some so ...
we have noted. Hence, the very term that invites us to consider it as equivalent to continuity acquires a very different aspect ...
their article on‘the mindful body’( 1987 ). Thefirst thinker we will work with here is Anthony Cohen and his book‘Self Conscious ...
how anthropologists have sometimes managed to ignore the point or have claimed that in some remote part of the world (remote, th ...
that this is exactly what happens to an innovative idea or concept that begins as a provocative twist on existing theory and end ...
to ramifying segmented groups that maintained claims to resources, and kept extended ties of kinship and descent to enable them ...
opposition, but it was solidly based on empirical data. Another way out was also available, and in this respect too the Hagen da ...
as unilateral in form. However, this is not the whole story, as both the Hagen case and the Duna case show in their different wa ...
also back here, in a certain way, with Fredrik Barth and the Swat Pathans. Neither descent alone nor exchange alone (‘the gift’) ...
Anthony Cohen, reflecting on the category of the self, argued that the self is multiple, containing different identities. For Co ...
its significance‘mind’. A person for Hageners, for example, is someone who has a mind (noman petem) and is mindful (noman-oronga ...
build their own careers on it as a new fashion. With individuals, the problem is how can their actions result in social order? W ...
CHAPTER 5 Nature Versus Culture: A Mistaken Conundrum AbstractWhat constitutes humanity? Is it nature or culture? Culturalists l ...
based viewpoints will give the opposite judgments. The opposition itself is a product of folk culture that in Europe is based on ...
do set up networks of alliance that are narrower in focus than exogamous marriage to non-kin among a range of groups. We do not ...
marriage as their basic building blocks, this etic notation passes over the issue of classifications by reducing the description ...
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