Breaking the Frames
stands on its own. Recursion is the feature which Chomsky and his fellow workers declared was universal, but the Piraha case neg ...
of culture (and society) and functions as a storehouse of signs of knowl- edge. Within this frame, certain significant markers o ...
In the latter example, what is the subject and what is the object? We have to putfillers in if we are using English: (It) is eat ...
These are examples of the kinds of analyses we need in elucidating the articulation of language and culture together. Language a ...
of comprehending the patterns of German pronunciation of words, made more deceptive by the fact that English and German are quit ...
different levels of patterns together so as to create a complex product of communication. This observation reinforces our argume ...
CHAPTER 9 Against -Isms AbstractStereotypical histories of anthropology tend to revolve around a succession of theoretical stanc ...
publications, get allocated to the followers of that approach. When criti- cisms emerge and gain attention, the trend reverses a ...
scripts with insight. This could in fact happen if they were to free their own minds to think about the terms they use rather th ...
Mobility precludes one from exercising power within a given context, but it can enable one to get a better view of things. Histo ...
expressed in British social anthropology, for example, by Meyer Fortes and by Edmund Leach, and in American anthropology by Roge ...
Royal Anthropological Institute in 1958, and he later surmised that he had not been respectful enough of Evans-Pritchard’s work ...
such wholesale theoretical systems, like patches put on burst bicycle tires. The overall example of Barth’s work is inspiring be ...
contexts of political competition. It does not follow that it can by itself explain everything. Attempts to make it do so turn i ...
egalitarian ethos leads them to make peace by compensation payments more readily than happens with the Pathans. Maximization and ...
CHAPTER 10 For a Mindful Anthropology AbstractMindful anthropology brings together theory and description. Thus, whatever theory ...
statement, but our focus is on understanding society as something that, as Fredrik Barth has said,“happens between people”. By k ...
Departments. The Marxist trend was then superseded successively by post- structuralist, postmodernist, interpretivist, and most ...
shamanism. Mindful anthropology needs to embrace their work as well as continuing to break out from it into worlds of our own cr ...
sights on, is the pathway to mindfulness. Naturally, we are likely to bring to bear on our observations a background of theory a ...
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