< Anthropology

Social and Cultural Anthropology

Key Themes

  • Social relations
  • Approaches to Memory and Nation
  • Archaeology of the mind
  • Self Emotion and Culture
  • The Sensuality of the Social: Experience and Representation
  • Engendering the Social: Feminism and Anthropology
  • Social Relations as Persons
  • Language
  • Material culture
  • Bodies
  • Ethnography: Writing Culture

Influential Thinkers

  • 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
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