Hewitt de Alcántara, Cynthia. Anthropological Perspectives on Rural Mexico. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. xiv + 224 pp. including footnotes and index. $32.95 cloth.doi:10.1080/00988157.1986.9977797Lomnitz‐AdlerClaudioReviews in Anthropology
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Eriksen explains how to see the world from below and from within - emphasising the importance of adopting an insider's perspective. He reveals how seemingly enormous cultural differences actually conceal the deep unity of humanity. Lucid and accessible, What is Anthropology? draws examples from ...
William James and the American Perspective Across the Atlantic, another luminary, William James, contributed to psychology’s evolution. James embraced a pragmatic approach, emphasizing the practical applications of psychological insights. His seminal work, “The Principles of Psychology” (1890), defined...
In doing so, we might gain a new perspective on the relationship we want to understand. I've only scratched the surface of the sorts of questions that interest PAs, but I hope that I have shown you that PA is a discipline that can both challenge and ultimately complement theories and ...
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Curriculum in Women’s Studies and the Department of Anthropology, Chapel HillKluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum PublishersJournal of Archaeological Method and TheoryTomaškova S. What is a burin? Typology, technology, and interregional comparison. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2005, 12:...
What is an interactionist perspective? Social Theories: In the social sciences, numerous social theories propose explanations of how society operates. These can focus on the individual level, on small groups, or on large groups such as entire countries. These theories differ in the mechanisms that...