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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old.

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Other Anthropology Schools: Translating Disciplinary Treasures for “Undisciplined” Minds

Anthropology News

The courses covered many domains—design, medicine, the environment—but most featured an anthropological flair, and most of the organizers had an anthropology background. I titled my course—one of the four core courses—“Tears of the Earth: An Anthropological Thinking Experiment.”

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Society - A preliminary idea

Anthropology for Beginners

In classical sense society refers to a group of people who share a common ‘culture’, occupy a particular territorial area and feel themselves to constitute a unified and distinct entity (Frisby and Sayer 1986). In this sense, society may denote the group’s population, its institutions and relations, or its culture and ideology.

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Towards an Anthropological Praxis of User Data

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But while the authors acknowledge and cite the contributions of industry-employed anthropologists, they do not, in this overview of the anthropology of data, center the outsized role that anthropology already plays in the sphere of user data.

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Worldview

Anthropology for Beginners

Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. In Redfield’s book The Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941), he expressed an embryonic concern with the concept of world view.

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Call for Pitches: Deception

Anthropology News

Issued: January 19, 2024 Response deadline: February 2, 2024 Pitch responses: February 7, 2024 First drafts due: February 21, 2024 For our second issue of 2024, Anthropology News invites you to explore the anatomy of deception and dissect the truths and untruths that form our understanding of reality. What forms do these deceptions take?

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Ancient Iberian Slate Plaques: Early Genealogical Records?

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Challenges and Future Directions While ancient DNA analysis could provide definitive proof of the plaques' genealogical purpose, poor skeletal preservation in collective tombs has hindered this approach. Journal : Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 2017.