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  • The social world is a stage, and our actions are symbols
  • The social world is a stage, and our actions are symbols (part 1)
  • The social world is a stage, and our actions are symbols (part 2)
  • Humans are intrinsically social beings (part 1)
  • Humans are intrinsically social beings (part 2)
  • Gender is a cultural construct and a social process—Cases of “woman-marriage” in Africa and matrimonial alliance (part 1)
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  • Gifts as a total social phenomenon
  • Week 1: Introduction to the seminar: The relevance of social theory
  • Week 13: What is social theory for?
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  • Week 6: Exchange as a social, not economic, fact
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  • Week 9: Social remittances
  • The practice of social theory
  • Print prestations: The social embeddedness of reading publics in colonial Papua

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Religion and Economy
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anyone wishing to understand either. In classical social theories, religion and economy appear as distinct domains of social behavior and organization. Yet although these the... theoretical conception of religion and economy as social domains. In the Durkheimian tradition, society i... e sacred, is central to Durkheim's concept of the social body. Durkheim argues that all societies, large a
The practice of social theory @6916:2020
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====== The practice of social theory ====== [RS: This may need some updating. Thoughts?] This is a diffi... ng called into question. Generally speaking, the social sciences developed in the West in a period in whi... ansformation of society itself. It was the job of social scientists to understand and explain why this tra... en as an expression of this modernity. Scientific social theory was a sign that society was becoming consc
The charisma of the coronavirus
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==== The relevance of anthropology: Covid-19 is a social disease ===== Yet, anthropology has much that it... asic level, though, the coronavirus pandemic is a social phenomenon. The virus spreads through social spaces, and quickly dies outside of a host. It spreads from person to person, and thus is conveyed through social relationships. If you needed to trace someone’s c
Society
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answer a question about patterns of behavior in **social** terms, they do have a specific sense of **socie... onceptualize society, there is a key way in which social scientists' use of the concept differs from other... make the whole machine work. Put another way, **a social system is also like a living organism.** It can a... ky part...// One of the specialized elements of a social system is its "structure." Social machines do nee
Emile Durkheim
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# Emile Durkheim is one of the most significant social theorists of the twentieth century, credited with... which, as he famously said, one should "consider social facts as things" (Durkheim 1982 [1895]: 60). That... e part of objective reality. As objective facts, "social things" (Lemert 2008) should not be treated as if... ing external to any one individual consciousness. Social facts impose themselves on individuals of a socie
Summary of topics and readings @6916:2020
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5 | Introduction to the seminar: The relevance of social theory | | |\\ | 2 | Mar 3 | The material conditi... (2009) |\\ | 3 | Mar 10 | The rationality of the social actor | Weber ([1904] 1946) | Brenner (1996); Ger... nd Winant (2014) |\\ | 6 | Mar 31 | Exchange as a social, not economic, fact | Mauss ([1925] 1990) | Piot (1999) |\\ | 7 | Apr 7 | Sex and gender as social constructs and social process | Rubin (1975) | |\
City air makes you free @1002:2018
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cieties end up being the same. * Not all kinds of social change are progress. By the end of this week, I ... with Emile Durkheim, he is credited with some of social science's main ideas. Weber's approach to social forms starts from the view that there are different typ... the way that anthropologists do. His views about social change are ethnocentric. He assumed that all soci
Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? @2667
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ence of belonging to a group, and being part of a social whole.)). To understand what this means, we need to understand Durkheim's argument that the social fact of the category of the sacred is functionall... some other, more current, science fiction). * **Social facts** are collective representations (or 'const... ousness, imposes on its members' consciousnesses. Social facts appear to people as being external and coer
Why would someone join a religious commune? @2667
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ewater-stays-dirty-in-our-minds. ## Types of social action ## * Traditional: Like a habit or an unq... eral is a very important and very special type of social action. ## Quiz: What types of social action best describe these activities? ## * Brushing your teeth ... lk to each other about the best Weberian types of social action to classify these activities. Do you agree
"No man dies without a reason" @1002:2019
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ogy in the world Module 4, Week 1, Lectures 1 Social Sciences Building (A02), Room 410 ryan.schram@s... l in helping anthropologists think about magic in social terms. ## Evans-Pritchard's distinction between ... superstitions; they are functional components of social systems Evans-Pritchard's work had an influence ... ted to look for how things functioned to maintain social structure, this school called itself **structural
Max Weber
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tem, which made it possible for people to examine social patterns and behaviors and find new kinds of explanations. Unlike these other key social theorists, Weber's theory of society is based on ... individual and collective actions of its members. Social action has meaning and purpose. It accomplishes s... valuable for society and its members in some way. Social forms, groups, identities and institutions are, i
Community
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thout looking beyond the individual to the larger social environment. Each individual is not only a member... that community as a system. Human beings have a social nature. In the same way, humans have an innate capacity to acquire specific patterns from their social environment, and in doing so, they can participat... often happens to be one's mother (//mater//) in a social sense. But the fact of being a //genetrix// has n
The charisma of the coronavirus @1001:2020
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==== The relevance of anthropology: Covid-19 is a social disease ===== I would still say that anthropolog... able to spread by moving along people’s existing social relationships. People get sick because they are p... at means the people who are more involved in some social institutions will be more at risk * Everyone ... dden barbecue but there are in fact many kinds of social gatherings that are low risk. * The sad thing
Putting it all together @1002:2018
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ram October 29, 2018 ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au Social Sciences Building 410 (A02) Available at http://... ideas and values which people acquire from their social environment. It shapes how they see, think, and a... ves in a cultural context, we also recognize that social rules, social institutions, and cultural values can act on the world: * **[[:society|Society]] and soci
Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about @2667
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have any questions for me? ## Society, religion, social theory, social studies of religion ## This class focuses on the relationships between religion and socie... practices and institutions in societies. * The **social study of religion** is different than the history... ligious literature or texts, and theology. * The social study of religion seeks to examine the significan
Personhood
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ANTH 6916: Culture and development—Key concepts @6916:2020
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Welcome back to 1002! @1002:2018
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Spheres of exchange @1002:2019
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Is African Christianity just 'African culture'? @2667
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Breaching experiments
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Welcome to ANTH 1002 @1002:2018
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About this seminar @6916:2020
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Marcel Mauss and the gift @1002:2018
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Meyer Fortes
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The moral economy @1002:2018
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Anthony Giddens
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Essay @6916:2020
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The moral economy @1002:2018
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Anthropologists are people studying people @1001:2020
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Can you buy salvation? @2667
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Do the dead have rights? @1002:2019
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Lewis Henry Morgan
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“God’s taboo”: The heteroglossia of evangelism in Methodist missionary narratives from British New Guinea, circa 1890 @talks
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The obligations of the gift @1002:2019
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ANTH 1002: Anthropology in the world @1002:2020
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Alliance and descent
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Parents @2654
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Week 12: Society as distributed consciousness @6916:2020
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The universal and the particular @1001:2020
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Can you learn to hear God? @2667
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Welcome to anthropology @1002:2018
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The social world is a stage, and our actions are symbols @1001:2020
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Remittance networks and stratified reproduction @1002:2018
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Marriage
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ANTH 1001: Introduction to anthropology @1001:2020
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About this seminar @3601:2020
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The payback beat: Ethnographic citizenship and the public kinship of indigenous subjects in postcolonial Papua New Guinea @talks
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A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
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Moral economies @1002:2019
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Gifts as a total social phenomenon @1002:2019
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Emic and etic descriptions @1001:2020
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Modernity
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In search of prosperity @1002:2018
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Develop-man @1002:2018
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Brainstorming @the_quest
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Week 9: Social remittances @6916:2020
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Transport shaming
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Some history @2654
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Starting points for your research @2667
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Welcome to anthropology @1001:2020
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Difference
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Gifts and commodities @1002:2018
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Do all societies become secular? @2667
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Why is religion interesting and problematic? @2667
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Staying on top of your study @2667
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Capital and community @1002:2018
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Environmental determinism and cultural determinism @1001:2020
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Anthropologists are professional strangers—The method of “fieldwork” @1001:2020
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Welcome back to ANTH 1002 @1002:2019
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ANTH 6916: Culture and Development--Key Concepts @6916:2018
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Cultural determinism and utilitarianism @1001:2020
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Feminist anthropology and kinship @2654
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Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism
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Shamans become the other (part 2) @1001:2020
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Anthropology, race and culture @talks
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Gender is a cultural construct and a social process—Cases of “woman-marriage” in Africa and matrimonial alliance (part 1) @1001:2020
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Translation
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Gender is a cultural construct and a social process—Cases of “woman-marriage” in Africa and matrimonial alliance (part 2) @1001:2020
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Shamans become the other (part 1) @1001:2020
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Humans are intrinsically social beings (part 2) @1001:2020
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The social world is a stage, and our actions are symbols (part 1) @1001:2020
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Melford E. Spiro and the strange and the familiar in ethnography
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The social world is a stage, and our actions are symbols (part 2) @1001:2020
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Reciprocity
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Humans are intrinsically social beings (part 1) @1001:2020
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The goal of this class @1001:2020
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6916guide @6916:2020
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Metaphors of kinship and performativity of symbols @2654
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How to Zoom to class @1002:2020
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Can religion change the world? @2667
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Megadeath @1002:2019
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Global gifts @1002:2019
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Commodities
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Print prestations: The social embeddedness of reading publics in colonial Papua @talks:print
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Assessing Mauss’s influence: An exercise in research skill @1002:2020
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ANTH 3601: Contemporary theory and anthropology @3601:2020
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Semantics and pragmatics
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Proposal for a Grade 12 lesson on kinship @1001:2020
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Week 7: Sex and gender as social constructs and social process @6916:2020
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Week 4: Society as collective consciousness @6916:2020
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Around the world in 13 weeks @1002:2018
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Tiv spheres of exchange
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Capital and community @1002:2018
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David Harvey
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Welcome to the Anthrocyclopaedia
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Franz Boas and the culture concept @1001:2020
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Readings, other class requirements, and online resources @1001:2020
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Where to get the readings @1002:2018
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What is anthropology, and why should we care? @1002:2020
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Tell me a story...: An analysis of qualitative data @1001:2020
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Ethnographic report on observations of public behavior @1001:2020
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What we do in class @1002:2018
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The keys to success in this class @1002:2020
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Enao
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Critique of your own cultural assumptions @1002:2020
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PlayGround @playground
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Qualitative analysis of a birth interview @1002:2020
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Commodity chain
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Bronislaw Malinowski
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What we will do in class @1002:2020
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Various contributions to an online, collaborative knowledge base @6916:2020
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Do liberal societies need beliefs? @2667
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Talks and presentations
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The keys to success in this class @1001:2020
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How to use Zotero to manage a bibliography @the_quest
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Symbolizing kinship @2654
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Do religions mix? @2667
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Week 6: Exchange as a social, not economic, fact @6916:2020
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The globalization of capitalism and the contemporary economy
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Week 3: The rationality of the social actor @6916:2020
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Karl Marx
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Week 1: Introduction to the seminar: The relevance of social theory @6916:2020
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Brideprice @2654
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ANTH 2667: The anthropology of religion @2667
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Week 13: What is social theory for? @6916:2020
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Key informants
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Assessments @6916:2018
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Weekly plan and assigned readings @2667
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Surrogate motherhood
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Marcel Mauss
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Descent @2654
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How do anthropologists think? @1001:2020
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Learning outcomes @2667
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To be revealed... @2667
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Take-home writing assignment @6916:2020
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Mind
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"Sanguma em i stap": Ethnographic citizenship and epistemic exclusion in Tok Pisin sorcery stories since 1945 @talks:sanguma
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Identity and contradiction
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