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sert rocks (Conover 2015; Scoles 2015)? * Life itself has no single, simple definition. The working ... owa// is a narrower category because people limit its meaning to the same as the English word //human//... d //dimdim// are God’s children. By contrast, spirits and dwarfs are beliefs people have about the worl... t important differences are cultural, acquired traits. * Everyone is fundamentally the same, and spec

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that to explain any part of society, we must look its place in a whole system, rather than how individu... 🙎🏻‍♂️ 🚀 💵 ) ( ( “boka” | 🧱 ) | 😀 ) ===== The limits of a synchronic perspective ===== * A synchron... lue of this perspective yet avoid the pitfalls of its limits? ===== References and further reading ===== Barthes, Roland. 1972. //Mythologies: The Complet

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e White House’s latest budget proposal enumerates its biggest policy priorities.” (Sorkin et al. 2022) ... ies to the emergence of a system of territorial units that each have exclusive sovereignty over their t... divide in history ===== The concept of the state itself is associated with a tradition in European tho... radition or value-rationality will develop within itself a capacity to administer itself. * It will d

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hat any modern postcolonial nation would also see itself as a colonizer of some marginalized communities inside of itself. If an imagined community of a nation inherits a conceptual framework from colonial knowledge, the... licit the practice of anthropological description itself. (Strathern 1988, 15–16) ===== Com

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life in global terms, especially with respect to its diversity. Seems simple enough. Except… * Some... cit norms and values, just as if anthropology was itself a culture. - Anthropologists have always bor... ocial science. Durkheim says that society causes itself. “Society is a reality //sui generis//;” it is a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts, and has properties of its own which the pa

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* Saussure: Study the structure of language, not its history * “A language, as a collective phenom... ds makes it possible for each community to impose its own collective representations or total system of... ser to nature than others. Does anthropology have its own idea of a noble savage? What is it? What does... e. ===== Star Trek’s anthropology reveals the limits of the Durkheimian model of society ===== Every

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on them are telling. He notes that there are limits to the organic analogy. - “A pig does not beco... a corporation, which is immortal and will outlast its mortal members. * A society will die if it is... ses whereby one society supplants or superimposes itself on a new society or territory. ===== Eric Wol... and how we should assess them today. For most of its history, from the late 19th century to the end of

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. It is common among many different societies for its name for itself to be //people// or //human// (Lévi-Strauss 1952, 12). * A community may have no special name for itself, and may be called by others by a randomly cho... ct Anderson argues that nationalism is defined by its newness and its break with past identities. *