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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... is with the aim of confronting people with the limits of what they know and understand. * Louis Dumon

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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... n adminstration of administrations. ===== The limits of a theory of the modern state ===== Weber’s co... pends on foreign ideological models to legitimate its political power. This could be seen as another ki

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tself. If an imagined community of a nation inherits a conceptual framework from colonial knowledge, t... tuation. ==== Expanding the weak reading reveals its flaws ==== * Melanesian societies are based on... physical body * with fixed, essential traits, and * distinct from the collective force

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life in global terms, especially with respect to its diversity. Seems simple enough. Except… * Some... ;” it is a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts, and has properties of its own which the parts lack (Durkheim [1912] 1995, 15). Consider Rousse... meone you just met These may seem like simple habits. But how do you feel when someone fails to do wha

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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... 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// (Lé... ct Anderson argues that nationalism is defined by its newness and its break with past identities. * Nationalism is enabled by the spread of “print capita... s” (Anderson [1983] 2006, 58–59). ===== The limits of the imagined-community thesis ===== * One l