Anthropology/Introduction

Social and Cultural Anthropology

Key Themes

• Social relations
• Approaches to Memory and Nation
• Archaeology of the mind
• Self Emotion and Culture
• The Sensuality of the Social: Experience and Representation
• Engendering the Social: Feminism and Anthropology
• Social Relations as Persons
• Language
• Material culture
• Bodies
• Ethnography: Writing Culture

Influential Thinkers

• Lévy-Bruhl - rationality and relativism
• Dilthey - Hermeneutics and the interpretation
• Whorf - Linguistic relativity
• Turner - Anthropology of change
• Boas - Historical Anthropology
• Gramsci - Hegemony and counter-hegemony
• Bakhtin - The anthropology of performance
• Lévi-Strauss - Structural anthropology
• Bourdieu - Habitus and Practise Theory
• Foucault - Discourse and power/knowledge
• Harris - Cultural Materialism and scientific approach
• Geertz - Symbolic anthropology