Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 209 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First printing
Series Statement:
Random House Studies in Anthropology 5
Keywords:
Anthropologie
Abstract:
The Nature of Cultural Things is the first attempt by an anthropologist to develop a consistent set of empircally valid cultural units, based on the observation of the behavior of individuals. It seeks to provide a solution to the problem of subjectivity in the social sciences, and suggests what steps are necessary for achieving culture-free ethnographic descriptions.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- 1. The nature of things -- 2. The cultural field of inquiry -- 3. The smallest cultural things -- 4. Stage coordinates and episodes -- 5. Episode chains, nodes, and nodal chains -- 6. Higher level and multi-actor units -- 7. Groups -- 8. Emics and etics -- 9. Verbal and nonverbal units -- 10. The nature of culture -- Appendix: a nodal count -- Bibliography. -- Index
Note:
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