Anthropology/Introduction

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