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Having received the book Urban Outcasts today, I start writing about a presentation of a topic urban phenomenon accompanied by an exhibition in Vienna. The latter is to be found in Kunsthalle Vienna, it is called Punk. No One is Innocent. Punk was not the last global culture movement, because this lifestyle as a metaphor of revolt did not occur globally, but in cities. In the mid seventies, when nihilisms of all kind caused the Punk movement to become active in the arts, music or fashion, codes of radical left became understandable for a wider audience. Punk. No One is Innocent provides various artists work from London, New York and Berlin, as well as artefacts, like flyers, covers or manifests are exposed. Claudia Bauer additionally lists typical elements of style genetically coded in a what she calls White Riot pop culture perceptible until nowadays.
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| Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887 - 1948) |
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Ruth Benedict belongs to G. Stocking s third group of Boasians, namely the evolved ones. As a second generation Boasian she co – shaped the so called culture – and – personality school with Margaret Mead, Irving Hallowell and Clyde Kluckhohn. She was born into a Baptist family in New York and studied literature at Vassar College. Some years later, namely from 1919 to 1922 Benedict attended the New School for Social Research in New York, then she was taught by Alexander A. Goldenweiser and Elsie C. Parsons (rf. Gaillard 2004: 104).
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| Drastic Initiative: The Torres Straits |
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All works published in the first phase of British anthropology were based on written sources mainly, and all of the authors were armchair anthropologists, which means they did not conduct systematic fieldwork by participant observation fashioned by Malinowski. Critical and searching, they used new methods to further scholarly achievements and they found and described basic concepts like animism, endogamy, exogamy, totemism, taboo or matriliny on the basis of philosophical thought. British evolutionists read widely and exchanged ideas throughout the four tradtitions elaborated in One Discipline, Four Ways. They asked for gradual developments, questions of origins and the reconstruction of human history.
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