Sybil Amber

1. Rest/West
(Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie/Deutschsprachige Texte)

Der Artikel Stuart Hall's beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie die Idee des Westens entstehen konnte und diese Fuss gefasst hat. Die Expansion der christlichen Hegemonien führte zur Vorstellung einer Vereinheitlichung ...

2. Picture Theory
(Anthro.Scapes/Museum, Pedagogy, Media)

... iconic and pictorial turns were about to happen. Mitchell sets out to explain the “pictorial turn” in his book, which is sometimes called “iconic turn” in scientific discourse. Several essays grapple with ...

3. Loic Wacquant: Urban Outcasts (2008)
(Anthro.Scapes/AnthroLit)

... et caetera: Tools for Rethinking Urban Marginality Wacquant denotes his approach to break "with the exoticizing cast of media discourse as well as with the semi - scholarly approximations of conventional ...

4. Processing Marginality?
(Anthro.Scapes/Urban Anthropology)

... to secure basic needs in life is endangered by authoritarian public discourse. "The acute sense of social indignity that enshrouds neighbourhoods of relegation can be attenuated only by thrusting the ...

5. Journalism in Anthropology
(Writing/Journalism in Science)

... 2008). Stephen A. Tyler (1986) writes about ethnographic documents, "Because post – modern ethnography privileges ‘discourse’ over ‘text’, it foregrounds dialogue as opposed to monologue, and emphasizes ...

6. Mader, Elke (2008) Anthropologie der Mythen
(Anthro.Scapes/Myth)

... examples, followed by the discourse propounding the sociological aspects of myth/s. Here Bronislaw Malinowski s, Raymond Firth s and Joanna Overing s analyses are considered to give an account of myth/s ...

7. VC / RL
(World/Virtuality)

... ‘technologies are not self-contained entities that impact on the social, technologies are constituted by the social relations and discourses of everyday life because they are embedded within that life" ...

8. Postmodern Anthropology - Positioning
(Anthro.Scapes/History of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

... 201). As a result a kind of global discourse developed with anthropology amidst an international and polycentric network. "The term ‘postmodern’ was first defined in philosophy by the French philosopher ...

9. The beginnings in France
(Anthro.Scapes/History of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

... societies, both of which lack a state, being associated with hunting and gathering and with pastoralism, respectively" (Parkin 2005: 161f.). Jean – Jacques Rousseau published his Discourse on the Origin ...