Sybil Amber

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

Three questions out of four had to be answered for the test, in English. Additionally, each of the students has to write a paper about five articles or a book. I chose W. J. T. Mitchell's Picture Theory ...

2. Alfred Reginald Radcliffe – Brown (1881 – 1955)
(Anthro.Scapes/History of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

... research into the origins of institutions presented the principal obstacle to the development of a scientific theory of human societies, and so in 1924 he proposed that kinship terms should be understood ...

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

... subdivided by structural theory driven sections. Detailed Contens given, the Postscript on Theory, History and Politics in Urban Analysis propounds, "This book takes stock of a decade of research in the ...

4. Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887 - 1948)
(Anthro.Scapes/History of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

... 16 nationalities" (Gaillard 2004: 105). Her work was critisized for simplicity in theory and the proposition of "national characters", which simply do not exist. Reference: Benedict, Ruth: http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/benedict_ruth.html ...

5. Edward Burnett Tylor (1832 — 1917)
(Anthro.Scapes/History of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

... s An Account of the Manner and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), and second, Mountstuart Elphinstone s An Account on the Kingdom of Caubul (1839), both of which failed to generalize in theory. So ...

6. Claude Levi – Strauss (1908) and Structuralism
(Anthro.Scapes/History of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

... theory” (Parkin 2005: 214). Claude Levi – Straus was criticized for “a certain circularity of argument” (Parkin 2005: 215), because surface manifestations must prove their own existence and their deep ...

7. Marcel Griaule (1898 – 1956)
(Anthro.Scapes/History of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

... fieldwork and preferred it to anthropological theory. For him, ethnology was a multidisciplinary field and bound to fieldwork, which he conducted for the time of his career with the Dogon in Mali. His ...

8. Emile Durkheim (1858 - 1917)
(Anthro.Scapes/History of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

... (durkheim.itgo.com/anomie). This website gives an overview of Durkheim s theory in his most important works: http://ssr1.uchicago.edu/PRELIMS/Theory/durkheim.html, The Elementary Forms of the Religious ...

9. City Explorer
(Anthro.Scapes/Urban Anthropology)

... will describe frames of action within urban areas by considering Marc Auge s theory of non – places. Central questions are: What is urban anthropology in the 21st century? How will I define urban – scapes ...

10. Processing cities
(Anthro.Scapes/Urban Anthropology)

... a stop" (Human 2008). The theoretical approach is centered on Georg Simmel s theory and Marc Auge s poetic ethnography, which highlight a first research question, "What evidence is there of both the individual ...

11. Research, Peer Reviewed
(Writing/Peering and Reviewing)

... rain, but to write one s own concept and contextualizing theory and practice meets other requirements. As soon as your concept is down and out, ask an outsider, if it is catchy. Structure your future masterpiece ...

12. Marxism in Anthropology
(Anthro.Scapes/History of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

... UP, 1960)" (Gaillard 2004: 325). Karl Marx s was one of the most influentual social scientists of his time, as is Juergen Habermas for social theory today. His writings were read over and over, ...

13. Reading and Writing the City
(Anthro.Scapes/Urban Anthropology)

... a journey through Tokyo and explores the Shinjuku station by using the city "to develop a theory of inscriptive practices, particularly sketching, drawing and notation as 'thinking tools' that extend and ...

14. Delving into Papers
(Anthro.Scapes/Urban Anthropology)

... and theorizing urban form" (Bubinas 2005: 158), serves as a directive in my work contextualizing social theory and the urban space. I am not only interested to understand the musings of classy cafes or ...

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

... otherness through the constructions of social theory is exposed as a literary excursion disguised as scientific reportage. By this reading, anthropology is a representational genre rather than a clearly ...

16. A first account on Culture
(Anthro.Scapes/Theory and Methods)

... each other, especially in Europe dating back to its antiquity. In anthropology culture includes the understandings of and dealings with nature, and ethnological theory entangled with this holistic approach ...

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

... in France, having started in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer (2003: 242) take account for two poles, namely those between theory and research, focusing ...

18. Theory and Methods
(Category)