Anthropology in biographies

But his autobiographical notes are precisely that the notes of the traveler, rich in details. His studies about the four cultures of the Brazilian Indians allow us to see as a scientist whose head is filled with scientific methods and abstractions, comprehends the real experience of meeting with a different culture. The book was published in Russian, but it is better to see the French version - unfortunately, photographs are not reproduced in translation.

Edward T. Later he founded a whole discipline - the study of intercultural communication - and proposed several ideas that significantly enriched our understanding of cultural differences. This book, which finishes the trilogy, which also includes the “soundless language” of The Silent Language and the Hidden Dimension “Hidden Dimension”, the Hall puts forward the thesis that some societies strive to pronounce the rules as clearly as possible, which is necessary in order to adequately behave in some situations, and they leave others much more.

areas that it is not realized, but “for their own”, of course, by itself. Nigel Barley. But if the zoologists were given to read, maybe not necessarily, then everything is different with Barley and anthropologists. Descriptions of its adventures among the representatives of the Dovio people living in almost another planet in Cameroon are sent to all key problems that are associated with the main method of anthropology - a long field work based on the on observation.

The best introduction to the craft of an anthropologist. Marseille Moss. Proceedings on social anthropology ”from this small classic text, one of the most influential texts in anthropology, we begin to understand why the gift and borrowing are not so much as it might seem at first glance. Marseille Moss pushes away from the ethnographic material of Oceania, in particular from the system of mutual ceremonial exchange between settlements on the Triang islands of the so -called “Kula circle” described by Bronislav Malinovsky.

Moss contrasts the “Gift Economics” “Market Economics”, but in the customs of Western society it also reveals the echoes of the logic that he formulated for traditional culture. Margaret Foreign Ministry. Selected works ”adolescence is often complicated, and the teenager’s life is full of violent and traumatic events. In the year, the newly -made master of anthropology Margaret Med twenty -four years old went to Samoa to find out whether it is always and everywhere this is the case.

That is, whether human nature is to blame for this, or there are social reasons that are in some cultures and are absent in others. On Samoa, everything turned out to be completely different than in the USA, and for a number of reasons - in particular, because everything is easier with sex. A vivid description of the Samoan gender socialization not only made the Foreign Ministry and its first book of truly famous, but also laid the foundation for a large research program in the field of anthropology of childhood.

Mary Douglas. Analysis of the concepts of desecration and taboos ”The anthropologist not only analyzes what is available to his direct observation in the field, but also looks at things from a bird's eye view, comparing different societies, remote from each other in space and in time. Say, an ice cream is a place in a waffle mug, and you are dripping your pants - they will be dirty, although the ice cream is not dirty in your mouth.

Immediately, Mary Douglas tries to find logic in the prohibitions formulated in the biblical book of Levit. It turns out that they fit into a general pattern: items that are difficult to unambiguously attribute to a particular category-that is, ambiguous and abnormal ones-seem to people problematic, and they try to do something with them, for example, prohibit them.

In this light, our ideas about hygiene with you, and in itself, the feeling of disgust ceases to seem so natural. Afterword, if you read these books in the sequence indicated here, the effect will be at least triple. Firstly, you can never look at the world with the same naive eyes of the native as you looked before: consider that you have already lost your anthropological innocence.

Secondly, this will mean that a person as a whole is as interesting to you as individual people and individual groups of people. Otherwise, you would simply not get to the end of this list. And thirdly, it will now be much easier for you to perceive not only the classics of social anthropology of the twentieth century, but also many famous historical and sociological works, in which you will now see a new, anthropological, dimension-hidden from the uninitiated.