ANTH 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Max Gluckman, Symbolic Anthropology, Enculturation
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In france, mile durkheim took a similar approach, arguing for modern social science to be based on what he called the collective of consciousness in french. The conventional definition of this as "collective consciousness" does not adequately articulate the relation between this notion and the community of superorganic kroeber and white. Psychologists study humans; people are studied by anthropologists as examples of something else. Anthropologists may examine those broader frameworks which consist of social positions. And which are perpetuated through generations of enculturation. Of course sociologists are also studying these social systems, and durkheim is, as discussed earlier, a prominent father of anthropology and sociology. Durkheim has written about religion in indigenous australia as readily as he has about suicide rates in western cultures. The suicide rates (1897/1951) and religion (1912/2001) are, as durkheim defined, social phenomena. Victor turner was a colleague of max gluckman at the department of.
