SOSC 3375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Trobriand Islands, Participant Observation, Dense Set
15 Mar 2016
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One of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. Coined the term participant observation and helped established it as a dominant methodology in the discipline: understanding the things people do it (from their perspective) and their reasoning for doing it. Author of argonauts of the western pacific (1922) Professor emeritus of law at university of wisconsin. A leader of the law-in-action approach to contracts. Pioneered the study of business practices and the work of lawyers related to the questions of contracts law. Legal anthropologist and professor emerita at harvard university. Known for her fieldwork in tanzania and work on cross-cultural, comparative . Major scholar in the field of socio-legal studies. Seeking to explain transition in europe from traditional to modern societies. Main objective: was to try and explain the transition happening in their societies (moved in 19th century from traditional to modern societies.
