Anthropology 4400E Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Symbolic Anthropology, Practice Theory, Noble Savage

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Themes: how we got here: leaving the mid 20th century behind. New ways of looking at anthropology: new theories, people. It"s all te(cid:454)ts- right: people, vincent, ortner. Spencer: beyond the savage slot: culture goes national, transnational, global, people. Limon: ardener, abu-lughod, nadasdy, gupta & ferguson, glick. Overview of the articles: silverman, herrie ort(cid:374)er: theor(cid:455) i(cid:374) a(cid:374)thropolog(cid:455) si(cid:374)(cid:272)e the (cid:1005)96(cid:1004)"s. She argues that anew theoretical orientation is emerging- practice theory: practice theory (dan) It looks at what people do: what people say and what they do is not everything what people do. This theory helps to looks in the social life. Looks at the acting subjects with the interactions of people to their environment without a cultural script: bourdieu worked on the practice theory, ba(cid:272)k to the a(cid:396)ti(cid:272)le . She says to understand practice theory we need to go back twenty years before then to understand the relations: (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1010)(cid:1004)"s: (cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)ol, natu(cid:396)e, t(cid:396)u(cid:272)tu(cid:396)e revolutions happening in anthropological theory-particularly literary criticism.

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