, or undermine existing and powerful myths and stereotypes that prevailed at the time about Siberia, its landscape and people? Finally, how did the exiles’ photographic practices become part of the anthropological and geographical research about the
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Geographical Imagination, Anthropology, and Political Exiles
Photographers of Siberia in Late Imperial Russia
Tatiana Saburova
Anthropology, Art, and Folklore
Competing Visions of Museum Collecting in Early Twentieth-Century America
Ira Jacknis
At the turn of the last century, it was not at all a settled question as to what kinds of objects museums should collect. The boundaries between art and anthropology and between art and craft were fluid and contested. In the great age of museum
Archaeology and Anthropology
Relating the Past and the Present
Marc Verhoeven
This article addresses the relations between archaeology and social anthropology, as exemplified by archaeological research in the Middle East. It is argued that further integration between both disciplines, as well as between archaeological theories, methods and data, is necessary. As an example of such an 'archaeology of relations', an analysis of domestication in the prehistoric Middle East is presented in summary.
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Mar 2009
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- 18–32 (15 total)
Mark Ingram
Sophie Chevalier, ed., Anthropology at the Crossroads: The View from France (Canon Pyon, UK: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2015). Two stories emerge from this book. The first is the history of a national tradition of scholarship: the factors
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- Review Article
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- 108–122 (15 total)
The anthropology of human-environment relations
Materialism with and without Marxism
Penny McCall Howard
The importance of understanding material human relations with their environments was a foundation of Marxism and remains essential to Marxist analysis. Recently, various materialist approaches have become influential in anthropology and other
Nikolai Ssorin‐Chaikov
This two‐part overview of contemporary Russian anthropology focuses in detail on the work of several scholars and situates it in the changing landscape of Russian academia. The main issue I address is the debated academic identity of anthropology as ‘historical science’ as it is officially classed in Russia. Proceeding in a case‐study manner, I aim to re‐conceptualise the relationship between anthropology and history from the point of view of the anthropology of time, not merely by historicising anthropology but also by anthropologising history. I ask what temporal frameworks underscore the relationship between anthropology and history as it is thought about by the scholars I explore.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 May 2019
- Article Type:
- Review Article
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- 336–351 (15 total)
Nikolai Ssorin‐Chaikov
This two‐part overview of contemporary Russian anthropology focuses in detail on the work of several scholars and situates it in the changing landscape of Russian academia. The main issue I address is debates about an academic identity of Russian anthropology as ‘historical science’. Given that in Western anthropology, history has become one of the leading modes of anthropological analysis and that the turn to history marked a radical repositioning of anthropology's very subject, it is important to explore how such configurations of history and anthropology work in other anthropological traditions and what the reasons are for turning to history or, conversely, avoiding it, for specific national, continental and transnational anthropological schools. In this article, I explore these questions by focusing on anthropology in Russia with an aim of reassembling the relationship between anthropology and history from the point of view of the anthropology of time. I ask what temporal frameworks underscore the relationship between anthropology and history. I explore these understandings ethnographically, that is, through ethnographic interviews with Russian scholars in addition to close readings of their works.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 May 2019
- Article Type:
- Review Article
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- 320–335 (15 total)
Keith Hart
Emergent world society the new human universal – not an idea, but the fact of our shared occupation of the planet crying out for new principles of association. A close reading of Kant's leads to an emphasis on anthropology as a form of education for subjective individuals who share the object world with the rest of humanity. Knowledge of society must be personal and moral before it is defined by laws imposed from above. Anthropology might then be a self‐learning tool for anyone who cares about making a world society fit for humanity as a whole.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Nov 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 441–447 (6 total)
Anthropology and What There Is
Reflections on 'Ontology'
Paolo Heywood
This piece reflects on two 'ontological turns': the recent anthropological movement and that occasioned earlier in analytic philosophy by the work of W. V. O. Quine. I argue that the commitment entailed by 'ontology' is incompatible with the laudable aim of the 'ontological turn' in anthropology to take seriously radical difference and alterity.
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 143–151 (9 total)
Anthropological Engagement with the Anthropocene
A Critical Review
Hannah Gibson and Sita Venkateswar
The Anthropocene refers to the planetary scale of anthropogenic influences on the composition and function of Earth ecosystems and life forms. Socio-political and geographic responses frame the uneven topographies of climate change, while efforts to adapt and mitigate its impact extend across social and natural sciences. This review of anthropology's evolving engagement with the Anthropocene contemplates multifarious approaches to research. The emergence of multispecies ethnographic research highlights entanglements of humans with other life forms. New ontological considerations are reflected in Kohn's “Anthropology of Life,” ethnographic research that moves beyond an isolated focus on the human to consider other life processes and entities as research participants. Examples of critical engagement discussed include anthropology beyond disciplinary borders, queries writing in the Anthropocene, and anthropology of climate change. We demonstrate the diverse positions of anthropologists within this juncture in relation to our central trope of entanglements threaded through our discussion in this review.
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2015
- Article Type:
- Review Article
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- 5–27 (23 total)