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Anthropology comes part-way home: community studies in europe
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In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Redfield's research in the Mexican village of Tepoztlan marked the expansion of field research in social anthropology into complex societies.Abstract:
Robert Redfield's research in the Mexican village of Tepoztlan in the late 1920s marks the expansion of field research in social anthropology into complex societies. Certainly in the decades which followed this work there was a proliferation of research among peasants, pastoralists and fishermen. Anthropologists conducted field work not only in Latin America, but in the civilizations of Asia and Africa as well. In this general expansion, a few studies were conducted in Europe in the late 1920s and 1930s, notably by Arensberg in Western Ireland (5, 6), by Chapman in Sicily (30), and by Sanders (97) in the Balkans. But the cultures of contemporary Europe held little interest for the profession at large. I As a number of writers have noted, little social anthropological research was carried out in Europe until the 1950s (2, pp. 2-3; 5, pp. 9-13; 56, p. 743). This was certainly not because of a lack of familiarity with the continent. The study of historical sources on the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean and on the Celtic and Germanic "tribes" of antiquity played a prominent role in the formation of nineteenth century anthropological ideas. As John Davis (38, pp. 1-4; see also 76) has pointed out, Maine, Fustel de Coulanges, Robertson-Smith, Fraser, Durkheim, and Westermark all drew on Mediterranean sources in formulating their comparative and theoretical schemes, and Maine especially made much use of material on the Irish Celts. Morgan drew on all of these societies in his evolutionary formulations, and anchored his work in classic Greece and Rome. Marx and Engels used the ancient civilizations as a kind of watershed. Writings which focus on the processes that led to the formation of capitalism began with these slave-basedread more
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World-System Theory
Daniel Chirot,Thomas D. Hall +1 more
TL;DR: World-system theory is a highly political approach to the problem of economic development in the Third World as mentioned in this paper, which was created by policy-oriented intellectuals in countries at a medium level of development to account for their societies' demonstrable inability to catch up to the rich countries.
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Anthropology of the Mediterranean Area
TL;DR: Anthropology in the Mediterranean area is nothing new; some of the earliest ethnographies took place there (34, 175) as mentioned in this paper. But an anthropology of the Mediterranean region which includes both Christian and Muslim sides is both new and controversial.
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Preface: Social Anthropology, Business Studies, and Cultural Issues
TL;DR: This issue of ISMO concerns "culture." It is only fair to say that this could mean virtually anything as mentioned in this paper and the following discussion makes some attempt to specify the range of interests and ideas that emerge from the articles.
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The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century.
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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
David Lowenthal,Barrington Moore +1 more
TL;DR: Social origins of dictatorship and democracy: lord and peasant in the making of the modern world as discussed by the authors, Social origins of dictatorships and democracies: the lord and the peasant in making of modern world.
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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World.
E. J. Hobsbawm,Barrington Moore +1 more
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The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
TL;DR: Fernand Braudel as mentioned in this paper analizira poglavito udio sredine i gotovo nepomicnu povijest covjeka u njegovim odnosima s okolinom koja ga okružuje.