This highly original anthropological study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person.
Contributors draw on approaches from material culture to create fascinating portraits of individuals and offer analytical insights that convey ethnographic encounters with extraordinary people from the world over. "Anthropology and the Individual" shows how the study of the individual can provide insights into society without losing a sense of the particularity of the person
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The title of this worthwhile volume is a metaphor. Haiti is a breached citadel. As acts of nature, sun, rain, wind and seasons erode the citadel of Haiti, so too is the country of Haiti being eroded by internationalist sentiment, eating away at her culture and way of life. What remains today of the citadel is a ruins probably beyond restoration. What remains of Haiti is a similar ruins.
Culture and Cultural Entities provides an original philosophical analysis of the nature and explanation of cultural phenomena, with special attention to ontology and methodology. It addresses in depth such topics as: the relation between physical and biological nature and cultural phenomena; the analysis of intentionality; the nature and explanation of action; causality; causal explanation and the unity of science; theories of language; historicity; animal and human intelligence; psychological and social phenomena; technology and evolution.
Это первый учебник по страноведению США, созданный совместно русским и американским авторами. Учебник рассчитан на студентов, владеющих навыками чтения, письма на уровне 2-3 лет обучения в языковом вузе.
The basic approach to presenting the material in this book is based on a conception of language and culture as two components of one complex whole which are developing a parallel and which are inextricably linked with one another.
