Tracing the origins of anthropology in social theory (Durkheim, Marx, and Weber) and, linguistic analysis (Boas, Saussure). It covers topics such as the origin of the concept of the social sciences as ...

Social contract theory is not only a myth, but it is a violent one. Unlike the theory of evolution, there is no physical corpus of ancient skeletons to support social contract theory’s veracity. In ...

CSSH sets up a working alliance among specialists in all branches of the social sciences and humanities as a way of bringing together multidisciplinary research, cultural studies, and theory, ...

The study of food and eating has a long history in anthropology, beginning in the nineteenth century with Garrick Mallery and William Robertson Smith. This review notes landmark studies prior to the ...

Beyond language, he is fascinated by the anthropology of food and cooking, and is developing a multi-sited research project on the language and sociality of hunting in Germany, Senegal, and Wyoming.

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2024,11 (2):1-8. The publisher for Medicine Anthropology Theory is University of Edinburgh Library.

Especially if your thesis is not based in fieldwork of some kind, it does need to clearly articulate with anthropological theory in order to succeed. In consultation with faculty members and library ...

Curriculum In addition to the core course, Contemporary Anthropological Theory, you will take seven electives, which you will choose with your faculty adviser. You will also participate in the ...

The main aim of this course is to examine the relationship between theory and ethnography in modern social and cultural anthropology; the course focuses mainly on the development of anthropology ...