Anthropology of religion : religious specialists, Shamanism
Text commentary - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This essay is based on the articles of Margery Wolf's "The woman who didn't become a Shaman? and Victor Turner's "one Religious Specialists?. In his study of the religious specialists, Victor W.Turner tries to give us a mere definition of this phenomenon in order to show that they all...
Anthropological debates on rationality and modes of thought
Text commentary - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This essay is based on Steven Lukes work ?Some Problems about Rationality' and Robin Horton's work ?African Traditional Thought and Western Science'. The anthropological debate on the rationality of the primitive mode of thought is linked with a problem of method for anthropologists....
Margins versus centres in modern states
Text commentary - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This essay is based on an article by Veena Das and Deborah Poole (2004): Anthropology in the Margins of the State. This article gives us a good way to focus on the State. It helps us to think of the State differently: as an object of ethnographic inquiry. The main point is the asertion that...
Extracts from Race and History (1952) and Race and Culture (1971) : Claude Levi-Strauss
Text commentary - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Claude Lévi-Strauss (born 1928) is a French anthropologist who introduced the Strucuralism in anthropology. He taught at the New School for Social Research in New York and obtained a chair of Social Anthropology at the College de France (1959-1982). In 1960, he founded the Laboratoire...
Article Commentry: English North/South Divide, The Guardian
Text commentary - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
England is traditionally seen as a 'divided country', split between a prosperous South, taking advantage of the power of London, and a deprived North suffering from the decline of the industries born during the Industrial Revolution. But regarding the recent economic changes the country...
