Cutting and connecting : 'Afrinesian' perspectives on networks, relationality, and exchange / / edited by Knut Christian Myhre
| Cutting and connecting : 'Afrinesian' perspectives on networks, relationality, and exchange / / edited by Knut Christian Myhre |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (168 p.) |
| Disciplina | 302.3096 |
| Soggetto topico |
Anthropology - Comparative method
Anthropology - Africa Ethnology - Melanesia |
| ISBN | 1-78533-264-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cutting and Connecting; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Kuru, AIDS, and Witchcraft; Chapter 2 Law, Opacity, and Information in Urban Gambia; Chapter 3 From Cutting to Fading; Chapter 4 Gathering Up Mutual Help; Chapter 5 Rethinking Ethnographic Comparison; Chapter 6 Membering and Dismembering; Chapter 7 The Place of Theory; Afterword; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798255303321 |
| New York, New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2016] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cutting and connecting : 'Afrinesian' perspectives on networks, relationality, and exchange / / edited by Knut Christian Myhre
| Cutting and connecting : 'Afrinesian' perspectives on networks, relationality, and exchange / / edited by Knut Christian Myhre |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (168 p.) |
| Disciplina | 302.3096 |
| Soggetto topico |
Anthropology - Comparative method
Anthropology - Africa Ethnology - Melanesia |
| ISBN | 1-78533-264-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cutting and Connecting; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Kuru, AIDS, and Witchcraft; Chapter 2 Law, Opacity, and Information in Urban Gambia; Chapter 3 From Cutting to Fading; Chapter 4 Gathering Up Mutual Help; Chapter 5 Rethinking Ethnographic Comparison; Chapter 6 Membering and Dismembering; Chapter 7 The Place of Theory; Afterword; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826729503321 |
| New York, New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2016] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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From primitives to primates [[electronic resource] ] : a history of ethnographic and primatological analogies in the study of prehistory / / David Van Reybrouck
| From primitives to primates [[electronic resource] ] : a history of ethnographic and primatological analogies in the study of prehistory / / David Van Reybrouck |
| Autore | Reybrouck David van |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, : Sidestone Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
| Disciplina | 573.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Anthropology, Prehistoric - History
Anthropology - Comparative method Ethnoarchaeology Primates |
| ISBN |
1-299-28912-6
90-8890-128-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Preface; Introduction; Analogies; Analogies in science; Analogies in archaeology; Models and analogies; Analogy as a process; The structure of analogy; Truth and validity; Entities and relations; An ideal case; Strengthening the analogy; The practice of analogy; The analogical algorithm; A reading grid; A corpus of texts; A choice of focus; Conclusion; The comparative method; Early ethnographic parallels; The impact of the three-age system; A revolution in antiquarian thought?; The dualism of Sven Nilsson and Daniel Wilson; Comparative ethnography, folklore and 'the parallax of man'
An important deviceThe antiquity of man and early social evolutionism; The first generation of social evolutionists; The function of contemporary savagery; Ethnographic enthusiasm; Degenerationism and classical evolutionism; Degenerationist doubts; A second round; Morgan's scheme; A zenith of similarity; Evolutionist fragmentation; Archaeology and anthropology diverge; Tylor and the Tasmanians; The comparative method's swan-song: Sollas; Divergence of opinion; Conclusion; Ethnoarchaeology; The dormancy of ethnographic analogy; Innovations in the Interbellum; Marxism and folklore Postwar pessimism in BritainThe situation in the United States; Cultural continuity; The dilemma of the New Archaeology; The new analogy and the New Archaeology; Fieldwork and cautionary tales; Hypothetico-deductive reasoning or the benefits of testing; Between critique and inspiration; The heyday of ethnoarchaeology; The impossibility of independent testing; A thriving subdiscipline; Beyond analogy?; Place and population: a case study; Source and subject-side strategies; Decline and fall of ethnoarchaeology; The isolation of hunter-gatherer ethnoarchaeology Anthropological doubts about hunter-gatherersContextual ethnoarchaeology; Post-processual archaeology; An age of extremes; Conclusion; The strength of ethnoarchaeological analogies; Optimism, pessimism and the redundancy of analogy; Primate models; The idea of a primate model; First episode: from primate anatomy to human anatomy; Second episode: from living to fossil anatomy; Third episode: from primate behaviour to human behaviour; Fourth episode: from primate behaviour to early human behaviour; Converging circumstances; Baboons Washburn's baboons: from typical primates to terrestrial specialistsThe canonization of the baboon model; Why baboons?; Social carnivores and geladas; From subsistence to society: the social carnivore analogy; From dentition to diet: the gelada analogy; Remote sources and logical consistency; Chimpanzees; The feminist critique; A perfect analogy; The seductiveness of similarity; Bonobos; The disputed bonobo model; Bonobo behaviour; Entrapped by resemblance; The crisis of traditional modelling; The weaknesses of referential modelling; Phylogenetic comparison or cladistics of behaviour Behavioural ecology |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792037403321 |
Reybrouck David van
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| Leiden, : Sidestone Press, 2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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From primitives to primates : a history of ethnographic and primatological analogies in the study of prehistory / / David Van Reybrouck
| From primitives to primates : a history of ethnographic and primatological analogies in the study of prehistory / / David Van Reybrouck |
| Autore | Reybrouck David van |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, : Sidestone Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
| Disciplina | 573.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Anthropology, Prehistoric - History
Anthropology - Comparative method Ethnoarchaeology Primates |
| ISBN |
1-299-28912-6
90-8890-128-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Preface; Introduction; Analogies; Analogies in science; Analogies in archaeology; Models and analogies; Analogy as a process; The structure of analogy; Truth and validity; Entities and relations; An ideal case; Strengthening the analogy; The practice of analogy; The analogical algorithm; A reading grid; A corpus of texts; A choice of focus; Conclusion; The comparative method; Early ethnographic parallels; The impact of the three-age system; A revolution in antiquarian thought?; The dualism of Sven Nilsson and Daniel Wilson; Comparative ethnography, folklore and 'the parallax of man'
An important deviceThe antiquity of man and early social evolutionism; The first generation of social evolutionists; The function of contemporary savagery; Ethnographic enthusiasm; Degenerationism and classical evolutionism; Degenerationist doubts; A second round; Morgan's scheme; A zenith of similarity; Evolutionist fragmentation; Archaeology and anthropology diverge; Tylor and the Tasmanians; The comparative method's swan-song: Sollas; Divergence of opinion; Conclusion; Ethnoarchaeology; The dormancy of ethnographic analogy; Innovations in the Interbellum; Marxism and folklore Postwar pessimism in BritainThe situation in the United States; Cultural continuity; The dilemma of the New Archaeology; The new analogy and the New Archaeology; Fieldwork and cautionary tales; Hypothetico-deductive reasoning or the benefits of testing; Between critique and inspiration; The heyday of ethnoarchaeology; The impossibility of independent testing; A thriving subdiscipline; Beyond analogy?; Place and population: a case study; Source and subject-side strategies; Decline and fall of ethnoarchaeology; The isolation of hunter-gatherer ethnoarchaeology Anthropological doubts about hunter-gatherersContextual ethnoarchaeology; Post-processual archaeology; An age of extremes; Conclusion; The strength of ethnoarchaeological analogies; Optimism, pessimism and the redundancy of analogy; Primate models; The idea of a primate model; First episode: from primate anatomy to human anatomy; Second episode: from living to fossil anatomy; Third episode: from primate behaviour to human behaviour; Fourth episode: from primate behaviour to early human behaviour; Converging circumstances; Baboons Washburn's baboons: from typical primates to terrestrial specialistsThe canonization of the baboon model; Why baboons?; Social carnivores and geladas; From subsistence to society: the social carnivore analogy; From dentition to diet: the gelada analogy; Remote sources and logical consistency; Chimpanzees; The feminist critique; A perfect analogy; The seductiveness of similarity; Bonobos; The disputed bonobo model; Bonobo behaviour; Entrapped by resemblance; The crisis of traditional modelling; The weaknesses of referential modelling; Phylogenetic comparison or cladistics of behaviour Behavioural ecology |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807663103321 |
Reybrouck David van
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| Leiden, : Sidestone Press, 2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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