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Tylor is a founding figure of the science of social anthropology, and his scholarly works helped to build the discipline of anthropology in the nineteenth century. [3] He believed that "research into the history and prehistory of man [...] could be used as a basis for the reform of British society." [4]
Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.
Fictocriticism is a postmodern style of writing which can be described as "Gonzo [in reference to the journalism style] Anthropology". [1] Blending fact and fiction, ethnographic observation, archival history, literary theory and memoir.
Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School, (Routledge, 3rd edn, 1996) The Social Science Encyclopaedia Adam Kuper, Jessica Kuper (eds.). (Taylor & Francis, 1996) Culture: The Anthropologists' Account, (Harvard University Press, 1999) Incest and Influence: The Private Life of Bourgeois England, (Harvard, 2009, ISBN 978-0-674 ...
She then studied anthropology at the University of Chicago with Clifford Geertz and obtained her Ph.D. in anthropology in 1970 for her fieldwork among the Sherpas in Nepal. [3] She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College , the University of Michigan , the University of California, Berkeley , Columbia University , and the University of California ...
Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology Through Film by Karl G. Heider introduces cultural anthropology with the use of both text and audiovisual media. First published in 1997, the work uses the tools of the ethnographic film discipline to inform its audience of the various cultural anthropology topics.
Charles Gabriel Seligman FRS [1] FRAI (né Seligmann; 24 December 1873 – 19 September 1940) was a British physician and ethnologist.His main ethnographic work described the culture of the Vedda people of Sri Lanka and the Shilluk people of the Sudan.
With his student, John W. Cole, he conducted fieldwork on the culture, history, and settlement pattern of the Tyrol region, which was later published in their book The Hidden Frontier. Wolf's key contributions to anthropology are related to his focus on issues of power, politics, and colonialism during the 1970s and 1980s when these topics were ...