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James P. Spradley (1933–1982) was a social scientist and a professor of anthropology at Macalester College. [1] Spradley wrote or edited 20 books on ethnography and qualitative research including The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society (1972), Deaf Like Me (1979), The Ethnographic Interview (1979), and Participant Observation (1980).
Interview in Le Monde on Saba Mahmood's work on controversy over Muhammed's cartoon; Interview in Mediapart on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo murders in France; Interview on CBC radio with Saba Mahmood on "Myth of the Secular" Interview: Saba Mahmood, The Light in Her Eyes (documentary film) Archived March 14, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr. (May 16, 1914 – July 20, 2009) was an American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. He is remembered for developing the concept of proxemics and exploring cultural and social cohesion, and describing how people behave and react in different types of culturally defined personal space.
The purpose of the interview was to capture a living picture of a disappearing (as such) people/way of life. Later the method was used to interview criminals and prostitutes in Chicago . Interviewers looked at social and police -records, as well as the society in general, and asked subjects to talk about their lives.
David Rolfe Graeber (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ b ər /; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of Everything (2021), and his leading role in the Occupy movement, earned him recognition as one of the foremost ...
In an interview with the Unesco Courier, anthropologist and social theorist Mark Anspach (editor of the René Girard issue of Les Cahiers de l'Herne) explains that Aglietta and Orléan (who were very critical of economic rationality) see the classical theory of economics as a myth.
Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. [1] Diop's work is considered foundational to the theory of Afrocentricity, though he himself never described himself as an Afrocentrist. [2]
Ray L. Birdwhistell (September 29, 1918 – October 19, 1994) was an American anthropologist who founded kinesics as a field of inquiry and research. [1] Birdwhistell coined the term kinesics, meaning "facial expression, gestures, posture and gait, and visible arm and body movements". [2]