[PDF] Anthropological Review eBook

Author : Martin Demant Frederiksen
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 178535700X

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There have been claims that meaninglessness has become epidemic in the contemporary world. One perceived consequence of this is that people increasingly turn against both society and the political establishment with little concern for the content (or lack of content) that might follow. Most often, encounters with meaninglessness and nothingness are seen as troubling. "Meaning" is generally seen as being a cornerstone of the human condition, as that which we strive towards. This was famously explored by Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning in which he showed how even in the direst of situations individuals will often seek to find a purpose in life. But what, then, is at stake when groups of people negate this position? What exactly goes on inside this apparent turn towards nothing, in the engagement with meaninglessness? And what happens if we take the meaningless seriously as an empirical fact?

Author : Brian M. Howell
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1493418068

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What is the role of culture in human experience? This concise yet solid introduction to cultural anthropology helps readers explore and understand this crucial issue from a Christian perspective. Now revised and updated throughout, this new edition of a successful textbook covers standard cultural anthropology topics with special attention given to cultural relativism, evolution, and missions. It also includes a new chapter on medical anthropology. Plentiful figures, photos, and sidebars are sprinkled throughout the text, and updated ancillary support materials and teaching aids are available through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources.

Author : Matei Candea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 38,58 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108474608

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Presents a systematic rethinking of the power and limits of comparison in anthropology.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3375014007

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.

Author : Timothy Larsen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191632058

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Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had exposed religious beliefs to be untenable. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying anthropology. James Frazer saw the material that he presented in his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as demonstrating that Christian thought was based on the erroneous thought patterns of 'savages.' On the other hand, some of the most eminent anthropologists have been Christians, including E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Edith Turner. Moreover, they openly presented articulate reasons for how their religious convictions cohered with their professional work. Despite being a major site of friction between faith and modern thought, the relationship between anthropology and Christianity has never before been the subject of a book-length study. In this groundbreaking work, Timothy Larsen examines the point where doubt and faith collide with anthropological theory and evidence.