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Showing 1 to 20 of 311 for “"Social Anthropology"”.
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Social Anthropology and British Society, c. 1920-1975
At the beginning of the twentieth century anthropology was a discipline marked by an interest in measuring skeletons, collecting ornamental curios and speculating about the evolution of society. From the 1920s onwards, however, anthropologists were increasingly urged to leave their armchairs and …
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The performance of control and the control of performance: Towards a social anthropology of defecation
Defecation has remained overlooked within anthropology and sociology, despite recent focus on the body. The thesis suggests that this is related to its construction as something hidden in the last few hundred years of modern Western society. It is physically and mentally dismissed as personal and …
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Family and land in the West of Ireland
… land as a basic resource, it examines the social relationships which spring up around it; how land is acquired, utilized, valued, competed for, hoarded, bought and sold are central issues in the thesis. These issues are explored against the background of a small rural community in South …
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Women and War: the Impact of Feminization on Our Military
… between the physical, psychological, and psychosocial differences between men and women using the fields of evolutionary biology, neurology, social anthropology, psychology, and the controlled observation of children. The evidence unanimously and irrefutably demonstrates that the differences …
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The problem of non-compliance amongst breast cancer patients : a study of the high rate of absconding by African women diagnosed as having breast cancer
… absconding but does not explore the cultural and social factors that may determine African women's decision to abscond. This study looks at the variables effecting absconding, by focusing on the cultural, social and economic contexts, in which African breast cancer patients choose to abscond · …
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A history of the Breakwater Prison from 1859 to 1905
… Studies, for which my home department was Social Anthropology. The project arose out of my interest in the interdisciplinary work of Michel Foucault and its application to the history of Africa. This has been broadened into an interest in post-structuralist theory, and has been particularly …
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