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Journal articles on the topic "Social anthropology"

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Archetti, Professor Eduardo. "Ten years of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. Ambiguities and contradictions." Social Anthropology 11, no. 1 (January 19, 2007): 103–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2003.tb00075.x.

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CARRIER, JAMES G. "Social Anthropology." Royal Anthropological Institute 9, no. 1 (March 2003): 183–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.t01-33-00009.

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MOORE, SALLY FALK. "Social Anthropology." Royal Anthropological Institute 9, no. 1 (March 2003): 184–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.t01-34-00009.

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GILL, THOMAS. "Social Anthropology." Royal Anthropological Institute 9, no. 1 (March 2003): 185–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.t01-35-00009.

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KONRAD, MONICA. "Social Anthropology." Royal Anthropological Institute 9, no. 1 (March 2003): 186–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.t01-36-00009.

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THEODOSSOPOULOS, DIMITRIS. "Social Anthropology." Royal Anthropological Institute 9, no. 1 (March 2003): 187–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.t01-37-00009.

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FAIRWEATHER, IAN S. "Social Anthropology." Royal Anthropological Institute 9, no. 1 (March 2003): 188–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.t01-38-00009.

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D’ALISERA, JO. "Social Anthropology." Royal Anthropological Institute 9, no. 1 (March 2003): 189–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.t01-39-00009.

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RUTHERFORD, BLAIR. "Social Anthropology." Royal Anthropological Institute 9, no. 1 (March 2003): 190–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.t01-40-00009.

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ALEXANDER, CATHERINE. "Social Anthropology." Royal Anthropological Institute 9, no. 1 (March 2003): 191–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.t01-41-00009.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Social anthropology"

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Bank, Leslie John. "Xhosa in town revisited : from urban anthropology to an anthropolgy of urbanism." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3636.

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McGovern, Brian John. "The idea of applied social science : with special reference to social anthropology." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304873.

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Gibson, Philip. "Learning, culture, curriculum and college : a social anthropology." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272986.

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Mills, Hannah Marie. "Anthropology Museums and the Search for Social Relevancy." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/244479.

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This thesis examines the recent trend in the museum world of increasing the relevancy of museums exhibits toward the public. It focuses on Anthropology museums and their relationship with the history of the discipline of anthropology and its core theories. Through a literature review and case study examination, I identify key challenges that museums with anthropological content face in trying to increase their significance and impact. By addressing these challenges, this thesis also evaluates the strategies museums have used in the recent past for their relative success and effectiveness. Particular emphasis is placed on the Arizona State Museum's Through the Eyes of the Eagle as a case study, as I was personally involved in the exhibition's process and can therefore share deeper insights into the functioning of that exhibit.
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Allen, Rika. "The anthropology of art and the art of anthropology : a complex relationship." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2304.

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Thesis (MPhil (Sociology and Social Anthropology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2008.
It has been said that anthropology operates in “liminal spaces” which can be defined as “spaces between disciplines”. This study will explore the space where the fields of art and anthropology meet in order to discover the epistemological and representational challenges that arise from this encounter. The common ground on which art and anthropology engage can be defined in terms of their observational and knowledge producing practices. Both art and anthropology rely on observational skills and varying forms of visual literacy to collect and represent data. Anthropologists represent their data mostly in written form by means of ethnographic accounts, and artists represent their findings by means of imaginative artistic mediums such as painting, sculpture, filmmaking and music. Following the so-called ‘ethnographic turn’, contemporary artists have adopted an ‘anthropological’ gaze, including methodologies, such as fieldwork, in their appropriation of other cultures. Anthropologists, on the other hand, in the wake of the ‘writing culture’ critique of the 1980s, are starting to explore new forms of visual research and representational practices that go beyond written texts.
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Mutaawe, Kasozi Ferdinand. "Self and social reality in a philosophical anthropology : inquiring into George Herbert Mead's socio-philosophical anthropology /." Frankfurt am Main ; Bern ; New York (N.Y.) : P. Lang, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb371984472.

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Dalakoglou, Dimitris. "An anthropology of the road." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/41398/.

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My ethnography begins providing its bibliographical, historical and geographic frameworks along the methodological issues in Chapter I. There, I outline the most explicit phenomena of postsocialism in Gjirokastër city, the introduction of private vehicles and private immobile property and their relationship with the radical transformations of the urban topography. This city today gradually centralises the road infrastructure, reflecting and facilitating the respective postsocialist social centralisation of spatial mobility and the increasing impact of the cross-border network on the social life of the city. The thesis continues in Chapter II with the history of motor-roads in Albania, with particular focus on the relationship between highways and modernisation during socialism and the paradox relationship between society and these infrastructures. During socialism Albanians had to build roads, but they were not able to use them, a process that paved in fact the way for the postsocialist social perceptions of roads and automobility. The main ethnographic and synchronic part begins in Chapter III and continues in Chapters IV and V where I study how the particular cross-border road network is perceived in postsocialist Gjirokastër, while I discuss its social agency after 1990. In Chapter III I focus on the contemporary road mythology in the city and I discuss it in reference other motifs of road mythology that are available in the bibliography. Chapters IV and V are the most important for the argument of the thesis as I emphasise the two most comprehensive road myths of the contemporary socio-cultural condition in Albania and I talk about their relationship with the actual materiality of that infrastructure in reference to the material dimensions of globalisation and transnationalism. In Chapter IV I present the politico-economic asymmetries of postsocialist capitalism in Albania as they are formed dialectically in the material and social constructions of Kakavije-Gjirokastër. In Chapter V, I continue with the dialectical scheme focusing on the social and material articulations of this transnationalism and fluidity from below, with focus on the ontological and material extension of the road: the houses built by migrants. There I show how the super-fluid and asymmetrical global relationships of the postsocialist transition are being familiarised and to a certain degree absorbed within the intimate material entity of the house, via the same road which incorporates and facilitates the international dependency of the society to the migratory process. The last chapter (VI) presents my conclusions emphasising the relationship between anthropology and roads, locating the current ethnography on the wider theoretical discussions on automobility infrastructures, space, time and scale.
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Shore, C. N. "Organization, ideology, identity : The social anthropology of Italian communism." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373907.

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Baker, Joseph O., and Christopher D. Bader. "A Social Anthropology of Ghosts in Twenty-First-Century America." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/490.

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Although belief in ghosts or analogous concepts is prevalent cross-culturally, including in contemporary Western cultures, social scientific treatments of spirit belief and experience often dismiss such views as superstitious, or overlook this dimension of culture completely. Using mixed methods, we examine ghost belief, experience, and media consumption, as well as the practice of ‘ghost hunting’ in the United States. Results from a national survey demonstrate that these beliefs and practices are common and concentrated strongly among younger generations of Americans, especially moderately religious ‘dabblers.’ Fieldwork with multiple groups centered on ‘hunting’ ghosts reveals several notable themes, including rhetorical appeals to both science and religion, magical rites, the extensive use of technology to mediate evidence and experiences of ghosts, and the narrative construction of hauntings. We argue that the inherent liminality of spirits as cultural constructs accounts for their persistence, power, and continual recurrence.
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Young, Malcolm. "An anthropology of the police : semantic constructs of social order." Thesis, Durham University, 1986. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6790/.

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The police play an increasing role in the public construction of order and control. This thesis explores the modes of thought by which police practices are generated in pursuit of this control. A publicly proclaimed approval of social research is not supported by the analysis and academic enquiry is shown to be a binary opposite to a preferred ‘practical mastery'. This suggests the police maintain structural invisibility while appearing to be massively accessible to society. The 'insider/anthropologist' operates in a kind of extended liminality, with the potential to illuminate such hidden beliefs by a seditious interpretation. Reflexive participant observation therefore threatens and creates anti-structural possibilities for a society obsessed with conserving known and inculcated practice. This analysis of manufactured reality reveals a dramatic creation of ‘real’ and marginal policemen and villains, where the use of extreme metaphor, language and masculine symbols of status translate thought into action. Intrusion of women into this ideal world creates structural anomaly, for the world of ‘crime’ is dramatised to reinforce traditional belief in a masculine criminal justice system. An exploration of ambiguity caused by policewomen illustrates their incorrect place in the world of 'street-visible crime control’. Archetypes of feminine susceptibility are invoked, just as the archetype of 'hero‘ is attributed to the detective, 'fighting his war against crime’. However, analysis explodes the mythology surrounding the idea of 'crime', showing it to be an arbitrary police construct directed against the 'dangerous classes', manipulated and produced as a social drama. The revelation that this major structuring principle is used to preserve a known social etiquette is impossible to acknowledge and explains how research or academic enquiry into philosophies of power must be resisted. The police world has a public face, but a well-concealed private reality which this semantic exploration makes apparent.
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Books on the topic "Social anthropology"

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Redfield, Robert. Social anthropology. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers, 2008.

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Cheater, Angela P. Social anthropology. London: Routledge, 2003.

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Robert, Redfield. Social anthropology. Edited by Wilcox Clifford 1956-. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers, 2008.

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British Broadcasting Corporation. Third Programme., ed. Social anthropology. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1987.

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1958-, Jain Prakash Chandra, ed. Social anthropology. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2001.

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Jeremy, MacClancy, ed. Understanding social anthropology. London: The Athlone Press, 1998.

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Social anthropology in perspective: The relevance of social anthropology. 2nd ed. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

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Chattopadhyay, Kshitis Prasad. Essays in social anthropology. Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi & Co., 1994.

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What is social anthropology? London: E. Arnold, 1985.

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Sinha, Raghuvir. Essays in social anthropology. New Delhi: Concept Pub. C0., 1990.

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Book chapters on the topic "Social anthropology"

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Zaidi, Shabih H. "Social Anthropology." In Ethics in Medicine, 101–31. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01044-1_4.

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Lucey, Thomas A. "Anthropology." In A Compassionate Vision for Elementary Social Studies, 247–56. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003155737-12.

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Eller, Jack David. "Language and social relations." In Cultural Anthropology, 63–83. Fourth edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429197710-4.

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Fusari, Angelo. "About Anthropology." In Methodological Misconceptions in the Social Sciences, 169–86. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8675-1_6.

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Dawson, Heather. "2. Anthropology." In Information Sources in the Social Sciences, edited by David Fisher, Sandra Price, and Terry Hanstock, 46–87. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110949322-005.

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Miller, Daniel. "The anthropology of social media." In Digital Anthropology, 85–100. 2nd ed. Second edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Revised edition of: Digital anthropology / edited by Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller. London ; New York : Berg, 2012.: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003087885-7.

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Fardon, Richard. "Postmodern Anthropology? Or, an Anthropology of Postmodernity?" In Postmodernism and the Social Sciences, 24–38. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22183-7_2.

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Dennis, Simone, and Andrew Dawson. "Food for thought and social animals." In Doing Anthropology, 203–51. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003273547-7.

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Edwardes, S. M. "Collecting diverse social and cultural facts." In Indian Anthropology, 97–104. London: Routledge India, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003219569-8.

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Thilmany, Drew Nathan. "Questioning the shape of social concepts." In Architectural Anthropology, 194–206. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003094142-12-17.

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Conference papers on the topic "Social anthropology"

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Kyritsi, Evangelia, and Spyridoula Varlokosta. "The Social Dimension of Language Impairment." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.4-6.

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Most research on children with atypical language has focused on language difficulties per se, such as difficulties in syntax, vocabulary, speech production, or pragmatic competence. Whereas there is ample evidence that language difficulties lead to literacy difficulties (Stackhouse and Wells 1997), the social dimension of these difficulties very often goes overlooked and thus requires scholarly work. However, in order to develop a comprehensive view of language impairment, one would also do well to take into consideration the range of factors related to the language-impaired individual, their home, and to other domestic environments, their educational experiences, and the overall social environment of the person. For example, children who exhibit traits of language impairment often experience behavioural and emotional difficulties. These difficulties may continue into adulthood and may affect academic achievements (Botting et al. 2016). These difficulties have a significant impact on the relationships between the language-impaired person, their fellow students, and their teachers. Moreover, extensive research has suggested that factors such as parents’ education and socio-economic status, parental attitudes, parental involvement and responsiveness all influence language socialization in non-typically developing children (Law et al. 2019). Those who exhibit elements of language-impairment may also experience difficulties in their recurring and hence common everyday situations. These situations and actions within these situations include money transactions or the need to complete official documents (Gur et al. 2020; Winstanley et al. 2018). As such, this paper constitutes a critical review of social factors implicated in language impairment. The paper first attempts a review of literature, followed by and including a critical review of this literature. The paper then attempts to place this literature and its accompanying research within a current context of language impairment. Following, the paper discusses the current state of research on language impairment through an ethnographic view. Finally, the paper concludes on current work and hence the current state of language impairment. Overall, we conclude that educators and policy makers need to take into consideration the aforementioned factors in order to not only support language in the atypical development of the individual, but also to ensure that language-impaired people are able to experience a good quality life.
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Smirnov, Alexey Evgenievich. "Оn social implications of the orthodox anthropology." In Церковь, государство и общество: исторические, политико-правовые и идеологические аспекты взаимодействия. Межрегиональная общественная организация "Межрегиональная ассоциация теоретиков государства и права", 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.25839/u2786-3327-1867-h.

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Guessabi, Fatiha. "Language and Intercultural Communication." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.5-3.

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Culture is defined as the body of knowledge and behavior that characterizes a human society, or more generally a human group within a society. Language is probably the best way of conveying a culture, both oral and written, in human societies. Language, written or oral, plays an essential role in the development of a form of social knowledge, such as common-sense thought, socially developed and shared by members of the same social or cultural characteristics. This common knowledge is sometimes called social representation. Through language, we assimilate culture, perpetuate it, or transform it. Nevertheless, like every language, each culture implements a specific apparatus of symbols with which each society identifies. Different languages are necessary in order to preserve fields such as culture; heritage and getting people from different cultures to dialogue may require intercultural mediation. These intercultural communications can be regarded as translation. Therefore, the relationship between language and culture is rather complex. Our article will discuss the relation between language and culture in intercultural communication, which is translation in our case. We will present ideas with examples to evidence that language and culture are two faces of one coin.
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Raheja, Roshni. "Social Evaluations of Accented Englishes: An Indian Perspective." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.1-1.

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Research in the field of Language Attitudes and Social Perceptions has evidenced the associations between a speaker’s accent and a listener’s perceptions of various aspects of their identity – intelligence, socio-economic background, race, region of origin, friendliness, etc. This process of ‘profiling’ results in discrimination and issues faced in various social institutions where verbal communication is of great importance, such as education environments, or even during employee recruitment. This study uses a mixed-methods approach, employing a sequential explanatory design to investigate the social evaluation process of native and non-native accents on status and solidarity parameters by students from a multicultural university located in Pune, India. The findings are consistent with research in the field of language attitudes, demonstrating preference for Indian and Western accents as compared to other Asian accents. Semi-structured interviews revealed factors such as education, colonial history, globalization and media consumption to be key in influencing these evaluations. The themes are explored in the context of the World Englishes framework, and the socio-economic history of the English language in India.
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Rudanovskaya, Svetlana. "Ideological Background of Intercultural Dialogue in Social Anthropology." In 4th International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2020). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200316.135.

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Linardaki, Christina, and Marie Lavrentiadou. "Representations of Refugees, Traffickers and Local People in Greek Literature during the European Migrant Crisis (2014-1018)." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.5-6.

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This paper investigates Greek literature (prose and poetry), written, in its bulk, during the years of the European migrant crisis (2014-2018) to uncover ways in which refugees, traffickers, and locals are presented. Following a literature review and the presentation of methodology, prose is observed, drawing on social representations theory, and a theoretical framework of social exclusion. We analyse poetry through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) (Gee 2011), while also considering social language, situated meaning, intertextuality, figured worlds, and Discourses. The approach employed assists in the eliciting of social perspectives from the sample, as reflected in writers’ or poets’ views. These views may be hyperbolic, but nonetheless echo the opinion of at least part of the Greek population.
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Colaiuda, Cinzia. "Urban Peripheries in Europe and the Construction of New Semantic Spaces." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.5-8.

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Urban peripheries can be defined as a ‘semiosphere’ (Lotman 1990) in which the construction of a new idea of social integration through the use of bottom-up approaches to public policies and the implicit recognition of the new linguistic communities that populate these public policies becomes possible. This article concerns ethnographic research that focuses on the analysis of urban linguistic landscapes in Europe. As such, the article has two aims. In its first aim, it proposes a reflection of the impact of public policies on the linguistic architecture of the urban centres of the two cities, Rome and London, two urban centres where social diversity often hides behind linguistic homogeneity and social norms imposed from above. In its second aim, it analyses the role that the periphery can play in initiating a revolution from below, largely owing to its cityscape, characterized by linguistic anarchy and hybridisation processes regulated by endogenous social laws. Moreover, this research – starting from the elicitation of the theoretical assumptions on which it is based – underlines the need for a holistic approach to the analysis of complex social ecosystems and the multiple signs that characterise them.
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Fielder, Grace. "Contested Boundaries and Language Variants in A Balkan Capital City." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.5-2.

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This paper discusses the ways in which the vernacular language of the capital city of Sofia, Bulgaria, reflects a history of contested borders. A relatively small but ancient settlement, Sofia became the capital of the new principality when the San Stefano borders were redrawn and contracted by the Congress of Berlin in 1878. In response the capital was relocated in 1879 from Veliko Tarnovo in the eastern dialect area to Sofia in the western, a strategically semiotic move intended to re-center the Bulgarian capital with respect to the prior borders and to position the government for future expansion. The government administration relocated en masse to Sofia thereby establishing a new urban elite with a more prestigious eastern dialect that would eventually become the main basis of the standard language. Despite decades of education in the standard language, however, western variants have persisted in the capital to this day, in part fuelled by 20th century waves of migration from what is today Aegean and North Macedonia. With the post-1989 fall of communism and the end of state-controlled media, this western variant now appears in and often dominates public spaces much to the dismay of language codifiers and purist-minded members of the public. Three theoretical approaches are employed to account for this persistence of the western variant. Social network theory will be used to analyze the sociolinguistic dynamics of language variants in Sofia. Critical discourse analysis recognizes the mutually constitutive nature of social practice and language use and the role of power relations — particularly relevant once the western variant of Sofia lost its prestige to the newly arrived eastern variant. Finally, language variation is conceptualized as a social semiotic system in which variants are indexically mutable so that speakers make socio-semiotic moves by deploying variants in certain contexts with certain interlocutors.
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Varvounis, Manolis. "New Methodological Orientations of Greek Folklore." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.10-2.

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In this paper, the theoretical and methodological changes that determine Greek folklore in the first two decades of the 21st century are examined. Also, I include the collaboration and the fruitful dialogue of folklore with the social anthropology in Greece, and its scientific results. The study of folk culture, as established by older folklorists, focused on cultural continuities, for reasons amply discussed in the relevant bibliography. However, the perception of cultural transformation in the area of folk culture also led to the study of a series of exemplary modern or postmodern phenomena from contemporary or modern folklore, where the correlation with the historical, social and cultural parameters now became mandatory. Therefore, the dominant concept of cultural differentiation was introduced to the fields of folklore and ethnography, too, especially in the form of the study of modernist (and, as a rule, urban) phenomena. The older forms of Greek folklore relate to the agro-livestock economy of the societies that gave birth to and ‘consumed’ them. This paper refers to Greek popular culture, both in the traditional and in modern and popular forms and expressions. In any case, ‘tradition’ constitutes the basis of folk culture events, with regards to the concepts of the symbolic functionality of ritual forms and the strategies for acquiring social prestige, where the latter is often the driving force of the various folklore events. Indeed, social prestige is often the connective link of each commune, a fact repeated up to the present, despite the changes in the traditional communes’ social base and status.
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Roy, Sylvie. "Politics of French in Canada: Reminiscence of Past European History with a New Twist." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.6-2.

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Languages in Canada, especially French, continue to reflect the history and power domination of its European origins. French is one of the official languages of Canada, but is also a minority language for some of its communities outside of the province of Québec, which is situated in Eastern Canada. It is protected by strong ideological and political influence, and by law. In this paper, I would like to reflect on how historical, cultural, and social aspects of French are reproduced and also on how transnational fluidity and multilingual practices are deconstructing or unbounding the idea of how French is seen in one Canadian province: Alberta. This Western Province has a strong conservative base and still has issue with French being an official language, a reminiscence of the past. Drawing on my work (Roy 2020), I take a sociolinguistic for change perspective, where historical and social understandings allow for critical view of ideologies and social change. I also examine and investigate social processes (e.g., social categorization, marginalization, etc.), and how ideologies can impact as well as impede processes of social identity construction and socialization into language pedagogies. In addition, I employ Pennycook and Makoni’s (2020) idea that, as researchers, we will self-reflect and be open to adopt a dialectic and multiple perspectives on the data collected. My data arises from longitudinal and sociolinguistic ethnographic studies in Alberta over a period of 15 years. Here, I interviewed participants (students, parents, administrators, teachers) in schools, particularly French immersion schools, as well as outside schools, in order to locate discourses related to French, where those discourses come from, and the long-term effects of those discourses, particularly for those learning French. I also include new data collected with multilingual students learning French. By looking at new discourses from multilingual youth learning French, and by observing their repertoires, I can demonstrate how the ‘old’ can be unbounded by youth’s everyday practices.
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Reports on the topic "Social anthropology"

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Rossi, Christine. After the sixties : anthropology in sixth grade social studies textbooks. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.5575.

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Yaremchuk, Olesya. TRAVEL ANTHROPOLOGY IN JOURNALISM: HISTORY AND PRACTICAL METHODS. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11069.

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Our study’s main object is travel anthropology, the branch of science that studies the history and nature of man, socio-cultural space, social relations, and structures by gathering information during short and long journeys. The publication aims to research the theoretical foundations and genesis of travel anthropology, outline its fundamental principles, and highlight interaction with related sciences. The article’s defining objectives are the analysis of the synthesis of fundamental research approaches in travel anthropology and their implementation in journalism. When we analyze what methods are used by modern authors, also called «cultural observers», we can return to the localization strategy, namely the centering of the culture around a particular place, village, or another spatial object. It is about the participants-observers and how the workplace is limited in space and time and the broader concept of fieldwork. Some disciplinary practices are confused with today’s complex, interactive cultural conjunctures, leading us to think of a laboratory of controlled observations. Indeed, disciplinary approaches have changed since Malinowski’s time. Based on the experience of fieldwork of Svitlana Aleksievich, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz, or Malgorzata Reimer, we can conclude that in modern journalism, where the tools of travel anthropology are used, the practical methods of complexity, reflexivity, principles of openness, and semiotics are decisive. Their authors implement both for stable localization and for a prevailing transition.
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Schöner, Wolfgang, Jorrit van der Schot, Peter Schweitzer, Sophie Elixhauser, and Anna Burdenski. Snow to Rain: From phase transition of precipitation to changing local livelihoods, emotions and affects in East Greenland. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, October 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/ess-snow2rain.

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Snow2Rain investigated the impacts and perception of climate change in East Greenland through a holistic approach that includes natural science methods of time series analysis and statistical climatology on the one hand, and social science approaches of social anthropology on the other. In addition, this interdisciplinary approach was based in a transdisciplinary framework by involving the local people in Tasiilaq (East Greenland) and their knowledge. Based on the intention to study the effects of climate close to the everyday life of the locals, snow was chosen as one such interdisciplinary indicator of climate change. In addition, Greenland, as the study site of Snow2Rain, is a region in the Arctic and thus affected by Arctic amplification (implying a temperature increase of about three times the global average). With this in mind, Snow2Rain examined changes in snow characteristics in East Greenland and their underlying mechanisms, and placed these changes in the context of social and cultural as well as socioeconomic impacts for local people. From the main results of Snow2Rain, it can be concluded that (i) Arctic amplification is less pronounced compared to other regions in the Arctic and therefore climate change impacts (e.g., changes in snowpack, transition from snowfall to rain) are less pronounced and co-determined by precipitation changes. The strongest signals for the transition from snow to rain were found for the summer season. In addition, the most important climate change events currently discussed by locals in Tasiilaq are the storm winds known as piteraqs and icequakes (earthquakes triggered by calving glaciers). There is considerable interest in scientific information about meteorological and climate conditions as well as changes in the community of Tasiilaq, even though the topic of climate change is not the most pressing issue within the community. It also became clear that local knowledge holders from Tasiilaq hold relevant knowledge about past snow and environmental conditions (e.g. stories about snow conditions along dogsledding routes), but several challenges exist that make it a complex task to make this knowledge usable for climate scientists. To give a few examples of the existing knowledge, there is a lot of relevant knowledge about changes in wind direction and wind speed, and particularly a lot of memories exist in relation to extreme wind events (piteraqs and other storm winds). Overall, the perception of climate change in Greenland is different than in Europe (the recent signing of the Paris Agreement seems to be a clear reflection of this). People from Tasiilaq region are very sensitive in observing changes of their environment including the climate. Snow is only one of those changes observed (wind/storms and earthquakes are currently widely discussed by the locals). However, they speculate much less about future changes and are cautious about the human influence on climate change.
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ASSAf Distinguished Visiting Scholar (DVS) Programme 2023/24. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2024/102.

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The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) hosted Prof Loretta Baldassar as the 2023/24 ASSAf Distinguished Visiting Scholar (DVS). The DVS Programme took place on 12 - 27 March 2024. Prof Baldassar delivered a series of lectures under the theme “Transnational Family Care: from social death to digital kinning over a century of Australian migration” at various institutions across five Provinces: the universities of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Limpopo (UL), Free State (UFS), Rhodes, Stellenbosch and University of Cape Town (UCT). She also engaged with emerging academics at these institutions as part of her research capacity development work, drawing on the tools and insights of social network analysis (SNA). Prof Baldassar is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow, and Director of the Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab at Edith Cowan University (ECU). The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) annually invites one or more distinguished scholars from abroad to present lectures at various higher education institutions around the country. The scholars are internationally prominent academics who are inspirational speakers and usually with an ability to bridge the divides between disciplines. The purpose of the Distinguished Visiting Scholars’ Programme is to fulfil one of the Academy’s strategic goals, viz. the promotion of innovation and scholarly activity. Through interaction with distinguished individual scholars from around the world, ASSAf aims to enrich and stimulate research endeavours at South African higher education and research institutions. Scholars from the humanities disciplines are invited in alternate years.
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