Anthroplogy

>>8529801
Don't mind the typos.

Go to a college. Point.

>>8529801
Hi, I kind of agree with >>8529810 .
You can't avoid history of anthropology when learning about it, and it's much more simple with a good teacher

>>8529801
Still I'll check my old lessons to see if there isn't some general intro bibliography somewhere. Do you have particular interests?

>>8529862
Levi-Strauss is the only one whom I'm somewhat familiar, also pic related. Things along that line.

>>8529875
What did you read from Lévi Strauss?

>>8529893
Structural Anthropology

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Well if youre into post-structural stuff then go check Geertz and symbolic anthropology.

But to make the most of those contemporary theories you have to be familiar with the classics or at least the early/mid xxth century stuff.

Id recommend culture and personality in particular. Even if people who dont read them trash on them, their works are great. A more recent development based on their work, known as psychological antrhopology is also worth checking.

Underrated authors: Gregory Bateson and Georges Devereux.

>>8529953
Ok, fair enough. If you could read The Raw and the Cooked, go for it.
I tried to get my hand on a good bibliography I was sure I had somewhere, but couldn't find it, sorry.
If you want good glances about contemporary ethnography and its problematics, try to check if you can find English translations of Althabe and Lenclud. Though once again, I'm not sure you'll get it all if you read it out of the blue, without knowledge of the history of the discipline beforehand.

>>8530176
People here would trash on anything without reading a single line...

>>8530176
BATESON MENTIONED ON /LIT/

Fuck me, thanks for the Devereux rec

>>8529801
Not an anthropology expert by any means, but I have a few Edward Hall books, Beyond Culture and The Silent Language, and I thought they were interesting. I think he would be considered cultural anthropology, but again, not an expert. He's probably best known for the high context/low context culture distinction.