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Saturday, March 05, 2005, 10:01

Volume 1 / 2005 of Durham Anthropology Journal is online

In the new issue you'll find among others following articles in fulltext:


Vasco S.C. Fernandes: Indifference and Political Parties
The way people create and justify indifference to other humans could be seen as cultural phenomenon resulting from social processes. In this paper I will argue the study of political parties could shed some light not only on the social production of difference that leads to indifference, but also on how this indifference is lived and experienced. To do so, I will focus my reflection on an Italian party, the Northern League which is stereotypically known for its aggressive political rhetoric.

Indifference is an interesting challenge for both anthropology as a science, which is concerned both with social change and human cross-cultural understanding, and ethnography as science which is interested in the description of the `real'. >> continue


Robert Layton: Anthropology as a discipline
Historically, the main impediments to co-operative research between biological and social anthropologists have been: (a) the debate over genetic versus cultural determination of behaviour, and (b) the emphasis on the individual as the unit of selection, versus the emphasis on the emergent properties of social systems. Point (a) has largely been resolved through recognition that genetic potentialities are moulded by culture. This paper shall concentrate on some of the ways in which point (b) can be overcome to develop the idea of anthropology as a discipline. >> continue

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