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... Anthropologist's View . This book has been widely used , particularly by people who are not anthropologists , for its calm , careful , caring approach . Her basic view is that the technological levels of human societies constrain the ...
... Anthropologist's View . This book has been widely used , particularly by people who are not anthropologists , for its calm , careful , caring approach . Her basic view is that the technological levels of human societies constrain the ...
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... anthropologists and supported research , pub- lic service and the discipline of anthropology in numerous ways . Margaret Mead was mentor to dozens and dozens of young anthropologists at key turning points in their careers . She called ...
... anthropologists and supported research , pub- lic service and the discipline of anthropology in numerous ways . Margaret Mead was mentor to dozens and dozens of young anthropologists at key turning points in their careers . She called ...
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... Anthropologists will not all share my views . I , for one , find the systems described here to be expressions of cruelty , inhumanity , oppression , and error , as well as of cultural creativity . ( Keesing 1982 : 37 ) This quote from ...
... Anthropologists will not all share my views . I , for one , find the systems described here to be expressions of cruelty , inhumanity , oppression , and error , as well as of cultural creativity . ( Keesing 1982 : 37 ) This quote from ...
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Value Valued and Valuable | 12 |
The Great Whats for Dinner Debate | 18 |
Interpreting Food Work and the Facts of Life | 26 |
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