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Some controversies about agriculture and change in late Imperial China
Some Controversies about Agriculture and Change in Late Imperial China E. N. Anderson WARNING: Preliminary draft, not all checked out thoroughly. I’m confident enough of it to allow quotation with proper citation, but be warned. I would deeply appreciate corrections, commentary, and discussion! Population Growth The great drama of late imperial China […]
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Anthropology was Not All White Males: Early Ethnographies by Women and Persons of Color
The Antilist Fifty early anthropological works by women and Indigenous, minority, and other non-white-male anthropologists compiled by E. N. Anderson The purpose of this list is to make it clear that early anthropology was absolutely not a white male preserve or an enterprise confined to some sort of colonial elite. It was very […]
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Important Dates in the History of Anthropology
Dates Worth Contemplating 5th century BC Socrates, Plato, Herodotus, Thucydides; Herodotus provides brief ethnographies ofEgypt,Scythia, etc., and launches cultural relativity with an ironic story about Greeks confronting endocannibalism 4th Aristotle; Chinese social theory launched by Mencius, Shang Yang, Shen Pu-hai and others 3rd Xunzi, Han Feizi, Dao De Jing. Major social thought […]
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Knowledge in anthropology
A book-length manuscript on knowledge in anthropology, from some basic epistemology through social psychology to culture, culture and emotion, cultural models, the postmodern challenge, and notes on the great thinkers. It was seeking a publisher when it was overtaken by a number of books that say the same thing better–but you have to buy a […]
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Conservation Basics
Conservation Basics Caring as the Most Basic of All The one word is care. If we care about each other and the environment, we will act responsibly. If we do not care, we will not only lose all in the future, we will have no life worth living, now or […]
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Science and Ethnoscience, bibliography, part 3
SCIENCE AND ETHNOSCIENCE E. N. Anderson Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside Augmented Bibliography, Part 3 Pagden, Anthony. 1987. The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Parkinson, John. 1976 (1629). A Garden of Pleasant Flowers: Paradisi in Sole, Paradisus Terrestris. New York: Dover. […]