Anthropology Archives - Observing The Mortals

You Don’t See With Your Eyes: Dale Purves and the Empirical Theory of Perception

We live with an intuitive and powerful conviction: that our eyes act like cameras,...

Published in 1922, “The Andaman Islanders” is a seminal ethnography by Alfred Radcliffe-Brown that explores...

Published in 1946, “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword” is a landmark anthropological study of Japanese...

Published in 1949, “The Elementary Structures of Kinship” is a monumental work in anthropology, wherein Claude...

Published in 1928, Margaret Mead’s “Coming of Age in Samoa” stands as a pivotal work...

In his seminal 1958 work, Claude Lévi-Strauss introduces the revolutionary concept of structuralism to anthropology,arguing...

Published in 1934, Ruth Benedict’s “Patterns of Culture” explores the concept of cultural relativism,...

Basic & Anthropological Theories Significant change occur here As Change is deviation from Normal...

In this groundbreaking 1925 essay, French sociologist Marcel Mauss explores the multifaceted nature of gift-giving...

Sorokin points out that “unstratified society is a myth’. Thus, every society has it’s own...