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Category: Classic Case Studies

The Story Beneath the Story: How Lévi-Strauss Decoded the Myth of Asdiwal

The Story Beneath the Story: How Lévi-Strauss Decoded the Myth of Asdiwal

We all love a good story. But what if the stories and myths we...

The Revolution That Created Our World: V. Gordon Childe and the Dawn of Agriculture

The Revolution That Created Our World: V. Gordon Childe and the Dawn of Agriculture

What was the most significant event in the human story? Was it the invention...

Does Your Language Shape Your Reality? Exploring the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Does Your Language Shape Your Reality? Exploring the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Imagine a language with no words for “yesterday” or “tomorrow,” or one that forces...

Why We Hate Dirt: Unpacking Mary Douglas’s ‘Purity and Danger’

Why We Hate Dirt: Unpacking Mary Douglas’s ‘Purity and Danger’

Why do we find a shoe on a dining table so viscerally wrong, even...

Paradise or Paradox? Margaret Mead’s Famous Study of Adolescence in Samoa

Paradise or Paradox? Margaret Mead’s Famous Study of Adolescence in Samoa

Is the emotional turmoil of teenage years—the rebellion, the anxiety, the angst—a universal, biological...

To Keep the Peace, Insult the Kill: The Political Genius of the !Kung San

To Keep the Peace, Insult the Kill: The Political Genius of the !Kung San

In our modern world, success is met with praise, bonuses, and promotions. Individual achievement...

Work Less, Live More: Marshall Sahlins and the Zen Economics of Hunter-Gatherers

Work Less, Live More: Marshall Sahlins and the Zen Economics of Hunter-Gatherers

We live in the wealthiest and most technologically advanced societies in human history, surrounded...

Order Without Rulers: How Evans-Pritchard Uncovered the Political Genius of the Nuer

Imagine a society with nearly a quarter of a million people, spread across a...

Reading Culture as a Story: Clifford Geertz and the Balinese Cockfight

How do we truly understand the soul of a society? Is it hidden in...

More Than a Transaction: Deconstructing Marcel Mauss’s ‘The Gift’

Have you ever wondered why receiving a gift creates an immediate, unspoken obligation to...

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