Questions tagged [anthropology]
Questions about the study of human societies and cultures.
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What makes something a tool?
Bataille write about tools in his Theory of Religion. For example,
As one can see, I have placed tool and the manufactured object on the same plane, the reason being that the tool is first of all a ...
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The idea of recording an exact conversation
In a post on whether or not Socrates actually said the things in the dialogues (post linked to here), one of the answers made the following statement:
This, however, should not surprise us because ...
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Why are the "problem of human being" and philosophical anthropology absent from contemporary anglophone philosophy?
I did a search in Google Scholar and it looks like in contemporary anglophone philosophy there's no problem of human being (problem of man, das Problem des Menschen), no significant studies of ...
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References regarding the relationship between Horkheimer-Adorno and ethnology
I'm reading Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947) and in the first chapter the authors refer to mana.
Are there some references regarding the relations of H&A with ethnology: ...
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Does the current “ruling ontology” deny any possibility of a social causation of mental illness?
Mark Fisher in his book Capitalist Realism writes:
The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness.
Fisher then goes on to say that the construct of “...
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Is it true that a technological society has to weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently?
From The Unabomber Manifesto by Ted Kaczynski:
The breakdown of traditional values to some extent implies the breakdown of the bonds that hold together traditional small-scale social groups. The ...
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What are society's assumptions about the essential goodness of people? [closed]
What are society's assumptions about the essential goodness of people? Does society assume that people are essentially good, bad, or both?
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Sociological-philosophical theories of society’s tendencies to react against itself, inescapably biased in some way
Basically, in case it comes up, I mean something more than Hegelian (?) “dialectic”, an idea of society or knowledge moving forward through refutation, synthesis, progress.
I am thinking about how ...
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What are diversity partitioning and clustering analysis, applied to hominids & race? [closed]
Can anyone EMLI5 (or an undergrad) the terms diversity partitioning and clustering analysis please?
From Winther paper over my head "The genetic reification of race"
re: Lewontin-Edwards ...
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Anthropocentrism, aboriginal stuff and materialism
"Thinking like a mountain : toward a council of all beings" book is an introduction to deep ecology by Joanna Macy, John Seed, Pat Flemming and Arne Naess. "Beyond anthropocentrism"...
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Does the doomsday argument assume that you will be born?
If with every birth there is some chance c that I specifically will be born, then the number of total people born (N) does not effect the odds that I will be in the first 100 billion people. My odds ...
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Is the doomsday argument flawed?
Through the doomsday argument people try to calculate the number of humans that will ever live based only on the number of humans that have lived until now. To me this arguments seems very flawed, but ...
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Multiverse and the anthropic principle?
In this paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0211048) by physicist Andrei Linde, the multiverse concept, the anthropic principle, quantum cosmology and inflationary cosmology are discussed.
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What is the distinction between "experimental philosophy" and Anthropology?
My first thought is simply 'time frame', but then Anthropology isn't exactly bound to the past...
A second look makes me wonder if "experimental philosophy" is not simply some area of overlap between ...
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Why do tribe members cover their private parts [closed]
I find it perfectly logical, that the humans felt cold and began to wear clothes. However, In many tribes in Africa, South America and Asia, where the traditional clothing is a Loincloth only, which ...
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