Just wanted to drop a note that I am still recovering from a summer flueThe doctor went to see me and my CDs arrived today, I m still on 36,9 degrees, but - well, that s live... … View Post »

Having studied at Trinity, Cambridge, he enrolled in the university s anthropology department and was the first student to receive education in anthropology... … View Post »

Optics Planet offers not only a wide range of optical products fit for your summer holiday, but also Night Vision equipment!... Thermal imaging cameras among the best, binoculars, monoculars, goggles and digital night vision cameras are shipped freely on most orders... Optics Planet provides best price guarantees and safe shopping for telescopes, eyewear, sport optics, hunting, outdoor gear, photographic devices, science or business... Basic terms are explained in several section, like "What is an SD Card?"... … View Post »

The book titled Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality was published by Polity Press in 2008 (ISBN: 978-07456-3124-0)... Detailed Contens given, the Postscript on Theory, History and Politics in Urban Analysis propounds, "This book takes stock of a decade of research in the comparative sociology..... … View Post »

Having received the book Urban Outcasts today, I start writing about a presentation of a topic urban phenomenon accompanied by an exhibition in Vienna... Punk was not the last global culture movement, because this lifestyle as a metaphor of revolt did not occur globally, but in cities... In the mid seventies, when nihilisms of all kind caused the Punk movement to become active in the arts, music or fashion, codes of radical left became understandable for a wider audience... … View Post »

Ruth Benedict belongs to G. Stocking s third group of Boasians, namely the evolved ones... As a second generation Boasian she co - shaped the so called culture - and - personality school with Margaret Mead, Irving Hallowell and Clyde Kluckhohn... She was born into a Baptist family in New York and studied literature at Vassar College... … View Post »

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James George Frazer was born in Glasgow into a Presbyterian family... Frazer studied at the University of Glasgow and later attended Cambridge University, where he had lectures in law and classical literature... At the Liverpool University a chair of sociology and anthropology was created for him in 1907, but he lectured for only one year there... … View Post »

E. B. Tylor and a group of anthropologists were the first to support significant scholarly achievments in Britain of the 19th century... After British trade and colonial expansion had furthered scholarly and public interest in knowledge, mainly of naturalistic orientation in geography, zoology and botany, travel literature was readily welcome to the public, and there were published two outstanding studies to mention: First, E. W. Lane s An Account of the Manner and Customs of the Modern..... … View Post »