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Steen Bergendorff
Kinship and Human Evolution: Making Culture, Becoming Human offers an exciting new explanation of human evolution. Based on insights from anthropology, it shows how humans became “cultured” beings capable of symbolic thought by developing kinship
Autor:
Steen Bergendorff
From the Narmer palette to funerary preparations to pyramids, Steen Bergendorff draws on anthropological insights to provide new interpretations of accepted truths about Ancient Egypt. Bergendorff traces societal reproductive patterns in Ancient Egyp
Autor:
Steen Bergendorff
Publikováno v:
Tidsskriftet Antropologi.
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Steen Bergendorff
Publikováno v:
Anthropological Theory. 10:361-383
This article argues that complexity theory offers concepts that could fruitfully be used as inspiration to solve the long-standing debate between methodological holism versus individualism. The article illustrates this by looking at the case of the M
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Steen Bergendorff
Publikováno v:
Oceania. 79:225-237
The use of indigenous terms in descriptions of non-Western peoples has been debated since Bohannnan and Gluckman argued about this issue. This controversy has recently been resuscitated in debates about the work of Stephen and Jones. Stephen has sugg
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Steen Bergendorff
Publikováno v:
Culture and Religion. 9:109-124
Although there have been attempts to question the notion of the world of non-Western people as essentially religious and symbolic, there has simultaneously been a widespread tendency to study these in terms taken from a religious vocabulary such as m
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Steen Bergendorff
Publikováno v:
Field Methods. 19:407-424
This article departs from what has become known as Mekeo “sorcery” to argue that postfieldwork analysis should pay special attention to local organizations of meaning and how these are reflected in local practices. With this in mind, I first seek
Autor:
Steen Bergendorff
Publikováno v:
The European Journal of Development Research. 19:195-209
Since UNESCO launched its ‘The Power of Culture – Our Creative Diversity’ culture has become an important ingredient in development policy. UNESCO conceptualises culture as an integrative mechanism within which people act. According to this vie
Publikováno v:
Forum for Development Studies. 30:302-324
The rhetoric of aid is increasingly carried forward by catchwords and phrases that constitute a ‘language of development’. This has an important role to play in justifying decision-making and when turning the aid discourse in yet another directio
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Steen Bergendorff
Publikováno v:
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 4:72-87
La sorcellerie et plus particulierement la pratique ngope chez les Mekeo de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee a fait l'objet d'une controverse entre M. Stephen et M. Mosko. Considerant que la cosmologie mekeo divise le monde en une partie visible et une part