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"Understanding a primitive society" 1964, American Philosophical Quarterly I, pp. 307–324 "Ceasing to Exist" Proceedings of the British Academy 68, 1982 (1983) "Certainty and Authority". Wittgenstein centenary essays. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. 28: 223–237.(1991) "Persuasion". The Wittgenstein Legacy, Midwest Studies in ...
Within his research, Radcliffe-Brown focused on so-called "primitive" societies. He believed kinship played a large role in these societies, and that patrilineages, clans, tribes and units all relate to kinship rules in society and are essential in political organization. [ 19 ]
The so-called primitive society, or more appropriately, the primitive societies, probably span by far the longest period in the history of mankind to date, more than three million years, while other forms of society have existed and continue to exist for only a relatively short period in comparison (less than 1 percent of the period).
The belief of primitive communism as based on Morgan's work is inaccurate [6] due to Morgan's misunderstandings of Haudenosaunee society and his since-disproven theory of social evolution. [24] Subsequent and more accurate research has focused on hunter-gatherer societies and aspects of such societies in relation to land ownership , communal ...
Robert Harry Lowie (born Robert Heinrich Löwe; June 12, 1883 – September 21, 1957) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist.An expert on Indigenous peoples of the Americas, he was instrumental in the development of modern anthropology and has been described as "one of the key figures in the history of anthropology".
In Western philosophy, Primitivism proposes that the people of a primitive society possess a morality and an ethics that are superior to the urban value system of civilized people. [ 1 ] In European art, the aesthetics of primitivism included techniques, motifs, and styles copied from the arts of Asian, African, and Australasian peoples ...
Classical theoreticians (it is argued) attributed their own modernist ideas of self to 'primitive peoples' while asserting that the 'primitive peoples' read their idea of self into others! She explains that animism is a "relational epistemology" rather than a failure of primitive reasoning. That is, self-identity among animists is based on ...
Contrary to Marx, who was searching for the universal laws of the society, Weber attempts an interpretive understanding of social action in order to arrive at a "causal explanation of its course and effects." [6] Here the word course signifies Weber's non-deterministic approach to a phenomenon. The social actions have subjective meanings that ...