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Cultures in Contact: Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons and the Mechanics of Acculturation.
Culture is not a thing. It is a negotiation, an ongoing tumult of borrowings and innovations hung upon a skeleton of previously...
Dale DeBakcsy
Nov 27, 2023
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How a Culture is Born: The Groundbreaking Anthropology of Ruth Benedict.
Cultures are strange creatures. What you can do and say, who you can love and when, who you may kill and how, are all subject to the...
Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 5, 2023
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Margaret Mead and the Anthropology of Cultural Relativism.
There is hardly a name in science more encrusted with bad faith generalizations and well-meaning but ahistorical hagiography than that of...
Dale DeBakcsy
May 4, 2023
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