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3.S: Anthropological Theory (Summary)

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- 3.10: Feminist Anthropology
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Learn More about the Anthropologists

Ruth Benedict: http://www.americanethnography.com/article.php?id=7
Mary Douglas: http://www.theguardian.com/news/2007...ies.obituaries
Clifford Geertz: www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/ob...pagewanted=all
Marvin Harris: www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/us...pologists.html
Branislaw Malinowski: http://www.nndb.com/people/320/000099023/
Margaret Mead: http://www.interculturalstudies.org/Mead/biography.html
Sherry Ortner: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/ortner/
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown: http://www.nndb.com/people/318/000099021/
David Schneider: www.nytimes.com/1995/11/01/us...ead-at-76.html
Julian Steward: http://www.browsebiography.com/bio-julian_steward.html
Victor Turner: www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/theo...ges/Turner.htm
Leslie White: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/...Leslie-A-White

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Harris, Marvin and Orna Johnson. 2007. Cultural Anthropology, 7th edition. Boston: Pearson.
Harrison, Anthony Kwame. “Thick Description.” In Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, edited by R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms, 860-861. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Reference, 2013.
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