Theory is the New Black!

This is the blog for Wake Forest University's Anthropological Theory class for Spring 2014. Get ready for challenging, probing, insightful sociocultural critiques to challenge everything you know about culture and being human!

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Analysis of My Man Marvin (Harris)

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Marvin Harris shaped and promoted the anthropological theory of cultural materialism by his writings and his critiques of scientific anthro...
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The Liminality and Communitas of Cancer

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Victor Turner’s symbolic anthropology is seen throughout most parts of the Western biomedical field.  Much of what doctors...
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The Flaws behind Human Terrain Systems

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David B. Edwards offers a critique of Human Terrain Systems which the US military attempted to implement in the beginning of 2007. Edwards ...
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Saturday, May 3, 2014

Herakles: The Evolution of a Symbol

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Before I begin, I would like to apologize.  This may be a long winded post. One could argue that Ancient Greek culture was dominated by th...
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Thursday, May 1, 2014

It's provocative; It gets the people going.

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Feminism at its finest is an active replacement of one way of thinking that was, as of late, dominated by a male perspective. Since the in...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The Importance of Critics (A Critique of Jonathan Marks’ Critique of The Bell Curve)

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          This critique will not so much be a traditional critique of a reading, for Elizabeth did an excellent job synthesizing and analyz...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Foucauldian Discourse of Hindu Caste System

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Foucauldian Discourse is a system of analysis that takes broader contexts and dissects them individually instead of using one large theore...
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