摘要:

Olive Pink studied anthropology at the University of Sydney under Professor A.P. Elkin. Although she did fieldwork among the Northern Aranda and Wailbri of Central Australia, she became disenchanted with anthropology and lived a reclusive life in Alice Springs. In this paper I present a brief outline of her life, particularly during the 1930's I point to the problems she encountered and suggested that she needs to be relocated within her discipline.

ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1987.tb00743.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The constitution and reproduction of structure through the action orientations of social actors remains a basic question in the social sciences. Most sociological theories have stressed a purposive‐rational model of action in the constitution of structure. These models of action have not been able to account for either the external constraints of structure or for its internal obligatory nature. This paper argues that a theory of ritual action is able to explain both the external and the internal obligatory nature of social structur

ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1987.tb00744.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The article focusses on two questions. One is the conditions under which one might expect to find community level egalitarian ideology in complex societies. The other is a more specific concern with the occurrence of egalitarian ideology among contemporary small scale hunting and gathering societies. A common lower class situation is critical when this translates into community acceptance of the overriding legitimacy of equalisation of status within the community. Also important is the location of the community in opposition to the wider society which it sees as external, threatening, dominating and intrusive.

ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1987.tb00745.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY