Anthropology
Anthropology studies human cultures and societies comparatively and holistically. It examines kinship, ritual, belief, and economic exchange within their cultural contexts, taking cultural relativism as its methodological starting point.
Theories (13) Anthropology 분야의 핵심 이론
A sociocultural learning theory proposing that learning is situated in authentic social practices, occurring through "legitimate peripheral participation" within communities of practice (CoP).
A foundational theoretical framework in anthropology addressing Interpretive Anthropology at the micro level of analysis.
An interpretive anthropological methodology arguing that ethnographers must provide "thick descriptions" that uncover the rich contextual, stratified webs of significance embedded in human social actions.
A monumental anthropological and religious theory positing that human desire is mimetic (imitated from models), generating destructive rivalry that societies historically resolve through the collective sacrificial murder of a scapegoat.
A foundational theoretical framework in anthropology addressing The Ritual Process at the micro level of analysis.
A foundational theoretical framework in social-welfare addressing The Culture of Poverty at the meso level of analysis.
A foundational history of religions theory analyzing how *Homo religiosus* experiences reality through a fundamental ontological duality between the Sacred (hierophanies, order, reality) and the Profane (chaos, secular time).
A foundational theoretical framework in linguistics addressing Linguistic Relativity at the micro level of analysis.
A foundational theoretical framework in anthropology addressing Structural Anthropology at the macro level of analysis.
A foundational theoretical framework in anthropology addressing Cultural Determinism at the meso level of analysis.
A pioneering structuralist folkloristics and narratological theory showing that all Russian magic tales share a uniform underlying linear syntax of 31 invariant narrative functions across seven character roles.
A foundational theoretical framework in anthropology addressing The Gift at the meso level of analysis.
A foundational sociology and anthropology of religion framework demonstrating that religion is an eminency social phenomenon where collective effervescence deifies society itself through sacred totemic symbols.