anthropology

applied anthropology

ranage

social organization

nationality

New Zealander

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

British Academy

academic

innovator in the field of

African anthropology

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Religion: A Humanist Interpretation

is the science of observation of small human groups aiming at reasoned comparative analysis of individual conduct ignored by structural-functionalist approaches.

the science of observation of small human groups.' . . . 'He conceives anthropology as aiming at reasoned comparative analysis of individual conduct ignored by structural-functionalist approaches. In relation to the structural principle of the kinship complex, he asserts that Radcliffe-Brown fails to consider all the alternatives presented by real situations. What, for example, would happen if a mother has no brother and recourse must be made to a classificatory uncle who is at the same time the real uncle of other nephews''

is anthropology with a value for government, or as it might be put today, 'relevance to end-users'.

Raymond Firth (1981) were advancing equally narrow definitions of applied anthropology in terms of its perceived 'value for government' or, as it is now commonly termed, 'relevance to end-users'.

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is defined in opposition to 'social structure' in order to grasp the diversity of basic social relations and the functioning system in action.

From the first page he introduces the idea of 'social organization', as opposed to 'social structure', and argues that this new notion provides a means of grasping the diversity of basic social relations and the functioning system in action. (Gillard 2004)

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