The main theme of the thesis is to interpret Naxi (Na-khi) religious texts from a historical and a comparative perspective in the social and cultural context in the region of south-west China. There are two parts: Part I. Social Anthropology and the study of the Tibeto-Burman-speaking peoples; Part II. Naxi writing and the interpretation of Naxi religious texts. Part I (Chapters 1 to 5) focuses...

The paper first analyzes the ethical question of qualitative researches from the philosophical viewpoint, and the bioethical question as an interdisciplinary gap that enlarges from the seventies. Afterwards, the question on qualitative research considered as technique and art is raised and understood in a philosophical way of thinking science as a theoretical body, which is epistemically organi...

Keith W. Kintigh, Jeffrey H. Altschul, Mary C. Beaudry, Robert D. Drennan, Ann P. Kinzig, Timothy A. Kohler, W. Fredrick Limp, Herbert D. G. Maschner, William K. Michener , Timothy R. Pauketat, Peter Peregrine, Jeremy A. Sabloff, Tony J. Wilkinson, Henry T. Wright, and Melinda A. Zeder School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287; Statistical Research, ...

Abstract Social Anthropology has a long and familiar history in the UK, but what is state of play today? This essay reflects from perspective chair ASA on two years pandemic upheaval crisis funding working conditions, institutional challenges responses social anthropology.

EDWIN R. WALLACE (IV), Freud and anthropology. A history and reappraisal, New York, International Universities Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xi, 306, $22.50. No scientific discipline outside his own gave Sigmund Freud's ideas such long-sustained and critical attention as did anthropology. Conversely, no other social or behavioural science so affected Freud's thinking over the course of his long career....

The community of users participating in social media tends to share about common interests at the same time, giving rise to what are known as social trends. A social trend reflects the voice of a large number of users which, for some reason, becomes popular in a specific moment. Through social trends, users therefore suggest that some occurrence of wide interest is taking place and subsequently...

Many emergent ventures, such as social networks, leverage crowd-sourced information assets as essential pillars supporting their business models. The appropriation of rights to information assets through legal contracts often fails to prevent conflicts between the users and the companies that claim information rights. In this paper, we focus on social networks and examine why those conflicts ar...