10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPERORGANICISM»
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superorganicism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
superorganicism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Critiques of superorganicism point to how, by reifying culture and making it
agentive, the theory positions the individual as an automaton. Critics like James
Duncan (1980) ask how culture is constructed through human activity. Echoing
many ...
Peter Auer, Jürgen Erich Schmidt,
2010
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Language and Space: An International Handbook of Linguistic ...
4. Superorganicism. and. social-scientiic. geography. Another critique of Sauer's
approach had to do with its use of the concept “culture”. Because he was in the
end more interested in the effects of culture than with the processes that led to ...
Peter Auer, Jürgen Erich Schmidt,
2010
3
Theory In Anthropol Liban
It might appear from the above excerpt that Bidney's aim is to distinguish a
methodological version of superorganicism from anontological one, in order to
reject the latter in favor of the former. If this were indeed the case, then we would
have ...
ROBERT A MANNERS, DAVID KAPLAN, Senior Labor Market Specialist David Kaplan, PhD,
2013
That this is not his intention, however, is evident from the fact that nowhere in his
work does he discuss how such a methodological superorganicism might be
used as a procedure in the scientific study of cultural phenomena. The reasons
for ...
Robert Alan Manners, David Kaplan
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Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, ...
Clearly, superorganicism, on the one hand, and psychological, sociological,
contextual, performance interpretation and analysis of materials, on the other, are
mutually exclusive. Whether the superorganicism in these and similar folklore ...
Charlie T. McCormick, Kim Kennedy White,
2011
6
Theoretical Anthropology
As a reaction to the extreme biological myths of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries," the doctrine of superorganicism draws attention to the communicable
nature of human culture and to its independence of comparable, biological
evolution ...
7
Encyclopedia of Global Change: Environmental Change and ...
Yet superorganicism will not die. The youthful John Muir felt the Earth alive
around him. So did Henry David Thoreau, who in fact wrote that “the earth is a
body, has a spirit.” In 1875 the geologist Eduard Suess coined the term
biosphere, ...
Andrew Goudie, Professor of Geography David J Cuff,
2001
8
Conceptual Problems in Contemporary Folklore Study
In doing so, I wish to reject any form of superorganicism, which was historically a
way of avoiding discussing the human organism while focusing attention upon
some kind of posited ghostly organism. Superorganicism is a. kind of dualism, ...
9
Managing for Healthy Ecosystems
Yet such abilities are characteristics of living things, which most researchers now
steadfastly maintain ecosystems are not. Ecologists widely agree that the
discipline abandoned superorganicism in decades past. As Frank Golley (1993)
wrote, ...
David J. Rapport, Bill L. Lasley, Dennis E. Rolston,
2002
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Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, ...
Clearly, superorganicism, on the one hand, and psychological, sociological,
contextual, performance interpretation and analysis of materials, on the other, are
mutually exclusive. Whether the superorganicism in these and similar folklore ...