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The Stakes for Which We Play Are Too High to Allow of Experiments : Colonial Adminstrators of Papua on Their Anthropological Training by Radcliffe-Brown
A Stage Our Ancestors Went Through: A. R. Brown and the Problem of Totemism in Western Australia, C. 1910
Margaret Mead and Redcliffe-Brown: Society, Social Sytem, Cultural Character, and the Idea of Culture, 1931-1935
Anthropological Paradigms and Intellectual Personalities: Radcliffe-Brown and Lowie on the History of Ethnological Theory, 1938
El parentesco: textos fundamentales
En el conjunto de trabajos compilados se encuentran todos los problemas empĂricos y teĂłricos capitales de los estudios del parentesco: su relaciĂłn con la organizaciĂłn social (Tylor, Durkheim, Rivers); el anĂĄlisis de las terminologĂas (Kroeber, Lounsbury); la relaciĂłn de las mismas con las formas sociales (Kroeber, Rivers); la teorĂa extensionista (Evans-Pritchard); la del linaje (Goody) y la de la alianza (LĂ©vi-Strauss, Needham), son los mĂĄs importantes. Asimismo, estĂĄn representadas la mayorĂa de las regiones del planeta: OceanĂa (Durkheim, Needham), Asia (Dumont, Radcliffe-Brown), Ăfrica (EvansPritchard, Goody) y las AmĂ©ricas (Kroeber, Eggan, Radcliffe-Brown, LĂ©viStrauss, Lounsbury)
Sociotechnical Systems and Ethics in the Large
Advances in AI techniques and computing platforms have triggered a lively and expanding discourse on ethical decision-making by autonomous agents. Much recent work in AI concentrates on the challenges of moral decision making from a decision-theoretic perspective, and especially the representation of various ethical dilemmas. Such approaches may be useful but in general are not productive because moral decision making is as context-driven as other forms of decision making, if not more. In contrast, we consider ethics not from the standpoint of an individual agent but of the wider sociotechnical systems (STS) in which the agent operates. Our contribution in this paper is the conception of ethical STS founded on governance that takes into account stakeholder values, normative constraints on agents, and outcomes (states of the STS) that obtain due to actions taken by agents. An important element of our conception is accountability, which is necessary for adequate consideration of outcomes that prima facie appear ethical or unethical. Focusing on STSs avoids the difficult problems of ethics as the norms of the STS give an operational basis for agent decision making
RITUAL, TIME, AND ENTERNITY
It is argued here that the construction of time and eternity are among ritual's entailments. In dividing continuous duration into distinct periods ritual distinguishes two temporal conditions: (1) that prevailing in mundane periods and (2) that prevailing during the intervals between them. Differences in the frequency, length, and relationship among the rituals constituting different liturgical orders are considered, as are differences between mundane periods and ritual's intervals with respect to social relations, cognitive modes, meaningfulness, and typical interactive frequencies. Periods, it is observed, relate to intervals as everchanging to never-changing, and close relationships of never changing to eternity, eternity to sanctity, and sanctity to truth are proposed. In the argument that ritual's âtimes out of timeâ really are outside mundane time, similarities to the operations of digital computers and Herbert Simon's discussion of interaction frequencies in the organization of matter are noted.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72989/1/j.1467-9744.1992.tb00996.x.pd
âDar uma Zoadaâ, âBotar a Maior Marraâ: Dispositivos Morais de Jocosidade como Formas de Efetivação e sua Relação com a CrĂtica
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