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Az antropológia visszatérő toposzai
Recurrent topoi in the Anthropology

Author(s): Stipsits Reinhold
Subject(s): Media studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: Medea Egyesület
Keywords: alien cultures; exotism; education; rites off passage

Summary/Abstract: The (late-, post)modern people – who is dependent of the economic and technological developments – is daydreaming about living in a growing up Paradise. They run away from the everyday life, they travel, even in if this travel is an imaginary one. Visiting foreign cultures and tracing the local life stories became the centre of the anthropological research – under the title of global village. The wish for documentation and self-confessions are increasing. Science is bending with interest towards the village stories.Hence anthropologist attest indestructible wish to describe the neighbor’s stories.

  • Issue Year: IV/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 101-104
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Hungarian
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