A De Ruijter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3577763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A De Ruijter |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | De Ruijter |
| SIGNATURE | DE RUIJTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Natural Selection, Energetics, and "Cultural Materialism" [and Comments and Reply]
Harris's cultural materialistic strategy of research must be more explicit in recognizing that it deals with nonlinear events that are constantly modified by natural-selective processes. These processes require a different kind of explanation, called here "selection explanation." Moreover, the tripartite notion of infrastructure/structure/superstructure and the mental/behavioral, emic/etic, and culture/nature dichotomies do not allow unambiguous …
Mathematics in Structural Theory [and Comments and Reply]
Levi-Strauss, amongst other anthropological theorists, has argued for the incorporation of mathematical formalization into anthropological theorizing. The integration of mathematical formalization with anthropological theory is examined in this article through the structural analysis of fandango (wedding) ritual as it is practiced among the Zapotec in a small village near Oaxaca, Mexico. The correspondence that is found between the details of the…
A reconsideration reconsidered
In 1973 Francis Korn''s Elementary Structures Reconsidered: L?vi-Strauss on Kinship appeared. The publisher's blurb, which recommends this book as measured but devastating critique of L?vi-Strauss' work on kinship echoes Needham's evaluation that this is first scholarly and technically competent critique of Les Structures ?l?men taires de la parent? (Needham 1971:xciv). The former quotation may be discounted as commercial exaggeration, but one mi…
Systems Theory in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
When the first Anthropology Today panel met in the early 1950s, modern systems theory barely glimmered on the horizon. Since then, an entire generation of scholars has matured in an intellectual atmosphere which focuses on systemic relationships in social life. In the fall of 1977 a new World Anthropology conference was convened. One panel was devoted to identifying major research foci and continuing problems in systems theory in anthropology. Fi…
Structural and Eclectic Revisions of Marxist Strategy
Many anthropologists are no longer hesitant to identify themselves as Marxists, but along with this common identification there has developed a raging dispute as to what a Marxist anthropology is all about. Recent critiques of cultural materialism, the avowedly Marxist strategy developed by Marvin Harris, have attacked it for being a "vulgar" or "mechanical" interpretation of Marx. Two of these critiques, those of Jonathan Friedman and H. Dieter …
Dominant Epistemological Presuppositions in the Use of the Cross-Cultural Survey Method [and Comments and Reply]
This article subjects to critical analysis the epistemological conceptions which have dominated the way cross-cultural survey research has been carried out and propagated within the anthropological discipline. These conceptions may be characterized as inductivist and empiricist. This orientation is critized primarily from the point of view of Popper's concept of science. In this context, problems of concept formation and theory construction as we…
On the Cross-Cultural Survey Method
Natural Selection, Energetics, and "Cultural Materialism" [and Comments and Reply]
Harris's cultural materialistic strategy of research must be more explicit in recognizing that it deals with nonlinear events that are constantly modified by natural-selective processes. These processes require a different kind of explanation, called here "selection explanation." Moreover, the tripartite notion of infrastructure/structure/superstructure and the mental/behavioral, emic/etic, and culture/nature dichotomies do not allow unambiguous …
Dominant Epistemological Presuppositions in the Use of the Cross-Cultural Survey Method [and Comments and Reply]
This article subjects to critical analysis the epistemological conceptions which have dominated the way cross-cultural survey research has been carried out and propagated within the anthropological discipline. These conceptions may be characterized as inductivist and empiricist. This orientation is critized primarily from the point of view of Popper's concept of science. In this context, problems of concept formation and theory construction as we…
Mathematics in Structural Theory [and Comments and Reply]
Levi-Strauss, amongst other anthropological theorists, has argued for the incorporation of mathematical formalization into anthropological theorizing. The integration of mathematical formalization with anthropological theory is examined in this article through the structural analysis of fandango (wedding) ritual as it is practiced among the Zapotec in a small village near Oaxaca, Mexico. The correspondence that is found between the details of the…
Systems Theory in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
When the first Anthropology Today panel met in the early 1950s, modern systems theory barely glimmered on the horizon. Since then, an entire generation of scholars has matured in an intellectual atmosphere which focuses on systemic relationships in social life. In the fall of 1977 a new World Anthropology conference was convened. One panel was devoted to identifying major research foci and continuing problems in systems theory in anthropology. Fi…
Structural and Eclectic Revisions of Marxist Strategy
Many anthropologists are no longer hesitant to identify themselves as Marxists, but along with this common identification there has developed a raging dispute as to what a Marxist anthropology is all about. Recent critiques of cultural materialism, the avowedly Marxist strategy developed by Marvin Harris, have attacked it for being a "vulgar" or "mechanical" interpretation of Marx. Two of these critiques, those of Jonathan Friedman and H. Dieter …
On the Cross-Cultural Survey Method
A reconsideration reconsidered
In 1973 Francis Korn''s Elementary Structures Reconsidered: L?vi-Strauss on Kinship appeared. The publisher's blurb, which recommends this book as measured but devastating critique of L?vi-Strauss' work on kinship echoes Needham's evaluation that this is first scholarly and technically competent critique of Les Structures ?l?men taires de la parent? (Needham 1971:xciv). The former quotation may be discounted as commercial exaggeration, but one mi…
Dominant Epistemological Presuppositions in the Use of the Cross-Cultural Survey Method [and Comments and Reply]
This article subjects to critical analysis the epistemological conceptions which have dominated the way cross-cultural survey research has been carried out and propagated within the anthropological discipline. These conceptions may be characterized as inductivist and empiricist. This orientation is critized primarily from the point of view of Popper's concept of science. In this context, problems of concept formation and theory construction as we…
On the Cross-Cultural Survey Method
Structural and Eclectic Revisions of Marxist Strategy
Many anthropologists are no longer hesitant to identify themselves as Marxists, but along with this common identification there has developed a raging dispute as to what a Marxist anthropology is all about. Recent critiques of cultural materialism, the avowedly Marxist strategy developed by Marvin Harris, have attacked it for being a "vulgar" or "mechanical" interpretation of Marx. Two of these critiques, those of Jonathan Friedman and H. Dieter …
A reconsideration reconsidered
In 1973 Francis Korn''s Elementary Structures Reconsidered: L?vi-Strauss on Kinship appeared. The publisher's blurb, which recommends this book as measured but devastating critique of L?vi-Strauss' work on kinship echoes Needham's evaluation that this is first scholarly and technically competent critique of Les Structures ?l?men taires de la parent? (Needham 1971:xciv). The former quotation may be discounted as commercial exaggeration, but one mi…
Systems Theory in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
When the first Anthropology Today panel met in the early 1950s, modern systems theory barely glimmered on the horizon. Since then, an entire generation of scholars has matured in an intellectual atmosphere which focuses on systemic relationships in social life. In the fall of 1977 a new World Anthropology conference was convened. One panel was devoted to identifying major research foci and continuing problems in systems theory in anthropology. Fi…
Mathematics in Structural Theory [and Comments and Reply]
Levi-Strauss, amongst other anthropological theorists, has argued for the incorporation of mathematical formalization into anthropological theorizing. The integration of mathematical formalization with anthropological theory is examined in this article through the structural analysis of fandango (wedding) ritual as it is practiced among the Zapotec in a small village near Oaxaca, Mexico. The correspondence that is found between the details of the…
Natural Selection, Energetics, and "Cultural Materialism" [and Comments and Reply]
Harris's cultural materialistic strategy of research must be more explicit in recognizing that it deals with nonlinear events that are constantly modified by natural-selective processes. These processes require a different kind of explanation, called here "selection explanation." Moreover, the tripartite notion of infrastructure/structure/superstructure and the mental/behavioral, emic/etic, and culture/nature dichotomies do not allow unambiguous …
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