Richard L Warms
Biographic Data
| ID | 94988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard L Warms |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Warms |
| SIGNATURE | WARMS R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 101 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 101 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
R adcliffe‐ B rown, A. R. (1881–1955)
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe‐Brown was an important theoretician and the founder of “structural functionalism.” Influenced by Émile Durkheim and Herbert Spencer, Radcliffe‐Brown sought to analyze social practices and institutions in terms of their contribution to social structure. His search for a scientific anthropology and his belief that general laws of social organization could be discovered through the comparative analysis of society drew many …
Cengage Advantage Books
Spencer, Walter Baldwin, and Francis James Gillen
Postcolonial Theory
Area Studies
Neo-Boasianism
Sapir, Edward
Smith, Grafton Elliot
Barthes, Roland
Wilson, Edward O
Goffman, Erving
Culture Area Approach
Parsons, Elsie C
Bakhtin, Mikhail M
Diffusionism, Hyperdiffusionism, Kulturkreise
Butler, Judith
Rational Choice Theory
Symbolic Interactionism
Parsons, Talcott
Ethnography of Speaking
Simmel, Georg
Said, Edward
Bastian, Adolf
Sperber, Dan
Globalization Theory
Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Social and cultural anthropology and archaeology have deep connections to the social and physical sciences. Over the past 150 years, the subject matter and different theoretical perspectives have expanded greatly. 'Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: an Encyclopedia' provides quick overviews of theories and theorists with just the basics - the 'who, what, where, how, and why
Commerce and Community
For a Malian man,' becoming a prosperous merchant can be seen as a process of joining a commercial community. The members of the commercial community control access to the wealth and the connections that can transform a poor shopkeeper into a wealthy merchant. Aspiring merchants must follow a course of action that allows them to identify increasingly with and be accepted by this community. In this article, the commercial community in Sikasso, a t…
Merchants, Muslims, and Wahh ̄biyya
(1992). Merchants, Muslims, and Wahh ̄biyya: The Elaboration of Islamic Identity in Sikasso, Mali. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 485-507
Merchants, Muslims, and Wahhābiyya
Richard L. Warms, Merchants, Muslims, and Wahhābiyya: The Elaboration of Islamic Identity in Sikasso, Mali, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 26, No. 3 (1992), pp. 485-507
TDC II (Textual Data Categorization II)
Merchants, Muslims, and Wahhābiyya
Richard L. Warms, Merchants, Muslims, and Wahhābiyya: The Elaboration of Islamic Identity in Sikasso, Mali, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 26, No. 3 (1992), pp. 485-507
Merchants, Muslims, and Wahh ̄biyya
(1992). Merchants, Muslims, and Wahh ̄biyya: The Elaboration of Islamic Identity in Sikasso, Mali. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 485-507
Commerce and Community
For a Malian man,' becoming a prosperous merchant can be seen as a process of joining a commercial community. The members of the commercial community control access to the wealth and the connections that can transform a poor shopkeeper into a wealthy merchant. Aspiring merchants must follow a course of action that allows them to identify increasingly with and be accepted by this community. In this article, the commercial community in Sikasso, a t…
Africa Real, Africa Ideal
Much recent work in anthropology has focused on the positioning of the observer in the construction of texts. A. Gordon Laing's 1825 book of explorations is an example of the way in which an observer's preconceptions and home culture can influence observations. Though it provides interesting descriptions, Laing's work is prejudiced by his preconceptions. Laing, guided by romantic ideas of the noble savage and abolitionism, viewed groups as more o…
Dancing Skeletons
Spencer, Walter Baldwin, and Francis James Gillen
Postcolonial Theory
Area Studies
Neo-Boasianism
Sapir, Edward
Smith, Grafton Elliot
Barthes, Roland
Wilson, Edward O
Goffman, Erving
Culture Area Approach
Parsons, Elsie C
Bakhtin, Mikhail M
Diffusionism, Hyperdiffusionism, Kulturkreise
Butler, Judith
Rational Choice Theory
Symbolic Interactionism
Parsons, Talcott
Ethnography of Speaking
Simmel, Georg
Computer Science (27 works) · Philosophy (22 works) · Art (21 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · History and Developments in Astronomy (10 works) · Geology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works)