Opinions: Business History and Anthropology

History of Physical Anthropology

Anthropology and Business: Reflections on the Business Applications of Cultural Anthropology

Freud and anthropology. A history and reappraisal

EDWIN R. WALLACE (IV), Freud and anthropology. A history and reappraisal, New York, International Universities Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xi, 306, $22.50. No scientific discipline outside his own gave Sigmund Freud's ideas such long-sustained and critical attention as did anthropology. Conversely, no other social or behavioural science so affected Freud's thinking over the course of his long career....

Consuming habits: drugs in history and anthropology

Jordan Goodman, Paul E Lovejoy and Andrew Sherratt (eds), Consuming habits: drugs in history and anthropology, London and New York, Routledge, 1995, pp. xii, 244, £35.00 (0-415-09039-3). A persistent feature of human cultures is the use of substances that alter mental states, which are incorporated into rituals, social life, and patterns of trade. These substances have occupied a somewhat awkwa...

History and future of visual anthropology.

Visual recording of communication processes between communities or individuals by means of filming of photographing is of significant importance in anthropology, as it documents on site the specific features of various social communities in their encounter with the researcher. In terms of film industry, it is a sort of ethno-documentary pursuing originality and objectivity in recording the give...