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The “use and disuse” of anthropological theory

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The “use and disuse” of anthropological theory. Tamara Sellers Bloomsburg University. Research goals. Deconstruct canons and note diachronic trends and changes within and between them .

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  1. The “use and disuse” of anthropological theory Tamara Sellers Bloomsburg University

  2. Research goals • Deconstruct canons and note diachronic trends and changes within and between them. • Note trends of Anthropological thinkers and their overall relevancy to the discipline over time. • Understand the “use and disuse” of thinkers and their ideas. • Compare our theory textbook canon of anthropological thinkers to their presence in AnthroSource.

  3. Methodology • Access AnthroSource • Use theorists from theory textbook as search terms. • Keyword Search: Theorists’ last names. • Collect data on how often: • Theorists are cited • Their works are published • Articles are relevant to the thinker or use their ideas. • Create Excel tables and graphs to illustrate findings. • Create word clouds to show diachronic changes. • Research does not include ALL theorists, only those referenced in the textbook Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. • Data includes the first 25 of 41 thinkers within the textbook.

  4. Digging through databases

  5. Digging deeper

  6. Keyword search: raw data

  7. Keywords from Anthrosource journals 1880-2013 *Word Cloud made with www.wordle.net

  8. Keyword frequency (1880-2013)

  9. Keyword frequency (2000-2013) *Word Cloud made with www.wordle.net

  10. Research results • Top Referenced Theorists (1880-2013) • A. L. Kroeber: 211 Articles • Margaret Mead: 160 • Franz Boas: 121 • Eric Wolf: 72 • Leslie White: 71 • Top Referenced Theorists (2000-2013) • Franz Boas: 22 Articles • Margaret Mead: 15 • Eric Wolf: 10 • Sherry B. Ortner: 10 • Karl Marx: 7 • Marcel Mauss: 7 *Images used with permission by F. Warner

  11. Above: Keyword Frequency (1880-2013) Right: Keyword Frequency (2000-2013) *Word Clouds made with www.wordle.net

  12. Discussion • Only Margaret Mead & Franz Boas continue to be as cited today as often as in the past. • Father and Mother of the discipline—popular figures • Levi-Strauss has a weak place in the AnthroSource canon. • Eric Wolf, Sherry Ortner, Marcel Mauss, Marx, Malinowski, and Weber occur most often after Mead and Boas 2000-2013. • Does our canon text book correspond to the canon AnthroSource?

  13. Kroeber occurs often earlier in the canon (mid-century), but then nearly disappears from the canon by 1970.“Dean of American Anthropology”