Charles Morris argued that semiotic systems consist of icons, indexes and symbols. Describe the difference between these forms of signification and how they might operate differently in humans and nonhuman primates. Compare its role in biological and linguistic anthropology. Give some specific examples. Sociocultural Anthropology 1.
Ethnology is first of all psychology.
Claude L vi-Strauss. Any time we arrive at a psychological explanation of social life, we can be sure that it is false. In the context of the apparent disagreement between the two quotations above, please compare and contrast the work of Durkheim and L vi-Strauss. Anthropologists and other scholars have described and theorized the human body and bodily practice in many ways. Discuss the formation of the first states in at least two different regions of the world, in relation to at least two theories of state formation.