Talk:Symbolic anthropology

message: Um, the link to the page at Minnesota gets 'symbolic anthropology' exactly WRONG.  Symbolic anthropology does not see culture as an individual, cognitive affair but rather as a public, social creation.  The link should be removed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.114.220.56 (talk) 08:04, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: link at Minnesota

message: *Symbolic interactionism
Is wrong.  Symbolic anthropology is not just the study of symbols, including myths and rituals, because many other anthropologists study myths and rituals.  SA is a particular approach to anthropology, that defines the object and objectives of anthropological research a particular way, exemplified by Clifford Geertz, Victor Turner, and David Schneider.  It is not a field of cultural anthropology (cultural anthropology is a field) nor is it a sub-field, like political anthropology or the anthropology of religion (both of which look at symbols too); it really is more a theoretical approach, largely influenced by Weber (not Mead and Goffman!), that presented itself as an alternative to Cultural Materialism and Structuralism in the 1960s and 1970s.  I hope someone who really knows this stuff can write a real article. Slrubenstein   |  Talk 19:59, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  See also 

message: There is a lot of copyrighted material in this article from , as well as what looks like original research.  I won't bother taking it out - I don't want to be accused of "ganging up" on anyone - but another editor just might come in and leave nothing but a stub.  The article definitely needs to be brought up to the standards of Wikipedia. ... discospinster talk 16:09, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry if I seem to fit the description of that "other editor" (see below). There is of course nothing to stop people from rewriting the article using the concepts expressed in that source (if it's thought to be reliable), but without reproducing the actual textual content of that page, which is clearly marked as copyright. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:22, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyrighted material 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: It would be nice if this article defined "symbol" as used in the anthropological context.  — MaxEnt 21:08, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's a "symbol"?