Aesthetic Realism
A New Perspective for Anthropology & Sociology
Aesthetic Realism
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 Barbara Allen and Arnold Perey at the American Library Association in Chicago |
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Idealism and Practicality: How Can a Man Have Both? Including a discussion of the great anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski and his Diary in the Strict Sense of the Word. Presented in an Aesthetic Realism Foundation seminar, October 2005, this paper explains the division in a person between being "practica" and "idealistic" and how Malinowski went after solving that division in his anthropological functionalism. |
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What Big Mistakes Do Even Smart Men Make? —with a consideration of the African story "Maliane and the Water Snake" "Maliane and the Water Snake" is a traditional story of the Basotho people of Southern Africa. We see how eminently relevant it is to men today, as I discuss my own life and one particular, important Aesthetic Realism consultation of a man of this time. |
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How Much Feeling—and What Kind—Should a Man Have? Discussing My Life, the Life of Fusiwe, a Head Man of the Yanomami People, and Men of the United States Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 |
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"A New Perspective for American Anthropology" In: The Anthropologist, University of Delhi, India Consider the native people of 0kapmin, New Guinea....Do they have two opposite attitudes to the world—that it has been kind to them and the gods have been good, and also that it has rooked them? This article has a new explanation of matters that people want to understand: What is the cause of culture shock? What emotions do people have in common? Can these be described accurately? Can the prejudices that men and women have in every country end once and for all? |
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Kinship: "Body and World in Oksapmin Kin Terms" By translating the terms used for relatives, we see a junction of body and world that is symbolic. |
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Idealism and Practicality: How Can a Man Have Both? Including a discussion of the great anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski and his famed Diary in the Strict Sense of the Word, written in New Guinea of 1914-1918. This paper is about the division in a person between being "practical" and "idealistic." It suggests that Malinowski tried to solve that division in his anthropological functionalism. |
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See The People of Clarendon County, a play by Ossie Davis, and the Education that Can End Racism. Edited by Alice Bernstein. | |
The Real Opposition to Racism In The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known | |
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The Solution to Racism In The Black World Today (Visit "Arrows of Melanesia: A Neglected Art Form") |
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Causes of Racism In Anthropology Newsletter (American Anthropological Association) |
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Depsin, one of the men I most respected during my field research
in the Mountain Ok area of Papua New Guinea
*These images from Papua New Guinea are photographs taken by Arnold Perey.
"Anthropology Is Science and Art Both!" • Win 2011 
