Place and subject shifts in anthropological studies

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The study of the transformations of the place and subject is an analytical approach to the theoretical field in the anthropological studies of different theoretical approaches. And the reflection of these trends on the mechanisms of field practice. The focus was on the dualism of the place and the subject through the definition of the first and its relation to the construction of the anthropological approach and an understanding of the relative anthropological issues that formed the identity of specialization with the spatial sphere. This research has been based on a question based on: What is the spatial context and what is its role in drawing up and updating the methodology? Can we adopt the concept of place to explore the anthropological heritage in relation to the transformations of the subject and its relation to the place?The goal that the anthropologist has struggled to achieve is how to place himself in the place of study and positioning means acceptance of the other stranger in the field and the space that allows him to collect data and try to link the place and the subject.
The current research was based on the literature of the cultural and social anthropological schools and their methods which emerged from the principle of cultural relativism, the contextual frameworks of place and time, and the culture and structure of the research society. This was represented in the adoption of a descriptive analytical approach based on drawing approaches with a comparative historical and cross-historical dimension.
The British school focused on the place as a guiding model in which it derived from a specific place through which the structure of culture and society is revealed. After moving to the city, this perspective was replaced by a large-scale decision-making to focus on a specific subject. The British and American schools differ from the British only in certain directions, namely that the British focused on the modulation and development of the curriculum, unlike the other two schools, which focused on updating and developing the theoretical direction that guides the curriculum.

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