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SOCIAL TERM: Πολύγωνα / Polygons

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SOCIAL TERM: Πληθυσμιακή πολιτική / Population policy

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TERM TYPE: Methodological

SOCIAL TERM: Δομή του πληθυσμού / Population structure

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TERM TYPE: Methodological

SOCIAL TERM: Μεταδομισμός / Post–structuralism

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TERM TYPE: Theoretical

DEFINITION (1): Poststructuralism developed out of structuralist theory and refers to an apparent de- stabilizing or de-centring in intellectual life (referring to the displacement of the author of a text as having greatest effect on a text itself, in favour of the various readers of the text) (Derrida ,1970).

DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal

DEFINITION WRITER: Deligiannidou Maria

DEFINITION COMMENTS: Roland Barthes (1915... - 1980), originally a confirmed Structuralist, published his“ The Death of the Author ”in 1968, in which he argued that any literary text has multiple meanings, and that the author was not the prime source of the work's semantic content. -Barthes R., 1968, The Death of the Author, available at http://www.tbook.constantvzw.org/wp- content/death_authorbarthes.pdf (accessed 25/8/2015)

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SOCIAL TERM: Potlatch / Potlatch

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DEFINITION (1): A potlatch is a gift-giving ceremony as practised on the Northwest Coast of North America, in societies such as Kwakiutl, Tlingit, Haida and Chinook (Barnard,2002,p. 670).

DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal

DEFINITION WRITER: Deligiannidou Maria

DEFINITION COMMENTS: The potlatch is... a classic example of an economic institution embedded in a wider social structure. For this reason, it is often used by substantivist economic anthropologists to show the impossibility of analysing exchange divorced from its social context. It was important for Marcel Mauss ([1925] 1990) for much the same reason: it illustrates well his notions that society functions to redistribute material resources, that there is in cases like potlatch societies a “totality” made up of gift-exchange and its wider context, and consequently that “gifts” are never really free (Barnard 2002: 670). -Mauss, M. 1979 (1925), Essai sur le Don. Forme at Raison de l' Echange dans les Societes Archaiques, Annee Sociologique 1923-1924 (ελλ.μτφ. Σταματοπούλου – Παραδέλλη, Το Δώρο. Μορφές και λειτουργίες της ανταλλαγής., Αθήνα: Καστανιώτης

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SOCIAL TERM: Πολύγωνα / Polygons

SOCIAL TERM: Πληθυσμιακή πολιτική / Population policy

SOCIAL TERM: Δομή του πληθυσμού / Population structure

SOCIAL TERM: Μεταδομισμός / Post–structuralism

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SOCIAL TERM: Potlatch / Potlatch

DEFINITION (1): A potlatch is a gift-giving ceremony as practised on the Northwest Coast of North America, in societies such as Kwakiutl, Tlingit, Haida and Chinook (Barnard,2002,p. 670).

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SOCIAL TERM: Πληθυσμιακή πολιτική / Population policy

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SOCIAL TERM: Potlatch / Potlatch

DEFINITION (1): A potlatch is a gift-giving ceremony as practised on the Northwest Coast of North America, in societies such as Kwakiutl, Tlingit, Haida and Chinook (Barnard,2002,p. 670).

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