Non-Western Art and the Musée du Quai
... Here I will also draw on the work of several anthropologists who question the authenticity of a culture’s traditional, reproduced art, including Kathleen Adams (2006), Quetzil Castañeda (2005), George Marcus (1995), and Fred Myers (1995). In addition, I will seek to explain the importance of definin ...
... Here I will also draw on the work of several anthropologists who question the authenticity of a culture’s traditional, reproduced art, including Kathleen Adams (2006), Quetzil Castañeda (2005), George Marcus (1995), and Fred Myers (1995). In addition, I will seek to explain the importance of definin ...
The life of an artifact in an interpretive archaeology
... of postprocessual archaeology, that society is inconceivable without artifacts which actively communicate and help build society into what it is. Closely connected is the issue of social agency, the power and intentionality in creating society (for a general review Buchli 1995). Goods have come to b ...
... of postprocessual archaeology, that society is inconceivable without artifacts which actively communicate and help build society into what it is. Closely connected is the issue of social agency, the power and intentionality in creating society (for a general review Buchli 1995). Goods have come to b ...
Print this article - Forum: Qualitative Social Research
... illustrated in the Singaporean experience later described in Section 3.1). In other words, I was aware that what caught my attention, what stirred my emotion, and what I chose to report, were an expression of my own cultural code. So, from a socio-psychological perspective, by being the object of st ...
... illustrated in the Singaporean experience later described in Section 3.1). In other words, I was aware that what caught my attention, what stirred my emotion, and what I chose to report, were an expression of my own cultural code. So, from a socio-psychological perspective, by being the object of st ...
The Future and Frontiers of Culturalized Properties in the Global South
... University, Toronto, Canada. I thank Laura Fox, a Masters student in the Communication and Culture Program at York University who provided excellent research and editorial assistance on this paper. This paper is forthcoming in Jane Anderson and Haidy Geismar, eds., Routledge Companion to Cultural Pr ...
... University, Toronto, Canada. I thank Laura Fox, a Masters student in the Communication and Culture Program at York University who provided excellent research and editorial assistance on this paper. This paper is forthcoming in Jane Anderson and Haidy Geismar, eds., Routledge Companion to Cultural Pr ...
Ethnicity: Theoretical Approaches, Methodological
... stated that “culture may be defined as the sum of all the ideals and activities and material which characterise a group of human beings. It is to a community what character is to an individual” (Crawford 1921:79, my emphasis). Archaeologists, he stated, should aim to discover “homogeneous cultures” ...
... stated that “culture may be defined as the sum of all the ideals and activities and material which characterise a group of human beings. It is to a community what character is to an individual” (Crawford 1921:79, my emphasis). Archaeologists, he stated, should aim to discover “homogeneous cultures” ...
Racial History and Bio-Cultural Adaptation of Nubian
... that existed thousands of years ago, then this approach has validity. However, it can be contended that such models are at present not valid since there is little evidence for reconstructing what the then contemporary African Negroes were like skeletally. One can only extrapolate from modern Negroes ...
... that existed thousands of years ago, then this approach has validity. However, it can be contended that such models are at present not valid since there is little evidence for reconstructing what the then contemporary African Negroes were like skeletally. One can only extrapolate from modern Negroes ...
1 A pragmatic impulse in the anthropology of art? Alfred Gell and the
... Nevertheless, what I hope to demonstrate in the end is that it could be a mistake to seize the analytical lack to subvert the theoretical excess and to end up with nothing. Instead, I try to show that the initial analytic renewal gets eventually caught up in some theoretical spin and that by detecti ...
... Nevertheless, what I hope to demonstrate in the end is that it could be a mistake to seize the analytical lack to subvert the theoretical excess and to end up with nothing. Instead, I try to show that the initial analytic renewal gets eventually caught up in some theoretical spin and that by detecti ...
Archaeologies of Amalgamation in Seventeenth
... 1992; Loren 2005, 2008; Mouer 1993; Nassaney 2004, 2005). Borrowing its metaphor from linguistics, creolization denotes the recombination of shared lexical elements in a new grammar and syntax. In one of the earliest archaeological applications, Ferguson (1992:xlii) suggested that in processes of cr ...
... 1992; Loren 2005, 2008; Mouer 1993; Nassaney 2004, 2005). Borrowing its metaphor from linguistics, creolization denotes the recombination of shared lexical elements in a new grammar and syntax. In one of the earliest archaeological applications, Ferguson (1992:xlii) suggested that in processes of cr ...
References - laral
... phenomena, their origins and evolution, and that make specific predictions that can be tested using the empirical evidence. No such a science exists. The disciplines that in one way or another concern themselves with culture tend to be nontheoretical, that is, to be purely descriptive and/or narrati ...
... phenomena, their origins and evolution, and that make specific predictions that can be tested using the empirical evidence. No such a science exists. The disciplines that in one way or another concern themselves with culture tend to be nontheoretical, that is, to be purely descriptive and/or narrati ...
2. Parsing Hybridity - Scholars at Harvard
... 1992; Loren 2005, 2008; Mouer 1993; Nassaney 2004, 2005). Borrowing its metaphor from linguistics, creolization denotes the recombination of shared lexical elements in a new grammar and syntax. In one of the earliest archaeological applications, Ferguson (1992:xlii) suggested that in processes of cr ...
... 1992; Loren 2005, 2008; Mouer 1993; Nassaney 2004, 2005). Borrowing its metaphor from linguistics, creolization denotes the recombination of shared lexical elements in a new grammar and syntax. In one of the earliest archaeological applications, Ferguson (1992:xlii) suggested that in processes of cr ...
African Art: What and to Whom?
... particularly; of individuality and reflexivity. This is why Oiop's (1974) userti0n of an African origin of civilization, and Bernal's (1988) Cl)lllention that modern historiography has been thoroughly penetrated ...
... particularly; of individuality and reflexivity. This is why Oiop's (1974) userti0n of an African origin of civilization, and Bernal's (1988) Cl)lllention that modern historiography has been thoroughly penetrated ...
“CAPTURING THE PAsT”: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL
... The production of history in a museum, as Stocking (1985) explains, is a paradoxical process, since the displacement of objects from their original contexts in order to preserve them in their original forms, makes them ‘timeless’, while at the same time their arrangement in the exhibition is intende ...
... The production of history in a museum, as Stocking (1985) explains, is a paradoxical process, since the displacement of objects from their original contexts in order to preserve them in their original forms, makes them ‘timeless’, while at the same time their arrangement in the exhibition is intende ...
The Humanity Game: Art, Islam, and the War on Terror
... art is intended to send the message that Americans appreciate Islamic heritage. The so-called bridge of understanding that is to be built through what is termed “exchange” will, it is hoped, encourage Muslims—especially the young—to have a positive view of the United States, and hence to take up new ...
... art is intended to send the message that Americans appreciate Islamic heritage. The so-called bridge of understanding that is to be built through what is termed “exchange” will, it is hoped, encourage Muslims—especially the young—to have a positive view of the United States, and hence to take up new ...
Word document - CLAS Users
... Anthropology is a holistic discipline. As such, anthropologists attempt to view humans, their activities, and their cultural and biological history in as broad a context as possible. Proseminar II is designed to introduce first-year Anthropology graduate students to the fields of Biological Anthropo ...
... Anthropology is a holistic discipline. As such, anthropologists attempt to view humans, their activities, and their cultural and biological history in as broad a context as possible. Proseminar II is designed to introduce first-year Anthropology graduate students to the fields of Biological Anthropo ...
What is Archaeology? - Georgia Council of Professional
... human culture and existence. The fields of sociology and psychology, for example, pertain to mostly urban, industrialized society, or the general mental structures of modern humans. Anthropology encompasses all peoples, urban and rural, modern and traditional, Western and Non-Western, past and prese ...
... human culture and existence. The fields of sociology and psychology, for example, pertain to mostly urban, industrialized society, or the general mental structures of modern humans. Anthropology encompasses all peoples, urban and rural, modern and traditional, Western and Non-Western, past and prese ...
Opening Archaeology Repatriation`s Impact on Contemporary
... only recently have been more widely recognized. The discipline’s role in the past and the institutions and social contexts within which its earlier practices were forged and continued to develop are not easily separated from the ethical, practical, or theoretical constructs of contemporary research. ...
... only recently have been more widely recognized. The discipline’s role in the past and the institutions and social contexts within which its earlier practices were forged and continued to develop are not easily separated from the ethical, practical, or theoretical constructs of contemporary research. ...
Cultural Landscape - Society for California Archaeology
... the same line of reasoning applies to the landscape--people have an active role in conceiving, making, using, and thinking about the landscape in which they live. How we unravel this behavior and thought embedded in the landscape depends upon a variety of perspectives. The perspective explored th ro ...
... the same line of reasoning applies to the landscape--people have an active role in conceiving, making, using, and thinking about the landscape in which they live. How we unravel this behavior and thought embedded in the landscape depends upon a variety of perspectives. The perspective explored th ro ...
CONTEXTUALIZING ARCHAEOLOGY
... Subsets of archaeology include: prehistory, historical archaeology (including industrial archaeology), classical archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, public archaeology (including heritage studies and cultural resource management)… ...
... Subsets of archaeology include: prehistory, historical archaeology (including industrial archaeology), classical archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, public archaeology (including heritage studies and cultural resource management)… ...
Dr. HS Gour Central University, Sagar
... Prehistoric tools and implements of the following list are to be identified and sketched according to their measurements and described properly. (a) Hand axe Varieties and Chopper / Chopping Tools. (b) Cleaver Varieties ...
... Prehistoric tools and implements of the following list are to be identified and sketched according to their measurements and described properly. (a) Hand axe Varieties and Chopper / Chopping Tools. (b) Cleaver Varieties ...
Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage
... violations by the government towards its citizenry. Civil society, as Sigrid Van der Auwera shows, has made its way into the dominant discourse of heritage policies, which sees it as integral to democratization processes (a Western concept that is analyzed by Cecilia Rodéhn in another chapter). This ...
... violations by the government towards its citizenry. Civil society, as Sigrid Van der Auwera shows, has made its way into the dominant discourse of heritage policies, which sees it as integral to democratization processes (a Western concept that is analyzed by Cecilia Rodéhn in another chapter). This ...
evolution and material culture
... had stagnated on their path to their predestined future. Thus, cultural evolution fitted nicely into the grand colonial project; the enlightened Western states needed no further excuses to bestow their civilisatory blessings on their less developed neighbours. The 19th-century school of cultural evo ...
... had stagnated on their path to their predestined future. Thus, cultural evolution fitted nicely into the grand colonial project; the enlightened Western states needed no further excuses to bestow their civilisatory blessings on their less developed neighbours. The 19th-century school of cultural evo ...
ARTIFACTS AS DOMESTICATED KINDS OF PRACTICES Sergio F
... natural kinds with the aim of using such metaphysical characterization as a basis for scientific epistemology. (refs) Characterizations of “human” or “social kinds” are usually presented in contrast to natural kinds (refs). In the philosophy of science nowadays, however, several discussions stem fr ...
... natural kinds with the aim of using such metaphysical characterization as a basis for scientific epistemology. (refs) Characterizations of “human” or “social kinds” are usually presented in contrast to natural kinds (refs). In the philosophy of science nowadays, however, several discussions stem fr ...
Cultural Identities and Global Political Economy from an
... In my own academic career, I have seen the impacts of these essentialisms in many different arenas. As a co-founder of an inter-college, multi-disciplinary major at Cornell University entitled Biology and Society, I experienced how our students come to us beautifully equipped with biological/cultura ...
... In my own academic career, I have seen the impacts of these essentialisms in many different arenas. As a co-founder of an inter-college, multi-disciplinary major at Cornell University entitled Biology and Society, I experienced how our students come to us beautifully equipped with biological/cultura ...
Law School Admission
... work can be manifested in some physical form, such as a manuscript or a videotape. It also accepts the premise that ownership of an object confers a number of rights on the owner, who may essentially do whatever he or she pleases with the object to the extent that this does not violate other people’ ...
... work can be manifested in some physical form, such as a manuscript or a videotape. It also accepts the premise that ownership of an object confers a number of rights on the owner, who may essentially do whatever he or she pleases with the object to the extent that this does not violate other people’ ...
FROM NATURAL WHOLES TO PARTICULAR UNIVERSALITY
... independent status of ethnography as a discipline. While the two disciplines of archaeology and ethnography still shared institutional framework, they had become theoretically incompatible with each other. Ethnographic artefacts could no longer be applied as comparative material for Danish pre-hist ...
... independent status of ethnography as a discipline. While the two disciplines of archaeology and ethnography still shared institutional framework, they had become theoretically incompatible with each other. Ethnographic artefacts could no longer be applied as comparative material for Danish pre-hist ...