PDF of this page - Texas State University Catalog
... www.txstate.edu/anthropology (http://www.txstate.edu/anthropology) Anthropology is the study of human cultural and biological variation and evolution. It is a holistic discipline taking into consideration all aspects of human existence. In a general sense, anthropology is concerned with determining ...
... www.txstate.edu/anthropology (http://www.txstate.edu/anthropology) Anthropology is the study of human cultural and biological variation and evolution. It is a holistic discipline taking into consideration all aspects of human existence. In a general sense, anthropology is concerned with determining ...
Planting a Seed: Ute Ethnobotany, A Collaborative Approach in
... The story begins in 2002 on a clear cold November day in Greeley, Colorado. Chapoose (after consultation with long -time friend and associate Crum, who suggested an academic affiliation) approached McBeth and other anthropologists at the University of Northern Colorado about beginning discussions on ...
... The story begins in 2002 on a clear cold November day in Greeley, Colorado. Chapoose (after consultation with long -time friend and associate Crum, who suggested an academic affiliation) approached McBeth and other anthropologists at the University of Northern Colorado about beginning discussions on ...
Hybridity, or the Cultural Logic of Globalization
... Americanization” (p. 361)? I find that these publications associate hybridity with assumptions about the benefits of globalization, free trade, and individual consumer freedom, in effect expressing what I call “corporate transculturalism,’’ hence the title of the chapter. Chapter Five explores what ...
... Americanization” (p. 361)? I find that these publications associate hybridity with assumptions about the benefits of globalization, free trade, and individual consumer freedom, in effect expressing what I call “corporate transculturalism,’’ hence the title of the chapter. Chapter Five explores what ...
Program - Conferences
... the discipline’s lingua franca. More recently, ontologically oriented investigations seem to have captured much of the attention of cultural anthropologists and Foucault’s theoretical insights appear to be less influential in anthropological circles. An exception to this state of affairs may be foun ...
... the discipline’s lingua franca. More recently, ontologically oriented investigations seem to have captured much of the attention of cultural anthropologists and Foucault’s theoretical insights appear to be less influential in anthropological circles. An exception to this state of affairs may be foun ...
Rethinking hybridity and mestizaje
... Robert Young has usefully elaborated the distinction between these two ways of conceptualising hybridity and mixture. Drawing on Bakhtin and Hall, he outlines first a hybridisation that is “organic” (Bakhtin’s term) and that merges different identities into a new forms that may also be contestatory ...
... Robert Young has usefully elaborated the distinction between these two ways of conceptualising hybridity and mixture. Drawing on Bakhtin and Hall, he outlines first a hybridisation that is “organic” (Bakhtin’s term) and that merges different identities into a new forms that may also be contestatory ...
Cultural Relativism
... also grateful to Marcus George Singer, whose moral relativism seminar (in 1983) kindled my interest in this subject. Finally, I’m grateful to my students in P326, Ethical Theory, for useful questions and discussions. ...
... also grateful to Marcus George Singer, whose moral relativism seminar (in 1983) kindled my interest in this subject. Finally, I’m grateful to my students in P326, Ethical Theory, for useful questions and discussions. ...
final before - Milcho Manchevski
... and local correspondents on the one hand, and armchair pundits of humanity on the other. The salience of the disciplinary self-perception can be glimpsed in the continuing salience of fieldwork and its paradoxical cornerstone, participant-observation. Yet the curious location of anthropological know ...
... and local correspondents on the one hand, and armchair pundits of humanity on the other. The salience of the disciplinary self-perception can be glimpsed in the continuing salience of fieldwork and its paradoxical cornerstone, participant-observation. Yet the curious location of anthropological know ...
Schools and Programs - The University of Kansas
... lecturers from different cultural traditions offer indigenous perspectives on their foodways. LEC. ANTH 345. Introduction to Human Evolutionary Biology. 4 Hours N. This course takes students on the evolutionary journey of the human species: from the origin of the primate order to modern human popula ...
... lecturers from different cultural traditions offer indigenous perspectives on their foodways. LEC. ANTH 345. Introduction to Human Evolutionary Biology. 4 Hours N. This course takes students on the evolutionary journey of the human species: from the origin of the primate order to modern human popula ...
Expressions of Drunkenness (Four Hundred Rabbits)
... gender, amount of food ingested, and drinking patterns). Meanwhile, the degrees or the extremes of drunken behavior are influenced by factors ranging from psychological expectations to cultural norms and social acceptance (or lack thereof ). The authors also assert that there is a need globally to u ...
... gender, amount of food ingested, and drinking patterns). Meanwhile, the degrees or the extremes of drunken behavior are influenced by factors ranging from psychological expectations to cultural norms and social acceptance (or lack thereof ). The authors also assert that there is a need globally to u ...
table of contents - Documentary Educational Resources
... elements of the body, are returned to the earth and begin to be broken down. Burial is also often required as an interim between death and cremation so that the family of the deceased has an opportunity to raise the money required to hold a proper ngaben, which may cost between two and three thousan ...
... elements of the body, are returned to the earth and begin to be broken down. Burial is also often required as an interim between death and cremation so that the family of the deceased has an opportunity to raise the money required to hold a proper ngaben, which may cost between two and three thousan ...
New Perspectives of Shamanism in Brazil - Civilisations
... Abstract: Although shamanism has been treated in anthropology as specifically a primitive and indigenous phenomenon, the rise of shamanic rituals practiced by urbanites throughout the world forces us to review our analytical models. The spread of shamanism to non-indigenous cultures is part of a lar ...
... Abstract: Although shamanism has been treated in anthropology as specifically a primitive and indigenous phenomenon, the rise of shamanic rituals practiced by urbanites throughout the world forces us to review our analytical models. The spread of shamanism to non-indigenous cultures is part of a lar ...
Leslie Sponsel
... documented by numerous and diverse critics of Chagnon for some four decades, several of them specialists working with the Yanomami in the field for many years longer than Chagnon. They cannot be so readily dismissed, they remain on record in publications, and these publications cannot be censored by ...
... documented by numerous and diverse critics of Chagnon for some four decades, several of them specialists working with the Yanomami in the field for many years longer than Chagnon. They cannot be so readily dismissed, they remain on record in publications, and these publications cannot be censored by ...
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution - synergy
... to such simplifying assumptions and methods, the relative success of biologists in studying enormously complex biological systems renders such objections open to question. Second, and particularly relevant to this article, the theory of evolution encompasses and integrates a multitude of diverse sub ...
... to such simplifying assumptions and methods, the relative success of biologists in studying enormously complex biological systems renders such objections open to question. Second, and particularly relevant to this article, the theory of evolution encompasses and integrates a multitude of diverse sub ...
Examination Regulations
... 1. The nature of the examinations are dependent on the practitioner level for which a candidate has applied and will normally consist of a portfolio review (FAIII), written and practical examinations (FAII) and case review and oral examination (FAI). 2. All examinations will be conducted in English. ...
... 1. The nature of the examinations are dependent on the practitioner level for which a candidate has applied and will normally consist of a portfolio review (FAIII), written and practical examinations (FAII) and case review and oral examination (FAI). 2. All examinations will be conducted in English. ...
William Curtis Farabee: Ethnographic explorer and museum
... The institutional context of the “museum period” helped to shape both anthropology and its concept of culture. I am using the phrase “cultural ontology” to refer to the ways that anthropology understood the nature and being of culture during this period. The cultural ontology of the “museum period” ...
... The institutional context of the “museum period” helped to shape both anthropology and its concept of culture. I am using the phrase “cultural ontology” to refer to the ways that anthropology understood the nature and being of culture during this period. The cultural ontology of the “museum period” ...
Chapter 01: Thinking and Doing Anthropology
... a. is a research method that involves the anthropologist both observing and participating in another culture b. is an analytical method that uses both cross-cultural data and also informant participation in staged cultural activities c. is used in all subfields and is a primary component of applied ...
... a. is a research method that involves the anthropologist both observing and participating in another culture b. is an analytical method that uses both cross-cultural data and also informant participation in staged cultural activities c. is used in all subfields and is a primary component of applied ...
svetlana slapšak
... to class, he manages to formulate the model of two basic cuisines –low and high, based on complicated and often conflictual relations of hierarchy and social power. For Goody, this is by no means a simple „code“ such as we could instantly and easily understand if social relations and structures were ...
... to class, he manages to formulate the model of two basic cuisines –low and high, based on complicated and often conflictual relations of hierarchy and social power. For Goody, this is by no means a simple „code“ such as we could instantly and easily understand if social relations and structures were ...
Print this article - CBS Open Journals
... Gucci, Prada or whatever. This doesn’t give me anything really. Okay, people are well-dressed, but the new is not there. The new is always in the second-hand places.” I shall return to this rather intriguing and somewhat paradoxical statement about the new being in the second-hand places. For now, i ...
... Gucci, Prada or whatever. This doesn’t give me anything really. Okay, people are well-dressed, but the new is not there. The new is always in the second-hand places.” I shall return to this rather intriguing and somewhat paradoxical statement about the new being in the second-hand places. For now, i ...
Issue as PDF-file - Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies
... 'American lake' in the hope of keeping the mainland safe from attack. According to Friedman, with the country still reeling from a bad case of 'Pearl Harbor Syndrome,' four departments of the Executive Branch - War, Navy, State, and Interior - succeeded in creating a new US strategic sphere in the P ...
... 'American lake' in the hope of keeping the mainland safe from attack. According to Friedman, with the country still reeling from a bad case of 'Pearl Harbor Syndrome,' four departments of the Executive Branch - War, Navy, State, and Interior - succeeded in creating a new US strategic sphere in the P ...
Divided over Tourism: Zapotec Responses to Mexico`s `Magical
... new cultural forms (cf. Bendix 1989; Hiwasaki 2000; Yamashita 2003; Cole 2006; 2007). Central to these approaches is the argument that tourism – cultural and ethnic tourism in particular – has the potential to stimulate and revive a local population’s interest in its past. Hiwasaki (2000: 396) goes ...
... new cultural forms (cf. Bendix 1989; Hiwasaki 2000; Yamashita 2003; Cole 2006; 2007). Central to these approaches is the argument that tourism – cultural and ethnic tourism in particular – has the potential to stimulate and revive a local population’s interest in its past. Hiwasaki (2000: 396) goes ...
Reflections on Margaret Mead`s Legacy for Western Liberal
... specifically, within a tradition of white feminist thought on racial questions. Recent scholarship has exposed the racism within much white feminist practice and history. Scholars such as Hazel Carby, bell hooks, Paula Giddings, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, among oth ...
... specifically, within a tradition of white feminist thought on racial questions. Recent scholarship has exposed the racism within much white feminist practice and history. Scholars such as Hazel Carby, bell hooks, Paula Giddings, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, among oth ...
Sc h o o l o f Ph ilo so... St u d ie s
... national culture: national cinemas can be seen as sites of contestation where the meanings and interpretations of national culture and history can be debated, dismissed or fortified. As a site, the cinema can be conceptualized as a public arena where the meanings of a culture are negotiated, not sim ...
... national culture: national cinemas can be seen as sites of contestation where the meanings and interpretations of national culture and history can be debated, dismissed or fortified. As a site, the cinema can be conceptualized as a public arena where the meanings of a culture are negotiated, not sim ...
A Clarification of Terms: Canadian Multiculturalism
... is the idea that Canadians regardless of race, ethnicity, language or religion are all equal. Multiculturalism therefore guarantees equality before the law (Multiculturalism Act (MA), 1988, Preamble and Article 3; Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), 2008). Multiculturalism is concerned with pr ...
... is the idea that Canadians regardless of race, ethnicity, language or religion are all equal. Multiculturalism therefore guarantees equality before the law (Multiculturalism Act (MA), 1988, Preamble and Article 3; Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), 2008). Multiculturalism is concerned with pr ...
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... ANTH 059. D2:SU: Culture and Environment. 3 Credits. Integrated Social Science Program seminar exploring the importance of anthropological and cultural perspectives for critical understanding of global environmental issues. ANTH 085. D2:Food and Culture. 3 Credits. Examination of the cultivation, pr ...
... ANTH 059. D2:SU: Culture and Environment. 3 Credits. Integrated Social Science Program seminar exploring the importance of anthropological and cultural perspectives for critical understanding of global environmental issues. ANTH 085. D2:Food and Culture. 3 Credits. Examination of the cultivation, pr ...
Cultural anthropology
Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans and is in contrast to social anthropology which perceives cultural variation as a subset of the anthropological constant. A variety of methods are part of anthropological methodology, including participant observation (often called fieldwork because it involves the anthropologist spending an extended period of time at the research location), interviews, and surveys.One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term ""culture"" came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: ""Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society."" The term ""civilization"" later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.The anthropological concept of ""culture"" reflects in part a reaction against earlier Western discourses based on an opposition between ""culture"" and ""nature"", according to which some human beings lived in a ""state of nature"". Anthropologists have argued that culture is ""human nature"", and that all people have a capacity to classify experiences, encode classifications symbolically (i.e. in language), and teach such abstractions to others.Since humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, people living in different places or different circumstances develop different cultures. Anthropologists have also pointed out that through culture people can adapt to their environment in non-genetic ways, so people living in different environments will often have different cultures. Much of anthropological theory has originated in an appreciation of and interest in the tension between the local (particular cultures) and the global (a universal human nature, or the web of connections between people in distinct places/circumstances).The rise of cultural anthropology occurred within the context of the late 19th century, when questions regarding which cultures were ""primitive"" and which were ""civilized"" occupied the minds of not only Marx and Freud, but many others. Colonialism and its processes increasingly brought European thinkers in contact, directly or indirectly with ""primitive others."" The relative status of various humans, some of whom had modern advanced technologies that included engines and telegraphs, while others lacked anything but face-to-face communication techniques and still lived a Paleolithic lifestyle, was of interest to the first generation of cultural anthropologists.Parallel with the rise of cultural anthropology in the United States, social anthropology, in which sociality is the central concept and which focuses on the study of social statuses and roles, groups, institutions, and the relations among them—developed as an academic discipline in Britain and in France. An umbrella term socio-cultural anthropology makes reference to both cultural and social anthropology traditions.