Horizontal and vertical relations
... understanding of Christianity, one has to begin somewhere, and that can only be by creating individual Christians. These, one hopes, will become the leaven of the whole lump. (Sidaway 1969:143–44) ...
... understanding of Christianity, one has to begin somewhere, and that can only be by creating individual Christians. These, one hopes, will become the leaven of the whole lump. (Sidaway 1969:143–44) ...
Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology
... it does not treat terms as independent entities, taking instead as its basis of analysis the relations between terms; third, it introduces the concept of system-"Modern phonemics does not merely proclaim that phonemes are always part of a system; it shows concrete phonemic systems and elucidates the ...
... it does not treat terms as independent entities, taking instead as its basis of analysis the relations between terms; third, it introduces the concept of system-"Modern phonemics does not merely proclaim that phonemes are always part of a system; it shows concrete phonemic systems and elucidates the ...
Anatomy Anthropology (ANTH)
... used in research in physical/biological anthropology. The topics under study include: the scientific method, principles of evolution, human genetics, human osteology, anthropometrics, forensic anthropology, anatomy and behavior of living nonhuman primates, and paleoanthropology. ANTH 101 Introducti ...
... used in research in physical/biological anthropology. The topics under study include: the scientific method, principles of evolution, human genetics, human osteology, anthropometrics, forensic anthropology, anatomy and behavior of living nonhuman primates, and paleoanthropology. ANTH 101 Introducti ...
Nepal - Jagadish Rana
... small measure to "the taste for the exotic". Besides, it has brought with it awareness, pride and renewed interest in one's cultural heritage. Recently the French Cultural Centre in Nepal, sponsored a public performance of one of the most exotic Tantric dances, the Bhairava. It was novel experience ...
... small measure to "the taste for the exotic". Besides, it has brought with it awareness, pride and renewed interest in one's cultural heritage. Recently the French Cultural Centre in Nepal, sponsored a public performance of one of the most exotic Tantric dances, the Bhairava. It was novel experience ...
Eugenic Acculturation Manuel Gamio, Migration Studies, and the
... Although the validity of the concept of race was a major topic of debate during the twentieth century, the central place of racial concepts in developmental and evolutionary thought is not often recognized by those who study ...
... Although the validity of the concept of race was a major topic of debate during the twentieth century, the central place of racial concepts in developmental and evolutionary thought is not often recognized by those who study ...
Supplement A from Henrich and Boyd, “Division of Labor, Economic
... how economic inequality between social groups can arise and be maintained even when the only adaptive learning process driving cultural evolution increases individuals’ economic gains. The key assumptions are that human populations are structured into groups and that cultural learning is more likely ...
... how economic inequality between social groups can arise and be maintained even when the only adaptive learning process driving cultural evolution increases individuals’ economic gains. The key assumptions are that human populations are structured into groups and that cultural learning is more likely ...
The Implications of Thermogenic Modification for Anthropological
... burning acts as an extrinsic force. Archaeology is the subfield of anthropology, or in some areas of the world, a discipline of itself, that has a strong history of methods for recovering remains, including those that have been burned. Archaeological theory is divided into different subperspectives ...
... burning acts as an extrinsic force. Archaeology is the subfield of anthropology, or in some areas of the world, a discipline of itself, that has a strong history of methods for recovering remains, including those that have been burned. Archaeological theory is divided into different subperspectives ...
Oscar Lewis` culture of poverty: critique and further development
... “Thus does Lewis attempt to move back and forth from individual to family to culture. The attempt is not altogether successful. The transitions, connections, and interrelations among the different levels of analysis are never entirely clear” (1968; 51). Valentine also criticizes the way Lewis’ findi ...
... “Thus does Lewis attempt to move back and forth from individual to family to culture. The attempt is not altogether successful. The transitions, connections, and interrelations among the different levels of analysis are never entirely clear” (1968; 51). Valentine also criticizes the way Lewis’ findi ...
The Photographic Image and Imagination in
... been considered more “scientific” [Mjaaland 2004, 2006], I continued to use the photograph as beyondness: as an indexical fragment of the real, always pointing back to a reality beyond itself as image and indicating, in a metonymic sense, a continuation of space and time beyond its own frame [Barthe ...
... been considered more “scientific” [Mjaaland 2004, 2006], I continued to use the photograph as beyondness: as an indexical fragment of the real, always pointing back to a reality beyond itself as image and indicating, in a metonymic sense, a continuation of space and time beyond its own frame [Barthe ...
1 The archaeology of disasters: past and future trends
... evolutionary path to complexity. As a result, scholars focused on what they saw as ‘normal patterns of behaviour’ and ‘had little to say about systems whose normal coping mechanisms failed’ (cf. Torry, 1979: 518, 521). In contrast, disasters are an important subject for study because, as noted by Ol ...
... evolutionary path to complexity. As a result, scholars focused on what they saw as ‘normal patterns of behaviour’ and ‘had little to say about systems whose normal coping mechanisms failed’ (cf. Torry, 1979: 518, 521). In contrast, disasters are an important subject for study because, as noted by Ol ...
test-gca-erickson-t1.pdf
... Service plays that role: as the means through which greeting cards are received ...
... Service plays that role: as the means through which greeting cards are received ...
Machine learning applications in anthropology: automated discovery
... example, an aunt is the sister of a mother or father. These additional link types would have to be added as attributes to each tuple. Further, consider the less specific relationships such as "ancestor". Representation of a general concept such as this would be exceedingly awkward, if not impossible ...
... example, an aunt is the sister of a mother or father. These additional link types would have to be added as attributes to each tuple. Further, consider the less specific relationships such as "ancestor". Representation of a general concept such as this would be exceedingly awkward, if not impossible ...
Archaeometry and materiality: materials
... world of objects that exists prior to its description by subjects, is viewed as inanimate and immutable. The world is also composed of subjects who, in contrast, are considered to be animate and are therefore invested with the ability to act and describe the inanimate world of objects. Fundamentally ...
... world of objects that exists prior to its description by subjects, is viewed as inanimate and immutable. The world is also composed of subjects who, in contrast, are considered to be animate and are therefore invested with the ability to act and describe the inanimate world of objects. Fundamentally ...
Paul Shankman. The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an
... the nature-nurture debate and during which fellow anthropologist of Western Samoan culture, Bradd Shore, critiqued Freeman’s book, criticizing it for relying on personal attacks of Mead and for its failure to provide practical feedback regarding how to build, improve, or make a stronger the type of ...
... the nature-nurture debate and during which fellow anthropologist of Western Samoan culture, Bradd Shore, critiqued Freeman’s book, criticizing it for relying on personal attacks of Mead and for its failure to provide practical feedback regarding how to build, improve, or make a stronger the type of ...
Globalization and the Hajj Pilgrimage: From a Brief History to the
... Bianchi’s chapter discusses that Hajj travel has become a politicized feature of daily life in Indonesia and Turkey. In both countries government “sponsorship of the Hajj generates a steady stream of scandals, subsidies, services, contracts, investments, and patronage” (p. 65). Requests for favoriti ...
... Bianchi’s chapter discusses that Hajj travel has become a politicized feature of daily life in Indonesia and Turkey. In both countries government “sponsorship of the Hajj generates a steady stream of scandals, subsidies, services, contracts, investments, and patronage” (p. 65). Requests for favoriti ...
Printable Version
... The kind of world-view in which people believe that humans are not separate from nature and the supernatural. Living creatures and non-living objects in nature as well as supernatural beings are thought to be human-like in their motivations, feelings, and interactions. They all are perceived as "tho ...
... The kind of world-view in which people believe that humans are not separate from nature and the supernatural. Living creatures and non-living objects in nature as well as supernatural beings are thought to be human-like in their motivations, feelings, and interactions. They all are perceived as "tho ...
The Return of Ishi`s Brain: After an Unsettling
... turns out— wrote to Anthropology News to testify that her father was a "profoundly ethical person" who "loved his friends," including Ishi. The exchanges in the newsletter continued throughout the fall, with Jonathan Marks, a visiting associate professor at Berkeley, accusing the Smithsonian of drag ...
... turns out— wrote to Anthropology News to testify that her father was a "profoundly ethical person" who "loved his friends," including Ishi. The exchanges in the newsletter continued throughout the fall, with Jonathan Marks, a visiting associate professor at Berkeley, accusing the Smithsonian of drag ...
On Recent Trends in the Anthropology of Foragers: Kalahari
... model, broadly marked by the appearance of Man the hunter (Lee and DeVore 1968), adopts a somewhat static or equilibrium view of forager societies that nevertheless attributes to them at least a modest historical dimension. Archaeology is the subdiscipline that studies cultural change over long peri ...
... model, broadly marked by the appearance of Man the hunter (Lee and DeVore 1968), adopts a somewhat static or equilibrium view of forager societies that nevertheless attributes to them at least a modest historical dimension. Archaeology is the subdiscipline that studies cultural change over long peri ...
flexible capitalism
... in an enquiry into the dynamics through which sociality, in a more open and basic sense, is forged (e.g. Strathern 1988; cf. Long and Moore 2013). The collection thus aims to convince a wider readership that an anthropologically informed perspective on exchange provides a way of deepening and extend ...
... in an enquiry into the dynamics through which sociality, in a more open and basic sense, is forged (e.g. Strathern 1988; cf. Long and Moore 2013). The collection thus aims to convince a wider readership that an anthropologically informed perspective on exchange provides a way of deepening and extend ...
Document
... All the same the debates have moved on in some respects. Despite his affirmation of determinism, Gellner was far from the positions taken by evolutionary psychologists today. He rejected the idea of innate kinship sentiments – while implicitly acknowledging its popular appeal – as a mere myth of our ...
... All the same the debates have moved on in some respects. Despite his affirmation of determinism, Gellner was far from the positions taken by evolutionary psychologists today. He rejected the idea of innate kinship sentiments – while implicitly acknowledging its popular appeal – as a mere myth of our ...
Rethinking the culture-economy dialectic Brons, Lajos Ludovic
... passions. Hence, while reason should guide our behaviour, it often does not. Hume (1740) took a further step by claiming that the passions not only control reason but that they should control it: 'Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office th ...
... passions. Hence, while reason should guide our behaviour, it often does not. Hume (1740) took a further step by claiming that the passions not only control reason but that they should control it: 'Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office th ...
David Graeber Radical alterity is just another way of
... and consider what’s at stake before proceeding. We appear to be in the presence of two quite different conceptions of what anthropology is ultimately about. Are we unsettling our categories so as (1) to better understand the “radical alterity” of a specific group of people (whoever “we” are here tak ...
... and consider what’s at stake before proceeding. We appear to be in the presence of two quite different conceptions of what anthropology is ultimately about. Are we unsettling our categories so as (1) to better understand the “radical alterity” of a specific group of people (whoever “we” are here tak ...
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.