Agency between humanism and posthumanism
... A Latourian analysis does not deny human agency but examines how other things mediate that agency. These things can take many forms. A surfer or a white-water kayaker might say that she struggles to become “one with the water,” to sense through the surfboard or the kayak, the water’s every movement ...
... A Latourian analysis does not deny human agency but examines how other things mediate that agency. These things can take many forms. A surfer or a white-water kayaker might say that she struggles to become “one with the water,” to sense through the surfboard or the kayak, the water’s every movement ...
Cultural Transformations and Globalization: Theory, Development
... Related to evolution, but almost its opposite, is cultural involution--a form of stagnating change. The term involution was used by Clifford Geertz (1963) in his discussion of agriculture in Java. The concept is borrowed from art history, where, in certain types of style, e.g., Byzantine and Rococo ...
... Related to evolution, but almost its opposite, is cultural involution--a form of stagnating change. The term involution was used by Clifford Geertz (1963) in his discussion of agriculture in Java. The concept is borrowed from art history, where, in certain types of style, e.g., Byzantine and Rococo ...
Fulltext - Brunel University Research Archive
... emotion one of a set of interrelated problem-aspects rather than a distinct topic or explicit focus of interest (Biehl et al., 2007; Csordas, 2002; Jackson, 1989). The above litany needs quotes because the key terms refer not to transparent concepts or standard fields of interest—unlike, say, cognit ...
... emotion one of a set of interrelated problem-aspects rather than a distinct topic or explicit focus of interest (Biehl et al., 2007; Csordas, 2002; Jackson, 1989). The above litany needs quotes because the key terms refer not to transparent concepts or standard fields of interest—unlike, say, cognit ...
Ethics and feminist research: theory and practice
... explicit theoretical grounding in a feminist ethics of care would enhance many feminist and other discussions of the research process where such discussions are concerned with ethical dilemmas. Such work, however, rarely draws on these theories, although authors may often implicitly work within or t ...
... explicit theoretical grounding in a feminist ethics of care would enhance many feminist and other discussions of the research process where such discussions are concerned with ethical dilemmas. Such work, however, rarely draws on these theories, although authors may often implicitly work within or t ...
Department of Sociology and Anthropology Dr. Timothy J. Carter, Head Sociology Program Coordinator
... Mission Statement ...
... Mission Statement ...
Brian Howell, Whither and Whence the Anthropology of Christianity?
... value, as well as limits on the ways those values are conceptualized and subsequently articulated and contested. Another area more wholly emerging from the anthropology of Christianity is a concerted effort to bring anthropology together with theology in newly productive ways. Like the anthropology ...
... value, as well as limits on the ways those values are conceptualized and subsequently articulated and contested. Another area more wholly emerging from the anthropology of Christianity is a concerted effort to bring anthropology together with theology in newly productive ways. Like the anthropology ...
Anthropology - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... Cultural Anthropology combines ethnography and ethnology to study human societies and cultures for the purpose of explaining social and cultural similarities and differences. Ethnography produces an account (a book, an article, or a film) of a particular community, society, or culture based on infor ...
... Cultural Anthropology combines ethnography and ethnology to study human societies and cultures for the purpose of explaining social and cultural similarities and differences. Ethnography produces an account (a book, an article, or a film) of a particular community, society, or culture based on infor ...
B. Kapferer: In the event
... scientific rigor. The common representation of anthropology as a qualitative, interpretive discipline is often used to excuse anthropologists from certain criteria of scientific validation. The measures employed in anthropology might be different from many of the physical or biological sciences, but ...
... scientific rigor. The common representation of anthropology as a qualitative, interpretive discipline is often used to excuse anthropologists from certain criteria of scientific validation. The measures employed in anthropology might be different from many of the physical or biological sciences, but ...
Michael Harkin, “Ethnohistory`s Ethnohistory: Creating a Discipline
... American Indian research, it becomes a safe haven for all sorts of scholarship operating at the intersection of history and anthropology. Ethnohistory filled a definite gap; the ignoring, if not active suppression, of historical studies was characteristic of the flagship journal American Anthropol ...
... American Indian research, it becomes a safe haven for all sorts of scholarship operating at the intersection of history and anthropology. Ethnohistory filled a definite gap; the ignoring, if not active suppression, of historical studies was characteristic of the flagship journal American Anthropol ...
CONRAD AND MALINOWSKI: THE PREDICAMENT OF CULTURE
... theories, re-writes them and re-applies them to the “real” world;25 Edward Said confirms this point of view: Conrad draws our attention to “...how ideas and values are constructed (and deconstructed) through dislocations in the narrator’s language.”26 We have such a cognitive situation in the case of ...
... theories, re-writes them and re-applies them to the “real” world;25 Edward Said confirms this point of view: Conrad draws our attention to “...how ideas and values are constructed (and deconstructed) through dislocations in the narrator’s language.”26 We have such a cognitive situation in the case of ...
Ethics—Walk the Talk
... Your messages, both written and spoken, demonstrate not only the message, you intended but also a message regarding your values and integrity. Use these guidelines to evaluate your purpose and motives in each situations. The guidelines are: 1.Message purpose 2.Research methods 3.Selection of mater ...
... Your messages, both written and spoken, demonstrate not only the message, you intended but also a message regarding your values and integrity. Use these guidelines to evaluate your purpose and motives in each situations. The guidelines are: 1.Message purpose 2.Research methods 3.Selection of mater ...
Interest Group for the Anthropology of Public Policy
... among actors, organizations, and institutions involved in or affected by them at all levels. Policy links together people and entities—many of whom never interact personally or directly— who are dispersed among the arenas of interaction through which policy processes are diffused across place and ti ...
... among actors, organizations, and institutions involved in or affected by them at all levels. Policy links together people and entities—many of whom never interact personally or directly— who are dispersed among the arenas of interaction through which policy processes are diffused across place and ti ...
Interview with Laura Fortunato, Winner of the 2011 Gabriel W
... Atkinson (2003) used the same approach to test between the two main competing hypotheses for the origin of the IE language family; they found support for the scenario proposed by Renfrew (1987), which posits the expansion of IE languages from Anatolia with the spread of agriculture beginning around ...
... Atkinson (2003) used the same approach to test between the two main competing hypotheses for the origin of the IE language family; they found support for the scenario proposed by Renfrew (1987), which posits the expansion of IE languages from Anatolia with the spread of agriculture beginning around ...
Culture and Personality Studies, 1918–1960: Myth and History
... their theoretical inclinations have found some unity in their rejection of the culture and personality studies that were popular before 1950. Graduate students in many anthropology departments have been brought up on cautionary tales derived from anthropology’s public dalliance with psychology and t ...
... their theoretical inclinations have found some unity in their rejection of the culture and personality studies that were popular before 1950. Graduate students in many anthropology departments have been brought up on cautionary tales derived from anthropology’s public dalliance with psychology and t ...
Media Studies as an Academic Discipline
... unavoidably a multidisciplinary endeavor involving psychology, sociology, economics, legal and policy studies, technology studies, etc. The question is not whether communication will continue to be an interdisciplinary field, as it certainly will. The open question is whether communication may also ...
... unavoidably a multidisciplinary endeavor involving psychology, sociology, economics, legal and policy studies, technology studies, etc. The question is not whether communication will continue to be an interdisciplinary field, as it certainly will. The open question is whether communication may also ...
ANTH - UNB
... People have lived in what is now New Brunswick for at least 10,000 years. This course presents an archaeological perspective on the rich and fascinating past of the province, from the earliest archaeological evidence through to the nineteenth century. It is intended for a general audience, as well a ...
... People have lived in what is now New Brunswick for at least 10,000 years. This course presents an archaeological perspective on the rich and fascinating past of the province, from the earliest archaeological evidence through to the nineteenth century. It is intended for a general audience, as well a ...
Anthropological Theory and Intelligence
... seeks to understand meaning from an insider perspective, whereas an etic analysis seeks to make valid generalizations using data derived from a number of cultures. Most view an etic analysis as being more scientific than an emic one, but also more removed from the people being studied. ...
... seeks to understand meaning from an insider perspective, whereas an etic analysis seeks to make valid generalizations using data derived from a number of cultures. Most view an etic analysis as being more scientific than an emic one, but also more removed from the people being studied. ...
ANT 465 - www7 - Northern Arizona University
... Final Paper. Your final paper will bring together the content of this course, our discussions, and the subjects of your two book reviews. You will answer the questions: “What is Indigenous Anthropology? Is Indigenous Anthropology intellectually different from mainstream Anthropology? If so, how so? ...
... Final Paper. Your final paper will bring together the content of this course, our discussions, and the subjects of your two book reviews. You will answer the questions: “What is Indigenous Anthropology? Is Indigenous Anthropology intellectually different from mainstream Anthropology? If so, how so? ...
XML - M/C Journal
... Supplies of London launched The Taste of Emotion, a unique range of seasoning salts collected from human tears. There are five varieties of salt available in the collection, which the company explains have been harvested from humans experiencing all kinds of emotions in various situations (laughing, ...
... Supplies of London launched The Taste of Emotion, a unique range of seasoning salts collected from human tears. There are five varieties of salt available in the collection, which the company explains have been harvested from humans experiencing all kinds of emotions in various situations (laughing, ...
No. 69.pmd - Society of Africanist Archaeologists
... relied heavily on Durkheim’s perspective, anthropology drove itself into a sociological realm, both in theory and methodology. The functional perspective, which dominated discussion at this time, was envisioned and pushed by anthropologists who mainly used sociological approach in their analysis. An ...
... relied heavily on Durkheim’s perspective, anthropology drove itself into a sociological realm, both in theory and methodology. The functional perspective, which dominated discussion at this time, was envisioned and pushed by anthropologists who mainly used sociological approach in their analysis. An ...
Culture: Can You Take It Anywhere?
... this is why participant observation is celebrated among ethnographers. If you venture out into the situations where people live and work, rich points will surface in no time and keep on coming. Culture, then, is first of all a working assumption, an assumption that a translation is both necessary an ...
... this is why participant observation is celebrated among ethnographers. If you venture out into the situations where people live and work, rich points will surface in no time and keep on coming. Culture, then, is first of all a working assumption, an assumption that a translation is both necessary an ...
Introduction
... claims with a skeptical eye. In a book on universals, this approach helps me keep a critical distance from any hastily formed postulates on universals. I am bringing universality and diversity together instead of playing them off each other. For this purpose, I am using, among other materials, the r ...
... claims with a skeptical eye. In a book on universals, this approach helps me keep a critical distance from any hastily formed postulates on universals. I am bringing universality and diversity together instead of playing them off each other. For this purpose, I am using, among other materials, the r ...
The History of Anthropology in the Netherlands
... were mainly students in geography, a situation that lasted until after World War II. After the independence of Indonesia (1949) general ethnology was renamed 'cultural anthropology,' and Indologie was transformed in 1952-53 into 'non-western sociology' or 'sociology of non-western peoples' (Schoorl ...
... were mainly students in geography, a situation that lasted until after World War II. After the independence of Indonesia (1949) general ethnology was renamed 'cultural anthropology,' and Indologie was transformed in 1952-53 into 'non-western sociology' or 'sociology of non-western peoples' (Schoorl ...
What Is Anthropology? - ANT 152
... Welcome to ANT 152! Photo Analysis Questions What role do the kids and teacher play in the school they are in? What are the similarities or differences between the classroom picture you have chosen versus the experience you have had with education? What are the similarities or differences in s ...
... Welcome to ANT 152! Photo Analysis Questions What role do the kids and teacher play in the school they are in? What are the similarities or differences between the classroom picture you have chosen versus the experience you have had with education? What are the similarities or differences in s ...
Ethnicity as a Political Resource - Beck-Shop
... The literature on ethnicity is quite fragmented and compartmentalized. On the one hand, there is some separation between ethnicity, race, and nationhood, i.e. they are sometimes seen as separate fields of study, and not all research perspectives handle them together. On the other hand, the literatur ...
... The literature on ethnicity is quite fragmented and compartmentalized. On the one hand, there is some separation between ethnicity, race, and nationhood, i.e. they are sometimes seen as separate fields of study, and not all research perspectives handle them together. On the other hand, the literatur ...