Why A Public AnthroPology? - Center for a Public Anthropology
... but not for the larger society that makes anthropology possible. As you will see, cultural anthropology could potentially be of enormous benefit to the larger society. It could not only enrich our collective understandings of people around the globe but also transform the quality of many people’s li ...
... but not for the larger society that makes anthropology possible. As you will see, cultural anthropology could potentially be of enormous benefit to the larger society. It could not only enrich our collective understandings of people around the globe but also transform the quality of many people’s li ...
Reclaiming Applied Anthropology: Its Past, Present, and Future
... and actions they depicted (Marcus and Fischer 1986). Studies of “cultures” and “tribes” gave way to studies of “ethnic groups,” then of “communities” and “problems.” This “diverted gaze” away from describing particular cultures was in response to new questions about the ability of anthropologists to ...
... and actions they depicted (Marcus and Fischer 1986). Studies of “cultures” and “tribes” gave way to studies of “ethnic groups,” then of “communities” and “problems.” This “diverted gaze” away from describing particular cultures was in response to new questions about the ability of anthropologists to ...
chapter - International Institute of Anthropology
... The emic view and the value orientation of cultural relativism are unique contributions that anthropology can make to policy decisions. ANS: T PG: ...
... The emic view and the value orientation of cultural relativism are unique contributions that anthropology can make to policy decisions. ANS: T PG: ...
Advocacy in Anthropology: Active engagement or passive
... made between anthropologists contracted to research, interpret and possibly represent local people, to the situation of ‘academic’ anthropologists who in the process of carrying out ethnography find themselves with the dilemma or opportunity of moving beyond research to engage in advocacy on behalf ...
... made between anthropologists contracted to research, interpret and possibly represent local people, to the situation of ‘academic’ anthropologists who in the process of carrying out ethnography find themselves with the dilemma or opportunity of moving beyond research to engage in advocacy on behalf ...
Anthropology in Cameroon
... familiarity. The first of these, Phyllis Kaberry (1910-1977), famous for her ethnography Women of the Grassfields (1952), trained as an anthropologist at the LSE under Audrey Richards. Kaberry was invited by the colonial government to study the economic position of women in the Bamenda region after ...
... familiarity. The first of these, Phyllis Kaberry (1910-1977), famous for her ethnography Women of the Grassfields (1952), trained as an anthropologist at the LSE under Audrey Richards. Kaberry was invited by the colonial government to study the economic position of women in the Bamenda region after ...
the Role of Anthropology in Development
... carry preconceptions and biases. With this in mind, I must admit to being rather shocked by Nolan’s assertion that anthropologists carry ‘few preconceptions’ about the subjects of their research (2002). I find this remark at best highly optimistic, and would be more inclined to agree with Escobar: “ ...
... carry preconceptions and biases. With this in mind, I must admit to being rather shocked by Nolan’s assertion that anthropologists carry ‘few preconceptions’ about the subjects of their research (2002). I find this remark at best highly optimistic, and would be more inclined to agree with Escobar: “ ...
Beyond Sontag as a reader of Lévi-Strauss: `anthropologist as hero
... To a large extent, this may still be how the practice of anthropology is viewed from outside the discipline. Yet, as anthropologists increasingly study groups that are not necessarily ‘non-Western’ or located abroad, as they study elites or their own societies, or celebrate their intervention into s ...
... To a large extent, this may still be how the practice of anthropology is viewed from outside the discipline. Yet, as anthropologists increasingly study groups that are not necessarily ‘non-Western’ or located abroad, as they study elites or their own societies, or celebrate their intervention into s ...
David Vine Associate Professor Department of Anthropology
... Dell, Hymes, “The Use of Anthropology: Critical, Personal, Political.” In Reinventing Anthropology, edited by Dell Hymes (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969), 45. 2 Catherine Lutz points out that across the social sciences, academics have made a “sharp distinction between theoretical and ...
... Dell, Hymes, “The Use of Anthropology: Critical, Personal, Political.” In Reinventing Anthropology, edited by Dell Hymes (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969), 45. 2 Catherine Lutz points out that across the social sciences, academics have made a “sharp distinction between theoretical and ...
HCCKotreview12006
... 19. Colop’s 4 ethical failures of anthropology 20. Nordstrom’s “ethnography of war” ethics (2 issues) 21. “deromanticizing” the revolution 22. During a war both sides often commit atrocities 23. Why do anthropologists describe their perspective in the introduction to ...
... 19. Colop’s 4 ethical failures of anthropology 20. Nordstrom’s “ethnography of war” ethics (2 issues) 21. “deromanticizing” the revolution 22. During a war both sides often commit atrocities 23. Why do anthropologists describe their perspective in the introduction to ...
Career Paths in Anthropology 10/6/09
... trade derivatives if they have the ability to learn new concepts and work well in a team environment. Even if knowledge of structural versus functional anthropology does not prove central to a student’s career, anthropology demands skills of students that can be utilized in other settings. Anderson ...
... trade derivatives if they have the ability to learn new concepts and work well in a team environment. Even if knowledge of structural versus functional anthropology does not prove central to a student’s career, anthropology demands skills of students that can be utilized in other settings. Anderson ...
Review Sheet for Test 1
... 19. Colop’s 4 ethical failures of anthropology 20. Nordstrom’s “ethnography of war” ethics (2 issues) 21. “deromanticizing” the revolution 22. During a war both sides often commit atrocities 23. Why do anthropologists describe their perspective in the introduction to some ethnographies? ________ ...
... 19. Colop’s 4 ethical failures of anthropology 20. Nordstrom’s “ethnography of war” ethics (2 issues) 21. “deromanticizing” the revolution 22. During a war both sides often commit atrocities 23. Why do anthropologists describe their perspective in the introduction to some ethnographies? ________ ...
Confidentiality and pseudonyms
... When I started to write up the data from my first and second fieldwork experiences, I discovered the awkwardness of my promise of confidentiality. It is a good anthropological tradition to give one’s informants and their community pseudonyms, but I soon realized that in this case such a measure woul ...
... When I started to write up the data from my first and second fieldwork experiences, I discovered the awkwardness of my promise of confidentiality. It is a good anthropological tradition to give one’s informants and their community pseudonyms, but I soon realized that in this case such a measure woul ...
HAU HAU
... just as easily read Deleuze, Agamben,or Foucault in the original? A project like HAU is exactly what‟s needed to begin to reverse this bizarre selfstrangulation. It is a journal that dares to defy the Great Man theory of intellectual history, to recognize that most ordinary human beings, the world o ...
... just as easily read Deleuze, Agamben,or Foucault in the original? A project like HAU is exactly what‟s needed to begin to reverse this bizarre selfstrangulation. It is a journal that dares to defy the Great Man theory of intellectual history, to recognize that most ordinary human beings, the world o ...
Anthropology and Development
... ”…the anthropologist should restrict his research to the investigation of scientific problems for the reason that the value of social anthropology to the arts of politics and administration must depend on its theoretical advance” (1946:93) ”…an anthropologist who acts as adviser, or consultant, ...
... ”…the anthropologist should restrict his research to the investigation of scientific problems for the reason that the value of social anthropology to the arts of politics and administration must depend on its theoretical advance” (1946:93) ”…an anthropologist who acts as adviser, or consultant, ...
PDF - Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
... the half-giant, Dobby, the house-elf and Griphook, the goblin, are all represented as creatures capable of acts of kindness, sacrifice and selflessness – signs of moral consciousness that we associate usually with humans. In the Percy Jackson books, Grover, the satyr can magically empathize with Per ...
... the half-giant, Dobby, the house-elf and Griphook, the goblin, are all represented as creatures capable of acts of kindness, sacrifice and selflessness – signs of moral consciousness that we associate usually with humans. In the Percy Jackson books, Grover, the satyr can magically empathize with Per ...
Anthropology
... Robert Redfield & Italian peasant community: different reports on peasant values might be due to the choices made by observers and writers as to which aspects of social situation they choose to stress. Native anthropologist can deal with social phenomena from the point of view different from that of ...
... Robert Redfield & Italian peasant community: different reports on peasant values might be due to the choices made by observers and writers as to which aspects of social situation they choose to stress. Native anthropologist can deal with social phenomena from the point of view different from that of ...
19th & 20th Century Theorists
... (pictures, words, text, things) Symbols as “extrinsic sources of information” – information about belief, cosmology, etc. that are outside individual psychology, but interact with individual psychology through society and culture. Symbols as “models of and models for reality” model of reality in tha ...
... (pictures, words, text, things) Symbols as “extrinsic sources of information” – information about belief, cosmology, etc. that are outside individual psychology, but interact with individual psychology through society and culture. Symbols as “models of and models for reality” model of reality in tha ...
Review of Keith Thomas `Religion and the Decline
... nineteenth century in the work of men like Morgan, Maine, Maitland and in the sociology of Marx and Weber. It was only in the relatively brief period between approximately 1914 and 1950 that the two disciplines grew apart, anthropologists rejecting 'conjectural history' and historians showing little ...
... nineteenth century in the work of men like Morgan, Maine, Maitland and in the sociology of Marx and Weber. It was only in the relatively brief period between approximately 1914 and 1950 that the two disciplines grew apart, anthropologists rejecting 'conjectural history' and historians showing little ...
Anth - UCSB Anthropology
... reaches of those to whom one talks; one can have partial access to one’s own, and through involvement at least begin to understand what some of the others may have been experiencing.” Tanya Luhrmann, Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft ...
... reaches of those to whom one talks; one can have partial access to one’s own, and through involvement at least begin to understand what some of the others may have been experiencing.” Tanya Luhrmann, Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft ...