Robert Mcc. Netting - National Academy of Sciences
... ously constrained by the limit placed on resources—namely, meadows, gardens, grain fields, and water to irrigate them. Households with extended family units that included maiden aunts, or celibate uncles became more common through time; but when emigration and wage labor opportunities presented them ...
... ously constrained by the limit placed on resources—namely, meadows, gardens, grain fields, and water to irrigate them. Households with extended family units that included maiden aunts, or celibate uncles became more common through time; but when emigration and wage labor opportunities presented them ...
PDF - ASSA ABLOY Catalogue
... production. I chose a rather ‘surreal’ image to reflect upon the social life and epistemological grounding of anthropological-‘text-making’ and to represent existing power-relations in which ethnographic encounters have been imbedded throughout our discipline’s history. But are they therefore less r ...
... production. I chose a rather ‘surreal’ image to reflect upon the social life and epistemological grounding of anthropological-‘text-making’ and to represent existing power-relations in which ethnographic encounters have been imbedded throughout our discipline’s history. But are they therefore less r ...
Blood of My Blood - The George Washington University
... continues to ritually hunt deer, feast, and dance in a historically driven and traditional manner. He also explores the positive attitude taken by most local residents with regard to the increase in international tourism. Ghana Cultural commodification Tourism and identity maintenance Cultural anthr ...
... continues to ritually hunt deer, feast, and dance in a historically driven and traditional manner. He also explores the positive attitude taken by most local residents with regard to the increase in international tourism. Ghana Cultural commodification Tourism and identity maintenance Cultural anthr ...
CULTURAL ECOLOGY AND THE INDIGENOUS LANDSCAPE
... (Figure 1), hunting and gathering the many resources that abound in the region and adapting to the changes in their environment over time. The earliest inhabitants were probably Paleoindian peoples who arrived toward the end of the Pleistocene, hunting the now-extinct megafauna that roamed the area ...
... (Figure 1), hunting and gathering the many resources that abound in the region and adapting to the changes in their environment over time. The earliest inhabitants were probably Paleoindian peoples who arrived toward the end of the Pleistocene, hunting the now-extinct megafauna that roamed the area ...
The Future and Frontiers of Culturalized Properties in the Global South
... capital accumulation that privileges informational goods, the use of local cultural specificity as a means of capturing monopoly rents has accelerated (Harvey, 2001). Ironically, this is a strategy proffered in response to global capitalist forces that are understood to be culturally ...
... capital accumulation that privileges informational goods, the use of local cultural specificity as a means of capturing monopoly rents has accelerated (Harvey, 2001). Ironically, this is a strategy proffered in response to global capitalist forces that are understood to be culturally ...
Creolization in Anthropological Theory and in Mauritius
... cultural meaning is being reproduced and transmitted between generations and that natives do classify and create boundaries, often amidst powerful tendencies of cultural mixing. The views of culture as continuum and variation as endemic are uncomfortably uncontroversial today (see Fox & King, 2002, ...
... cultural meaning is being reproduced and transmitted between generations and that natives do classify and create boundaries, often amidst powerful tendencies of cultural mixing. The views of culture as continuum and variation as endemic are uncomfortably uncontroversial today (see Fox & King, 2002, ...
Print this article - Forum: Qualitative Social Research
... what I chose to report, were an expression of my own cultural code. So, from a socio-psychological perspective, by being the object of study I did not only learn about myself but also about my own society (STRATHERN 1987, p.17) and about its value system in which I had been enculturated. [4] Another ...
... what I chose to report, were an expression of my own cultural code. So, from a socio-psychological perspective, by being the object of study I did not only learn about myself but also about my own society (STRATHERN 1987, p.17) and about its value system in which I had been enculturated. [4] Another ...
Bayan Nila: Pilipino Culture Nights and Student Performance at
... In any discussion of Asian-American performance, homeland practices and representation should be understood within this dynamic exchange between Asia and America (rather than one practice simply informing the other). Within the Filipina/o context, the history of these practices cannot be understood ...
... In any discussion of Asian-American performance, homeland practices and representation should be understood within this dynamic exchange between Asia and America (rather than one practice simply informing the other). Within the Filipina/o context, the history of these practices cannot be understood ...
The ethnographic present revisited
... things change at the same rate? No. In fact sociocultural life is like a highway where some sociocultural items travel faster than others. The best example I can find for discussing this point is generations. In an agricultural community, the price of products may well change daily, but do the minds ...
... things change at the same rate? No. In fact sociocultural life is like a highway where some sociocultural items travel faster than others. The best example I can find for discussing this point is generations. In an agricultural community, the price of products may well change daily, but do the minds ...
Cultural Landscape - Society for California Archaeology
... illustrated in Karl Butzer's model--Perception, spatial behavior, and the archaeological record (see Figure 1). In this model, the real environment is the physical and biological environment in which people live. Information about the environment is psychologically filtered, or in other words, eleme ...
... illustrated in Karl Butzer's model--Perception, spatial behavior, and the archaeological record (see Figure 1). In this model, the real environment is the physical and biological environment in which people live. Information about the environment is psychologically filtered, or in other words, eleme ...
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... 1-Is Iran really moving towards a democracy appropriate to a multi-ethnicity culture in line with world changes? 2-If now, which factors hander the process of democratization in this country? 3-In what ways and active political participation seeking structure and culture can be achieved in Iran? Att ...
... 1-Is Iran really moving towards a democracy appropriate to a multi-ethnicity culture in line with world changes? 2-If now, which factors hander the process of democratization in this country? 3-In what ways and active political participation seeking structure and culture can be achieved in Iran? Att ...
invisible fences: egalitarianism, nationalism and racism
... and this makes you an immigrant to Norway.’ The woman, who had apparently hoped to throw off this label, voiced her disappointment and posed a further question. ‘But for how long will I then continue to be an immigrant?’ ‘All your life’, answered the professor. The conversation then reached its peak ...
... and this makes you an immigrant to Norway.’ The woman, who had apparently hoped to throw off this label, voiced her disappointment and posed a further question. ‘But for how long will I then continue to be an immigrant?’ ‘All your life’, answered the professor. The conversation then reached its peak ...
Interdisciplinariteit in jeugdhulpverlening en
... 5.1 The western discovery of adolescence and ethnocentrism Adolescence was already depicted as an allegory of the life stages on an Arabic fresco in Moorish Spain in the 8th century after Christ. In 1556 adolescence was determined as the period between 14 and 28 years of age, which starts when a pe ...
... 5.1 The western discovery of adolescence and ethnocentrism Adolescence was already depicted as an allegory of the life stages on an Arabic fresco in Moorish Spain in the 8th century after Christ. In 1556 adolescence was determined as the period between 14 and 28 years of age, which starts when a pe ...
What is culturally informed psychiatry? Cultural understanding and
... defined as the systems of knowledge, concepts, rules and practices that are learned and transmitted across generations, yet are open, dynamic and undergo continuous changes over time. The formulation emphasises that cultural information must not be overgeneralised or stereotype groups of fixed cultura ...
... defined as the systems of knowledge, concepts, rules and practices that are learned and transmitted across generations, yet are open, dynamic and undergo continuous changes over time. The formulation emphasises that cultural information must not be overgeneralised or stereotype groups of fixed cultura ...
The sources of this essay are a bias
... I have to confess at the outset that I find efforts to reconcile symbolic and historical studies fundamentally misconceived. Although the dialogue/dialectic between synchrony and diachrony, paradigm and syntagm, myth and history, culture and praxis, and structure and process has been a mainstay of t ...
... I have to confess at the outset that I find efforts to reconcile symbolic and historical studies fundamentally misconceived. Although the dialogue/dialectic between synchrony and diachrony, paradigm and syntagm, myth and history, culture and praxis, and structure and process has been a mainstay of t ...
ANTH 2351 - HCC Learning Web
... video is an example of. Many of these themes are present in the Essay options, so even if you choose not to do certain Essays, it is good to consider those that do deal with the assigned additional readings and videos as "reviews". Social Inequalities: Class & Caste How does the American Dream relat ...
... video is an example of. Many of these themes are present in the Essay options, so even if you choose not to do certain Essays, it is good to consider those that do deal with the assigned additional readings and videos as "reviews". Social Inequalities: Class & Caste How does the American Dream relat ...
Loads of different rituals, important are
... CA is not primarily interested in universal cultural characteristics, but in the particularities. Cultural universals are (usually) biologically based. Anthropology always works from the particular towards the general, instead of the other way around like with most other sciences. ...
... CA is not primarily interested in universal cultural characteristics, but in the particularities. Cultural universals are (usually) biologically based. Anthropology always works from the particular towards the general, instead of the other way around like with most other sciences. ...
Daniel M. Goldstein-page 1 20. Aim and scope of the project
... is accompanied by worsening poverty, diminishing health and sanitary conditions, and mounting interpersonal violence. Displaced from their rural origins, migrants often find themselves in a harsh urban environment where the old support networks no longer function, and where old social identities are ...
... is accompanied by worsening poverty, diminishing health and sanitary conditions, and mounting interpersonal violence. Displaced from their rural origins, migrants often find themselves in a harsh urban environment where the old support networks no longer function, and where old social identities are ...
Globalization is notoriously difficult to define, but all commentators
... reduction of all the world’s peoples to mindless lackeys of hegemonic Western imperialism. Instead, globalization is both an integrative and disintegrative force. While bringing people into contact across territorial, ethnic, national, and cultural boundaries and thereby expanding reciprocal knowled ...
... reduction of all the world’s peoples to mindless lackeys of hegemonic Western imperialism. Instead, globalization is both an integrative and disintegrative force. While bringing people into contact across territorial, ethnic, national, and cultural boundaries and thereby expanding reciprocal knowled ...
Social Work and Anthropology: Moroccan Female Immigrants in Spain
... Knowledge regarding the effects of assimilation on immigrants triggered interests with other minority groups and the notion that these groups may eventually disappear spearheaded the need of “salvaging” their cultures, histories, etc. was necessary. In fact, Boas’ students, Ruth Benedict and Margare ...
... Knowledge regarding the effects of assimilation on immigrants triggered interests with other minority groups and the notion that these groups may eventually disappear spearheaded the need of “salvaging” their cultures, histories, etc. was necessary. In fact, Boas’ students, Ruth Benedict and Margare ...
Cultural diplomacy and the concept of the Other
... According to Lechner and Boli, through globalization and cultural relationships among countries, identities change, new interests are pursued, and new issues arise. In addition, over the years, the world has become more unified, and it gained a whole dimension. This cultural globalization had a prof ...
... According to Lechner and Boli, through globalization and cultural relationships among countries, identities change, new interests are pursued, and new issues arise. In addition, over the years, the world has become more unified, and it gained a whole dimension. This cultural globalization had a prof ...
Medicine and Cultural Competency: What Medical Anthropology
... as Sally Engle Merry and Uni Wikan suggest. [4,12] It is, after all, individuals who create and enact culture, who experience illness and disease, and who can illuminate the variation that exists both within and among what we understand as cultures. [5, 12] Such an approach recognizes that culture i ...
... as Sally Engle Merry and Uni Wikan suggest. [4,12] It is, after all, individuals who create and enact culture, who experience illness and disease, and who can illuminate the variation that exists both within and among what we understand as cultures. [5, 12] Such an approach recognizes that culture i ...
F. T. Cloak, Jr. "Cultural Microevolution" Research Previews 13
... regeneration of torn tissue. I cannot review here all the difficulties encountered by this analogy, but they are mainly due, I believe, to the fact that while an organism has an ontogeny, a society, like a species, has a phylogeny. Developments in biology, which have recently begun to diffuse into p ...
... regeneration of torn tissue. I cannot review here all the difficulties encountered by this analogy, but they are mainly due, I believe, to the fact that while an organism has an ontogeny, a society, like a species, has a phylogeny. Developments in biology, which have recently begun to diffuse into p ...
What is Anthropology?
... Anthropology Recap: What is Anthropology? Anthropology is the study of humans through time- from past to present Anthropology looks at how things have changed from one time to the other ...
... Anthropology Recap: What is Anthropology? Anthropology is the study of humans through time- from past to present Anthropology looks at how things have changed from one time to the other ...
Political Organization and the Maintenance of Order
... is founded upon structural inequities among dissimilar groups into a single political entity ► based on cultural differences & similarities perceived as shared ► identification with & feeling a part of an ethnic group & exclusion from certain other groups because of this affiliation (endogamy & exog ...
... is founded upon structural inequities among dissimilar groups into a single political entity ► based on cultural differences & similarities perceived as shared ► identification with & feeling a part of an ethnic group & exclusion from certain other groups because of this affiliation (endogamy & exog ...