Chapter 1: The Discipline of Anthropology
... Cultural Anthropology The description, interpretation, and appreciation of similarities and differences in human cultures ...
... Cultural Anthropology The description, interpretation, and appreciation of similarities and differences in human cultures ...
The Theoretical Legacies of Cultural
... the similarities and differences among the world’s cultures, but when cultural materialism attempts to explain human universals without reference to the evolved details of human nature, it is doomed to failure. The principle of infrastructural determinism will not explain, for example, the universal ...
... the similarities and differences among the world’s cultures, but when cultural materialism attempts to explain human universals without reference to the evolved details of human nature, it is doomed to failure. The principle of infrastructural determinism will not explain, for example, the universal ...
Behavioral Effects in Individual Decisions of Network Formation
... In order to test our hypotheses, we confront participants in the lab with multiple static, noninteractive network situations in which they can choose to create or delete one link or to do nothing. Such a network situation constitutes the simplest network linking decision context, which allows us to ...
... In order to test our hypotheses, we confront participants in the lab with multiple static, noninteractive network situations in which they can choose to create or delete one link or to do nothing. Such a network situation constitutes the simplest network linking decision context, which allows us to ...
1. the harmless drudge : defining ethnomusicology
... research experience, and that most studies are based on the researcher's own fieldwork. But considering economic and political developments since 1980, the difficulty of doing research in many parts of the world, and the fact that the world’s societies produce recordings of their own, it is possible ...
... research experience, and that most studies are based on the researcher's own fieldwork. But considering economic and political developments since 1980, the difficulty of doing research in many parts of the world, and the fact that the world’s societies produce recordings of their own, it is possible ...
SSN Basic Facts Fleurbaey on the Pursuit of Happiness
... Our results draw a promising picture. Most people apparently seek to maximize subjective wellbeing – and even those who don’t may be seeking to maximize the well-being of others or their own future well-being. What appear to be non-maximizing approaches at any given time may actually amount to long- ...
... Our results draw a promising picture. Most people apparently seek to maximize subjective wellbeing – and even those who don’t may be seeking to maximize the well-being of others or their own future well-being. What appear to be non-maximizing approaches at any given time may actually amount to long- ...
Worlds of sense and sensing the world: a response to Sarah Pink
... he says, the messages sent by different registers may be contradictory: thus the senses can conflict as well as collaborate. They may even fight with each other (Howes and Pink 2010: 336)! Of course we are sometimes caught out. Appearances can be deceptive. This is not, however, because the mind has ...
... he says, the messages sent by different registers may be contradictory: thus the senses can conflict as well as collaborate. They may even fight with each other (Howes and Pink 2010: 336)! Of course we are sometimes caught out. Appearances can be deceptive. This is not, however, because the mind has ...
Rethinking Power Relations in Critical/Cultural Studies: A Dialectical
... “Truth” that can enable people to question—and potentially do away with— particular material conditions. Rather, as an episteme of “objective reality,” the discourse of a period that we embrace is a way to exercise power through the constitution and governing of individual subjects. In this scenario ...
... “Truth” that can enable people to question—and potentially do away with— particular material conditions. Rather, as an episteme of “objective reality,” the discourse of a period that we embrace is a way to exercise power through the constitution and governing of individual subjects. In this scenario ...
A Theory of the Social Function of Asceticism
... not indicate hostility or mutual exclusion. Cultures may coinhere, and an ascetic may participate in a number of different cultures simultaneously. Moreover, communities may, like monasteries, create a new culture without individual members of that community knowing it. The intentionality does not a ...
... not indicate hostility or mutual exclusion. Cultures may coinhere, and an ascetic may participate in a number of different cultures simultaneously. Moreover, communities may, like monasteries, create a new culture without individual members of that community knowing it. The intentionality does not a ...
Organizational Culture
... management. They are distinguished from enacted values, which are those that employees’ actual behavior reflects (just because the CEO claims that her company values its customers does not mean that the employees necessarily act accordingly). While the role that values play in organizational culture ...
... management. They are distinguished from enacted values, which are those that employees’ actual behavior reflects (just because the CEO claims that her company values its customers does not mean that the employees necessarily act accordingly). While the role that values play in organizational culture ...
LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND THE GLOBALISATION OF
... According to one recent definition, culture “encompasses politics, economics, social history, philosophy, science and technology, education, the arts, religion and customs.”12 What might it mean to characterise one’s own culture by reference to these variables? Is such a broad concept useful? In ano ...
... According to one recent definition, culture “encompasses politics, economics, social history, philosophy, science and technology, education, the arts, religion and customs.”12 What might it mean to characterise one’s own culture by reference to these variables? Is such a broad concept useful? In ano ...
Chapter 3 - Cengage Learning
... By describing the emic view rather than their own technical/professional view, anthropologists can provide information that can seriously affect the outcome of programs of planned change. ...
... By describing the emic view rather than their own technical/professional view, anthropologists can provide information that can seriously affect the outcome of programs of planned change. ...
What Is Culture? The Conceptual Question
... still practice the languages, religions, and historical traditions of their home area. As for Newfoundlanders like Belle and her family, now that their onceindependent country has become a Canadian province, they are closely tied into the rest of the nation, but they are still somewhat culturally di ...
... still practice the languages, religions, and historical traditions of their home area. As for Newfoundlanders like Belle and her family, now that their onceindependent country has become a Canadian province, they are closely tied into the rest of the nation, but they are still somewhat culturally di ...
Chapter 3 - International Institute of Anthropology
... By describing the emic view rather than their own technical/professional view, anthropologists can provide information that can seriously affect the outcome of programs of planned change. ...
... By describing the emic view rather than their own technical/professional view, anthropologists can provide information that can seriously affect the outcome of programs of planned change. ...
Macquarie University Anthropology Graduate Capabilities
... Specifically, students should be able to describe the development of anthropology as a profession in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, explain why anthropology can be considered both a science and a humanity, and describe its relationship to other fields. The four-field nature of anthrop ...
... Specifically, students should be able to describe the development of anthropology as a profession in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, explain why anthropology can be considered both a science and a humanity, and describe its relationship to other fields. The four-field nature of anthrop ...
Cultural Anthropology - An
... The course provides an overview over key issues in Social Anthropology. It examines the historical development of the discipline, offers an introduction to the main theories and thinkers that have shaped it as an academic discipline, and presents the most important research methods. We learn about t ...
... The course provides an overview over key issues in Social Anthropology. It examines the historical development of the discipline, offers an introduction to the main theories and thinkers that have shaped it as an academic discipline, and presents the most important research methods. We learn about t ...
A PORTRAIT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AS A YOUNG DISCIPLINE
... In his essay, Lessons James Joyce Teaches Us, on which we will touch later, Denzin begins to turn over the very logic of ethnographic writing. According to Denzin, the very idea that experience can be translated into text is couched in a hardly identifiable ideological framework with which we are wh ...
... In his essay, Lessons James Joyce Teaches Us, on which we will touch later, Denzin begins to turn over the very logic of ethnographic writing. According to Denzin, the very idea that experience can be translated into text is couched in a hardly identifiable ideological framework with which we are wh ...
Needs and Wants _ Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture
... twentieth century. These critical points of view of contemporary consumer culture have, however, been challenged by a group of authors who focused mainly on examining how some contemporary mass-produced consumption items were being used by subjects to objectify the nature of modernity as social expe ...
... twentieth century. These critical points of view of contemporary consumer culture have, however, been challenged by a group of authors who focused mainly on examining how some contemporary mass-produced consumption items were being used by subjects to objectify the nature of modernity as social expe ...
Culture and Pluralism in Philosophy
... At the very least, this response reminds us of the importance of background assumptions before engaging in philosophical enquiry. The force of this view comes, in part, from the recognition that culture gives us a language and values. These are so clearly fundamental for philosophy to begin that it ...
... At the very least, this response reminds us of the importance of background assumptions before engaging in philosophical enquiry. The force of this view comes, in part, from the recognition that culture gives us a language and values. These are so clearly fundamental for philosophy to begin that it ...
XML - M/C Journal
... are “primitive” senses, somehow unworthy of serious study (75). In this way, as often identified as a “lower order” sense that drives appetite and sometimes indulgence (and additionally associated with the body), the subjective and often very personal nature of taste has also traditionally ruled it ...
... are “primitive” senses, somehow unworthy of serious study (75). In this way, as often identified as a “lower order” sense that drives appetite and sometimes indulgence (and additionally associated with the body), the subjective and often very personal nature of taste has also traditionally ruled it ...
RE - SMU
... the appropriate unit of analysis, 3) dealing with intra-cultural diversity, and 4) sampling from a designated research population. Identify what you consider to be the most critical challenges related to each. What are the most effective strategies in the field for dealing with these challenges (sit ...
... the appropriate unit of analysis, 3) dealing with intra-cultural diversity, and 4) sampling from a designated research population. Identify what you consider to be the most critical challenges related to each. What are the most effective strategies in the field for dealing with these challenges (sit ...
Cultural Anthropology An Applied Perspective, 5e
... be evaluated in terms of its own standards, a cross-cultural comparison impossible. There is no behavior that could be considered immoral if the people who practice it consider it acceptable or it functions for the well-being of the society. ...
... be evaluated in terms of its own standards, a cross-cultural comparison impossible. There is no behavior that could be considered immoral if the people who practice it consider it acceptable or it functions for the well-being of the society. ...
Bunge :Ten Modes of Individualism—None of Which Works—And
... sets>. Instead, the ∈ relation is defined implicitly by the axioms in set theory in which it occurs. If ∈ were construed extensionally, it would have to be admitted that “x ∈ y” can be rewritten as “
∈∈”—obviously an ill-formed formula.
Nor does one usually define functions as sets of ordered ...
... sets>. Instead, the ∈ relation is defined implicitly by the axioms in set theory in which it occurs. If ∈ were construed extensionally, it would have to be admitted that “x ∈ y” can be rewritten as “
Cultural Anthropology An Applied Perspective, 5e
... be evaluated in terms of its own standards, a cross-cultural comparison impossible. There is no behavior that could be considered immoral if the people who practice it consider it acceptable or it functions for the well-being of the society. ...
... be evaluated in terms of its own standards, a cross-cultural comparison impossible. There is no behavior that could be considered immoral if the people who practice it consider it acceptable or it functions for the well-being of the society. ...
Anthropological Theory and Intelligence
... ver the past decade, there has been a surge in interest among intelligence and security professionals in using anthropological expertise to achieve military and political objectives. “Cultural competence” deriving from ethnographic research has been particularly prized as a means of gaining the trus ...
... ver the past decade, there has been a surge in interest among intelligence and security professionals in using anthropological expertise to achieve military and political objectives. “Cultural competence” deriving from ethnographic research has been particularly prized as a means of gaining the trus ...
The Future and Frontiers of Culturalized Properties in the Global South
... “purport to create an equal playing field for all” (49), but operate as hard law sanctions ...
... “purport to create an equal playing field for all” (49), but operate as hard law sanctions ...