Creolization in Anthropological Theory and in Mauritius
... common which their ideologists ascribe to them, but they may have other cultural elements in common, such as shared jokes and ideas about kin relatedness. What has interested writers on cultural mixing are the situations in which these frames of references do not function; where they are contested, ...
... common which their ideologists ascribe to them, but they may have other cultural elements in common, such as shared jokes and ideas about kin relatedness. What has interested writers on cultural mixing are the situations in which these frames of references do not function; where they are contested, ...
Why There Are So Few Women Warriors
... Rather than drawing up an entirely new sample of cultures, the sample for this study was drawn from the sum of the samples used by nine previous investigators who have used cross-cultural techniques to examine the relation of warfare and marriage.1 All of the 204 cultures cited by those investigator ...
... Rather than drawing up an entirely new sample of cultures, the sample for this study was drawn from the sum of the samples used by nine previous investigators who have used cross-cultural techniques to examine the relation of warfare and marriage.1 All of the 204 cultures cited by those investigator ...
Chapter 1 - Cynthia Clarke
... This course is what is referred to as a survey course. By this, I mean that it will introduce broad areas of study, not delving deeply into any one area. o Therefore, if you have determined that you wish to major in anthropology, this is not the course for you. o If you want to be better informed ab ...
... This course is what is referred to as a survey course. By this, I mean that it will introduce broad areas of study, not delving deeply into any one area. o Therefore, if you have determined that you wish to major in anthropology, this is not the course for you. o If you want to be better informed ab ...
What Is Anthropology?
... focused attention on human differences. Europeans gradually came to recognize that despite all the differences, they might share a basic humanity with people everywhere. ...
... focused attention on human differences. Europeans gradually came to recognize that despite all the differences, they might share a basic humanity with people everywhere. ...
ESEM Conference Programme - Irish World Academy of Music and
... were active at the same day! Yet it is also an encounter of different possibilities of scholarly dialogue, ranging from the larger classical conference-‐style to the more seminar-‐like character. While each ...
... were active at the same day! Yet it is also an encounter of different possibilities of scholarly dialogue, ranging from the larger classical conference-‐style to the more seminar-‐like character. While each ...
ANTHROPOLOGY SPRING 2017 COURSE LISTING
... ground up to be an interdisciplinary course, and to match the transdisciplinary spirit of the CESS program. This course explores three main fields of interdisciplinary approaches to analyzing and tackling environmental programs: 1) the humanities and social sciences, 2) engineering, and 3) environme ...
... ground up to be an interdisciplinary course, and to match the transdisciplinary spirit of the CESS program. This course explores three main fields of interdisciplinary approaches to analyzing and tackling environmental programs: 1) the humanities and social sciences, 2) engineering, and 3) environme ...
CULTURAL THEORY AND HISTORY: THEORETICAL ISSUES
... generalize the problem of “mentality” itself. There are probably two main reasons for this. First, there is a kind of antipathy to any theory shared by many historians and not without a solid justification. This antipathy has been generally overcome during the debate on narrativism, when avoiding th ...
... generalize the problem of “mentality” itself. There are probably two main reasons for this. First, there is a kind of antipathy to any theory shared by many historians and not without a solid justification. This antipathy has been generally overcome during the debate on narrativism, when avoiding th ...
Cultural Transformations and Globalization: Theory, Development
... can borrow one or adjust one that has already been invented. For the purposes of this discussion, diffusion will refer to borrowings among societies that are, at least for the time being, autonomous from each other, although as we will see later, diffusion can blend into acculturation where previous ...
... can borrow one or adjust one that has already been invented. For the purposes of this discussion, diffusion will refer to borrowings among societies that are, at least for the time being, autonomous from each other, although as we will see later, diffusion can blend into acculturation where previous ...
IAEA Safety Culture Assessment Methods - gnssn
... The independence and qualification of the members of the assessment team should be considered crucial for the success of the assessment The team should be staffed with sufficient diversity of experience and should include specialists in behavioural science, with knowledge of statistical methods of a ...
... The independence and qualification of the members of the assessment team should be considered crucial for the success of the assessment The team should be staffed with sufficient diversity of experience and should include specialists in behavioural science, with knowledge of statistical methods of a ...
CSGP 07/2 - Trent University
... structural or systemic logic, but indeed that individual actors be treated as the producers of any social wholes. Systemism takes this concern aboard, but considers it only one among other basic elements in a comprehensive ontology and methodology. The other, equally basic elements that make any soc ...
... structural or systemic logic, but indeed that individual actors be treated as the producers of any social wholes. Systemism takes this concern aboard, but considers it only one among other basic elements in a comprehensive ontology and methodology. The other, equally basic elements that make any soc ...
Statistics for Cross-Cultural Research
... organization being in charge of the revision and enlargement of the largest full-text anthropological database. This organization is the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University (HRAF). However, later Murdock started using more and more economical ways of recording and storing anthropological d ...
... organization being in charge of the revision and enlargement of the largest full-text anthropological database. This organization is the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University (HRAF). However, later Murdock started using more and more economical ways of recording and storing anthropological d ...
The Contract with God: Patterns of Cultural Consensus across Two
... Cultural consensus analysis (CCA), the focus of this paper, is an analytical tool for measuring the amount of agreement between informants regarding a cultural domain. It supplies a means to test the hypothesis of what is often assumed within ethnographic work: that a set of characteristics called c ...
... Cultural consensus analysis (CCA), the focus of this paper, is an analytical tool for measuring the amount of agreement between informants regarding a cultural domain. It supplies a means to test the hypothesis of what is often assumed within ethnographic work: that a set of characteristics called c ...
Language in Anthropological Writing
... Whitman. Broadly defined, Anthropology is the study of human culture; it is both the most humanistic of the social sciences and scientific of the humanities. Writing for this discipline is equally broad and difficult to quantify in a set of structured rules. Therefore, when tutoring a student in Ant ...
... Whitman. Broadly defined, Anthropology is the study of human culture; it is both the most humanistic of the social sciences and scientific of the humanities. Writing for this discipline is equally broad and difficult to quantify in a set of structured rules. Therefore, when tutoring a student in Ant ...
Mohammed kheidher unniversity of Biskra Faculty of Arabic
... Sociocultural anthropologists examine social patterns and practices across cultures, with a special interest in how people live in particular places and how they organize, govern, and create meaning. A hallmark of sociocultural anthropology is its concern with similarities and differences, both with ...
... Sociocultural anthropologists examine social patterns and practices across cultures, with a special interest in how people live in particular places and how they organize, govern, and create meaning. A hallmark of sociocultural anthropology is its concern with similarities and differences, both with ...
Contraculture and Subculture
... recentyears therehas beenwidespread ture within some societies. It is unfortunate and fruitful employment of the concept that "subculture," a central concept in this of subculture in sociological and anthro- process, has seldom been adequately depological research. The term has been used fined.1It h ...
... recentyears therehas beenwidespread ture within some societies. It is unfortunate and fruitful employment of the concept that "subculture," a central concept in this of subculture in sociological and anthro- process, has seldom been adequately depological research. The term has been used fined.1It h ...
Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies
... If values have little explanatory power, why expect cultureto play any causal role in human action? Why not explain action as the result of interestsand structuralconstraints,with only a rational, interest-maximizingactor to link the two? The view that action is governed by "interests" is inadequate ...
... If values have little explanatory power, why expect cultureto play any causal role in human action? Why not explain action as the result of interestsand structuralconstraints,with only a rational, interest-maximizingactor to link the two? The view that action is governed by "interests" is inadequate ...
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Volume 20 issue 2
... the disciplined cultivation of sacred knowledge. Issues of validity and performance play out differently in environmental decision-making. Atran and Medin, who, like Barth and Flyvbjerg, see a direct relation between how people understand nature and act in it, combine socio-cultural anthropology and ...
... the disciplined cultivation of sacred knowledge. Issues of validity and performance play out differently in environmental decision-making. Atran and Medin, who, like Barth and Flyvbjerg, see a direct relation between how people understand nature and act in it, combine socio-cultural anthropology and ...
Department of Anthropology and Tribal Development Guru
... morals, customs, laws, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”. Language, art, morals, customs, law, religion, and institutions etc all these are different units of a culture, that together combine and give a unique cultural pattern or style to that culture. The ...
... morals, customs, laws, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”. Language, art, morals, customs, law, religion, and institutions etc all these are different units of a culture, that together combine and give a unique cultural pattern or style to that culture. The ...
Social Aesthetics and The Doon School
... cultural and the natural. The experience of most anthropologists is that each community exhibits physical attributes and patterns of behavior that, taken as a composite, are specific to itself and instantly recognizable to its inhabitants. That these social landscapes have no individual authors is o ...
... cultural and the natural. The experience of most anthropologists is that each community exhibits physical attributes and patterns of behavior that, taken as a composite, are specific to itself and instantly recognizable to its inhabitants. That these social landscapes have no individual authors is o ...
Summary
... on trends in popularization of the researcher himself and his works. The aim of the article is to consider the recognition of Oskar Kolberg as a person, as well as his heritage. Such issues as potential recipients of his works and the way in which the materials can inspire subsequent generations of ...
... on trends in popularization of the researcher himself and his works. The aim of the article is to consider the recognition of Oskar Kolberg as a person, as well as his heritage. Such issues as potential recipients of his works and the way in which the materials can inspire subsequent generations of ...
Oxymoronic_Civilisations
... made its most explosive literary impact in Sir Charles Snow’s declaration that “the scientific culture really is a culture, not only in an intellectual but also in an anthropological sense”, and it received its most subtle literary interpretation in Lionel Trilling’s essay warning agains the excesse ...
... made its most explosive literary impact in Sir Charles Snow’s declaration that “the scientific culture really is a culture, not only in an intellectual but also in an anthropological sense”, and it received its most subtle literary interpretation in Lionel Trilling’s essay warning agains the excesse ...
Cultural industries and public policy
... the cultural industries and policy to promote them, and in so doing open up some spaces within which questions about the governance (corporate and more generally) and public policy may be discussed. In so doing the paper seeks to open up a position that neither falls into the assumption that the cul ...
... the cultural industries and policy to promote them, and in so doing open up some spaces within which questions about the governance (corporate and more generally) and public policy may be discussed. In so doing the paper seeks to open up a position that neither falls into the assumption that the cul ...
syllabus.96 - Oberlin College
... reach a critical understanding of the most important modes of thought about the nature of culture, how it is studied, and the ways anthropologists from various theoretical points of view have interpreted and explained it. The course should enable you to organize your readings from this and other ant ...
... reach a critical understanding of the most important modes of thought about the nature of culture, how it is studied, and the ways anthropologists from various theoretical points of view have interpreted and explained it. The course should enable you to organize your readings from this and other ant ...
Pioneering Studies on Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia
... For this reason the hunters and gatherers classified as „the lower hunters“ in the Viennese cultural-historic school developed by Graebner, Schmidt and Koppers played a decisive role since they were viewed as direct representatives of the „primeval culture“ („Urkultur“). On this (at present no longe ...
... For this reason the hunters and gatherers classified as „the lower hunters“ in the Viennese cultural-historic school developed by Graebner, Schmidt and Koppers played a decisive role since they were viewed as direct representatives of the „primeval culture“ („Urkultur“). On this (at present no longe ...