Journal of Classical Sociology
... out for researching the dynamics of culture, including culture’s relative autonomy from social systems, the primacy of meanings, and their emergence through interactions. However, such expectations are faced with disappointment as the propagators of this new cultural sociology do not reach further ...
... out for researching the dynamics of culture, including culture’s relative autonomy from social systems, the primacy of meanings, and their emergence through interactions. However, such expectations are faced with disappointment as the propagators of this new cultural sociology do not reach further ...
svetlana slapšak
... connected to cooking. Cabbage has the status of a magical plant and of the food at the same time, which means that neither pragmatic sociological or anthropological analysis nor structural analysis can cover all of the aspects of its uses, meanings and narratives. Cabbage is linked to unstable and c ...
... connected to cooking. Cabbage has the status of a magical plant and of the food at the same time, which means that neither pragmatic sociological or anthropological analysis nor structural analysis can cover all of the aspects of its uses, meanings and narratives. Cabbage is linked to unstable and c ...
Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris`s Cultural
... symposium was also held at the 2002 American Anthropological Association annual meeting and was entitled “Culture, People and Nature: The Role of Marvin Harris in Anthropological Theory and Practice.” This session was organized by Maxine Margolis and Conrad Kottak. The presenters at these symposia i ...
... symposium was also held at the 2002 American Anthropological Association annual meeting and was entitled “Culture, People and Nature: The Role of Marvin Harris in Anthropological Theory and Practice.” This session was organized by Maxine Margolis and Conrad Kottak. The presenters at these symposia i ...
Understanding Organizational Culture
... norms, as emotions and expressiveness, as the collective unconscious, as behaviour patterns, structures and practices, etc. all of which may be made targets to study. Of course, culture is not unique in this way. Actually, most if not all significant concepts in organization studies and social scien ...
... norms, as emotions and expressiveness, as the collective unconscious, as behaviour patterns, structures and practices, etc. all of which may be made targets to study. Of course, culture is not unique in this way. Actually, most if not all significant concepts in organization studies and social scien ...
Anatomy Anthropology (ANTH)
... Anthropological view of the relationships between magic and religion as expressed in rituals, myths, and art is explored through a survey of the less formal or minor religious systems of the world. ANTH 137 Medical Anthropology: Culture, Illness and Healing (3) 3 hours lecture Transfer acceptabili ...
... Anthropological view of the relationships between magic and religion as expressed in rituals, myths, and art is explored through a survey of the less formal or minor religious systems of the world. ANTH 137 Medical Anthropology: Culture, Illness and Healing (3) 3 hours lecture Transfer acceptabili ...
Ruinous Arguments: Escalation of disagreement and the dangers of
... call an editorial decision. Editing can invite either suppression or revision of the message, for a variety of reasons: the empirical work done in this area has investigated exactly what these reasons are. In what follows, and in particular in section 3, I will address a similar problem, discussing ...
... call an editorial decision. Editing can invite either suppression or revision of the message, for a variety of reasons: the empirical work done in this area has investigated exactly what these reasons are. In what follows, and in particular in section 3, I will address a similar problem, discussing ...
Material Culture and Other Things Post-disciplinary
... archaeology actually corresponds very well to what seems to be the ‘real’ formative periods. The differences are not that significant as they have been assumed and presented. It is only symptomatic that we find the first reference to Foucault in a processual anthology rather than in post-processual ...
... archaeology actually corresponds very well to what seems to be the ‘real’ formative periods. The differences are not that significant as they have been assumed and presented. It is only symptomatic that we find the first reference to Foucault in a processual anthology rather than in post-processual ...
Why A Public AnthroPology? - Center for a Public Anthropology
... reading a book. You start at the beginning and go through it paragraph by paragraph until you come to the last page. In terms of the book’s format, this means reading the Introduction, Question, Short Answer, Elaboration, and Summary sections. (The Elaboration sections enlarge upon the Short Answers ...
... reading a book. You start at the beginning and go through it paragraph by paragraph until you come to the last page. In terms of the book’s format, this means reading the Introduction, Question, Short Answer, Elaboration, and Summary sections. (The Elaboration sections enlarge upon the Short Answers ...
The Major in Anthropology
... and evolutionary perspective, and archaeology, the study of human cultures through examining the material record. Unique Features of the Major The major in anthropology at SLU offers students the opportunity to explore exciting courses such as race and ethnicity, environmental anthropology, archaeol ...
... and evolutionary perspective, and archaeology, the study of human cultures through examining the material record. Unique Features of the Major The major in anthropology at SLU offers students the opportunity to explore exciting courses such as race and ethnicity, environmental anthropology, archaeol ...
Erving Goffman and the Gestural Dynamics of Modern Selfhood
... natural, not cultural. Farnell was careful to announce that gesture and movement must not be considered natural; rather, they are ‘socially acquired and laden with cultural significance’, and, as such, they vary across space and time. As this remark suggests, current anthropological (and historical, ...
... natural, not cultural. Farnell was careful to announce that gesture and movement must not be considered natural; rather, they are ‘socially acquired and laden with cultural significance’, and, as such, they vary across space and time. As this remark suggests, current anthropological (and historical, ...
Anthropological perspectives of infanticide
... 1922), and has been described as "the most widely used method of population control" in human history (Harris 1977:5). More moderately, infanticide "...rather than being an exception ...has been the rule" (Williamson 1978:317). There is reasonably good evidence that even if infanticide is not a cult ...
... 1922), and has been described as "the most widely used method of population control" in human history (Harris 1977:5). More moderately, infanticide "...rather than being an exception ...has been the rule" (Williamson 1978:317). There is reasonably good evidence that even if infanticide is not a cult ...
Open Access - Lund University Publications
... describes the anthropologist’s methodology. We find in it few direct theoretical or methodological comments, so eagerly expected by many critics and academics. Nevertheless, the Diary had a big influence on science and it is therefore important from a scientific point of view. In this way the text e ...
... describes the anthropologist’s methodology. We find in it few direct theoretical or methodological comments, so eagerly expected by many critics and academics. Nevertheless, the Diary had a big influence on science and it is therefore important from a scientific point of view. In this way the text e ...
Ernest Gellner`s Legacy
... of a culture and a language is capable of such an achievement. Man cannot act on his own, but only when sustained by and interacting with other participants in this collective game. The ideas of a culture, of a historic tradition, of an ongoing community, work through him (idem, p. 6). ...
... of a culture and a language is capable of such an achievement. Man cannot act on his own, but only when sustained by and interacting with other participants in this collective game. The ideas of a culture, of a historic tradition, of an ongoing community, work through him (idem, p. 6). ...
The Mickey Mouse Kachina and Other "Double Objects"
... strategic, translational transfer of tone, value, signification, and position—a transfer of power . . . that changes the very terms of interpretation and institutionalization, opening up contesting, opposing, innovative, “other” grounds of subject and object formation. (Bhabha quoted in Seshadri-Cro ...
... strategic, translational transfer of tone, value, signification, and position—a transfer of power . . . that changes the very terms of interpretation and institutionalization, opening up contesting, opposing, innovative, “other” grounds of subject and object formation. (Bhabha quoted in Seshadri-Cro ...
Pierre Bourdieu as a Post-cultural Theorist
... between cognition and culture. Bloch refers to this classical legacy as ‘the anthropological theory of cognition’. This theory relies on three interlinked postulates which are seldom called into question, and which continue to be influential in cultural sociology today: 1. ‘Action and history are c ...
... between cognition and culture. Bloch refers to this classical legacy as ‘the anthropological theory of cognition’. This theory relies on three interlinked postulates which are seldom called into question, and which continue to be influential in cultural sociology today: 1. ‘Action and history are c ...
Cultural Relativism
... My first aim is to produce an adequate formulation of cultural relativism. This is not so easy. Relativists state their view in various ways, and those statements are neither precise nor equivalent.6 Also, there are two ways in which a judgment might be relative to a culture. First, its truth (or fa ...
... My first aim is to produce an adequate formulation of cultural relativism. This is not so easy. Relativists state their view in various ways, and those statements are neither precise nor equivalent.6 Also, there are two ways in which a judgment might be relative to a culture. First, its truth (or fa ...
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... OBJ: Describe the four fields of the discipline of anthropology and how they form its holistic approach. MSC: Remembering 33. Human beings have long been migrant, moving themselves, their material goods, and even ideas from one part of the world to another. This process, which today we call globaliz ...
... OBJ: Describe the four fields of the discipline of anthropology and how they form its holistic approach. MSC: Remembering 33. Human beings have long been migrant, moving themselves, their material goods, and even ideas from one part of the world to another. This process, which today we call globaliz ...
Reading and Interpreting Ethnography
... participatory exercise which yields materials for which analytic protocols are often devised after the fact.” The second remark is by Sherry Ortner, who describes ethnography as “the attempt to understand another life world using the self – or as much of it as possible – as the instrument of knowing ...
... participatory exercise which yields materials for which analytic protocols are often devised after the fact.” The second remark is by Sherry Ortner, who describes ethnography as “the attempt to understand another life world using the self – or as much of it as possible – as the instrument of knowing ...
CONTENT
... B. broaden the application of the argument by including an insectivore as an example C. make a distinction between higher and lower levels of consciousness D. provide an additional illustration of the brutality characteristic of predators E. offer an objection to suggestions that all animals lack co ...
... B. broaden the application of the argument by including an insectivore as an example C. make a distinction between higher and lower levels of consciousness D. provide an additional illustration of the brutality characteristic of predators E. offer an objection to suggestions that all animals lack co ...
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY Peter L. Berger is
... these co�texts. he need for a'sociology of knowledge' is thus already g�ven Wlth the observable differences between societies in terms o what is taken for granted as 'knowledge' in them. B�yond this, however, a discipline calling itself by this name will have to concern itself with the general ways ...
... these co�texts. he need for a'sociology of knowledge' is thus already g�ven Wlth the observable differences between societies in terms o what is taken for granted as 'knowledge' in them. B�yond this, however, a discipline calling itself by this name will have to concern itself with the general ways ...
Planting a Seed: Ute Ethnobotany, A Collaborative Approach in
... interested in exploring in the context of what has become a ten-year endeavor. The main concern was the use of the ethnobotanical data as a management tool for the many requests that her office handles for input on managing archeological sites on federal lands. Chapoose takes issue with the compartm ...
... interested in exploring in the context of what has become a ten-year endeavor. The main concern was the use of the ethnobotanical data as a management tool for the many requests that her office handles for input on managing archeological sites on federal lands. Chapoose takes issue with the compartm ...
Kinship Terms in Arabic language
... relatives. If the relationship has been established through marriage, it is affinal. The socially recognized relationship between people in a culture who are or are held to be biologically related or who are given the status of relatives by marriage, adoption, or other ritual. Kin is the broad-rangi ...
... relatives. If the relationship has been established through marriage, it is affinal. The socially recognized relationship between people in a culture who are or are held to be biologically related or who are given the status of relatives by marriage, adoption, or other ritual. Kin is the broad-rangi ...
Anthropology 310- Family, Kin and Community
... Nuclear Family and other Myths • According to the U.S. Census Bureau Economics and Statistics Administration, as of 1998, only 69% of children live in a twoparent family; 31% are nontraditional groupings. • Single-mother family makes up 26% of U.S. households • Single-father families make up 5% (Ca ...
... Nuclear Family and other Myths • According to the U.S. Census Bureau Economics and Statistics Administration, as of 1998, only 69% of children live in a twoparent family; 31% are nontraditional groupings. • Single-mother family makes up 26% of U.S. households • Single-father families make up 5% (Ca ...
D i s a p p e a r i n g Worlds: Anthropology and Cultural Studies in
... during the twentieth century are increasingly disrupted by the twin processes of decolonization and globalization (Knauft 1999). The destabilization of dominant models of the Pacific is symptomatic of a wider crisis in area studies, fueled by recognition of the often arbitrary and hegemonic quality ...
... during the twentieth century are increasingly disrupted by the twin processes of decolonization and globalization (Knauft 1999). The destabilization of dominant models of the Pacific is symptomatic of a wider crisis in area studies, fueled by recognition of the often arbitrary and hegemonic quality ...