Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory
... that most linguists interested in creole and pidgin languages have at their disposal. The authors aptly illustrate that there is little consensus among linguists on how and when these languages developed, and even less empirical data from which to draw. As creole languages are a topic that have only ...
... that most linguists interested in creole and pidgin languages have at their disposal. The authors aptly illustrate that there is little consensus among linguists on how and when these languages developed, and even less empirical data from which to draw. As creole languages are a topic that have only ...
... will be more tolerant than either their parent or children‘s generation, but the generational-divide will be largest when compared with the parent generation whose early experiences were forged by the Great Depression of the 1930's and WWII. This claim implies: H2A (Generational Change): If intolera ...
Social Anthropology - Calicut University
... religion, magic, science and even legends. Social anthropology is a comparative study of all these things in ancient human society. Art is an important part of culture and culture depicts the interior of a society. Social anthropology studies sculpture, metallurgy, and even dancing and instrumental ...
... religion, magic, science and even legends. Social anthropology is a comparative study of all these things in ancient human society. Art is an important part of culture and culture depicts the interior of a society. Social anthropology studies sculpture, metallurgy, and even dancing and instrumental ...
Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives
... to study and explain these differences. Instead, “our kind” was deemed to be truly human, and other kinds were judged as less so. This is clearly not a position that anyone can afford to hold. Cultural anthropology is the modern science of human behavioral diversity. While it aimed initially to desc ...
... to study and explain these differences. Instead, “our kind” was deemed to be truly human, and other kinds were judged as less so. This is clearly not a position that anyone can afford to hold. Cultural anthropology is the modern science of human behavioral diversity. While it aimed initially to desc ...
Not Knowing about Defecation
... These two studies are, however, exceptions. Overall, defecation is practically absent as a focal point of ethnographic interest in anthropological work. My first reaction to this is amazement: why did-and do-anthropologists hardly study defecation? One can think of many reasons why they should be in ...
... These two studies are, however, exceptions. Overall, defecation is practically absent as a focal point of ethnographic interest in anthropological work. My first reaction to this is amazement: why did-and do-anthropologists hardly study defecation? One can think of many reasons why they should be in ...
SOMETHING ELSE Forthcoming in Common Knowledge, Vol. 13
... abstract out principles that went too far beyond the contextual information given. Then a distinguished macrosociologist in the audience, who was apparently an old acquaintance from the 1950s, asked Geertz what had happened to the generalsystems theorizing they had done as young men, and what had ha ...
... abstract out principles that went too far beyond the contextual information given. Then a distinguished macrosociologist in the audience, who was apparently an old acquaintance from the 1950s, asked Geertz what had happened to the generalsystems theorizing they had done as young men, and what had ha ...
How do the Wealthiest Poles give?
... ‘1% tax’ donated to public benefit organisations. Corporate Foundations also leverage the brand identity of their underlying corporations to raise additional funds via media campaigns. ‘Hybrid’ foundations might receive donations from their founders; some of them also conduct business activities. ...
... ‘1% tax’ donated to public benefit organisations. Corporate Foundations also leverage the brand identity of their underlying corporations to raise additional funds via media campaigns. ‘Hybrid’ foundations might receive donations from their founders; some of them also conduct business activities. ...
7 Kinship systems and groups
... Whilst someone is alive they may nominate any person close to them to be their next of kin. The next of kin is usually asked for as a contact in case of accident, emergency or sudden death. It does not involve completing any forms may be a friend or carer unrelated to you by blood or marriage. Most ...
... Whilst someone is alive they may nominate any person close to them to be their next of kin. The next of kin is usually asked for as a contact in case of accident, emergency or sudden death. It does not involve completing any forms may be a friend or carer unrelated to you by blood or marriage. Most ...
Visions of Culture : an Introduction to Anthropological Theories and
... Sahlins and historic Oceana—there is a recurrent dialectic that occurs in the context of research. In general discussions of theory, the empirical contexts of fieldwork are too often ignored. This is a shame since ethnographic research is anthropology’s most important addition to the social sciences ...
... Sahlins and historic Oceana—there is a recurrent dialectic that occurs in the context of research. In general discussions of theory, the empirical contexts of fieldwork are too often ignored. This is a shame since ethnographic research is anthropology’s most important addition to the social sciences ...
Celtic Cultures- Spring 2011 - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... Symbolic: Symbolic anthropologists are fundamentally concerned with the ways in which people formulate their reality. The goal for symbolic anthropologists is to gain insight into the meanings relevant to the members of a culture. Symbolic anthropologists utilize a humanistic approach to gaining in ...
... Symbolic: Symbolic anthropologists are fundamentally concerned with the ways in which people formulate their reality. The goal for symbolic anthropologists is to gain insight into the meanings relevant to the members of a culture. Symbolic anthropologists utilize a humanistic approach to gaining in ...
On Recent Trends in the Anthropology of Foragers: Kalahari
... that archaeologsts eagerly sought. For archaeologists, at least, the argument should be less with ethnologists than among themselves. Most archaeologsts recognize the perils of simple analogy, but the prevailing ethnographic model proved extremely popular as a fiamework for archaeological synthesis ...
... that archaeologsts eagerly sought. For archaeologists, at least, the argument should be less with ethnologists than among themselves. Most archaeologsts recognize the perils of simple analogy, but the prevailing ethnographic model proved extremely popular as a fiamework for archaeological synthesis ...
Seeing green: Mere exposure to money triggers a
... of one’s own choosing accomplished without active involvement from others’’ (Vohs et al., 2008, p. 209; see also Vohs et al., 2006). Derived from the self-sufficiency explanation, social connection (Mogilner, 2010; Mogilner & Aaker, 2009) and threat (Liu, Smeesters, & Vohs, 2012) have been tested emp ...
... of one’s own choosing accomplished without active involvement from others’’ (Vohs et al., 2008, p. 209; see also Vohs et al., 2006). Derived from the self-sufficiency explanation, social connection (Mogilner, 2010; Mogilner & Aaker, 2009) and threat (Liu, Smeesters, & Vohs, 2012) have been tested emp ...
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF AESTHETICS: A CROSS
... The Anthropology of Aesthetics 181 Pierre Bourdieu undermines the universal applicability of Kant's view of aesthetics in Distinction (1984), his often-referred-to work concerning taste and class distinction in French society. Bourdieu demonstrates that disinterested appreciation is neither univers ...
... The Anthropology of Aesthetics 181 Pierre Bourdieu undermines the universal applicability of Kant's view of aesthetics in Distinction (1984), his often-referred-to work concerning taste and class distinction in French society. Bourdieu demonstrates that disinterested appreciation is neither univers ...
Methods for the Systematic Study of Human Behavior (PDF
... methodological step is to establish the period of time during which respondents will be asked to recall their activities. The most commonly used recall period is the previous 24 hours. For example, respondents can be asked to recall their activities from 4:00am yesterday to 4:00am today. More dista ...
... methodological step is to establish the period of time during which respondents will be asked to recall their activities. The most commonly used recall period is the previous 24 hours. For example, respondents can be asked to recall their activities from 4:00am yesterday to 4:00am today. More dista ...
Chapter 1: What is anthropology
... learned, symbolic, and integrated aspects of culture. If you would like to lecture exclusively on the shared, learned, symbolic and integrated aspects of culture, the film could be shown from the point where the ceremonies are introduced, by-passing the manioc cultivation/processing clip that explor ...
... learned, symbolic, and integrated aspects of culture. If you would like to lecture exclusively on the shared, learned, symbolic and integrated aspects of culture, the film could be shown from the point where the ceremonies are introduced, by-passing the manioc cultivation/processing clip that explor ...
Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
... (Verstehung), by differentiating acts into: impulses, definitions of situations, and consummations. On a Durkheimian view, however, what was crucial for an appreciation of human action were the conditions under which, and means by which, it took place; also the norms in terms of which choices betwee ...
... (Verstehung), by differentiating acts into: impulses, definitions of situations, and consummations. On a Durkheimian view, however, what was crucial for an appreciation of human action were the conditions under which, and means by which, it took place; also the norms in terms of which choices betwee ...
Functionalists Write, Too: Frazer/Malinowski and the
... (replace, substitute, differ from) what they are conventionally understood to ‘represent’. Moreover, any writing of ethnographic detail and ethnologi cal generalization in whatever style or format is constrained by sets of rules and values that at their fullest extent we call cultures. Fieldwork – ...
... (replace, substitute, differ from) what they are conventionally understood to ‘represent’. Moreover, any writing of ethnographic detail and ethnologi cal generalization in whatever style or format is constrained by sets of rules and values that at their fullest extent we call cultures. Fieldwork – ...
TRUTH IN ANTHROPOLOGY: FROM NATURE AND CULTURE TO
... be prone to error, and to be civilized was (partly) to be inclined to truth. So attempts to periodize social and cultural differences into evolutionary stages served not to reveal the underlying natural differences that cause them, but rather to ‘naturalise’, as we would say today, social and cultu ...
... be prone to error, and to be civilized was (partly) to be inclined to truth. So attempts to periodize social and cultural differences into evolutionary stages served not to reveal the underlying natural differences that cause them, but rather to ‘naturalise’, as we would say today, social and cultu ...
II. A Certain Inheritance: Nineteenth Century German
... consider yourself to be the quintessence of all times and all peoples. (Herder 1969a: 182) Herder’s humanistic ideal, his Humanität (humanity), is one in which diverse cultures exist side by side (Berlin 1980: 11) and also together exhibit the essence of humanness involved in the potential for creat ...
... consider yourself to be the quintessence of all times and all peoples. (Herder 1969a: 182) Herder’s humanistic ideal, his Humanität (humanity), is one in which diverse cultures exist side by side (Berlin 1980: 11) and also together exhibit the essence of humanness involved in the potential for creat ...
Individual Rights and the Social Good: A Choice
... taken to be the "concern" only of the relevant person. Even if persons other than Jack entertain preferences as to how Jack should between x and y sleep, it seems reasonable to argue that the choice ...
... taken to be the "concern" only of the relevant person. Even if persons other than Jack entertain preferences as to how Jack should between x and y sleep, it seems reasonable to argue that the choice ...
On Culture, Thick and Thin - U
... in history, its connectedness to society and ethnicity, its stability and resistance to change, its coherent structure as a network of meanings, its deductive character, and its exogenous nature as a determinant of both political structure and behaviour. Adapted to political science over the years, ...
... in history, its connectedness to society and ethnicity, its stability and resistance to change, its coherent structure as a network of meanings, its deductive character, and its exogenous nature as a determinant of both political structure and behaviour. Adapted to political science over the years, ...
Implicit Bias, Context, and Character
... agents’ reflective or moral commitments, in other words, giving rise to “aversive racism” (Dovidio et al., 2000, 2004). Philosophers writing on implicit bias have focused on this fact, and for good reason. 10 The idea that implicit biases can persist and influence the behavior of individuals who dis ...
... agents’ reflective or moral commitments, in other words, giving rise to “aversive racism” (Dovidio et al., 2000, 2004). Philosophers writing on implicit bias have focused on this fact, and for good reason. 10 The idea that implicit biases can persist and influence the behavior of individuals who dis ...
Anthropology Course Catalog
... of the social and cultural underpinnings of drug use across societies. Students engage with various topics, including addiction, global markets, drug epidemics, public policy, and cross-cultural differences in drug use. ANTH 35800 - African Cultures: Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to the divers ...
... of the social and cultural underpinnings of drug use across societies. Students engage with various topics, including addiction, global markets, drug epidemics, public policy, and cross-cultural differences in drug use. ANTH 35800 - African Cultures: Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to the divers ...
Culture and Personality Studies, 1918–1960: Myth and History
... opinion within anthropology and the social sciences had turned decisively against the interdisciplinary field. However significant and influential these books proved to be, and however much they represented relatively mature forms of theory and research that had been developing for decades, they cou ...
... opinion within anthropology and the social sciences had turned decisively against the interdisciplinary field. However significant and influential these books proved to be, and however much they represented relatively mature forms of theory and research that had been developing for decades, they cou ...
anthropology - California State University, Bakersfield
... As a university with a diverse student population that serves underrepresented segments of your society, CSUB recognizes the need for a modern university to provide a global perspective on the human condition throughout time that is firmly grounded in the natural sciences. The central concern of Ant ...
... As a university with a diverse student population that serves underrepresented segments of your society, CSUB recognizes the need for a modern university to provide a global perspective on the human condition throughout time that is firmly grounded in the natural sciences. The central concern of Ant ...