Social Psychology and Multiculturalism Verkuyten, Maykel
... contribute to favourable intergroup relations. There is supporting evidence for this in educational settings (e.g. Hogan & Mallott, 2005) and also in social psychological research. Using survey data in the USA, Wolsko et al. (2006), for example, found that people who endorse multiculturalism see eth ...
... contribute to favourable intergroup relations. There is supporting evidence for this in educational settings (e.g. Hogan & Mallott, 2005) and also in social psychological research. Using survey data in the USA, Wolsko et al. (2006), for example, found that people who endorse multiculturalism see eth ...
Study Guide and Supplemental Readings for Cultural Anthropology
... both the historical contact between European and American Indian societies, and his own personal encounters with South American Indians. From Spain, Maybury-Lewis returns to Brazil to visit his friends among the Xavante, the Amazonian Indians whom he’d originally studied many years earlier during hi ...
... both the historical contact between European and American Indian societies, and his own personal encounters with South American Indians. From Spain, Maybury-Lewis returns to Brazil to visit his friends among the Xavante, the Amazonian Indians whom he’d originally studied many years earlier during hi ...
Exam #1 Study Guide… Chapter 1… Explain how anthropology
... Define enculturation and identify enculturative forces in Canadian society. [Remember/Understand] Recognize the unique nature of pluralistic societies. [Apply] Explain how anthropologists study culture. [Understand] Discuss how culture functions and the relationship between culture and adaptation. [ ...
... Define enculturation and identify enculturative forces in Canadian society. [Remember/Understand] Recognize the unique nature of pluralistic societies. [Apply] Explain how anthropologists study culture. [Understand] Discuss how culture functions and the relationship between culture and adaptation. [ ...
Comparing Indicators of Knowledge within and
... consistency is irrelevant to the validity of the model as one would not expect informants to be equally competent in all domains or perhaps even in closely related domains such as bikes and cyclists. The data presented here, consisting of highly variable correlation levels (rs ranging from .11–.75), ...
... consistency is irrelevant to the validity of the model as one would not expect informants to be equally competent in all domains or perhaps even in closely related domains such as bikes and cyclists. The data presented here, consisting of highly variable correlation levels (rs ranging from .11–.75), ...
A Decolonial Imagination: Sociology, Anthropology and The Politics
... the very nature of Western, modern thought is that of ‘the abyss’. According to this metaphor, Western thought is largely an abyssal form of thought, founded on ‘a system of visible and invisible distinctions, the invisible ones being the foundation of the visible ones.’ (Santos, 2014: 118). While t ...
... the very nature of Western, modern thought is that of ‘the abyss’. According to this metaphor, Western thought is largely an abyssal form of thought, founded on ‘a system of visible and invisible distinctions, the invisible ones being the foundation of the visible ones.’ (Santos, 2014: 118). While t ...
A Clarification of Terms: Canadian Multiculturalism
... (2012a), “multiculturalism presently surpasses interculturalism as a political orientation that is able to recognise that social life consists of individuals and groups, and that both need to be provided for in the formal and informal distribution of powers” (p. 192). Moreover, despite its focus on ...
... (2012a), “multiculturalism presently surpasses interculturalism as a political orientation that is able to recognise that social life consists of individuals and groups, and that both need to be provided for in the formal and informal distribution of powers” (p. 192). Moreover, despite its focus on ...
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
... regard to the former, the focus will be on evolutionary and biosocial approaches; with the latter, the emphasis will be on historical and cultural dimensions. Numerous substantive issues will be covered, including the physiological, ecological, and social aspects of human sexuality from embryology t ...
... regard to the former, the focus will be on evolutionary and biosocial approaches; with the latter, the emphasis will be on historical and cultural dimensions. Numerous substantive issues will be covered, including the physiological, ecological, and social aspects of human sexuality from embryology t ...
Notes for a Theory of Values
... disciplines in the social sciences – it is rather difficult to find a systematic ‘theory of values’. Exceptions may, of course, be found, as Adam Smith’s (1776) distinction between the value in use and value in exchange of a commodity, and Karl Marx’s formulation that value was to be found in the a ...
... disciplines in the social sciences – it is rather difficult to find a systematic ‘theory of values’. Exceptions may, of course, be found, as Adam Smith’s (1776) distinction between the value in use and value in exchange of a commodity, and Karl Marx’s formulation that value was to be found in the a ...
Human Organization
... literature has so far focused on larger, bureaucratic forms of organization, such as international NGOs like Oxfam or Save the Children Fund or welfare service agencies such as the YMCA. There has been much less emphasis on small-scale, local or ‘associational’ forms of activity, particularly those ...
... literature has so far focused on larger, bureaucratic forms of organization, such as international NGOs like Oxfam or Save the Children Fund or welfare service agencies such as the YMCA. There has been much less emphasis on small-scale, local or ‘associational’ forms of activity, particularly those ...
Cultural Anthropology 102 - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... 3. Is the use of magic and ritual a problem in human societies, is it a harmless practice, and/or is it essential for survival? 4. How do the Nacirema feel about the human body (with its tendency towards sickness and aging)? In the USA how do we feel about the human body? What influences our percept ...
... 3. Is the use of magic and ritual a problem in human societies, is it a harmless practice, and/or is it essential for survival? 4. How do the Nacirema feel about the human body (with its tendency towards sickness and aging)? In the USA how do we feel about the human body? What influences our percept ...
Cultural Anthropology 102 - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... 3. Is the use of magic and ritual a problem in human societies, is it a harmless practice, and/or is it essential for survival? 4. How do the Nacirema feel about the human body (with its tendency towards sickness and aging)? In the USA how do we feel about the human body? What influences our percept ...
... 3. Is the use of magic and ritual a problem in human societies, is it a harmless practice, and/or is it essential for survival? 4. How do the Nacirema feel about the human body (with its tendency towards sickness and aging)? In the USA how do we feel about the human body? What influences our percept ...
Anthropology of Magic - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... Ethnocentrism is the understanding that all humans view world through their own cultural lens (like tunnel vision) and then tend to judge other cultures from their narrow cultural perspective. Humans in all cultures tend to see their culture as the best, the most normal and “natural.” Other culture ...
... Ethnocentrism is the understanding that all humans view world through their own cultural lens (like tunnel vision) and then tend to judge other cultures from their narrow cultural perspective. Humans in all cultures tend to see their culture as the best, the most normal and “natural.” Other culture ...
excerpt - School for Advanced Research
... We thus extended Haraway’s concept of the cyborg from a label for specifically contemporary refigurations associated with the New World Order, Inc., to an adjective potentially marking a wide range of anthropological projects that explore how science, technology, and medicine contribute to the fashi ...
... We thus extended Haraway’s concept of the cyborg from a label for specifically contemporary refigurations associated with the New World Order, Inc., to an adjective potentially marking a wide range of anthropological projects that explore how science, technology, and medicine contribute to the fashi ...
Bring in the Audience! - Networking Knowledge: Journal of the
... urges us to re-appraise the role that is played by distant people and communities and investigate how these relate with the domestic audience. It offers the possibility to learn more about distant suffering from the point of view of the victims themselves. Their experience of suffering is critical t ...
... urges us to re-appraise the role that is played by distant people and communities and investigate how these relate with the domestic audience. It offers the possibility to learn more about distant suffering from the point of view of the victims themselves. Their experience of suffering is critical t ...
1 The archaeology of disasters: past and future trends
... to individuals or their property – is all that is essential to the definition of a disaster. In this conception disasters can be placed along a continuum ranging from those with minimal consequences to others with economic and social losses. For archaeology the most critical point is not whether a d ...
... to individuals or their property – is all that is essential to the definition of a disaster. In this conception disasters can be placed along a continuum ranging from those with minimal consequences to others with economic and social losses. For archaeology the most critical point is not whether a d ...
UCL Anthropology PGT Options 2016/17
... phenomenon as well as the theoretical debates concerning the concept and its study. The course will then work through comparative case studies to explore the visual, material, and embodied practices of religious participation and the investigate the impact that such ritual activities have on the hum ...
... phenomenon as well as the theoretical debates concerning the concept and its study. The course will then work through comparative case studies to explore the visual, material, and embodied practices of religious participation and the investigate the impact that such ritual activities have on the hum ...
JEANNE FAVRET-SAADA ABOUT PARTICIPATION Let us begin by
... situations develop without asking questions, and from the first session to the last I hardly understood what was actually going on. But I discreetly recorded about thirty sessions out of the two hundred or so I attended, so as to provide myself with material on which I would be able to work later on ...
... situations develop without asking questions, and from the first session to the last I hardly understood what was actually going on. But I discreetly recorded about thirty sessions out of the two hundred or so I attended, so as to provide myself with material on which I would be able to work later on ...
TOC and sample chapter - University Press of Colorado
... methods and in a number of cases have been directly influenced by it. The symposium was intentionally a low-key affair rather than a high-profile adulation: an exchange of ideas among close friends and colleagues with academic interests that meshed with Aveni’s own. This book was intended from the o ...
... methods and in a number of cases have been directly influenced by it. The symposium was intentionally a low-key affair rather than a high-profile adulation: an exchange of ideas among close friends and colleagues with academic interests that meshed with Aveni’s own. This book was intended from the o ...
ANTH 210 - University of South Carolina
... The Sphinx’ riddle: “What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?” Like Oedipus, in this course we will puzzle over the different societal and cultural constructions of gender and age-related identity categories as well as human experiences ...
... The Sphinx’ riddle: “What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?” Like Oedipus, in this course we will puzzle over the different societal and cultural constructions of gender and age-related identity categories as well as human experiences ...
CONRAD AND MALINOWSKI: THE PREDICAMENT OF CULTURE
... Marlow uses evolutionary rhetoric to interpret his journey: “Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world.”27 It is present also when he names natives “prehistoric men.”28 But limitation and vagueness of context make Marlow admit: “We were cut off from the com ...
... Marlow uses evolutionary rhetoric to interpret his journey: “Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world.”27 It is present also when he names natives “prehistoric men.”28 But limitation and vagueness of context make Marlow admit: “We were cut off from the com ...
Strengthening Our Resilience to Agents of Radicalization and Their
... Agents of radicalization, whether in the real or the virtual world (i.e. over the Internet), seek to manipulate the thoughts and legitimate perceptions of people in order to further a particular set of ideological concerns or a political agenda. Little by little, they get their audience to draw dire ...
... Agents of radicalization, whether in the real or the virtual world (i.e. over the Internet), seek to manipulate the thoughts and legitimate perceptions of people in order to further a particular set of ideological concerns or a political agenda. Little by little, they get their audience to draw dire ...
ch02 - Anthropology
... machetes and murdered the day before our arrival. The murderers believed that the teachers had special knowledge about Ebola obtained through secret and supernatural means (this will be explained in Chapter 4) and were using it to cause harm to others. Tensions were high and violence against anyone ...
... machetes and murdered the day before our arrival. The murderers believed that the teachers had special knowledge about Ebola obtained through secret and supernatural means (this will be explained in Chapter 4) and were using it to cause harm to others. Tensions were high and violence against anyone ...
Anthropology and the Study of Culture Miller Chapter 1
... Wide range of approaches that span: Science (hypothesis, observation, and testing) Humanities (more subjective, based on feeling) ...
... Wide range of approaches that span: Science (hypothesis, observation, and testing) Humanities (more subjective, based on feeling) ...
Engaging the World of the Supernatural: Anthropology
... within which the phenomenon occurs. Howard (1986) sees the anthropological pursuit of holism as an attempt to “study all phenomena in relation to an encompassing whole [as well as] … all the parts to further our knowledge of the nature of the totality” (p. 12). If one looks at the anthropological st ...
... within which the phenomenon occurs. Howard (1986) sees the anthropological pursuit of holism as an attempt to “study all phenomena in relation to an encompassing whole [as well as] … all the parts to further our knowledge of the nature of the totality” (p. 12). If one looks at the anthropological st ...
PT Ch03 - HCC Learning Web
... as being more alike than they are Ignoring cultural diversity, contrasts • Adoption of uniform approach to deal with different sets of people Imposes incompatible property concepts and social units • Presumes units of production are privately owned and worked by nuclear family (leaving out extended ...
... as being more alike than they are Ignoring cultural diversity, contrasts • Adoption of uniform approach to deal with different sets of people Imposes incompatible property concepts and social units • Presumes units of production are privately owned and worked by nuclear family (leaving out extended ...