The Anthropology of National Security
... fluidity of academic freedom by the brilliant minds of above-mentioned intellectuals as they are continuously and prominently cited today by young scholars and social scientists through their ground-breaking ethnographic and revolutionary research works. ...
... fluidity of academic freedom by the brilliant minds of above-mentioned intellectuals as they are continuously and prominently cited today by young scholars and social scientists through their ground-breaking ethnographic and revolutionary research works. ...
View/Open - Cadair - Aberystwyth University
... Archimedean starting-point, not just for knowledge itself (from a Foundationalist perspective) but also for a long-lasting tradition in the philosophy of knowledge, which Richard Rorty (1979) critiqued as the “truth as correspondence” theory of knowledge, and which is central to Foundationalism its ...
... Archimedean starting-point, not just for knowledge itself (from a Foundationalist perspective) but also for a long-lasting tradition in the philosophy of knowledge, which Richard Rorty (1979) critiqued as the “truth as correspondence” theory of knowledge, and which is central to Foundationalism its ...
Marvin Harris at Columbia in the 1970`s
... infrastructure, structure, and superstructure form a nested hierarchy of progressively more limiting constraints. (Yes it is jargon, but it's my jargon, and I'm rather fond of it). Seen this way, infrastructural variables establish networks of limitations, possibilities, of what culturally ...
... infrastructure, structure, and superstructure form a nested hierarchy of progressively more limiting constraints. (Yes it is jargon, but it's my jargon, and I'm rather fond of it). Seen this way, infrastructural variables establish networks of limitations, possibilities, of what culturally ...
Global diffusion of interactive networks: The impact of culture
... equity, competition among colleagues and performance; conflicts are resolved by fighting them out. Again, explicit conclusions about the relationship between this dimension and the diffusion of interactive networks are difficult to make. On one hand, it could be proposed that feminine cultures will ...
... equity, competition among colleagues and performance; conflicts are resolved by fighting them out. Again, explicit conclusions about the relationship between this dimension and the diffusion of interactive networks are difficult to make. On one hand, it could be proposed that feminine cultures will ...
Archaeologies of Amalgamation in Seventeenth
... broadest, syncretism describes “the combination of elements from two or more different religious traditions within a specified [cultural] frame” (Stewart 1999:58). The unique attribute of syncretism (in comparison with the other terms under consideration here) is its typical focus on religion, altho ...
... broadest, syncretism describes “the combination of elements from two or more different religious traditions within a specified [cultural] frame” (Stewart 1999:58). The unique attribute of syncretism (in comparison with the other terms under consideration here) is its typical focus on religion, altho ...
2. Parsing Hybridity - Scholars at Harvard
... broadest, syncretism describes “the combination of elements from two or more different religious traditions within a specified [cultural] frame” (Stewart 1999:58). The unique attribute of syncretism (in comparison with the other terms under consideration here) is its typical focus on religion, altho ...
... broadest, syncretism describes “the combination of elements from two or more different religious traditions within a specified [cultural] frame” (Stewart 1999:58). The unique attribute of syncretism (in comparison with the other terms under consideration here) is its typical focus on religion, altho ...
Carola Lentz Culture The making, unmaking and remaking of an
... ent culture concepts, both of which to this day continue to shape how anthropologists talk about culture. In 1871, Tylor published his magnum opus under the ambiguous title Primitive Culture, which can be read as meaning both primitive culture and the culture of primitives. In Great Britain, at the ...
... ent culture concepts, both of which to this day continue to shape how anthropologists talk about culture. In 1871, Tylor published his magnum opus under the ambiguous title Primitive Culture, which can be read as meaning both primitive culture and the culture of primitives. In Great Britain, at the ...
The Exposure Society Experience as a new aspect of social status
... experiences and how that gives them social status. It will be argued that in general social status and mobility (Blau and Duncan 1967, Crompton 1993) are factors that can explain the increasing interest in experiences. The fundamental sociological explanation of the relation between experience and ...
... experiences and how that gives them social status. It will be argued that in general social status and mobility (Blau and Duncan 1967, Crompton 1993) are factors that can explain the increasing interest in experiences. The fundamental sociological explanation of the relation between experience and ...
What Is Anthropology? - McGraw
... up of what people do, what people make, and what people believe. Culture includes all behaviour of people in their everyday lives, from daily rituals (for example, washing dishes) to beliefs about abstract concepts (for example, time), and is learned and transmitted from one generation to the next. ...
... up of what people do, what people make, and what people believe. Culture includes all behaviour of people in their everyday lives, from daily rituals (for example, washing dishes) to beliefs about abstract concepts (for example, time), and is learned and transmitted from one generation to the next. ...
Thinking Across Perspectives and Disciplines
... to thinking and problem-solving, we would like to place the notion of “disciplinary perspectives” within the larger landscape of other kinds of perspectives and a definition of interdisciplinary work. The term perspective implies the subjective nature of knowledge and, by its implicit visual-spatial ...
... to thinking and problem-solving, we would like to place the notion of “disciplinary perspectives” within the larger landscape of other kinds of perspectives and a definition of interdisciplinary work. The term perspective implies the subjective nature of knowledge and, by its implicit visual-spatial ...
Writing Culture from Within - Institute of Physics, Amsterdam
... of a differentand higher social class from the city and a member of the civil servant class with whom, according to the strongly class-conscious Javanese peasants' view, people have to interact cautiously, carefully, politely, and at a distance. I was part of my own subject matter but remained a str ...
... of a differentand higher social class from the city and a member of the civil servant class with whom, according to the strongly class-conscious Javanese peasants' view, people have to interact cautiously, carefully, politely, and at a distance. I was part of my own subject matter but remained a str ...
The Harmless Drudge Defining Ethnomusicology Bruno Nettl
... The first generations of ethnomusicologists, from around 1900 to maybe i970, were seen as academic oddballs involved in an arcane subject of no interest outside the academy (or even inside). After 1960, they tried to make their musics known by issuing records and promoting concerts (of, say, Indian, ...
... The first generations of ethnomusicologists, from around 1900 to maybe i970, were seen as academic oddballs involved in an arcane subject of no interest outside the academy (or even inside). After 1960, they tried to make their musics known by issuing records and promoting concerts (of, say, Indian, ...
Draft Material - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... up of what people do, what people make, and what people believe. Culture includes all behaviour of people in their everyday lives, from daily rituals (for example, washing dishes) to beliefs about abstract concepts (for example, time), and is learned and transmitted from one generation to the next. ...
... up of what people do, what people make, and what people believe. Culture includes all behaviour of people in their everyday lives, from daily rituals (for example, washing dishes) to beliefs about abstract concepts (for example, time), and is learned and transmitted from one generation to the next. ...
- SlideBoom
... • Social and Cultural Anthropologists are especially interested in the qualitative study of meaning. What do people think, feel and believe? Why do they think, feel and believe those things? How do their thoughts, feelings and beliefs influence their behavior? ...
... • Social and Cultural Anthropologists are especially interested in the qualitative study of meaning. What do people think, feel and believe? Why do they think, feel and believe those things? How do their thoughts, feelings and beliefs influence their behavior? ...
Printable Version
... individuals with this sort of personality are strongly controlled by their conscience. As a result, there is little need for police to make sure that they obey the law. These individuals monitor themselves. (Hint: this type of personality was identified by David Riesman in the early 1950's.) A disti ...
... individuals with this sort of personality are strongly controlled by their conscience. As a result, there is little need for police to make sure that they obey the law. These individuals monitor themselves. (Hint: this type of personality was identified by David Riesman in the early 1950's.) A disti ...
What is Anthropology
... Anthropology at UTEP has two focuses. Archaeologists study the human past by excavating, documenting objects, surveying physical remains, and collaborating with communities to preserve their cultural heritage. An archaeologist might uncover a stone knife and carved bones, and so discover the tools p ...
... Anthropology at UTEP has two focuses. Archaeologists study the human past by excavating, documenting objects, surveying physical remains, and collaborating with communities to preserve their cultural heritage. An archaeologist might uncover a stone knife and carved bones, and so discover the tools p ...
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology II
... Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. Small places, Large issues – an Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. Chapter 11. 2nd edition. London, Sterling: Pluto Press, 1995 9, Anthropology and law Malinowski, Bronislaw. Crime and Custom in Savage Society. London: Rotledge-Paul, 1978, pp. 50-59 Acton, Tho ...
... Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. Small places, Large issues – an Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. Chapter 11. 2nd edition. London, Sterling: Pluto Press, 1995 9, Anthropology and law Malinowski, Bronislaw. Crime and Custom in Savage Society. London: Rotledge-Paul, 1978, pp. 50-59 Acton, Tho ...
Chapter 15 - Lowitja Institute
... that there has been a generalised decline in consideration of cultural factors, although the material presented below from Morrissey (2003b) certainly indicates that such approaches still comprise a tiny proportion of the overall research output on Aboriginal health. There is a very long history in ...
... that there has been a generalised decline in consideration of cultural factors, although the material presented below from Morrissey (2003b) certainly indicates that such approaches still comprise a tiny proportion of the overall research output on Aboriginal health. There is a very long history in ...
Anthropology of Everydayness Cultural Theory and Social Practice
... Anthropology of everydayness is not only anthropography but also attempts to deconstruct the visible and the invisible elements of the everydayness in order to characterize the nature of the culture change and the evolution of the human society and human interactions. ...
... Anthropology of everydayness is not only anthropography but also attempts to deconstruct the visible and the invisible elements of the everydayness in order to characterize the nature of the culture change and the evolution of the human society and human interactions. ...
Understanding the Present and the Past: Perspectives on
... primary category of analysis. But the other side of the coin is that they only ‘really’ make sense when set into grander flows of conjunctural and structural time. The linguistic turn, within cultural history, has made it somewhat like a moving between practices and representations. Anthropology als ...
... primary category of analysis. But the other side of the coin is that they only ‘really’ make sense when set into grander flows of conjunctural and structural time. The linguistic turn, within cultural history, has made it somewhat like a moving between practices and representations. Anthropology als ...
That third stream: Weber, Parsons, Geertz
... Parsons followed Weber in regarding 'action' as the basic unit of an~ysis. Like Weber, Parsons based analysis on the premises of the actor, the relation of these premises to action, and their grounding in a system of meanings which Parsons termed the cultural system. Parsons conceived of the cultura ...
... Parsons followed Weber in regarding 'action' as the basic unit of an~ysis. Like Weber, Parsons based analysis on the premises of the actor, the relation of these premises to action, and their grounding in a system of meanings which Parsons termed the cultural system. Parsons conceived of the cultura ...
Seeking an Understanding of School Culture: Using Theory
... beliefs of members of the Culture and subgroups are ultimately more important than the facts about what actually happens. The overly broad goal at Emerson High School led to multiple interpretations of its meaning; without adequate information and direction, teachers acted on their own perceptions. ...
... beliefs of members of the Culture and subgroups are ultimately more important than the facts about what actually happens. The overly broad goal at Emerson High School led to multiple interpretations of its meaning; without adequate information and direction, teachers acted on their own perceptions. ...
Spring 2013 - Tufts University
... *starred courses count towards the Anthropology area course requirement ...
... *starred courses count towards the Anthropology area course requirement ...
Anthropology: The Biocultural Study of the Human Species
... graduate school. I was curious about certain processes of evolutionary change and how they operate in human populations. To examine them and their roles in our evolution, I needed to find a human group with a few special characteristics. First, the group had to be fairly genetically isolated, meanin ...
... graduate school. I was curious about certain processes of evolutionary change and how they operate in human populations. To examine them and their roles in our evolution, I needed to find a human group with a few special characteristics. First, the group had to be fairly genetically isolated, meanin ...