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... "transdisciplinary" approaches, i.e. approaches associating scientists and non-academic stakeholders not only to decide on priorities for research, but also to conduct research and to evaluate it by focusing on the contextualization of the results and their ability to be used for action, rather than ...
... "transdisciplinary" approaches, i.e. approaches associating scientists and non-academic stakeholders not only to decide on priorities for research, but also to conduct research and to evaluate it by focusing on the contextualization of the results and their ability to be used for action, rather than ...
Subject Benchmark Statement: Anthropology
... have therefore been revised and only these are included. There has been, in recent years, an emphasis on the 'employability' of graduates across all higher education providers. In anthropology relevant and pertinent statements of employability have been produced by individual departments or in speci ...
... have therefore been revised and only these are included. There has been, in recent years, an emphasis on the 'employability' of graduates across all higher education providers. In anthropology relevant and pertinent statements of employability have been produced by individual departments or in speci ...
Riffs, Repetition, and Theories of Globalization
... sound itself. This is not surprising since theoretical perspectives on the global and the local have been dominated by social scientists, philosophers, and literary theorists. Ethnomusicologists have attempted to squeeze their concerns into the vocabularies of these interdisciplinary discussions, bu ...
... sound itself. This is not surprising since theoretical perspectives on the global and the local have been dominated by social scientists, philosophers, and literary theorists. Ethnomusicologists have attempted to squeeze their concerns into the vocabularies of these interdisciplinary discussions, bu ...
Spring 2013 - Tufts University
... Thomas Abowd J+ TR 3:00-4:15 PM Youth and adolescence are universal experiences and categories. However, the ways in which we pass through these formative years can be quite varied across cultures. This course will take us down the street and around the world to explore the differences and similarit ...
... Thomas Abowd J+ TR 3:00-4:15 PM Youth and adolescence are universal experiences and categories. However, the ways in which we pass through these formative years can be quite varied across cultures. This course will take us down the street and around the world to explore the differences and similarit ...
- Digital Commons @ New Haven
... culture of the society. The remaining class cultures, while subordinate to this dominant culture, are also at odds with it and attempt to assert their own collective definitions. Each class-based culture, dominant or subordinate, is not monolithic but contain variations, subcultures, within itself. ...
... culture of the society. The remaining class cultures, while subordinate to this dominant culture, are also at odds with it and attempt to assert their own collective definitions. Each class-based culture, dominant or subordinate, is not monolithic but contain variations, subcultures, within itself. ...
Chapter 2 Student Study Notes
... thinking and actions. Although their actions affect others, in acting they also change themselves. This is so even though they may be constrained by the natural and social order of the environment around us. One way of saying this is that interpretivists believe that it is just not possible to colle ...
... thinking and actions. Although their actions affect others, in acting they also change themselves. This is so even though they may be constrained by the natural and social order of the environment around us. One way of saying this is that interpretivists believe that it is just not possible to colle ...
The failure of the Communist experiment
... should be recognized which may be called humanistics (it should not be confused with the common English term humanities): activities aiming at ascribing human relevance to discoveries of science, explicitly formulating values that may be implied by the discoveries and that implicate specific norms, ...
... should be recognized which may be called humanistics (it should not be confused with the common English term humanities): activities aiming at ascribing human relevance to discoveries of science, explicitly formulating values that may be implied by the discoveries and that implicate specific norms, ...
Methods
... experiences from certain members of the community being studied • Life histories reveal how specific people perceive, react to, and contribute to changes that affect their lives. • Since life histories are focused on how different people interpret and deal with similar issues, they can be used to il ...
... experiences from certain members of the community being studied • Life histories reveal how specific people perceive, react to, and contribute to changes that affect their lives. • Since life histories are focused on how different people interpret and deal with similar issues, they can be used to il ...
Anthropology 104 Traditional Cultures of the World
... – Holism means appreciating totalities as more than mere combinations of parts. – There are two ways anthropology is holistic. • 1) Comprehensiveness. Because anthropology is holistic its study includes all humans of all places and all times. • 2) Interrelatedness. Because anthropology is holistic a ...
... – Holism means appreciating totalities as more than mere combinations of parts. – There are two ways anthropology is holistic. • 1) Comprehensiveness. Because anthropology is holistic its study includes all humans of all places and all times. • 2) Interrelatedness. Because anthropology is holistic a ...
Subject benchmark statement: Anthropology
... The review group agreed that while the subject benchmark statement for anthropology, minimally amended in 2007, had served the subject area well, it needed refreshing and updating. Many emergent themes and current interests identified in 2002 and 2007 have become established in the subject and there ...
... The review group agreed that while the subject benchmark statement for anthropology, minimally amended in 2007, had served the subject area well, it needed refreshing and updating. Many emergent themes and current interests identified in 2002 and 2007 have become established in the subject and there ...
Cultural Aspects of Japanese Family Address Terms as Part of
... universal feature of languages, because kinship is so important in social organization. Some kinship systems are much richer than others, but all make use of such factors as gender, age, generation, blood, and marriage in their organization. In any language or social organization, people use address ...
... universal feature of languages, because kinship is so important in social organization. Some kinship systems are much richer than others, but all make use of such factors as gender, age, generation, blood, and marriage in their organization. In any language or social organization, people use address ...
Understanding Emotional Experience in Fieldwork
... To use Mead’s (1975) words, which sum up the point I am attempting to make here about experience as an epistemological factor in fieldwork, “The fieldworker is wholly and helplessly dependent on what happens…one must be continually prepared for anything, everything—and perhaps most devastating—for n ...
... To use Mead’s (1975) words, which sum up the point I am attempting to make here about experience as an epistemological factor in fieldwork, “The fieldworker is wholly and helplessly dependent on what happens…one must be continually prepared for anything, everything—and perhaps most devastating—for n ...
Cultural Diversity, Religious Syncretism and People of India: An
... Ethnic origins, religions, and languages are the major sources of cultural diversity. India is a country incredible for its diversity; biological and cultural. However, the process of synthesis and integration has been extensively at work in most parts of India. Indeed ethnic identities and even the ...
... Ethnic origins, religions, and languages are the major sources of cultural diversity. India is a country incredible for its diversity; biological and cultural. However, the process of synthesis and integration has been extensively at work in most parts of India. Indeed ethnic identities and even the ...
Mixed couples in France. Statistical facts, definitions, and
... in schools. In 2008, the book directed by B. Collet and C. Philippe achieved a greater degree of intersectionality. Some of these studies also involved mixed couples formed by persons of immigrant descent (Sad Saoud, 1985; Streiff-Fenart, 1989 and 2000; Hammouche, 1990; Belhadj, 2003, Collet/Santell ...
... in schools. In 2008, the book directed by B. Collet and C. Philippe achieved a greater degree of intersectionality. Some of these studies also involved mixed couples formed by persons of immigrant descent (Sad Saoud, 1985; Streiff-Fenart, 1989 and 2000; Hammouche, 1990; Belhadj, 2003, Collet/Santell ...
Boas - Andrews University
... taught a Kwakiutl to write phonetic text, which could then be translated. Therefore he was able to document even the songs and dances of the Kwakiutl. Distinguishing between their social and religious dances, he even wrote out the music to their songs with notes and words. In his work he examined an ...
... taught a Kwakiutl to write phonetic text, which could then be translated. Therefore he was able to document even the songs and dances of the Kwakiutl. Distinguishing between their social and religious dances, he even wrote out the music to their songs with notes and words. In his work he examined an ...
doc Anthropology Final Essay 11
... chapter; Fieldwork among the Maisin, Barker travels to the Maisin people, in order to complete his job. Fieldwork is first-hand, detailed, systematic, and long-term research with members of another society, usually conducted alone (Barker 2008: 3). In the beginning the community, there were extremel ...
... chapter; Fieldwork among the Maisin, Barker travels to the Maisin people, in order to complete his job. Fieldwork is first-hand, detailed, systematic, and long-term research with members of another society, usually conducted alone (Barker 2008: 3). In the beginning the community, there were extremel ...
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... If circulation is to serve as a useful analytic construct for cultural analysis, it must be conceived as more than simply the movement of people, ideas, and commodities from one culture to another. Instead, recent work indicates that circulation is a cultural process with its own forms of abstractio ...
... If circulation is to serve as a useful analytic construct for cultural analysis, it must be conceived as more than simply the movement of people, ideas, and commodities from one culture to another. Instead, recent work indicates that circulation is a cultural process with its own forms of abstractio ...
Plissart_Xavier,_Tradition_and_Modernity
... Tradition is being handed over naturally within the context of daily life. It is directly related to immediate action, first at the heart of the family, but also in other social contexts such as age groups, peers, etc. It is called socialisation: the insertion of new generations within the network o ...
... Tradition is being handed over naturally within the context of daily life. It is directly related to immediate action, first at the heart of the family, but also in other social contexts such as age groups, peers, etc. It is called socialisation: the insertion of new generations within the network o ...
I s s u e N o. 10 s u...
... These are not individualistic, rather today they have become highly normative forms. The Uglie relates to English humour and self-deprecation rather than being a universal form and thereby reflect cultural specificity. The single term Selfie also fails to differentiate adult Selfies from teenage usa ...
... These are not individualistic, rather today they have become highly normative forms. The Uglie relates to English humour and self-deprecation rather than being a universal form and thereby reflect cultural specificity. The single term Selfie also fails to differentiate adult Selfies from teenage usa ...
Computing point-of-view - MIT Media Lab
... model acquisition and animation can produce incisive models of individual perspective, that upon animation will afford novel and effective new ways to search, gain insight into, be inspired by, and connect with someone else and their collected narrative content. I have italicized three words in the ...
... model acquisition and animation can produce incisive models of individual perspective, that upon animation will afford novel and effective new ways to search, gain insight into, be inspired by, and connect with someone else and their collected narrative content. I have italicized three words in the ...
Anthropology Career and Graduate School handout
... other cultures from their own internal perspective, anthropologists learn the importance of events and conditions that cause people to do things differently social agility, cultural competence, anthropologists know that they don’t know – and how to find out; anthropologists learn how to find pattern ...
... other cultures from their own internal perspective, anthropologists learn the importance of events and conditions that cause people to do things differently social agility, cultural competence, anthropologists know that they don’t know – and how to find out; anthropologists learn how to find pattern ...
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
... This, however, does not mean that there are no such limits in open liberal-democratic societies. In the two decades following the collapse of the totalitarian regimes, it can be stated that the development of the social sciences in the post-communist countries has been accompanied with the renaissan ...
... This, however, does not mean that there are no such limits in open liberal-democratic societies. In the two decades following the collapse of the totalitarian regimes, it can be stated that the development of the social sciences in the post-communist countries has been accompanied with the renaissan ...
ESEM Conference Programme - Irish World Academy of Music and
... unusual event, not least due to Wednesday’s (Sept. 16) joint meeting with the SEM-‐ICTM Colloquium. I think we never had an occasion where all three organizations’ presidents were active at the same da ...
... unusual event, not least due to Wednesday’s (Sept. 16) joint meeting with the SEM-‐ICTM Colloquium. I think we never had an occasion where all three organizations’ presidents were active at the same da ...
Scholarly Interest Report - Faculty Information System - Login
... "keynote lecture." Writing Across the Disciplines, Cornell University. (June, 1999) "keynote lecture." interpretation in anthropology at the fin-de-siecle, Syros Island, Greece, conference center of the National Research Council. (July, 1999) "Commentary on the Work of Filmmaker Susan Mogul." Eye & ...
... "keynote lecture." Writing Across the Disciplines, Cornell University. (June, 1999) "keynote lecture." interpretation in anthropology at the fin-de-siecle, Syros Island, Greece, conference center of the National Research Council. (July, 1999) "Commentary on the Work of Filmmaker Susan Mogul." Eye & ...
Human Organization
... ... the basic principle upon which the rotating credit association is founded is everywhere the same: a lump sum fund composed of fixed contributions from each member of the association is distributed, at fixed intervals and as a whole, to each member of the association in turn. Geertz located this ...
... ... the basic principle upon which the rotating credit association is founded is everywhere the same: a lump sum fund composed of fixed contributions from each member of the association is distributed, at fixed intervals and as a whole, to each member of the association in turn. Geertz located this ...
Intercultural competence
Intercultural competence is the ability to communicate effectively and appropriately with people of other cultures: Appropriately. Valued rules, norms, and expectations of the relationship are not violated significantly. Effectively. Valued goals or rewards (relative to costs and alternatives) are accomplished.In interactions with people from foreign cultures, a person who is interculturally competent understands the culture-specific concepts of perception, thinking, feeling, and acting.Intercultural competence is also called ""cross-cultural competence"" (3C).