Cultural evolution of the structure of human groups
... 1999; Wiessner 1986; Yengoyan 1968). Thus at some time during hominin evolution, individuals became more likely to encounter strangers who were the kin or partners of their partners, but not directly known to them; that is, in-group strangers (Hill et al. 2011). At this point the interaction history ...
... 1999; Wiessner 1986; Yengoyan 1968). Thus at some time during hominin evolution, individuals became more likely to encounter strangers who were the kin or partners of their partners, but not directly known to them; that is, in-group strangers (Hill et al. 2011). At this point the interaction history ...
Associate in Arts Anthropology Transfer Degree
... Anthropology is a holistic discipline, which means that anthropologists study all aspects of humans and our behavior. The field of Anthropology has been broken up into five main sub-fields: Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, and Archaeology, Linguistics, and Applied anthropology. Cultural ...
... Anthropology is a holistic discipline, which means that anthropologists study all aspects of humans and our behavior. The field of Anthropology has been broken up into five main sub-fields: Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, and Archaeology, Linguistics, and Applied anthropology. Cultural ...
XML - M/C Journal
... What does sorrow taste like? Or anger? In 2012, the people at Hoxton Street Monster Supplies of London launched The Taste of Emotion, a unique range of seasoning salts collected from human tears. There are five varieties of salt available in the collection, which the company explains have been harve ...
... What does sorrow taste like? Or anger? In 2012, the people at Hoxton Street Monster Supplies of London launched The Taste of Emotion, a unique range of seasoning salts collected from human tears. There are five varieties of salt available in the collection, which the company explains have been harve ...
Cultural Landscape - Society for California Archaeology
... two framing devices. The first is the objective framework, which is the presence of a person within a defined area. The second framework is one that has "imputed meaning" (1995:1). This author has called this the subjective framework and defines it as how individuals interact with, perceive, or unde ...
... two framing devices. The first is the objective framework, which is the presence of a person within a defined area. The second framework is one that has "imputed meaning" (1995:1). This author has called this the subjective framework and defines it as how individuals interact with, perceive, or unde ...
Nenetsi Samoyeds: Nomads of the Siberian Tundra
... 1. Sodalities are non-kin-based organizations that may generate cross-societal linkages. a. They are often based on common age or gender. b. Some sodalities are confined to a single village. c. Some sodalities span several villages; these are called pantribal sodalities. 2. Pantribal sodalities tend ...
... 1. Sodalities are non-kin-based organizations that may generate cross-societal linkages. a. They are often based on common age or gender. b. Some sodalities are confined to a single village. c. Some sodalities span several villages; these are called pantribal sodalities. 2. Pantribal sodalities tend ...
Creolization in Anthropological Theory and in Mauritius
... the investors belong to non-Creole ethnic groups. Even if the effort to provide the Creoles with an African identity had been successful, it would have been difficult to give it a substantial content. Since the slaves came from different parts of West and East Africa, no Creole is able to point out ...
... the investors belong to non-Creole ethnic groups. Even if the effort to provide the Creoles with an African identity had been successful, it would have been difficult to give it a substantial content. Since the slaves came from different parts of West and East Africa, no Creole is able to point out ...
Philosophical Approaches in the Social Sciences
... All can be well justified within their own frameworks and with reference to their own criteria. Researchers need to position themselves, and judge what approach, or combination of approaches, may be most appropriate for the task in hand. This requires philosophical and epistemological decisions and ...
... All can be well justified within their own frameworks and with reference to their own criteria. Researchers need to position themselves, and judge what approach, or combination of approaches, may be most appropriate for the task in hand. This requires philosophical and epistemological decisions and ...
Cultural evolution and archaeology : Historical and cultural trends
... what the advantages of such an evolutionary viewpoint in social studies might be. Critics have pointed out that the use of a biological vocabulary in studies of cultural phenomena, including such terms as ‘variation’, ‘selection’ and ‘drift’, has a metaphoric value only, and that there are no method ...
... what the advantages of such an evolutionary viewpoint in social studies might be. Critics have pointed out that the use of a biological vocabulary in studies of cultural phenomena, including such terms as ‘variation’, ‘selection’ and ‘drift’, has a metaphoric value only, and that there are no method ...
Paper Complexity, mobility, migration
... Asylum applicants can either (re)produce, negotiate or dodge their way through these normative expectations (Jacquemet, 2015). In light of this, the question of legitimacy, performance and responsibilities is pivotal in the examination of this social situation and of how it folds in within a specif ...
... Asylum applicants can either (re)produce, negotiate or dodge their way through these normative expectations (Jacquemet, 2015). In light of this, the question of legitimacy, performance and responsibilities is pivotal in the examination of this social situation and of how it folds in within a specif ...
Anthropology and education
... transmission in their culture-specific inquiries. These are what George Spindler (Stanford University ) describes, studying not only what goes on in schools, but looking at everything else that humans (must) learn in the course of their maturation, and how formal schooling can be viewed as an interr ...
... transmission in their culture-specific inquiries. These are what George Spindler (Stanford University ) describes, studying not only what goes on in schools, but looking at everything else that humans (must) learn in the course of their maturation, and how formal schooling can be viewed as an interr ...
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After the cultural turn, a return to the moral economy[1]
... individual responsibility. Here the sovereign self merges with the autonomous and responsible self. However, as John O’Neill in his book The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics rightly argues, we can distinguish between social authority (authority conferred on a person, such as political and reli ...
... individual responsibility. Here the sovereign self merges with the autonomous and responsible self. However, as John O’Neill in his book The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics rightly argues, we can distinguish between social authority (authority conferred on a person, such as political and reli ...
Cultural History of Britain
... logic. In our present context, this means that Tylor understood the task of anthropology (or as he preferred to say, ethnography) in terms of a single linear sequence from less to more complexity. Quote from Tylor’s Primitive Culture, 1873/1958: “Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnograph ...
... logic. In our present context, this means that Tylor understood the task of anthropology (or as he preferred to say, ethnography) in terms of a single linear sequence from less to more complexity. Quote from Tylor’s Primitive Culture, 1873/1958: “Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnograph ...
MISSION STATEMENT AND national PLAN 2016-2025
... new knowledge and practices. Individuals and groups in vulnerable situations have knowledge derived from their culture and life experience. This knowledge is largely unrecognised or even scorned. Yet its recognition is essential for effectively fighting poverty and exclusion. The recognition and sha ...
... new knowledge and practices. Individuals and groups in vulnerable situations have knowledge derived from their culture and life experience. This knowledge is largely unrecognised or even scorned. Yet its recognition is essential for effectively fighting poverty and exclusion. The recognition and sha ...
Anthropology - Whitman College
... Cancer – the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body – is the cause of nearly 13 percent of all deaths annually. (Over 12 million cancers are diagnosed each year with a corresponding 8 million deaths.) Because of its often unknown direct causes, and its association with suffering and the d ...
... Cancer – the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body – is the cause of nearly 13 percent of all deaths annually. (Over 12 million cancers are diagnosed each year with a corresponding 8 million deaths.) Because of its often unknown direct causes, and its association with suffering and the d ...
The Units of Culture
... have embraced the notion with few apparent misgivings. Some have even proposed a new field of “memetics” (e.g., Lynch 1996; Blackmore 1998). Wilson (1998) has abandoned his “culturgen” construct and adopted the meme, although his definition of it differs somewhat from definitions proposed by others. ...
... have embraced the notion with few apparent misgivings. Some have even proposed a new field of “memetics” (e.g., Lynch 1996; Blackmore 1998). Wilson (1998) has abandoned his “culturgen” construct and adopted the meme, although his definition of it differs somewhat from definitions proposed by others. ...
Humor and Anthropology - Arizona State University
... Christie Davies has made a chart showing the joking targets in 28 different countries. However, the ones given below are the most recognizable • Americans consider Poles, Italians, and Portuguese as stupid while Jews, Scots, New Englanders, and Iowans are tricky. • Canadians consider Newfies as stu ...
... Christie Davies has made a chart showing the joking targets in 28 different countries. However, the ones given below are the most recognizable • Americans consider Poles, Italians, and Portuguese as stupid while Jews, Scots, New Englanders, and Iowans are tricky. • Canadians consider Newfies as stu ...
Mariangela Veikou University of Peloponnese, Greece Images of
... Keywords African Migration; Etnography and Photography; Migrant Integration; Discourse ...
... Keywords African Migration; Etnography and Photography; Migrant Integration; Discourse ...
History and Human Nature: Cross-cultural Universals and Cultural
... experimental, subject to rigorous controls. But obviously they have their limitations especially with regard to the inferences they legitimate. Let me rehearse the chief problems that beset the different approaches, some relatively easy to obviate, others not at all so. Evolutionary psychology, firs ...
... experimental, subject to rigorous controls. But obviously they have their limitations especially with regard to the inferences they legitimate. Let me rehearse the chief problems that beset the different approaches, some relatively easy to obviate, others not at all so. Evolutionary psychology, firs ...
LITERACIES AND DEFICITS REVISITED
... such term is critical literacy, defined as neither a skill nor membership in a particular group, but an act-the act of socially transforming oneself to the level of active participation in and creation of a culture. Emphasis is placed on the use of creative and critical sensibilities of the general ...
... such term is critical literacy, defined as neither a skill nor membership in a particular group, but an act-the act of socially transforming oneself to the level of active participation in and creation of a culture. Emphasis is placed on the use of creative and critical sensibilities of the general ...
2013/12/3 1 Respect for cultural diversity and pluralism p
... October 2013: with 17% of votes largest political party in the polls. ...
... October 2013: with 17% of votes largest political party in the polls. ...
Cultural Symbols and Textile Communication
... position to claim and I was moving this project from the communication of given symbols from my culture to a commentary of my culture, which was not the goal of this project. I then proceeded to create symbols to express what I wanted to comment on about my culture. Looking at elements of prescribed ...
... position to claim and I was moving this project from the communication of given symbols from my culture to a commentary of my culture, which was not the goal of this project. I then proceeded to create symbols to express what I wanted to comment on about my culture. Looking at elements of prescribed ...
Cultural Evolution: Integration and Scepticism
... evolutionary account evokes images of higher and lower civilizations, and of a general tendency for societies to pass in sequence through these progressively more elaborate stages. Darwin himself tended to regard natural selection as a process with a fairly reliable tendency (albeit not a guaranteed ...
... evolutionary account evokes images of higher and lower civilizations, and of a general tendency for societies to pass in sequence through these progressively more elaborate stages. Darwin himself tended to regard natural selection as a process with a fairly reliable tendency (albeit not a guaranteed ...
In Conjunction with Cultural Anthropology
... condition? How does a holistic perspective add to the breadth of anthropology? 4. What are some of the specific skills and methods used by cultural anthropologists to learn about and document a way of life? 5. How does the work of anthropological linguists differ from that of linguists in other fiel ...
... condition? How does a holistic perspective add to the breadth of anthropology? 4. What are some of the specific skills and methods used by cultural anthropologists to learn about and document a way of life? 5. How does the work of anthropological linguists differ from that of linguists in other fiel ...
This paper reports on a research project, the aim of which was to
... practices and codes, with education providing the key to unlock the code. (Waters, 1994) Bourdieu argued however that this key is not given to all on an equal basis; instead it is distributed according to social status through education with habitus providing the privileged with an enhanced ability ...
... practices and codes, with education providing the key to unlock the code. (Waters, 1994) Bourdieu argued however that this key is not given to all on an equal basis; instead it is distributed according to social status through education with habitus providing the privileged with an enhanced ability ...
Key words
... The beginnings of cultural anthropology were characterised by a paternalist approach to the societies under study. The metaphor of the child who needs care, applied to the recipients of developmental projects, has remained its expression until today. For decades anthropologists nurtured the document ...
... The beginnings of cultural anthropology were characterised by a paternalist approach to the societies under study. The metaphor of the child who needs care, applied to the recipients of developmental projects, has remained its expression until today. For decades anthropologists nurtured the document ...
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).