ANTH 2351-Raisor
... linguistics, and culture change among world peoples. Special emphasis is given to crosscultural comparison and analysis of basic social institutions on a global scale using contrasting world cultures as examples. Expanded Description. The course covers the field of cultural anthropology by introduci ...
... linguistics, and culture change among world peoples. Special emphasis is given to crosscultural comparison and analysis of basic social institutions on a global scale using contrasting world cultures as examples. Expanded Description. The course covers the field of cultural anthropology by introduci ...
situation of freelancers in slovenia
... The situation gets even worse if we consider that freelancers in culture sector deals with institutions and organisations that gets state subsidy for their production. Therefore they are not entirely on free market and the quality of their outcome is not essential. This makes unequal situation in ne ...
... The situation gets even worse if we consider that freelancers in culture sector deals with institutions and organisations that gets state subsidy for their production. Therefore they are not entirely on free market and the quality of their outcome is not essential. This makes unequal situation in ne ...
Introduction
... volumes have appeared, while in the German-speaking world, a few papers and the edited volumes of Neil Roughley (2000), Peter Hejl (2001) and Beat Sitter-Liver (2009) represent the sum of the work dedicated to the topic. I believe that cultural anthropology can offer a special contribution to the to ...
... volumes have appeared, while in the German-speaking world, a few papers and the edited volumes of Neil Roughley (2000), Peter Hejl (2001) and Beat Sitter-Liver (2009) represent the sum of the work dedicated to the topic. I believe that cultural anthropology can offer a special contribution to the to ...
Malinowski: the Creator of Fieldwork and the ethnography
... Even if societies ‘lacked’ an institution, e.g. courts and/or a formal legal system, the functional analysis directed them to look for correlative customs and institutions. Very often, anthropologists found these functions fulfilled by kinship institutions, e.g. a group of elders of a clan might jud ...
... Even if societies ‘lacked’ an institution, e.g. courts and/or a formal legal system, the functional analysis directed them to look for correlative customs and institutions. Very often, anthropologists found these functions fulfilled by kinship institutions, e.g. a group of elders of a clan might jud ...
When ethics travel
... Is bribery tipping? • Hypernorms: – Principles so fundamental that, by definition, they serve to evaluate lower-order norms, reaching to the root of what is ethical for humanity. They represent the norms by which all others are to be judged • Hypernorm of necessary social efficiency: need for insti ...
... Is bribery tipping? • Hypernorms: – Principles so fundamental that, by definition, they serve to evaluate lower-order norms, reaching to the root of what is ethical for humanity. They represent the norms by which all others are to be judged • Hypernorm of necessary social efficiency: need for insti ...
Intercultural Communication and Global Democracy: A Deweyan
... intercultural communication competence, and seeking the formulas to remove misunderstandings and breakdowns in intercultural communication. By contrast, American philosopher John Dewey takes a moral approach to define communication as individually distinctive members of a community sharing experienc ...
... intercultural communication competence, and seeking the formulas to remove misunderstandings and breakdowns in intercultural communication. By contrast, American philosopher John Dewey takes a moral approach to define communication as individually distinctive members of a community sharing experienc ...
Theoretical Schools - California State University, Bakersfield
... Once structuralism came to be defined as a movement or school, theorists distanced themselves from it. It became clear that works by alleged structuralists did not fit the idea of structuralism as an attempt to master and codify structures. Barthes, Lacan, and Foucault, for example, were identified ...
... Once structuralism came to be defined as a movement or school, theorists distanced themselves from it. It became clear that works by alleged structuralists did not fit the idea of structuralism as an attempt to master and codify structures. Barthes, Lacan, and Foucault, for example, were identified ...
APPLIED and PRACTICING ANTHROPOLOGY
... anthropologists were called upon to aid with the war effort in various ways but principally in understand human behavior across cultural lines. ...
... anthropologists were called upon to aid with the war effort in various ways but principally in understand human behavior across cultural lines. ...
Cultural industries and public policy
... A basic problem with the development of policy for the cultural industries concerns the issue of definition. First, it is useful to put aside the culturalcreative industries debate. The term ‘creative industries’ is a political construct first deployed by the UK government in 1997 under a new Labour ...
... A basic problem with the development of policy for the cultural industries concerns the issue of definition. First, it is useful to put aside the culturalcreative industries debate. The term ‘creative industries’ is a political construct first deployed by the UK government in 1997 under a new Labour ...
ideology, ritual practice, and cultural heritage: an introduction
... through time and are found in a variety of social contexts that range from individual households to public forums influencing state-level political and economic affairs. Following Read and Gonzalez (2000:4-6), we define ideology as an organized system of thoughts, often pertaining to creation myths, ...
... through time and are found in a variety of social contexts that range from individual households to public forums influencing state-level political and economic affairs. Following Read and Gonzalez (2000:4-6), we define ideology as an organized system of thoughts, often pertaining to creation myths, ...
CHAPTER 1: What is Anthropology - We can offer most test bank
... c. there is no writing of reports required d. only the best anthropologists would consider this field of anthropology 37. Why did specialization in anthropology develop? a. over time, the discipline grew and expanded its knowledge base requiring well defined skills b. there are no limits to what a p ...
... c. there is no writing of reports required d. only the best anthropologists would consider this field of anthropology 37. Why did specialization in anthropology develop? a. over time, the discipline grew and expanded its knowledge base requiring well defined skills b. there are no limits to what a p ...
COURSE DESCRIPTION (Group C)
... methodologies focused on recent debates in the discipline and interdisciplinary. 3. Concept of culture and ‘against culture’ (A. Gupta, J. Ferguson, ...
... methodologies focused on recent debates in the discipline and interdisciplinary. 3. Concept of culture and ‘against culture’ (A. Gupta, J. Ferguson, ...
The Contract with God: Patterns of Cultural Consensus across Two
... ethnographic work: that a set of characteristics called culture is meaningfully shared and distributed among members of a group. Critiques of the method, some of which were famously highlighted in a debate between Robert Aunger (1999) and A. Kimball Romney (1999), focus on how cultural consensus por ...
... ethnographic work: that a set of characteristics called culture is meaningfully shared and distributed among members of a group. Critiques of the method, some of which were famously highlighted in a debate between Robert Aunger (1999) and A. Kimball Romney (1999), focus on how cultural consensus por ...
biomodelebola
... hospital; nosocomial transmission such as this, is often exacerbated by the severe lack of such basic resources as soap, bleach, clean water and proper training for those involved in the care of Ebola patients The national and global political-economic setting influences the availability of a wide v ...
... hospital; nosocomial transmission such as this, is often exacerbated by the severe lack of such basic resources as soap, bleach, clean water and proper training for those involved in the care of Ebola patients The national and global political-economic setting influences the availability of a wide v ...
Mary Douglas and Anthropological Modernism
... view of society as a functional system and, perhaps most importantly, the embeddedness of cognitive and moral categories in social life. (I would note that much of what we call postmodernism also derives from aspects of Durkheim’s work, particularly his emphasis on the social construction of— and ...
... view of society as a functional system and, perhaps most importantly, the embeddedness of cognitive and moral categories in social life. (I would note that much of what we call postmodernism also derives from aspects of Durkheim’s work, particularly his emphasis on the social construction of— and ...
Can Cultural Worldviews Influence Network
... actors as having a keen sense of their utility functions.” Such models generalize a single motivation – instrumental gain – across contexts and ignore the potential role of culture in shaping the character of social relations (see also Smith 2003).2 Second, network theory relies on assumptions about ...
... actors as having a keen sense of their utility functions.” Such models generalize a single motivation – instrumental gain – across contexts and ignore the potential role of culture in shaping the character of social relations (see also Smith 2003).2 Second, network theory relies on assumptions about ...
Social Work and Anthropology: Moroccan Female Immigrants in Spain
... anthropological research on immigrant children disputed the evolution of racism, particularly of people from non-Western European origins (Patridge & Eddy 1978, Ervin 2000). Although Boas’ research was supposedly more “academic” and not so much as “applied,” his findings of environmental changes on ...
... anthropological research on immigrant children disputed the evolution of racism, particularly of people from non-Western European origins (Patridge & Eddy 1978, Ervin 2000). Although Boas’ research was supposedly more “academic” and not so much as “applied,” his findings of environmental changes on ...
Towards a Generative Model of Nomadism
... political and cultural forms. In these conditions, while the ideologies and political systems, and the nomadic groupings and agricultural settlements, maintain their identities, individuals move back ...
... political and cultural forms. In these conditions, while the ideologies and political systems, and the nomadic groupings and agricultural settlements, maintain their identities, individuals move back ...
Interrogating Globalization and Culture in Anthropological Perspective
... programmes at home or attend clubs and restaurants outside. There has been a strong presence of popular and mass culture in television images and the latter have a profound impact on the day-to-day cultural life of many Indians. The television programmes, particularly the associated advertisements p ...
... programmes at home or attend clubs and restaurants outside. There has been a strong presence of popular and mass culture in television images and the latter have a profound impact on the day-to-day cultural life of many Indians. The television programmes, particularly the associated advertisements p ...
Emergent Forms of Life in Corporate Arenas.
... with differential porosities, to the free flow of information, sometimes to protect profits, sometimes to protect information turf and power relations, and sometimes just unintended inefficiencies in work practices. Non-disclosure agreements not only sit betwixt and between intellectual property (IP) r ...
... with differential porosities, to the free flow of information, sometimes to protect profits, sometimes to protect information turf and power relations, and sometimes just unintended inefficiencies in work practices. Non-disclosure agreements not only sit betwixt and between intellectual property (IP) r ...
Introduction: Rethinking Communicative Breakdowns
... As someone interested in the intersections of language and cultural practice, or, more appropriately, the embedded nature of language within cultural practice, I am pleased that this journal issue is devoted to the study of what happens when interaction fails or is threatened. The papers here reflec ...
... As someone interested in the intersections of language and cultural practice, or, more appropriately, the embedded nature of language within cultural practice, I am pleased that this journal issue is devoted to the study of what happens when interaction fails or is threatened. The papers here reflec ...
Oxymoronic_Civilisations
... remotest places have been recognized as truly human and entirely natural—it is plain that the popular verdict has been an enthusiastic assent. Its ethical understandings are widely regarded as benign. Its politics are as congenial to the liberal imagination as they are to the radical mind. Its broad ...
... remotest places have been recognized as truly human and entirely natural—it is plain that the popular verdict has been an enthusiastic assent. Its ethical understandings are widely regarded as benign. Its politics are as congenial to the liberal imagination as they are to the radical mind. Its broad ...
Cultural Relativism and the Realistic Approach to
... All people feel shames or guilt or , probably, some combination of these,all take satisfaction in or feel dissatisfaction with regard to their enterprises and productions, all dislike, under some conditions, public humiliation and enjoy recognized success, and so on(op. cit, 450). They seem to ai ...
... All people feel shames or guilt or , probably, some combination of these,all take satisfaction in or feel dissatisfaction with regard to their enterprises and productions, all dislike, under some conditions, public humiliation and enjoy recognized success, and so on(op. cit, 450). They seem to ai ...
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 ...
Similarities - Cambridge University Press
... In Benedict’s main work (Patterns of culture, 1934), the influence of Gestalt psychology is also apparent: patterns or forms are emphasized, and give meaning to the details that constitute them; indeed, details are often downplayed, even ignored, in her preference for understanding the overall confi ...
... In Benedict’s main work (Patterns of culture, 1934), the influence of Gestalt psychology is also apparent: patterns or forms are emphasized, and give meaning to the details that constitute them; indeed, details are often downplayed, even ignored, in her preference for understanding the overall confi ...
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).