INTRODUCTION
... anthropological device elaborated by modernist anthropology in order to allow for ethnography as a method of inquiry. In questioning the ontological status of such an idea, contemporary anthropological critique of sociocentrism takes a meta-linguistic position concerning the central presuppositions ...
... anthropological device elaborated by modernist anthropology in order to allow for ethnography as a method of inquiry. In questioning the ontological status of such an idea, contemporary anthropological critique of sociocentrism takes a meta-linguistic position concerning the central presuppositions ...
The Sociology of Ecology
... the basis of natural–environmental and social conditions inherited from the past.2 For environmental sociologists to raise such matters in the context of the development of ecological science is of course to trespass on the realm of the sociology of science, which specializes in precisely these kind ...
... the basis of natural–environmental and social conditions inherited from the past.2 For environmental sociologists to raise such matters in the context of the development of ecological science is of course to trespass on the realm of the sociology of science, which specializes in precisely these kind ...
principles of ecology
... species is defined as a group of organisms which can interbreed and reproduce successfully. These organisms may be separated in space and time into smaller groups called populations. For example human populations live in different geographical areas but all belong to the species, Homo Sapiens. 25.4 ...
... species is defined as a group of organisms which can interbreed and reproduce successfully. These organisms may be separated in space and time into smaller groups called populations. For example human populations live in different geographical areas but all belong to the species, Homo Sapiens. 25.4 ...
World Geography- Use with Unit 10 - USC US
... "Building a Global Perspective". The skills that the student will have by the time they get to this unit are knowledge of the five themes of Geography which are location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and regions. Section 1- The Emergence of Modern China Objectives *Outline Mao's pr ...
... "Building a Global Perspective". The skills that the student will have by the time they get to this unit are knowledge of the five themes of Geography which are location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and regions. Section 1- The Emergence of Modern China Objectives *Outline Mao's pr ...
Ecological and evolutionary traps
... reproduction (habitat ‘sinks’[18]) can lead to population extinction. More surprisingly, this result appears to hold true even when patches of poor habitat represent a relatively small proportion of the entire landscape [6,8,19,20]. Thus, alteration of only a fraction of the habitat in such a way th ...
... reproduction (habitat ‘sinks’[18]) can lead to population extinction. More surprisingly, this result appears to hold true even when patches of poor habitat represent a relatively small proportion of the entire landscape [6,8,19,20]. Thus, alteration of only a fraction of the habitat in such a way th ...
Can the pre-Neolithic provide suitable models for re
... Can the pre-Neolithic provide suitable models for re-wilding the landscape in Britain? opened up the landscape, and an apparently rapid diversification of dung-beetle faunas during the Neolithic suggests an increase in their food supply. As Britain was an island from about 7500BP (Preece 1995), it ...
... Can the pre-Neolithic provide suitable models for re-wilding the landscape in Britain? opened up the landscape, and an apparently rapid diversification of dung-beetle faunas during the Neolithic suggests an increase in their food supply. As Britain was an island from about 7500BP (Preece 1995), it ...
Lecture 1 introduction-2011
... 2. Stating a ____________ (explanation of observation; must be able to be tested) 3. _________ the hypothesis (involves measurement of one variable at a time) 4. Analyzing the _________ (data organized in graphs, tables, and charts) 5. Drawing _____________ (returning to step #2 as needed) ***This i ...
... 2. Stating a ____________ (explanation of observation; must be able to be tested) 3. _________ the hypothesis (involves measurement of one variable at a time) 4. Analyzing the _________ (data organized in graphs, tables, and charts) 5. Drawing _____________ (returning to step #2 as needed) ***This i ...
alfred irving hallowell - National Academy of Sciences
... seen as theoretically central not only for anthropology but also for science as a whole. The early physicist Boas, trained in psychophysics to study how the observer's characteristics determine his perception of experimental phenomena, had generalized this Kantian view of epistemology to include a c ...
... seen as theoretically central not only for anthropology but also for science as a whole. The early physicist Boas, trained in psychophysics to study how the observer's characteristics determine his perception of experimental phenomena, had generalized this Kantian view of epistemology to include a c ...
What is Anthropology?
... Subdisciplines of Anthropology • The four subdisciplines share a similar goal of exploring variation in time and space to improve our understanding of the basics of human biology, society, and culture. • Variation in time (diachronic research): using information from contemporary groups to model cha ...
... Subdisciplines of Anthropology • The four subdisciplines share a similar goal of exploring variation in time and space to improve our understanding of the basics of human biology, society, and culture. • Variation in time (diachronic research): using information from contemporary groups to model cha ...
Fighting Precarity with Co
... version of capitalism became visible, not only in the form of economic crisis but also through an increasing dissatisfaction of people with hierarchical social structures, Fordist control and inflexibility at the workplace, global inequality and gender injustice, among others. It is in this context ...
... version of capitalism became visible, not only in the form of economic crisis but also through an increasing dissatisfaction of people with hierarchical social structures, Fordist control and inflexibility at the workplace, global inequality and gender injustice, among others. It is in this context ...
From Culture Areas to Ethnoscapes - Journal of Regional Analysis
... Andes, and West Africa. In turn these places evolved particular patterns of culture or ‗trait complexes‘ based on a unique configuration of functionally related traits that differentiated one cultural group from another, that is, individuals in one community shared more traits than they did with nei ...
... Andes, and West Africa. In turn these places evolved particular patterns of culture or ‗trait complexes‘ based on a unique configuration of functionally related traits that differentiated one cultural group from another, that is, individuals in one community shared more traits than they did with nei ...
Duties to Ecosystems
... short-lived insect grazers permit to long-lived plants rapid nutrient recycling, something like that accomplished more slowly by seasonal leaf-fall and decay. Some species of grasses coevolved with grazing ungulates; neither can flourish (or even survive) without the other.7 Here too, as with predat ...
... short-lived insect grazers permit to long-lived plants rapid nutrient recycling, something like that accomplished more slowly by seasonal leaf-fall and decay. Some species of grasses coevolved with grazing ungulates; neither can flourish (or even survive) without the other.7 Here too, as with predat ...
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 ...
Related Anthology
... are typically the focus of such anthropological studies. No matter the culture, that which is considered normal or strange, forbidden or taboo is often relayed through the body. As sociologist Anthony Synnott illustrates in his book The Body Social, the body is both the symbol of the self and the so ...
... are typically the focus of such anthropological studies. No matter the culture, that which is considered normal or strange, forbidden or taboo is often relayed through the body. As sociologist Anthony Synnott illustrates in his book The Body Social, the body is both the symbol of the self and the so ...
Anurag Agrawal - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
... Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers, Summer workshop, July 2010, two hours field trip with 25 secondary school instructors. How to Succeed in Graduate School, BEB Workshop, December 2009. Cornell Club visit and presentations, Washington DC, April 2009 CALS Alumni Presentation, Making a World of D ...
... Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers, Summer workshop, July 2010, two hours field trip with 25 secondary school instructors. How to Succeed in Graduate School, BEB Workshop, December 2009. Cornell Club visit and presentations, Washington DC, April 2009 CALS Alumni Presentation, Making a World of D ...
Towards a cohesive, holistic view of top predation: a definition
... and that are relatively free from predation themselves once they reach their adult size. This definition mainly includes vertebrate predators such as large diurnal raptors and owls, seabirds, herons, mammalian carnivores, cetaceans and pinnipeds, sharks and other large predatory fishes, as well as m ...
... and that are relatively free from predation themselves once they reach their adult size. This definition mainly includes vertebrate predators such as large diurnal raptors and owls, seabirds, herons, mammalian carnivores, cetaceans and pinnipeds, sharks and other large predatory fishes, as well as m ...
Sixth Grade
... 6. Identifies major landforms and bodies of water in regions of the United States (e.g., mountains, plains, islands, peninsulas, rivers, oceans). (Δ4 3:1:4) (Δ3 3:1:4) 7. Identifies and give examples of the difference between political and physical features within a region. (Δ4 3:1:3) (Δ3 3:1:3) 8. ...
... 6. Identifies major landforms and bodies of water in regions of the United States (e.g., mountains, plains, islands, peninsulas, rivers, oceans). (Δ4 3:1:4) (Δ3 3:1:4) 7. Identifies and give examples of the difference between political and physical features within a region. (Δ4 3:1:3) (Δ3 3:1:3) 8. ...
are ecoloGical codeS archetypal StructureS?
... an ecosystem of local regulatory capacity, without which the ecosystem would fall into a mass of chaotic processes. In 2007 Søren Nors Nielsen proposed that this sphere of semiotic functions in ecosystem could be called semiotype, referring to the parallel with genotype, phenotype and envirotype. Ka ...
... an ecosystem of local regulatory capacity, without which the ecosystem would fall into a mass of chaotic processes. In 2007 Søren Nors Nielsen proposed that this sphere of semiotic functions in ecosystem could be called semiotype, referring to the parallel with genotype, phenotype and envirotype. Ka ...
Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene
... I am of course referring here to the strange undertaking by the “subcommittee of Quaternary stratigraphy” headed by my new friend, Jan Zalaciewicz, to name the geological period that might terminate the 13.000 year old Holocene, through the amazing label of Anthropocene. I know the label is still di ...
... I am of course referring here to the strange undertaking by the “subcommittee of Quaternary stratigraphy” headed by my new friend, Jan Zalaciewicz, to name the geological period that might terminate the 13.000 year old Holocene, through the amazing label of Anthropocene. I know the label is still di ...
Chapter 52- An Introduction to Ecology and the
... everywhere, even in the desert. I wanted to find an even simpler system, with fewer variablessoils where there are no plant roots. I wrote to a colleague who was in Antarctica, and he sent me some soil for analysis. It certainly didn't have plant roots, and it did have nematodes. But when I searche ...
... everywhere, even in the desert. I wanted to find an even simpler system, with fewer variablessoils where there are no plant roots. I wrote to a colleague who was in Antarctica, and he sent me some soil for analysis. It certainly didn't have plant roots, and it did have nematodes. But when I searche ...
Mary Douglas and Anthropological Modernism
... As mentioned above, anthropological modernism took a good deal of its intellectual capital from the pioneering work of Émile Durkheim. Durkheim, the scion of an eminent lineage of French rabbis, became a secular rationalist and a founder of modern sociology. 11 Although Durkheim’s writings maintain ...
... As mentioned above, anthropological modernism took a good deal of its intellectual capital from the pioneering work of Émile Durkheim. Durkheim, the scion of an eminent lineage of French rabbis, became a secular rationalist and a founder of modern sociology. 11 Although Durkheim’s writings maintain ...
Cultural Transformations and Globalization: Theory, Development
... Related to evolution, but almost its opposite, is cultural involution--a form of stagnating change. The term involution was used by Clifford Geertz (1963) in his discussion of agriculture in Java. The concept is borrowed from art history, where, in certain types of style, e.g., Byzantine and Rococo ...
... Related to evolution, but almost its opposite, is cultural involution--a form of stagnating change. The term involution was used by Clifford Geertz (1963) in his discussion of agriculture in Java. The concept is borrowed from art history, where, in certain types of style, e.g., Byzantine and Rococo ...
CONTEXTUALIZING CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
... models of socialist society that had been built around the example of the Soviet political system. Similar concerns for the resurrection of authentic values were key factors in the shaping of new psychoanalytic approaches (e.g. Fromm) which sought to salvage the 'sane Man' (and also the sane society ...
... models of socialist society that had been built around the example of the Soviet political system. Similar concerns for the resurrection of authentic values were key factors in the shaping of new psychoanalytic approaches (e.g. Fromm) which sought to salvage the 'sane Man' (and also the sane society ...
Every man is an island, every culture is a continent, and the
... one of the few viable hunting and gathering people not only in Brazil but perhaps on the American continent. Only a few years previously, the Guajá people had been living independent (or isolated) from any contact or relationship with Brazilian society. I was a lucky anthropologist to have befriende ...
... one of the few viable hunting and gathering people not only in Brazil but perhaps on the American continent. Only a few years previously, the Guajá people had been living independent (or isolated) from any contact or relationship with Brazilian society. I was a lucky anthropologist to have befriende ...
Rethinking Power Relations in Critical/Cultural Studies: A Dialectical
... “received” Marxist accounts of power relations, which are incessantly reduced in this literature to economicist, exclusively class-oriented, and therefore rigid explanations —an interpretation that, in my view, does not do justice to the complexities, nuances, and competing histories within this tra ...
... “received” Marxist accounts of power relations, which are incessantly reduced in this literature to economicist, exclusively class-oriented, and therefore rigid explanations —an interpretation that, in my view, does not do justice to the complexities, nuances, and competing histories within this tra ...