The LATIN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW 4(2) 76–78
... The organization of Crocker’s volume is geared to providing an overview of the Canela and to provide a basis for subsequent in-depth publications on specific topics such as the relationship and festival system and cognitive orientation. The first section entitled “The Field Situation” describes Croc ...
... The organization of Crocker’s volume is geared to providing an overview of the Canela and to provide a basis for subsequent in-depth publications on specific topics such as the relationship and festival system and cognitive orientation. The first section entitled “The Field Situation” describes Croc ...
2003 Stocking`s Historiography of Influence
... and [Leslie] Spier were of course Boas students, and [Alfred V.] Kidder had studied under him. Whatever their feelings about Boas’ politics, the Harvard archeologists all came from a department in which two of the three leading figures (Dixon and Alfred Tozzer) were in a broad sense Boasian. And as ...
... and [Leslie] Spier were of course Boas students, and [Alfred V.] Kidder had studied under him. Whatever their feelings about Boas’ politics, the Harvard archeologists all came from a department in which two of the three leading figures (Dixon and Alfred Tozzer) were in a broad sense Boasian. And as ...
ANTH - Anthropology
... Offered: Alternate years. ANTH 337 - Anthropological Approaches to Religion (4) The content, structure, concepts, and functions of religion are studied, with emphasis on relationships to other aspects of culture and society. Offered: Alternate years. ANTH 338 - Urban Anthropology (4) Western and non ...
... Offered: Alternate years. ANTH 337 - Anthropological Approaches to Religion (4) The content, structure, concepts, and functions of religion are studied, with emphasis on relationships to other aspects of culture and society. Offered: Alternate years. ANTH 338 - Urban Anthropology (4) Western and non ...
Terms
... Why has the city been undertheorized in anthropology? Urban analysis has been left to a group of scholars who draw from architecture, history, geography, planning, sociology, and economics (33, 43, 79, 80, 210, 216, 222, 224, 254), bringing their unique interdisciplinary skills to the study of the c ...
... Why has the city been undertheorized in anthropology? Urban analysis has been left to a group of scholars who draw from architecture, history, geography, planning, sociology, and economics (33, 43, 79, 80, 210, 216, 222, 224, 254), bringing their unique interdisciplinary skills to the study of the c ...
Margaret Mead`s Uses of Imagery - Virginia Review of Asian Studies
... Japan’s powerful presence in the Pacific and Asia surely was taken in to account in view of Mead’s curiosity about geopolitics, and her duties as Associate Curator of Pacific Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History. Cultural diffusion, she believed, is a two-way process. Ancient Japan sh ...
... Japan’s powerful presence in the Pacific and Asia surely was taken in to account in view of Mead’s curiosity about geopolitics, and her duties as Associate Curator of Pacific Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History. Cultural diffusion, she believed, is a two-way process. Ancient Japan sh ...
Here are final exam questions
... How can you study human beings using the scientific method when their culture defines their reasoning? 5. What did Adam Smith mean by “the invisible hand?” 6. How did Adam Smith describe the different stages of society? 7. What is the difference between gifts and trade? 8. How does society define am ...
... How can you study human beings using the scientific method when their culture defines their reasoning? 5. What did Adam Smith mean by “the invisible hand?” 6. How did Adam Smith describe the different stages of society? 7. What is the difference between gifts and trade? 8. How does society define am ...
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... abased. A heraldic term applied to an escutcheon on which a chevron has been dropped to a point lower than its normal position. abat-jour. An architectural device used to diminish and direct the daylight entering a window. It may be a skylight or any screenlike contrivance placed so as to redirect t ...
... abased. A heraldic term applied to an escutcheon on which a chevron has been dropped to a point lower than its normal position. abat-jour. An architectural device used to diminish and direct the daylight entering a window. It may be a skylight or any screenlike contrivance placed so as to redirect t ...
BRONISLAW MALlNOWSRI : THE INFLUENCE OF VARIOUS
... onwards, he had begun to 'leave' Poland, to cut his ties with his native land. These journeys in exotic places were part of the foundations of his very cosmopolitan nature; and of course such travel together in the crucial years of his late adolescence reinforced his deep attachment to his mother. B ...
... onwards, he had begun to 'leave' Poland, to cut his ties with his native land. These journeys in exotic places were part of the foundations of his very cosmopolitan nature; and of course such travel together in the crucial years of his late adolescence reinforced his deep attachment to his mother. B ...
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 ...
AAA
... ways compatible with the principles stated here. The purpose of this Code is to foster discussion and education. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) does not adjudicate claims for unethical behavior. The principles and guidelines in this Code provide the anthropologist with tools to engag ...
... ways compatible with the principles stated here. The purpose of this Code is to foster discussion and education. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) does not adjudicate claims for unethical behavior. The principles and guidelines in this Code provide the anthropologist with tools to engag ...
SOMETHING ELSE Forthcoming in Common Knowledge, Vol. 13
... anthropologist of the past several decades, died of a broken heart on October 30, 2006, at the age of eighty—the result of “complications” following heart surgery. All this, according to initial death notices. Two days later, on November 1, the New York Times published an obituary.1 It was a friendl ...
... anthropologist of the past several decades, died of a broken heart on October 30, 2006, at the age of eighty—the result of “complications” following heart surgery. All this, according to initial death notices. Two days later, on November 1, the New York Times published an obituary.1 It was a friendl ...
LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY William Nixon * Posted May 1998 (click
... representing another culture and advocated the liberal use of native legal terms. While these terms could not be easily translated into English, their meanings could be explained within an ethnographic context. Gluckman considered Bohannan’s approach to be both overcautious and a barrier to fruitful ...
... representing another culture and advocated the liberal use of native legal terms. While these terms could not be easily translated into English, their meanings could be explained within an ethnographic context. Gluckman considered Bohannan’s approach to be both overcautious and a barrier to fruitful ...
Preliminary Program 2015 (updated 2/5/15)
... ELIAS, Thistle (BCHS SPH, U Pitt) and THOMAS, Tammy (Early Head Start) “Everything Is for Moms”: Engaging Fathers in Evaluation Research RAK, Kimberly and KUZA, Courtney (U Pitt Med Sch), KELLY-COSTA, Deena (U Mich), KAHN, Jeremy (U Pitt Med Sch), KITTO, Simon (U Toronto), and REEVES, Scott (Kingsto ...
... ELIAS, Thistle (BCHS SPH, U Pitt) and THOMAS, Tammy (Early Head Start) “Everything Is for Moms”: Engaging Fathers in Evaluation Research RAK, Kimberly and KUZA, Courtney (U Pitt Med Sch), KELLY-COSTA, Deena (U Mich), KAHN, Jeremy (U Pitt Med Sch), KITTO, Simon (U Toronto), and REEVES, Scott (Kingsto ...
Collective Beliefs: Sociological Explanation
... environment of the social actors. They both also conceptualize the relation between this environment and the collective belief as ‘rational’ or more precisely as subjectiely rational. ‘The acts motivated by magic,’ Weber writes (1922, 1979), ‘are acts at least relatively rational (…): they follow t ...
... environment of the social actors. They both also conceptualize the relation between this environment and the collective belief as ‘rational’ or more precisely as subjectiely rational. ‘The acts motivated by magic,’ Weber writes (1922, 1979), ‘are acts at least relatively rational (…): they follow t ...
Undergraduate Studies in Anthropology Handbook
... a variety of capacities in government, industry, health care, consulting and more. In broad terms, anthropology is the study of human populations and cultures in evolutionary, historical, and comparative frameworks. Our department’s curriculum promotes understanding the variety both of past and pres ...
... a variety of capacities in government, industry, health care, consulting and more. In broad terms, anthropology is the study of human populations and cultures in evolutionary, historical, and comparative frameworks. Our department’s curriculum promotes understanding the variety both of past and pres ...
INTRODUCTION - Berghahn Journals
... what is taking form, which, while not reducible to what is often conventionally assumed to be state orders (frequently conceived in historical realities once dominated by the still far from defunct nation-state), are indeed state formations, though of a relatively original kind. Anthropologists have ...
... what is taking form, which, while not reducible to what is often conventionally assumed to be state orders (frequently conceived in historical realities once dominated by the still far from defunct nation-state), are indeed state formations, though of a relatively original kind. Anthropologists have ...
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF AESTHETICS: A CROSS
... relate directly to social or ritual practices. The success of an artist in a nonWestern context often depends less on the creative use of a particular medium than on his or her ability to effectively manifest the cultural world-view. Thus, for most non-Western peoples, the concept of beauty is inext ...
... relate directly to social or ritual practices. The success of an artist in a nonWestern context often depends less on the creative use of a particular medium than on his or her ability to effectively manifest the cultural world-view. Thus, for most non-Western peoples, the concept of beauty is inext ...
Н - Sociostudies.org
... One of the several small debates in hunter-gatherer studies is especially relevant here. This is the question of the relation between egalitarianism and a foraging economy. Woodburn (e.g., 1982: 449), echoing numerous Bushman ethnographers, asserts that the value of equality is deeply embedded in th ...
... One of the several small debates in hunter-gatherer studies is especially relevant here. This is the question of the relation between egalitarianism and a foraging economy. Woodburn (e.g., 1982: 449), echoing numerous Bushman ethnographers, asserts that the value of equality is deeply embedded in th ...
Ethnographic studies of Public Elites: Beyond interpretive
... playing three-dimensional chess’). Alternatively, perhaps none of these theoretical lenses are appropriate: the ‘game’ metaphor might simply be the idiom used by local actors to make sense of their work and the challenges and frustrations it poses. As I learned later, the answer lay somewhere betwee ...
... playing three-dimensional chess’). Alternatively, perhaps none of these theoretical lenses are appropriate: the ‘game’ metaphor might simply be the idiom used by local actors to make sense of their work and the challenges and frustrations it poses. As I learned later, the answer lay somewhere betwee ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT METHODOLOGY AND PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
... Each new born human being, however, also enters a social world that has been shaped by those born previously and is continually reshaped by each new generation. The existence of this social world, while taken for granted by the majority of people, is of tremendous importance to humans. It is what di ...
... Each new born human being, however, also enters a social world that has been shaped by those born previously and is continually reshaped by each new generation. The existence of this social world, while taken for granted by the majority of people, is of tremendous importance to humans. It is what di ...
FROM NATURAL WHOLES TO PARTICULAR UNIVERSALITY
... Bouquet (2001) mentions as an “unfortunate corollary” of Barth’s influence on Norwegian social anthropology in the 1960s that “interest in museum-based material culture dwindled to the point of near abandonment by a whole generation of anthropologists” (181). The students in Århus were not only insp ...
... Bouquet (2001) mentions as an “unfortunate corollary” of Barth’s influence on Norwegian social anthropology in the 1960s that “interest in museum-based material culture dwindled to the point of near abandonment by a whole generation of anthropologists” (181). The students in Århus were not only insp ...
Notes for a Theory of Values
... divide may be found in Bronislaw Malinowski’s (1921) critique of the use of Western economic tools to understand the ‘primitive’ economy of a people like the Trobriand Islanders, Karl Polanyi (1957) was the first to clearly demarcate two meanings of the word ‘economic’, when he used formal to refer ...
... divide may be found in Bronislaw Malinowski’s (1921) critique of the use of Western economic tools to understand the ‘primitive’ economy of a people like the Trobriand Islanders, Karl Polanyi (1957) was the first to clearly demarcate two meanings of the word ‘economic’, when he used formal to refer ...
Ethnography of Nigeria - National Open University of Nigeria
... Anthropology and Ethnography on the one hand, and Ethnology and Ethnography on the other. Our emphasis is anchored on the fact that Ethnography is the raw material of Social Anthropology. It provides first-hand accounts of the culture and social life of human communities. The facts from these am the ...
... Anthropology and Ethnography on the one hand, and Ethnology and Ethnography on the other. Our emphasis is anchored on the fact that Ethnography is the raw material of Social Anthropology. It provides first-hand accounts of the culture and social life of human communities. The facts from these am the ...
Culture and Personality, 27 February 2006, page 1 Anthropology
... says one can think without using language. Who is right and why? 36. On page 187 of the text the authors state: "A goal of everyday-cognition studies is to maximize cultural validity; to achieve this, some experimental control may be lost. And, experimental methods must be combined with natural obse ...
... says one can think without using language. Who is right and why? 36. On page 187 of the text the authors state: "A goal of everyday-cognition studies is to maximize cultural validity; to achieve this, some experimental control may be lost. And, experimental methods must be combined with natural obse ...