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Kinship Expressions and Terms
... A great milestone in kinship study, still widely mined for data, was Morgan’s (1870) analytical compendium of term/kin-type mappings from American Indian languages based on detailed questionnaires filled out by local correspondents (Trautmann, 1987). In interdisciplinary museum expeditions, such as ...
... A great milestone in kinship study, still widely mined for data, was Morgan’s (1870) analytical compendium of term/kin-type mappings from American Indian languages based on detailed questionnaires filled out by local correspondents (Trautmann, 1987). In interdisciplinary museum expeditions, such as ...
Anthropology 310- Family, Kin and Community
... • Locate media coverage on one new reproductive technology. You can use a case that is being or has been covered in the media or a story covered in the past five years. • Time, Newsweek and LEXIS/NEXIS, advertisements from the internet, websites for sperm banks or egg donors. • Your paper should foc ...
... • Locate media coverage on one new reproductive technology. You can use a case that is being or has been covered in the media or a story covered in the past five years. • Time, Newsweek and LEXIS/NEXIS, advertisements from the internet, websites for sperm banks or egg donors. • Your paper should foc ...
Needs and Wants _ Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture
... Beyond Needs and Wants: The Uses of Things The theoretical arguments previously presented were particularly relevant during the second half of the twentieth century. These critical points of view of contemporary consumer culture have, however, been challenged by a group of authors who focused mainly ...
... Beyond Needs and Wants: The Uses of Things The theoretical arguments previously presented were particularly relevant during the second half of the twentieth century. These critical points of view of contemporary consumer culture have, however, been challenged by a group of authors who focused mainly ...
revisiting theories of invented tradition
... traditions as contemporaneous symbolic constructions undertaken by societies in the present (Handler and Linnekin, 1984: 273-90). Viewing tradition as something neither genuine nor spurious, Handler and Linnekin maintain that such social phenomenon do not exist outside our interpretation of them; ra ...
... traditions as contemporaneous symbolic constructions undertaken by societies in the present (Handler and Linnekin, 1984: 273-90). Viewing tradition as something neither genuine nor spurious, Handler and Linnekin maintain that such social phenomenon do not exist outside our interpretation of them; ra ...
How Do Religions End? - Department of Anglo
... as no surprise that many sophisticated anthropological theories, such as functionalism, structuralism and practice theory, all helped explain why patterns of culture and social life usually reproduced themselves through time. For this reason, cultural anthropology, and especially the wing that studi ...
... as no surprise that many sophisticated anthropological theories, such as functionalism, structuralism and practice theory, all helped explain why patterns of culture and social life usually reproduced themselves through time. For this reason, cultural anthropology, and especially the wing that studi ...
Bayan Nila: Pilipino Culture Nights and Student Performance at
... held Southern Philippine artistic forms in high regard because they symbolized an unconquered Philippine people (Gaerlan 1999, 271). The practice of appropriating Southern Philippine music was taken further by the dance troupe, Bayanihan, and its practices subsequently defined the ways that the musi ...
... held Southern Philippine artistic forms in high regard because they symbolized an unconquered Philippine people (Gaerlan 1999, 271). The practice of appropriating Southern Philippine music was taken further by the dance troupe, Bayanihan, and its practices subsequently defined the ways that the musi ...
Of words and fog
... on the other hand, see each other as human but see humans as peccaries. These perspectival ideas are not confined to South America but are widespread throughout the Americas as a whole. Thus, for example, among many indigenous peoples of the northwest coast of North America it is said that salmon se ...
... on the other hand, see each other as human but see humans as peccaries. These perspectival ideas are not confined to South America but are widespread throughout the Americas as a whole. Thus, for example, among many indigenous peoples of the northwest coast of North America it is said that salmon se ...
The Photographic Image and Imagination in
... Objectivist notions of seeing continue however to form the underlying, if implicit, positivist premise for knowledge production in mainstream visual anthropology. Pursuing truth, Karl Heider’s imperative of holism in his book Ethnographic Film (which continues to be influential), requires the inclus ...
... Objectivist notions of seeing continue however to form the underlying, if implicit, positivist premise for knowledge production in mainstream visual anthropology. Pursuing truth, Karl Heider’s imperative of holism in his book Ethnographic Film (which continues to be influential), requires the inclus ...
biological anthropology and applied anthropometry
... along with belonging characteristics. The data obtained from a mode of static anthropometry has an aim and a task to be used for determining the space in which man exists, but only in addition to the condition, that in this space a man rests in standing position or only slightly moves. Such approach ...
... along with belonging characteristics. The data obtained from a mode of static anthropometry has an aim and a task to be used for determining the space in which man exists, but only in addition to the condition, that in this space a man rests in standing position or only slightly moves. Such approach ...
Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage
... failed Fascist-era agricultural towns, whom, he erroneously suspected, would share his idea that they were living amidst “difficult heritage.” The chapters in this volume can be read or assigned to students individually, but as Rico points out in her afterword, and as I hope it is clear here, the te ...
... failed Fascist-era agricultural towns, whom, he erroneously suspected, would share his idea that they were living amidst “difficult heritage.” The chapters in this volume can be read or assigned to students individually, but as Rico points out in her afterword, and as I hope it is clear here, the te ...
Miller - Chapter 8
... A chiefdom is a form of political organization that includes permanently allied tribes and villages under one leader, a chief who possesses power Chiefdoms have large populations, often numbering in the thousands They are more centralized and socially complex than tribes and bands Ascribed/h ...
... A chiefdom is a form of political organization that includes permanently allied tribes and villages under one leader, a chief who possesses power Chiefdoms have large populations, often numbering in the thousands They are more centralized and socially complex than tribes and bands Ascribed/h ...
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 ...
Fieldwork in Courtroom 53: A Witness to Delgamuukw
... saw many First Nations people there. Some were there because their own hereditary chiefs had initiated this suit against the province. Some were law students. Some came as applied anthropologists to inform themselves about the strange culture that supports the white people's legal system. As the tri ...
... saw many First Nations people there. Some were there because their own hereditary chiefs had initiated this suit against the province. Some were law students. Some came as applied anthropologists to inform themselves about the strange culture that supports the white people's legal system. As the tri ...
Methods
... • To work in a host country and community, researchers must obtain the informed consent from all affected parties. • Before the research begins, people should be told about the purpose, nature, and procedures of the research. • Also, people should be told of the potential costs and benefits of the r ...
... • To work in a host country and community, researchers must obtain the informed consent from all affected parties. • Before the research begins, people should be told about the purpose, nature, and procedures of the research. • Also, people should be told of the potential costs and benefits of the r ...
Chapter 3 - Ethics and Methods in Cultural Anthropology
... • To work in a host country and community, researchers must obtain the informed consent from all affected parties. • Before the research begins, people should be told about the purpose, nature, and procedures of the research. • Also, people should be told of the potential costs and benefits of the r ...
... • To work in a host country and community, researchers must obtain the informed consent from all affected parties. • Before the research begins, people should be told about the purpose, nature, and procedures of the research. • Also, people should be told of the potential costs and benefits of the r ...
Miller - Chapter 8 (short in-class version
... organization associated with foraging groups The most long-standing form of political organization Because for most of human history we lived in bands ...
... organization associated with foraging groups The most long-standing form of political organization Because for most of human history we lived in bands ...
Reading and Interpreting Ethnography
... ethnography. The systematic study of culture is a discipline that arose in consequence of European exploration and particularly of colonial expansion, which created a context of cultural encounter to which anthropology was an academic response. Early anthropology, though, was often something of an a ...
... ethnography. The systematic study of culture is a discipline that arose in consequence of European exploration and particularly of colonial expansion, which created a context of cultural encounter to which anthropology was an academic response. Early anthropology, though, was often something of an a ...
Cultural Evolution: Integration and Scepticism
... abilities to make copies of themselves depend on their adaptive “fit” with their local environments. These environments are cultural, and are partly constituted by the successes and failures of pre-existing memes: For example, the question of how likely it is that a given scientific hypothesis will ...
... abilities to make copies of themselves depend on their adaptive “fit” with their local environments. These environments are cultural, and are partly constituted by the successes and failures of pre-existing memes: For example, the question of how likely it is that a given scientific hypothesis will ...
Social Science and Its Methods - Distant Production House University
... another begins. Not only are the individual social sciences interrelated, but the social sciences as a whole body are also related to the natural sciences and the humanities. The strains of the old song, “The hip bone’s connected to the thigh bone, . . .” are appropriate to the social sciences. To u ...
... another begins. Not only are the individual social sciences interrelated, but the social sciences as a whole body are also related to the natural sciences and the humanities. The strains of the old song, “The hip bone’s connected to the thigh bone, . . .” are appropriate to the social sciences. To u ...
flexible capitalism
... relations and morality, hinted at for example in the title of Sennett’s seminal book, The Corrosion of Character (Sennett 1998). From the perspective of anthropological scholarship on exchange, this kind of concern has long been familiar, even if it has gained new force in recent decades. One might ...
... relations and morality, hinted at for example in the title of Sennett’s seminal book, The Corrosion of Character (Sennett 1998). From the perspective of anthropological scholarship on exchange, this kind of concern has long been familiar, even if it has gained new force in recent decades. One might ...
The Anthropology of Money and Finance: Between Ethnography
... independent individuals. Money allowed for individual expression of desires and thus for the social constitution of an autonomous subject. But, because it only worked as a measure of value because people could count on others to accept it, money transcended the individual. Simmel identified money‘s ...
... independent individuals. Money allowed for individual expression of desires and thus for the social constitution of an autonomous subject. But, because it only worked as a measure of value because people could count on others to accept it, money transcended the individual. Simmel identified money‘s ...
David Graeber Radical alterity is just another way of
... created, or cast away, as needed). In the case of contemporary commodity fetishism, it’s quite the opposite: the average stockbroker will insist he does not really “believe” that pork bellies are doing this or securitized derivatives doing that—i.e., that these are just figures of speech. On the con ...
... created, or cast away, as needed). In the case of contemporary commodity fetishism, it’s quite the opposite: the average stockbroker will insist he does not really “believe” that pork bellies are doing this or securitized derivatives doing that—i.e., that these are just figures of speech. On the con ...
nuance - Sites@UCI
... communication and layers of meaning in thick description. Nuance in data collection and in model building are performed conceptually through reference to multiplicity, depth, complexity, contingency, detail, evidence, and shades of difference. A good ethnographic argument is attuned to the nuances o ...
... communication and layers of meaning in thick description. Nuance in data collection and in model building are performed conceptually through reference to multiplicity, depth, complexity, contingency, detail, evidence, and shades of difference. A good ethnographic argument is attuned to the nuances o ...
CARP`s launching event
... in order to establish a new regime of truth. In the Marxist tradition this aspect of the revolutionary process has been analysed through the dichotomy Ideology/ Reality, and by offering different ways to unpack the relationship between the two. In this session (and more broadly in CARP), we reflect ...
... in order to establish a new regime of truth. In the Marxist tradition this aspect of the revolutionary process has been analysed through the dichotomy Ideology/ Reality, and by offering different ways to unpack the relationship between the two. In this session (and more broadly in CARP), we reflect ...