Student Guide to AnthropoLOGICAL Thinking
... behavior." Primitive means having small population size and density, lacking written language, using mostly human muscle power for tasks, and little division of labor/few specialized roles. Primitive can include other features, but we don't want to get too involved in this concept right now—you'll t ...
... behavior." Primitive means having small population size and density, lacking written language, using mostly human muscle power for tasks, and little division of labor/few specialized roles. Primitive can include other features, but we don't want to get too involved in this concept right now—you'll t ...
Study Guide and Supplemental Readings for Cultural Anthropology
... directly comparable to other introductory courses in cultural anthropology and linguistics taught at hundreds of colleges and universities around the country, so you can be confident that the credits you earn in this course will automatically transfer to any institution. This Study Guide has been de ...
... directly comparable to other introductory courses in cultural anthropology and linguistics taught at hundreds of colleges and universities around the country, so you can be confident that the credits you earn in this course will automatically transfer to any institution. This Study Guide has been de ...
ch02 - Anthropology
... The methods available to anthropologists is much larger than the one described in this chapter; it is a but small subset of anthropological methods (Bernard 2006). The selection of research methods was based upon the need to rapidly assess and provide answers to pressing questions from the national ...
... The methods available to anthropologists is much larger than the one described in this chapter; it is a but small subset of anthropological methods (Bernard 2006). The selection of research methods was based upon the need to rapidly assess and provide answers to pressing questions from the national ...
Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality”
... 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 ...
The Power of Culture
... quite unprecedented was going on. The Vice‐President of the country, a Balanta, visited the South and was introduced to the women. Rumours of witchcraft were cropping up and state functionaries expressed their concern about possible political implications of the movement. National and regional ...
... quite unprecedented was going on. The Vice‐President of the country, a Balanta, visited the South and was introduced to the women. Rumours of witchcraft were cropping up and state functionaries expressed their concern about possible political implications of the movement. National and regional ...
Animism - Religion and Nature
... attributing life, soul, or spirit to inanimate objects. Although it has generally been dismissed in the academic study of religion as an obsolete term for describing the belief systems of indigenous people who hold that natural phenomena have souls or spirits, animism has nevertheless persisted in p ...
... attributing life, soul, or spirit to inanimate objects. Although it has generally been dismissed in the academic study of religion as an obsolete term for describing the belief systems of indigenous people who hold that natural phenomena have souls or spirits, animism has nevertheless persisted in p ...
Early anthropological discourse on the Inuit and the
... Early physical anthropology on the Inuit Boas also identified a second stream of early physical anthropology, which sometimes overlapped with the philosophical stream. It consisted primarily of medically trained “zoologists” who studied “the mental life of mankind” and “the anatomical characteristic ...
... Early physical anthropology on the Inuit Boas also identified a second stream of early physical anthropology, which sometimes overlapped with the philosophical stream. It consisted primarily of medically trained “zoologists” who studied “the mental life of mankind” and “the anatomical characteristic ...
Practising Anthropology: Methods and Investigations June 2014
... importance of the funding institutions (Horowitz) in limiting what an anthropologist can do practical issues, eg just by being there you may be causing harm lack of objectivity such that the anthropologist limits their research focus and therefore may miss out on important aspects of what they are s ...
... importance of the funding institutions (Horowitz) in limiting what an anthropologist can do practical issues, eg just by being there you may be causing harm lack of objectivity such that the anthropologist limits their research focus and therefore may miss out on important aspects of what they are s ...
"What is Bread?" The Anthropology of Belief - OpenBU
... directly contradicts the evidence of my senses. Yet, although it seems patently obvious that the sun revolves around the earth, I have been taught that the truth is the opposite, and the people I know also seem convinced that this is the case (although my friends in the frontier of Pakistan, where ...
... directly contradicts the evidence of my senses. Yet, although it seems patently obvious that the sun revolves around the earth, I have been taught that the truth is the opposite, and the people I know also seem convinced that this is the case (although my friends in the frontier of Pakistan, where ...
Behavioral and Other Human Ecologies: Critique, Response and
... am more broadly interested in the uses and usefulness of criticism in scholarly writing, particularly in a heterogeneous field like ecological anthropology. In the second part of this paper I try to identify some practices which I believe enhance or detract from the scientific value of critique. Wha ...
... am more broadly interested in the uses and usefulness of criticism in scholarly writing, particularly in a heterogeneous field like ecological anthropology. In the second part of this paper I try to identify some practices which I believe enhance or detract from the scientific value of critique. Wha ...
Ethical Considerations in Global Multi
... relationship of culture and ethics itself and the many cultural arenas that are likely to be involved in any research to be conducted in MNEs. There is general agreement among sociologists and anthropologists that ethical ideas, beliefs, views, or judgments and the practices that accompany them deri ...
... relationship of culture and ethics itself and the many cultural arenas that are likely to be involved in any research to be conducted in MNEs. There is general agreement among sociologists and anthropologists that ethical ideas, beliefs, views, or judgments and the practices that accompany them deri ...
Robert Gardner - Chris Kennedy
... more traceable lineage to Neolithic times. Of particular interest to Gardner was the Dani’s practice of ritualized warfare, which became the focus of his film Dead Birds. Each member of the expedition created work based on their research—Heider published a few key anthropological texts, Matthiessen ...
... more traceable lineage to Neolithic times. Of particular interest to Gardner was the Dani’s practice of ritualized warfare, which became the focus of his film Dead Birds. Each member of the expedition created work based on their research—Heider published a few key anthropological texts, Matthiessen ...
Read the introduction - Duke University Press
... Since 1970 the School for Advanced Research (formerly the School of American Research) has published over one hundred volumes in the Advanced Seminar series. These volumes arise from seminars held on sar’s Santa Fe campus that bring together small groups of experts to explore a single issue. Partici ...
... Since 1970 the School for Advanced Research (formerly the School of American Research) has published over one hundred volumes in the Advanced Seminar series. These volumes arise from seminars held on sar’s Santa Fe campus that bring together small groups of experts to explore a single issue. Partici ...
Bring in the Audience! - Networking Knowledge: Journal of the
... While distant suffering and the mediation thereof has only recently attracted the attention of an increasing number of scholars and disciplines (for a more extended overview, see Orgad and Seu 2014), it is no new subject of discussion within social sciences. An early pioneer in the field is Singer ( ...
... While distant suffering and the mediation thereof has only recently attracted the attention of an increasing number of scholars and disciplines (for a more extended overview, see Orgad and Seu 2014), it is no new subject of discussion within social sciences. An early pioneer in the field is Singer ( ...
PDF of this page - University of North Dakota
... many fields of the forensic sciences but have no previous background in: a) science; and/or b) forensic science. This course will explore some of the actual techniques illustrated in popular descriptions of the forensic sciences. In addition to lectures and discussions of the fields of the forensic ...
... many fields of the forensic sciences but have no previous background in: a) science; and/or b) forensic science. This course will explore some of the actual techniques illustrated in popular descriptions of the forensic sciences. In addition to lectures and discussions of the fields of the forensic ...
Introduction to "Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be"
... career-defining initiatory projects of ethnographic research. They are studies of the variable role of the classic practices, images, and expectations of fieldwork, with which anthropologists are so familiar and of which they are so proud, in the playing out of complex, often ad hoc and opportunisti ...
... career-defining initiatory projects of ethnographic research. They are studies of the variable role of the classic practices, images, and expectations of fieldwork, with which anthropologists are so familiar and of which they are so proud, in the playing out of complex, often ad hoc and opportunisti ...
Analogical Reasoning - Scholarship@Western
... between analogy, theory, and practice? Is analogy inescapable? What are the benefits and what are the pitfalls of analogical reasoning? I will argue that justifiable arguments from analogy are attainable, and that they can provide useful insight into understanding the past. However, I think that a p ...
... between analogy, theory, and practice? Is analogy inescapable? What are the benefits and what are the pitfalls of analogical reasoning? I will argue that justifiable arguments from analogy are attainable, and that they can provide useful insight into understanding the past. However, I think that a p ...
Film festivals - FINAL version - Research Explorer
... as an isolated event, rather than as the first of what would become a series of festivals. The intention was that it would be international in nature but that it would also reflect the range of ethnographic filmmaking initiatives taking place at that time in the UK. Over the course of three days, th ...
... as an isolated event, rather than as the first of what would become a series of festivals. The intention was that it would be international in nature but that it would also reflect the range of ethnographic filmmaking initiatives taking place at that time in the UK. Over the course of three days, th ...
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... to contribute to a scientific discipline, whether in practice or in principle? By positioning Swinburne and his poetry within debates on the aims and methods of anthropology in the 1860s and 1870s, it is possible to see that his description of Songs Before Sunrise is not merely fanciful, but an inte ...
... to contribute to a scientific discipline, whether in practice or in principle? By positioning Swinburne and his poetry within debates on the aims and methods of anthropology in the 1860s and 1870s, it is possible to see that his description of Songs Before Sunrise is not merely fanciful, but an inte ...
deficience auditive
... are moulded by our culture. Anthropologists conduct research in foreign communities not just to see how different peoples live, but more importantly, to confront the societies' dissimilar assumptions. The anthropologist's own tacit cultural understandings and expectations are placed in relief agains ...
... are moulded by our culture. Anthropologists conduct research in foreign communities not just to see how different peoples live, but more importantly, to confront the societies' dissimilar assumptions. The anthropologist's own tacit cultural understandings and expectations are placed in relief agains ...
Evolution and Transmitted Culture
... learn the beliefs and practices of their social group. A learning bias that adopts the most common behaviors of the ingroup may have been selected in the ecologically fluctuating ancestral environment in which human psychology evolved. Whether or not transmitted culture can best be considered a natu ...
... learn the beliefs and practices of their social group. A learning bias that adopts the most common behaviors of the ingroup may have been selected in the ecologically fluctuating ancestral environment in which human psychology evolved. Whether or not transmitted culture can best be considered a natu ...
culture - WordPress.com
... and critical researchers who have abandoned this meta-narrative nonetheless often adopt this sort of developmental conception of culture. The third meaning of ‘culture’ is that which became central in the discipline of anthropology, and across social science, during the twentieth century and up to ...
... and critical researchers who have abandoned this meta-narrative nonetheless often adopt this sort of developmental conception of culture. The third meaning of ‘culture’ is that which became central in the discipline of anthropology, and across social science, during the twentieth century and up to ...
Robert Mcc. Netting - National Academy of Sciences
... meadows, gardens, grain fields, and water to irrigate them. Households with extended family units that included maiden aunts, or celibate uncles became more common through time; but when emigration and wage labor opportunities presented themselves, households contracted in size. The ideal continued ...
... meadows, gardens, grain fields, and water to irrigate them. Households with extended family units that included maiden aunts, or celibate uncles became more common through time; but when emigration and wage labor opportunities presented themselves, households contracted in size. The ideal continued ...
Стаття англійська мова Воронкова В.Г
... attitude of man to socium and is characterized as specific self-creation of man, self-realization in this world, and in this sense - the dominance of man as "the measure of all things" (Protagoras); b) man acts not so much as the creator of society, not so much as a substance that is embodied in a s ...
... attitude of man to socium and is characterized as specific self-creation of man, self-realization in this world, and in this sense - the dominance of man as "the measure of all things" (Protagoras); b) man acts not so much as the creator of society, not so much as a substance that is embodied in a s ...
REVIEW: Bruno Latour. Reassembling the Social
... have already read much of this book—with cleaner prose and without the tendency toward tangentialism—in the author’s other works. And, like any of Latour’s roller coaster tutorials, the reader leaves with a list of remarkable aphorisms and clever inversions begging to be cited. But the close reader ...
... have already read much of this book—with cleaner prose and without the tendency toward tangentialism—in the author’s other works. And, like any of Latour’s roller coaster tutorials, the reader leaves with a list of remarkable aphorisms and clever inversions begging to be cited. But the close reader ...