On Ethnographic Intent - Indiana University Bloomington
... would brighten the sky with carefully chosen words: The purpose of ethnographic research is to describe and interpret cultural behavior. 27 Notice that I have eliminated only and requirement from the statement as originally paraphrased. Cultural interpretation not a requirement, it is the esse ...
... would brighten the sky with carefully chosen words: The purpose of ethnographic research is to describe and interpret cultural behavior. 27 Notice that I have eliminated only and requirement from the statement as originally paraphrased. Cultural interpretation not a requirement, it is the esse ...
Contemplating the binary bind between cultural relativism and
... necessary the only way how cultural relativism can be employed. In the current anthropological literature, for example, cultural relativism is usually understood as a methodological position: “Anthropologists employ cultural relativism not as a moral belief but as a methodological position: In order ...
... necessary the only way how cultural relativism can be employed. In the current anthropological literature, for example, cultural relativism is usually understood as a methodological position: “Anthropologists employ cultural relativism not as a moral belief but as a methodological position: In order ...
Social Ontology, Philosophically
... for focusing on human life. I am aware, of course, that the term “social” is used to characterize members of other species. My treatment of social life as a human affair simply reflects my interest in humanity and makes no claims about either the relations of human sociality to nonhuman sorts or rel ...
... for focusing on human life. I am aware, of course, that the term “social” is used to characterize members of other species. My treatment of social life as a human affair simply reflects my interest in humanity and makes no claims about either the relations of human sociality to nonhuman sorts or rel ...
Cultural Anthropology Research Methods
... cultural experiences. The notes anthropologists take in these first days are often valuable clues later on, after the researcher becomes comfortable in her/his new surroundings and begins to take life ways for granted. A common result of doing fieldwork in a culture much different from one’s own is ...
... cultural experiences. The notes anthropologists take in these first days are often valuable clues later on, after the researcher becomes comfortable in her/his new surroundings and begins to take life ways for granted. A common result of doing fieldwork in a culture much different from one’s own is ...
Interview with Laura Fortunato, Winner of the 2011 Gabriel W
... study of kinship and marriage systems; at the same time, I approach them from a very “biological” perspective, both theoretically and methodologically. During my time here at the Santa Fe Institute, I have had the opportunity to interact with scientists from an even wider range of disciplines, and I ...
... study of kinship and marriage systems; at the same time, I approach them from a very “biological” perspective, both theoretically and methodologically. During my time here at the Santa Fe Institute, I have had the opportunity to interact with scientists from an even wider range of disciplines, and I ...
Oxymoronic_Civilisations
... made its most explosive literary impact in Sir Charles Snow’s declaration that “the scientific culture really is a culture, not only in an intellectual but also in an anthropological sense”, and it received its most subtle literary interpretation in Lionel Trilling’s essay warning agains the excesse ...
... made its most explosive literary impact in Sir Charles Snow’s declaration that “the scientific culture really is a culture, not only in an intellectual but also in an anthropological sense”, and it received its most subtle literary interpretation in Lionel Trilling’s essay warning agains the excesse ...
Culture in Business: Using a Symbolic Approach
... usually only corporate culture which reflects reality in very limited ways. Culture becomes a pale imitation of what the organization should look like based on the often‐detached perspective of senior management. What’s needed is a refreshed view of culture that takes into account a more holistic ...
... usually only corporate culture which reflects reality in very limited ways. Culture becomes a pale imitation of what the organization should look like based on the often‐detached perspective of senior management. What’s needed is a refreshed view of culture that takes into account a more holistic ...
9 Neoliberalism
... Every other week a “one-to-two page” critical reaction paper discussing the week’s readings is required. These critical reaction papers can be anywhere from one double-spaced to two doublespaced pages. If you agree, the class will be divided into 2 groups—A and B— during the first week’s class, and ...
... Every other week a “one-to-two page” critical reaction paper discussing the week’s readings is required. These critical reaction papers can be anywhere from one double-spaced to two doublespaced pages. If you agree, the class will be divided into 2 groups—A and B— during the first week’s class, and ...
Microtopia in Counterpoint: Relational Aesthetics and the Echo Project
... consists of extracting a character from original footage, in addition to several other production and montage techniques.4 The techniques used to produce such a “microtopia”, or space of inter-subjective encounter, between people who could not physically be together, became a rich source of reflect ...
... consists of extracting a character from original footage, in addition to several other production and montage techniques.4 The techniques used to produce such a “microtopia”, or space of inter-subjective encounter, between people who could not physically be together, became a rich source of reflect ...
Marvin Harris at Columbia in the 1970`s
... counterculture, the War, Black Power, Women's Lib, Stonewall, SDS and Weathennan. Revolution. They all played out in front of your eyes, from the later 1960s through the early 1970s. You could not escape the power of events to shape ideas, as for instance in Marvin's postulation in 1976 (with Willia ...
... counterculture, the War, Black Power, Women's Lib, Stonewall, SDS and Weathennan. Revolution. They all played out in front of your eyes, from the later 1960s through the early 1970s. You could not escape the power of events to shape ideas, as for instance in Marvin's postulation in 1976 (with Willia ...
13 CHAPTER TWO SCIENTIFIC DEFINITIONS OF CULTURE
... Spencer and the more fruitful theories of cultural evolution of Lewis H. Morgan and Edward Burnett Tylor. Morgan’s work led him to generalize about world culture rather than individual cultures. Tylor’s work led him to propose a theory for the evolution of religion from animism and polytheism to mon ...
... Spencer and the more fruitful theories of cultural evolution of Lewis H. Morgan and Edward Burnett Tylor. Morgan’s work led him to generalize about world culture rather than individual cultures. Tylor’s work led him to propose a theory for the evolution of religion from animism and polytheism to mon ...
Anthropology and the New Technologies of Communication
... time (“tradition”). They invoke a familiar model of ethnographic practice (conceived of as a method in the service of descriptive enterprise) and appeal to a more general anthropological imperative to attend “diagnostically” to the culture of the people studied. Likewise, they orient themselves towa ...
... time (“tradition”). They invoke a familiar model of ethnographic practice (conceived of as a method in the service of descriptive enterprise) and appeal to a more general anthropological imperative to attend “diagnostically” to the culture of the people studied. Likewise, they orient themselves towa ...
Universes of Kinship
... analytic purposes may not have the same content everywhere—the formal organization of relationships on these axes, is, for him, indispensable. If the biologistic language of kinship is an ethnographic misrepresentation, for Godelier kinship retains a strong reference to the “facts of life,” and to o ...
... analytic purposes may not have the same content everywhere—the formal organization of relationships on these axes, is, for him, indispensable. If the biologistic language of kinship is an ethnographic misrepresentation, for Godelier kinship retains a strong reference to the “facts of life,” and to o ...
On the Resilience of Superstition
... actually fully achieving it). As Quine puts it, ‘We form habits of building beliefs such as we form our other habits; only in habits of building beliefs there is less room for idiosyncrasy’ (Quine and Ullian 1970: 59). Retentivity consolidates over time in processes of collective coherence that, wh ...
... actually fully achieving it). As Quine puts it, ‘We form habits of building beliefs such as we form our other habits; only in habits of building beliefs there is less room for idiosyncrasy’ (Quine and Ullian 1970: 59). Retentivity consolidates over time in processes of collective coherence that, wh ...
A social science agenda for marine protected areas: A remedy to
... agenda for MPAs that balances social and biological considerations, and that has the potential to contribute to more objective, mandate-independent research. One such agenda was developed at a three-day, U.S. government-sponsored conference engaging 70 social scientists (NOAA 2002). Increasing focus ...
... agenda for MPAs that balances social and biological considerations, and that has the potential to contribute to more objective, mandate-independent research. One such agenda was developed at a three-day, U.S. government-sponsored conference engaging 70 social scientists (NOAA 2002). Increasing focus ...
Title Recapturing the Shadow: Dream Consciousness, Healing and
... –to collect contributions from its members in order to help students who could not continue their study, to support those arrested and provide them lawyers, and, if a member is imprisoned, support his family. –to establish a library which contains all the books concerned with Black and ...
... –to collect contributions from its members in order to help students who could not continue their study, to support those arrested and provide them lawyers, and, if a member is imprisoned, support his family. –to establish a library which contains all the books concerned with Black and ...
Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and
... If cultures are always in the making, the contributors to this book have caught one kind of culture on the make. It is informed by practices confined to no single set of institutions and to no one part of the world. Recognizable in the most diverse places, these practices also drive very local conce ...
... If cultures are always in the making, the contributors to this book have caught one kind of culture on the make. It is informed by practices confined to no single set of institutions and to no one part of the world. Recognizable in the most diverse places, these practices also drive very local conce ...
Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull
... felt dimensions of movement and from an objective distance to understand movement analysis as concurrently sociocultural analysis. Once again: sensibility and intelligibility. Cynthia pointed out the dangers of the extremes: either evoking sensual experience and "slighting the cultural content inher ...
... felt dimensions of movement and from an objective distance to understand movement analysis as concurrently sociocultural analysis. Once again: sensibility and intelligibility. Cynthia pointed out the dangers of the extremes: either evoking sensual experience and "slighting the cultural content inher ...
Working Paper - Overseas Development Institute
... development studies (Hulme and Toye, 2006; White 2002, Harriss 2002).2 The case for cross-disciplinary research in development studies makes intuitive sense. The discipline can be understood as an attempt to understand the uneven and inequitable outcomes from the deepening of capitalism (immanent de ...
... development studies (Hulme and Toye, 2006; White 2002, Harriss 2002).2 The case for cross-disciplinary research in development studies makes intuitive sense. The discipline can be understood as an attempt to understand the uneven and inequitable outcomes from the deepening of capitalism (immanent de ...
ANTH 210 - University of South Carolina
... you must exchange papers and read about each other’s experience. Then together you will craft a reflexive and analytic essay, 3-5 pages, discussing some of the similarities and differences apparent in the two accounts and address what ways these experiences match or diverge from Victor Turner’s theo ...
... you must exchange papers and read about each other’s experience. Then together you will craft a reflexive and analytic essay, 3-5 pages, discussing some of the similarities and differences apparent in the two accounts and address what ways these experiences match or diverge from Victor Turner’s theo ...
Paths of Serial Migration. Susan Ossman. Stanford
... is where some of the book’s most salient points come to the fore. More than cosmopolitan or nomad, immigrant is a term that serial migrants often find applied to themselves in their third homelands. Many sense that they are being misrecognized, and some articulate how their experiences distinguish t ...
... is where some of the book’s most salient points come to the fore. More than cosmopolitan or nomad, immigrant is a term that serial migrants often find applied to themselves in their third homelands. Many sense that they are being misrecognized, and some articulate how their experiences distinguish t ...
Anthropology (ANTH) - Utah Valley University
... 1500) and (ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2020 with a minimum C+ grade) or Instructor approval] and University Advanced Standing Focuses on the biological and contextual study of human remains recovered from archaeological sites. Presents an updated synthesis of bio-archaeological science dealing with the study ...
... 1500) and (ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2020 with a minimum C+ grade) or Instructor approval] and University Advanced Standing Focuses on the biological and contextual study of human remains recovered from archaeological sites. Presents an updated synthesis of bio-archaeological science dealing with the study ...
Rehabilitation And Anthropology
... impact on disability (to look at the disabled as affected by some spirit). • Universal mythology tend to over ride cultural differences (Down syndrome and relation to retardation). ...
... impact on disability (to look at the disabled as affected by some spirit). • Universal mythology tend to over ride cultural differences (Down syndrome and relation to retardation). ...
CONRAD AND MALINOWSKI: THE PREDICAMENT OF CULTURE
... The new approach to the idea of culture begins with the birth of new science dedicated to examining man and his culture, the science of anthropology. The approach should be associated with the first definition of culture given by Edward Burnett Tylor in his Primitive Culture: Culture or Civilization, ...
... The new approach to the idea of culture begins with the birth of new science dedicated to examining man and his culture, the science of anthropology. The approach should be associated with the first definition of culture given by Edward Burnett Tylor in his Primitive Culture: Culture or Civilization, ...