The Self and Others in 1950s England
... Later critics such as Hilary Radner and Clare Hanson have amplified Kenyon’s analysis of the Woman’s Novel by discussing the ways in which its authors display facility with intellectual discourses. I argue here that Pym displayed facility not only with the discourses of anthropology (its language an ...
... Later critics such as Hilary Radner and Clare Hanson have amplified Kenyon’s analysis of the Woman’s Novel by discussing the ways in which its authors display facility with intellectual discourses. I argue here that Pym displayed facility not only with the discourses of anthropology (its language an ...
Innovation in Cultural Systems
... our colleagues to explore the myriad directions that lie beyond our focus. Although it is sometimes forgotten, much of what we take for “modern” perspectives is actually built to varying degrees on decades of thoughtful research by our forebears. We were reminded of this recently while perusing the ...
... our colleagues to explore the myriad directions that lie beyond our focus. Although it is sometimes forgotten, much of what we take for “modern” perspectives is actually built to varying degrees on decades of thoughtful research by our forebears. We were reminded of this recently while perusing the ...
Introduction
... something dates from a few hundred years or many thousands of years ago? Chapter 5 examines the fascinating question of How Were Societies Organized? In Chapter 6 we look at the world in which ancient people lived: What Was the Environment and What Did They Eat? Technology was an important factor in ...
... something dates from a few hundred years or many thousands of years ago? Chapter 5 examines the fascinating question of How Were Societies Organized? In Chapter 6 we look at the world in which ancient people lived: What Was the Environment and What Did They Eat? Technology was an important factor in ...
National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples
... "indigenous," and "autochthonous" have all served to root cultures in soils; and it is, of course, a well-worn observation that the term culture derives from the Latin for cultivation (see, e.g., Wagner 1981:21). "The idea of culture cames with it an expectation of roots, of a stable, territorialize ...
... "indigenous," and "autochthonous" have all served to root cultures in soils; and it is, of course, a well-worn observation that the term culture derives from the Latin for cultivation (see, e.g., Wagner 1981:21). "The idea of culture cames with it an expectation of roots, of a stable, territorialize ...
On the ethics and practice of contemporary social theory: from crisis
... the limits and necessary renewal of theory seems acutely important, rising even into talk of epistemological dilemmas, in anthropological research on knowledge specialists. But the debate typically is more opaque and even somewhat perplexing to the many anthropologists who do not work within profess ...
... the limits and necessary renewal of theory seems acutely important, rising even into talk of epistemological dilemmas, in anthropological research on knowledge specialists. But the debate typically is more opaque and even somewhat perplexing to the many anthropologists who do not work within profess ...
PRAGMATIC ANTHROPOLOGY
... when Kant refers to the subject matter of pragmatic anthropology as something that “concerns ... the investigation of what he as a free-acting being … can and should make of himself.” In particular, Pragmatic anthropology need not take the free subject of transcendental anthropology as its topic. In ...
... when Kant refers to the subject matter of pragmatic anthropology as something that “concerns ... the investigation of what he as a free-acting being … can and should make of himself.” In particular, Pragmatic anthropology need not take the free subject of transcendental anthropology as its topic. In ...
Lederman 441 syllabus (2006)
... issues in the history of anthropological gender studies, with special attention to how and why research questions have developed and changed over the past generation. The point of the final assignment is for you pull together and reflect on what you have learned about these trends: all final papers ...
... issues in the history of anthropological gender studies, with special attention to how and why research questions have developed and changed over the past generation. The point of the final assignment is for you pull together and reflect on what you have learned about these trends: all final papers ...
DO ”GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS”?: SOME
... of field work, however, shifted dramatically, and field work itself became increasingly ”multi-sited” (Marcus 1996). A single mountain village in its splendid isolation from the rest of the world could no longer serve as a putative laboratory for sustained observa This essay is based on two lecture ...
... of field work, however, shifted dramatically, and field work itself became increasingly ”multi-sited” (Marcus 1996). A single mountain village in its splendid isolation from the rest of the world could no longer serve as a putative laboratory for sustained observa This essay is based on two lecture ...
Anthropology 280: Introduction to Archaeology
... sweep of human experience and history, mostly before the advent of written records, or beyond their reach in more recent times. Combining a broad range of humanistic questions on one hand, and scientific methods on the other, archaeology offers perspectives on such things as daily life, religion, ec ...
... sweep of human experience and history, mostly before the advent of written records, or beyond their reach in more recent times. Combining a broad range of humanistic questions on one hand, and scientific methods on the other, archaeology offers perspectives on such things as daily life, religion, ec ...
An excerpt from
... social science major in my junior year with the intention of being and becoming an anthropologist. The next summer I sat with former Kiowa tribal chairman Billy Evans Horse, at his home in Carnegie, Oklahoma, eating dinner. When I announced my newest decision, to do anthropology in Kiowa country, Bi ...
... social science major in my junior year with the intention of being and becoming an anthropologist. The next summer I sat with former Kiowa tribal chairman Billy Evans Horse, at his home in Carnegie, Oklahoma, eating dinner. When I announced my newest decision, to do anthropology in Kiowa country, Bi ...
The Paleo Solution 1 - Regional and Continuing Education
... and then also what we can study from stable isotope and analysis and various methods that hopefully you guys are learning a ton about in your program. What can we learn from an anthropological with regards to human health and longevity? With that then we'll couple it with clinical nutrition both in ...
... and then also what we can study from stable isotope and analysis and various methods that hopefully you guys are learning a ton about in your program. What can we learn from an anthropological with regards to human health and longevity? With that then we'll couple it with clinical nutrition both in ...
Human Nature, Social Theory and the Problem of Institutional Design
... relevant and important to what we might coherently, despite the ambiguity, wish to intend by the phrase ‘human nature’. Our brief reflections thus function better as a response not to the question of ‘What is a theory of human nature a theory of’, but rather, to the question ‘‘Why haven’t we got one ...
... relevant and important to what we might coherently, despite the ambiguity, wish to intend by the phrase ‘human nature’. Our brief reflections thus function better as a response not to the question of ‘What is a theory of human nature a theory of’, but rather, to the question ‘‘Why haven’t we got one ...
2016-17 Undergraduate Student Handbook
... Anthropology - is the study of biological and cultural characteristics of the human species, past and present. SUNY/Buffalo's undergraduate program includes archaeology, cultural anthropology and physical anthropology. Each draws from and complements the others. Archaeology - is a diverse discipline ...
... Anthropology - is the study of biological and cultural characteristics of the human species, past and present. SUNY/Buffalo's undergraduate program includes archaeology, cultural anthropology and physical anthropology. Each draws from and complements the others. Archaeology - is a diverse discipline ...
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
... territory and interacting with them in their own language, on their own terms. As identified mainly with sociology, cultural anthropology and political science, qualitative research has been seen to be “naturalistic”, “ethnographic” and “participatory.” However, Kirk and Miller did not address the ...
... territory and interacting with them in their own language, on their own terms. As identified mainly with sociology, cultural anthropology and political science, qualitative research has been seen to be “naturalistic”, “ethnographic” and “participatory.” However, Kirk and Miller did not address the ...
1. Full citation. Little, P. E. (1999). ENVIRONMENTS AND
... (3) Little conveys how following the trend of the political/human ecology division, the study of the history of ecological interrelations has also delineated into two fields: environmental history and historical ecology. Little states that both terms “describe a type of research that is interested i ...
... (3) Little conveys how following the trend of the political/human ecology division, the study of the history of ecological interrelations has also delineated into two fields: environmental history and historical ecology. Little states that both terms “describe a type of research that is interested i ...
this PDF - HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
... with this book that when Dodd declares that money is an “idea” and then reviews others’ ideas on money, he is playing an idealist game. We do not think so. We think he is precisely playing a game—but it’s the process, the play, the dynamism, and dueling that matter—the “Dionysian path” (205) that de ...
... with this book that when Dodd declares that money is an “idea” and then reviews others’ ideas on money, he is playing an idealist game. We do not think so. We think he is precisely playing a game—but it’s the process, the play, the dynamism, and dueling that matter—the “Dionysian path” (205) that de ...
1 Towards an ethnographic turn in contemporary art
... and observation of such artistic events and everyday practices. In turn, the study of artwork and documentation in a museum context would not become obsolete. Instead, it is enriched by the fact that the researcher/critic is no longer limited to merely analysing the visual and textual documentation ...
... and observation of such artistic events and everyday practices. In turn, the study of artwork and documentation in a museum context would not become obsolete. Instead, it is enriched by the fact that the researcher/critic is no longer limited to merely analysing the visual and textual documentation ...
Adventures in Eating: Anthropological Experiences in Dining from
... What is perhaps more surprising is that we increasingly travel to our food rather than the other way around. Secure in a sense of worldliness and aided by increased disposable incomes and the ease of international travel, North Americans are traveling to more, and more far-flung, locations around th ...
... What is perhaps more surprising is that we increasingly travel to our food rather than the other way around. Secure in a sense of worldliness and aided by increased disposable incomes and the ease of international travel, North Americans are traveling to more, and more far-flung, locations around th ...
Template108 - Duke People
... was one of the basic tools for understanding family processes such as household structure, marriage, divorce, and childbearing (see classics, among others Radcliff-Brown 1964, Firth 1968[1936], Fortes 1946). In contrast to this approach, cultural anthropology put an emphasis on the cultural and ritu ...
... was one of the basic tools for understanding family processes such as household structure, marriage, divorce, and childbearing (see classics, among others Radcliff-Brown 1964, Firth 1968[1936], Fortes 1946). In contrast to this approach, cultural anthropology put an emphasis on the cultural and ritu ...
Duppies, Rum, and Digging in the Caribbean
... in the Caribbean, which were driven by the coercive exploitation of labor and set within a highly contentious social hierarchy based on class, race, gender, religion, and ethnic identity. Moreover, these tensions were often magnified by epidemic disease, poor living conditions, natural disasters, in ...
... in the Caribbean, which were driven by the coercive exploitation of labor and set within a highly contentious social hierarchy based on class, race, gender, religion, and ethnic identity. Moreover, these tensions were often magnified by epidemic disease, poor living conditions, natural disasters, in ...
Anthropology and Me
... Understanding your own culture is vitally important to understanding other cultures. But what is Canadian culture? Is it made up of hockey, snow, maple syrup, Tim Hortons, Margaret Atwood, and the Group of Seven, or is it something more difficult to explain? Canadians often struggle to define Canadi ...
... Understanding your own culture is vitally important to understanding other cultures. But what is Canadian culture? Is it made up of hockey, snow, maple syrup, Tim Hortons, Margaret Atwood, and the Group of Seven, or is it something more difficult to explain? Canadians often struggle to define Canadi ...
Economies and the Transformation of Landscapes
... the effects of climate change and natural disaster on societies or the modification of the environment by society (usually the state).As the geographer Carl Sauer famously put it in 1925, "Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium, the cultural landscape is the result" (Sauer 1963: 343). ...
... the effects of climate change and natural disaster on societies or the modification of the environment by society (usually the state).As the geographer Carl Sauer famously put it in 1925, "Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium, the cultural landscape is the result" (Sauer 1963: 343). ...
The Inventiveness of a Tradition: Structural Anthropology in the
... endeavour. At the same time, his retirement can also be regarded as the swan song of Dutch structural anthropology. At least as perceived from across the border it grew quiet around the Leiden school in the late 1980s. In their review of Dutch anthropology, addressed to an international audience, An ...
... endeavour. At the same time, his retirement can also be regarded as the swan song of Dutch structural anthropology. At least as perceived from across the border it grew quiet around the Leiden school in the late 1980s. In their review of Dutch anthropology, addressed to an international audience, An ...
fields and writings: fifty years of french anthropology in nepal
... kingdom mainly to study ancient texts, inscriptions and manuscripts; he only stayed in the country for a short period of time; and, as far its populations are concerned, he relied on information already published by British officials. Macdonald was born in Scotland and was first educated at Oxford, ...
... kingdom mainly to study ancient texts, inscriptions and manuscripts; he only stayed in the country for a short period of time; and, as far its populations are concerned, he relied on information already published by British officials. Macdonald was born in Scotland and was first educated at Oxford, ...
An Outsider Looking in: Jeremy Boissevain - AISSR
... My father was Dutch. He had no university education; he had been to the Hogere Burgerschool [Secondary Modern School]. He came from a business family. The Boissevains are all money people, shipping and so forth and his father was mixed up with that as well. My father was interested in classics, poet ...
... My father was Dutch. He had no university education; he had been to the Hogere Burgerschool [Secondary Modern School]. He came from a business family. The Boissevains are all money people, shipping and so forth and his father was mixed up with that as well. My father was interested in classics, poet ...