Caste(s): Through the Archetypal
... deserves mention. In the first volume of the Sociological Bulletin in 1952 M.N. Srinivas (1916– 1999) wrote an article on ‘Social Anthropology and Sociology’ where he enthusiastically commented that the experience of intensive fieldwork has chiefly made social anthropology a respected and respectabl ...
... deserves mention. In the first volume of the Sociological Bulletin in 1952 M.N. Srinivas (1916– 1999) wrote an article on ‘Social Anthropology and Sociology’ where he enthusiastically commented that the experience of intensive fieldwork has chiefly made social anthropology a respected and respectabl ...
Rethinking hybridity and mestizaje
... To understand this, we need to see that kinship does not always lead to primordiality, nor does it necessarily consist of comforting teleological sequences. On the contrary, Western models of kinship have a predictable unpredictability built into them. The predictably unpredictable sequences of kins ...
... To understand this, we need to see that kinship does not always lead to primordiality, nor does it necessarily consist of comforting teleological sequences. On the contrary, Western models of kinship have a predictable unpredictability built into them. The predictably unpredictable sequences of kins ...
Kinship as classification: towards a paradigm of change
... change in the other. An important example that is still relatively recent is the collection Transformations of kinship (Godelier et al. 1998, based on a 1993 Paris conference), contributors to which pursue such issues without falling into the ethnocentrism embedded in terms like ‘civilization’. Alth ...
... change in the other. An important example that is still relatively recent is the collection Transformations of kinship (Godelier et al. 1998, based on a 1993 Paris conference), contributors to which pursue such issues without falling into the ethnocentrism embedded in terms like ‘civilization’. Alth ...
Why We Need Counsellogical Research
... our (prospective) research object is (to be) defined and understood. That, actually, turns out to be highly challenging and ambiguous. Counselling, namely, is neither a simple physical phenomenon nor a tangible thing graspable by the senses. It can be discussed only if a certain conceptual apparatus ...
... our (prospective) research object is (to be) defined and understood. That, actually, turns out to be highly challenging and ambiguous. Counselling, namely, is neither a simple physical phenomenon nor a tangible thing graspable by the senses. It can be discussed only if a certain conceptual apparatus ...
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Chiasmus and the Ethnographic Journey
... Lévi-Strauss is someone who has been concerned with aesthetic questions as well as anthropological ones and in the ‘Ouverture’, at the same time as he introduces his theory of myth, he also develops a ...
... Lévi-Strauss is someone who has been concerned with aesthetic questions as well as anthropological ones and in the ‘Ouverture’, at the same time as he introduces his theory of myth, he also develops a ...
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
... The minor in the indigenous peoples of the Americas (that is, North, Central and South American and the Caribbean region) requires a minimum of 24 s.h. and is housed within the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences. Courses are drawn from three disciplines and no more than 12 s.h. can be taken ...
... The minor in the indigenous peoples of the Americas (that is, North, Central and South American and the Caribbean region) requires a minimum of 24 s.h. and is housed within the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences. Courses are drawn from three disciplines and no more than 12 s.h. can be taken ...
Ethnographic Techniques
... – Bronislaw Malinowski • Believed all aspects of culture were linked and intertwined, making it impossible to write about just one cultural feature without discussing how it relates to others • Argued that understanding the emic perspective, the native’s point of view, was the primary goal of ethnog ...
... – Bronislaw Malinowski • Believed all aspects of culture were linked and intertwined, making it impossible to write about just one cultural feature without discussing how it relates to others • Argued that understanding the emic perspective, the native’s point of view, was the primary goal of ethnog ...
1 Defining Southeast Asia
... Therefore, we must not only dwell on our scholarly interests in the region, but also keep in sharp focus the institutional, financial and international context within which we teach and research. In this connection I want to emphasize the different ways in which we can approach and study Southeast A ...
... Therefore, we must not only dwell on our scholarly interests in the region, but also keep in sharp focus the institutional, financial and international context within which we teach and research. In this connection I want to emphasize the different ways in which we can approach and study Southeast A ...
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution - synergy
... theory of evolution encompasses and integrates a multitude of diverse subdisciplines within biology, from behavioural ecology to paleobiology to genetics, with each subdiscipline stimulating and contributing to several others (see Mayr [1982] for further details of this “evolutionary synthesis”). Th ...
... theory of evolution encompasses and integrates a multitude of diverse subdisciplines within biology, from behavioural ecology to paleobiology to genetics, with each subdiscipline stimulating and contributing to several others (see Mayr [1982] for further details of this “evolutionary synthesis”). Th ...
Narrative and Experience: Telling Stories of Illness
... life and meaning making. Good (1994:88-115), for example, explores the complex semiotic relations of a young woman's complaint of rectal bleeding. Based in her Jehovah's Witness belief system she symbolically opposes "blood as the essence of life" and "blood as filthy" (for a second example see Litt ...
... life and meaning making. Good (1994:88-115), for example, explores the complex semiotic relations of a young woman's complaint of rectal bleeding. Based in her Jehovah's Witness belief system she symbolically opposes "blood as the essence of life" and "blood as filthy" (for a second example see Litt ...
The Robust Australopithecines: Evidence for the genus Paranthropus
... ancestor, Australopithecus afarensis. As well, thirteen out of sixteen derived characteristics that were common between KNM-WT 17000 and Paranthropus boisei were revealed to be present in other Australopithecine fossils (Kimbel et at. 1988:260). Based on these re-analyses, Kimbel et al. (1988) show ...
... ancestor, Australopithecus afarensis. As well, thirteen out of sixteen derived characteristics that were common between KNM-WT 17000 and Paranthropus boisei were revealed to be present in other Australopithecine fossils (Kimbel et at. 1988:260). Based on these re-analyses, Kimbel et al. (1988) show ...
2006 Program - Society for Applied Anthropology
... through this program, you will see that these meetings will be very large and very diverse. For most days of the meetings, up to eighteen sessions will be offered simultaneously at the Hyatt-Regency Hotel. We are pleased that PESO, SMA, and CONNA will join the SfAA in Vancouver. We hope that the con ...
... through this program, you will see that these meetings will be very large and very diverse. For most days of the meetings, up to eighteen sessions will be offered simultaneously at the Hyatt-Regency Hotel. We are pleased that PESO, SMA, and CONNA will join the SfAA in Vancouver. We hope that the con ...
PDF of this page - University of Illinois at Urbana
... ANTH 222 Introduction to Modern Africa credit: 3 Hours. Same as AFST 222, PS 242, and SOC 222. See AFST 222. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for: UIUC: Non-Western Cultures ANTH 223 Exploring African Cities credit: 3 Hours. Same as LA 220. See LA 220. This course satisfi ...
... ANTH 222 Introduction to Modern Africa credit: 3 Hours. Same as AFST 222, PS 242, and SOC 222. See AFST 222. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for: UIUC: Non-Western Cultures ANTH 223 Exploring African Cities credit: 3 Hours. Same as LA 220. See LA 220. This course satisfi ...
Post-Processual Archaeology and After
... are many also in Scandinavia and the Netherlands. A significant portion of a new generation of anthropological archaeologists in the United States seems to be taking up post-processual interests, while there is also a post-processual strength there in historical archaeology. There are a few vocal po ...
... are many also in Scandinavia and the Netherlands. A significant portion of a new generation of anthropological archaeologists in the United States seems to be taking up post-processual interests, while there is also a post-processual strength there in historical archaeology. There are a few vocal po ...
The Movement of Dancing Cultures
... that it is the integrated outcome of focused attention, observation of multiple performances in a given context over time, and to some degree experiencing movement through one’s own body. It is hardly a coincidence, then, that it was only when dancers became anthropologists in their own right that d ...
... that it is the integrated outcome of focused attention, observation of multiple performances in a given context over time, and to some degree experiencing movement through one’s own body. It is hardly a coincidence, then, that it was only when dancers became anthropologists in their own right that d ...
Constituted through Conflict: Images of Community (and
... people strive for associations that are uniform and cohesive. So the national tendency to spawn separatist movements, or alternatively to construct unity through cultural homogenization and ethnic cleansing, are best understood not as the result of the need to materialize imagined relations but as t ...
... people strive for associations that are uniform and cohesive. So the national tendency to spawn separatist movements, or alternatively to construct unity through cultural homogenization and ethnic cleansing, are best understood not as the result of the need to materialize imagined relations but as t ...
Toward a Critical Anthropology of Security
... these terms. While other disciplines have dedicated journals, programs of study, and entire schools of thought to the security “problem,” anthropology has largely refrained from joining the conversation, even as other global phenomena (e.g., human rights) have been prominent foci of anthropological ...
... these terms. While other disciplines have dedicated journals, programs of study, and entire schools of thought to the security “problem,” anthropology has largely refrained from joining the conversation, even as other global phenomena (e.g., human rights) have been prominent foci of anthropological ...
Chapt002 - In the Field
... ethnographer with some of the most useful or complete information. Life histories are intimate and personal collections of a lifetime of experiences from certain members of the community being studied. ...
... ethnographer with some of the most useful or complete information. Life histories are intimate and personal collections of a lifetime of experiences from certain members of the community being studied. ...
Research Methods for Cultural Studies
... culture in the widest sense as referring to how we experience and make sense of the particular social worlds in which we participate and are integrally a part of at any specific stage in our lives. There is of course no single, absolute definition of cultural studies that covers all aspects of its res ...
... culture in the widest sense as referring to how we experience and make sense of the particular social worlds in which we participate and are integrally a part of at any specific stage in our lives. There is of course no single, absolute definition of cultural studies that covers all aspects of its res ...
Jasanoff – Imaginaries – P. 1 Future Imperfect: Science, Technology
... these tacit ordering rules even in foreign and distant cultures was the project of anthropology from its colonial origins. Thus, the great structural-functionalist EvansPritchard (1937), who helped import Durkheim into anthropology (Kuklick 1992), attributed allegations of witchcraft among the Zande ...
... these tacit ordering rules even in foreign and distant cultures was the project of anthropology from its colonial origins. Thus, the great structural-functionalist EvansPritchard (1937), who helped import Durkheim into anthropology (Kuklick 1992), attributed allegations of witchcraft among the Zande ...
Bibliography - University of South Australia
... concept (Nash 1990: 446), perhaps as a result of the somewhat opaque terminology used by Bourdieu in coining the term. In Bourdieu habitus operates as a ‘system of dispositions”, “a system of durably acquired schemes of perceptions of thought and action engendered by objective conditions but tending ...
... concept (Nash 1990: 446), perhaps as a result of the somewhat opaque terminology used by Bourdieu in coining the term. In Bourdieu habitus operates as a ‘system of dispositions”, “a system of durably acquired schemes of perceptions of thought and action engendered by objective conditions but tending ...
Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris`s Cultural
... Inasmuch as Harris’s work had a broad impact on all subfields of anthropology, we hope this book will be of interest to all anthropologists. Those contemporary anthropologists who embrace a scientific approach generally fall into one of two camps, Harris’s own cultural materialism or Darwinian anthr ...
... Inasmuch as Harris’s work had a broad impact on all subfields of anthropology, we hope this book will be of interest to all anthropologists. Those contemporary anthropologists who embrace a scientific approach generally fall into one of two camps, Harris’s own cultural materialism or Darwinian anthr ...
The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan 1 THE KIRGHIZ AND WAKHI
... The closure of borders and the adoption of the centralized nation-state model in Afghanistan by the colonial powers had a wide ranging impact on the socio-cultural practices of the Wakhi and the Kirghiz community. Closing the borders restricted the nomadic lifestyle of the Kirghiz who then had to re ...
... The closure of borders and the adoption of the centralized nation-state model in Afghanistan by the colonial powers had a wide ranging impact on the socio-cultural practices of the Wakhi and the Kirghiz community. Closing the borders restricted the nomadic lifestyle of the Kirghiz who then had to re ...