E. B. Tylor and the Anthropology of Religion
... Two further observations about Tylor's perspective can be usefully entered at this juncture. One is about his views on what others have called "the psychic unity of humankind." The other has to do with the implications of his theory of human religiosity for the religions of his time -- and ours. Bot ...
... Two further observations about Tylor's perspective can be usefully entered at this juncture. One is about his views on what others have called "the psychic unity of humankind." The other has to do with the implications of his theory of human religiosity for the religions of his time -- and ours. Bot ...
Cultural diplomacy and the concept of the Other
... sense of identity, tradition and history. Finally, in high-context cultures, time is flexible and the process is more important than the product. By contrast, low-context cultures are defined by the mass of information explicitly used. Communication is of short duration and accessible; thus, emphasi ...
... sense of identity, tradition and history. Finally, in high-context cultures, time is flexible and the process is more important than the product. By contrast, low-context cultures are defined by the mass of information explicitly used. Communication is of short duration and accessible; thus, emphasi ...
Heroes in Cultural Anthropology
... The information I plan to share is organized & will be easy to understand I prepared a handout that is clear and communicates information to the students in an effective manner – I have not copied and pasted the information There is a picture of the person on my handout Hand in the student han ...
... The information I plan to share is organized & will be easy to understand I prepared a handout that is clear and communicates information to the students in an effective manner – I have not copied and pasted the information There is a picture of the person on my handout Hand in the student han ...
Syllabus
... This course brings together medical anthropology and visual anthropology. Narratives, and other poetic or expressive forms (films, photography etc.) have become central media through which the experience of suffering is communicated and made meaningful. Through these aesthetic modes of expression, d ...
... This course brings together medical anthropology and visual anthropology. Narratives, and other poetic or expressive forms (films, photography etc.) have become central media through which the experience of suffering is communicated and made meaningful. Through these aesthetic modes of expression, d ...
Reading 39. James Rachels and Stuart Rachels, The Challenge of
... 1. If a moral value differs widely from culture to culture, is this evidence that the value is culturally relative? If so, is it conclusive evidence? 2. If a moral value is common to all cultures, is this evidence that the value is objectively right? If so, is it conclusive evidence? 3. Is the welfa ...
... 1. If a moral value differs widely from culture to culture, is this evidence that the value is culturally relative? If so, is it conclusive evidence? 2. If a moral value is common to all cultures, is this evidence that the value is objectively right? If so, is it conclusive evidence? 3. Is the welfa ...
Structural functionalism
... Talcott Parsons was heavily influenced by Durkheim and Max Weber, synthesising much of their work into his action theory, which he based on the system-theoretical concept and the methodological principle of voluntary action. He held that "the social system is made up of the actions of individuals."[ ...
... Talcott Parsons was heavily influenced by Durkheim and Max Weber, synthesising much of their work into his action theory, which he based on the system-theoretical concept and the methodological principle of voluntary action. He held that "the social system is made up of the actions of individuals."[ ...
Critical anthropological thought and the radical political imaginary
... was so even if, paradoxically, it was that dynamic itself that was behind the very possibility of the anthropological encounter between modern and non-modern peoples. And even if that very process was part of making what was outside modernity inside modernity. It is in this sense, as many have argue ...
... was so even if, paradoxically, it was that dynamic itself that was behind the very possibility of the anthropological encounter between modern and non-modern peoples. And even if that very process was part of making what was outside modernity inside modernity. It is in this sense, as many have argue ...
PDF - ASSA ABLOY Catalogue
... Through the cover I aimed to literally ‘draw’ attention towards the conditions of anthropological knowledge production. I chose a rather ‘surreal’ image to reflect upon the social life and epistemological grounding of anthropological-‘text-making’ and to represent existing power-relations in which e ...
... Through the cover I aimed to literally ‘draw’ attention towards the conditions of anthropological knowledge production. I chose a rather ‘surreal’ image to reflect upon the social life and epistemological grounding of anthropological-‘text-making’ and to represent existing power-relations in which e ...
Cultural and Social Studies - Creighton University Catalog
... culture history, ecological adaptations, social adaptations, ideological adaptations, and the nature of culture change for indigenous peoples and subsequent immigrants to the regions of the Americas where linguistically Spanish and Portuguese now predominate. P: So. stdg. ANT 352. Witchcraft, Oracle ...
... culture history, ecological adaptations, social adaptations, ideological adaptations, and the nature of culture change for indigenous peoples and subsequent immigrants to the regions of the Americas where linguistically Spanish and Portuguese now predominate. P: So. stdg. ANT 352. Witchcraft, Oracle ...
Anthropology`s Multiple Temporalities and its Future in
... A century has passed since James Frazer received an offer in 1907 from the University of Liverpool to take up the world’s first university chair in social anthropology (Ackerman 1987: 2078). Frazer was the archetypal ‘armchair anthropologist’: an erudite classical scholar whose knowledge of obscure ...
... A century has passed since James Frazer received an offer in 1907 from the University of Liverpool to take up the world’s first university chair in social anthropology (Ackerman 1987: 2078). Frazer was the archetypal ‘armchair anthropologist’: an erudite classical scholar whose knowledge of obscure ...
Constituting Canadian Anthropology There is no tradition of
... compounded by the "essentialy neo-colonial mentality" that (arguably) prevails in English Canada, where local conceptions of what is good are filtered by ideas and standards which come from elsewhere. Another line of argument holds that there is a tradition of Canadian anthropology, however muted, a ...
... compounded by the "essentialy neo-colonial mentality" that (arguably) prevails in English Canada, where local conceptions of what is good are filtered by ideas and standards which come from elsewhere. Another line of argument holds that there is a tradition of Canadian anthropology, however muted, a ...
Critical Contextualization
... various stripes, of evangelical Christians led by Wilberforce, and of other fruits of the Wesleyan revivals. Shortly thereafter Henry Venn and Rufus Anderson articulated in the "three-self" formula the need for churches to be organizationally independent. Discussions about the contextualization of t ...
... various stripes, of evangelical Christians led by Wilberforce, and of other fruits of the Wesleyan revivals. Shortly thereafter Henry Venn and Rufus Anderson articulated in the "three-self" formula the need for churches to be organizationally independent. Discussions about the contextualization of t ...
Powerpoint (large file 8Mb) - Anthropological Society of Western
... `Archipelagic Culture' as focus of Bajau Exhibition to celebrate `Year of Indigenous Peoples‘ (1993) Despite activist emphasis on agency, cultural subject is NOT the individual, but the nation New Order regime acts for the people to realise awareness Corporatist and Statist: State acts for/a ...
... `Archipelagic Culture' as focus of Bajau Exhibition to celebrate `Year of Indigenous Peoples‘ (1993) Despite activist emphasis on agency, cultural subject is NOT the individual, but the nation New Order regime acts for the people to realise awareness Corporatist and Statist: State acts for/a ...
excerpt - School for Advanced Research
... For example, just as cultural anthropologies have worked to theorize diversities in human experiences that do not reproduce established hierarchies by race, gender, class, ethnic origin, and so on, so have self-described “scientific” anthropologies worked to theorize commonalities among human experi ...
... For example, just as cultural anthropologies have worked to theorize diversities in human experiences that do not reproduce established hierarchies by race, gender, class, ethnic origin, and so on, so have self-described “scientific” anthropologies worked to theorize commonalities among human experi ...
Lectures: Period I Red Dress, White Dress: Emily Dickinson Reads
... Red Dress, White Dress: Emily Dickinson Reads Dante When other New Englanders, like Emerson, were excitedly discovering Dante, Emily Dickinson read Dante’s youthful Love Story, the Vita Nuova, noticing parallels between Amherst and Florence, his life and hers. Dante’s tale may seem to have suggested ...
... Red Dress, White Dress: Emily Dickinson Reads Dante When other New Englanders, like Emerson, were excitedly discovering Dante, Emily Dickinson read Dante’s youthful Love Story, the Vita Nuova, noticing parallels between Amherst and Florence, his life and hers. Dante’s tale may seem to have suggested ...
York: Academic Press, 1982, 212 pp. $19.50
... appears in contemporary Gestalt, reality, and existential ther~pies. The style .of therapeutic social control found in a society IS seen by Horwitz to be a direct reflection of "the major form of social solidarity" within that group (47). The Social Control of Mental Illness has much to recommend it ...
... appears in contemporary Gestalt, reality, and existential ther~pies. The style .of therapeutic social control found in a society IS seen by Horwitz to be a direct reflection of "the major form of social solidarity" within that group (47). The Social Control of Mental Illness has much to recommend it ...
ANTHRONOTES - Anthropology
... collaborating closely with these individuals to more clearly distinguish the “native point of view” from his own, paying close attention to the natives’ own way of telling their story through their own theories and philosophies. In mainstream anthropology, Radin’s critiques were largely ignored (aft ...
... collaborating closely with these individuals to more clearly distinguish the “native point of view” from his own, paying close attention to the natives’ own way of telling their story through their own theories and philosophies. In mainstream anthropology, Radin’s critiques were largely ignored (aft ...
The Paleolithic Age WHAP/Napp Do Now: Reading – Paleolithic
... physically stressful lives kept birthrates low and life expectancies short…Before dying at 30 or 40, a woman on average bore not more than 4 or 5 babies. Of those, half died before age 5, leaving 2.25 surviving…A band of 40 persons might have 8 or 9 women of childbearing age. With unrestrained ferti ...
... physically stressful lives kept birthrates low and life expectancies short…Before dying at 30 or 40, a woman on average bore not more than 4 or 5 babies. Of those, half died before age 5, leaving 2.25 surviving…A band of 40 persons might have 8 or 9 women of childbearing age. With unrestrained ferti ...
Department of Sociology and Anthropology Dr. Timothy J. Carter, Head Sociology Program Coordinator
... Professional students in law, medicine, education, international affairs, public policy and public health Americorps and Peace Corps volunteers ...
... Professional students in law, medicine, education, international affairs, public policy and public health Americorps and Peace Corps volunteers ...
Course Schedule and Reading Assignments
... anthropology. Focusing on both so-called “exotic” cultures and our own, we will also explore the great diversity existing in human culture, while at the same time searching for cultural universals—the similarities that make all humans fundamentally alike. Cultural anthropologists have developed a se ...
... anthropology. Focusing on both so-called “exotic” cultures and our own, we will also explore the great diversity existing in human culture, while at the same time searching for cultural universals—the similarities that make all humans fundamentally alike. Cultural anthropologists have developed a se ...
Program
... Of course, we should go beyond these categories. Ethnographic research through fieldworks should help to reconstruct the discourses and agency of actors and their contextual dialectics. Practices and discourses have to be taken for what they are, before any attempt to interpret them in an anthropolo ...
... Of course, we should go beyond these categories. Ethnographic research through fieldworks should help to reconstruct the discourses and agency of actors and their contextual dialectics. Practices and discourses have to be taken for what they are, before any attempt to interpret them in an anthropolo ...
ideology, ritual practice, and cultural heritage: an introduction
... that lies outside the immediate control of humans. In this way, ideology and, by extension, myths help to make sense of the unexplainable and are believable because they rely in part on the tangible, observable world and often involve actions that have real repercussions. An excellent example of thi ...
... that lies outside the immediate control of humans. In this way, ideology and, by extension, myths help to make sense of the unexplainable and are believable because they rely in part on the tangible, observable world and often involve actions that have real repercussions. An excellent example of thi ...
Long Live Postdisciplinary Studies! Sociology
... a topic or object of study to identifying themselves in terms of ways of seeing. Economics is not just the study of economies, it's a way of understanding every aspect of society, through ...
... a topic or object of study to identifying themselves in terms of ways of seeing. Economics is not just the study of economies, it's a way of understanding every aspect of society, through ...
PACIFIC STUDIES
... with detours. At the early age of five, I started my many years of transnational travel between Tonga and the United States. My parents, Tevita and Lakalaka, lived in Kolofo'ou, Tongatapu, and my maternal grandparents, Tonga and 'Ana Malohifo' ou, lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. I attended elementary ...
... with detours. At the early age of five, I started my many years of transnational travel between Tonga and the United States. My parents, Tevita and Lakalaka, lived in Kolofo'ou, Tongatapu, and my maternal grandparents, Tonga and 'Ana Malohifo' ou, lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. I attended elementary ...
Anderson_CV - Hobart and William Smith Colleges
... Life. American Society for Ethnohistory. 2001 Annual Meeting. Tucson, Arizona. Title: The Social Construction of Marriage and Divorce on the Wind River Reservation, 19081924. Maine State Women's Studies Conference. 2001. Colby College, Waterville, Maine. Title: Teaching What You Are Not (Co-presente ...
... Life. American Society for Ethnohistory. 2001 Annual Meeting. Tucson, Arizona. Title: The Social Construction of Marriage and Divorce on the Wind River Reservation, 19081924. Maine State Women's Studies Conference. 2001. Colby College, Waterville, Maine. Title: Teaching What You Are Not (Co-presente ...