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... Bones are the framework of the vertebrate body and thus contain much information about man's adaptive mechanisms to his environment. The study of evolution essentially would be impossible if bones were eliminated as a source of data. In summary, the answer is that bones often survive the process of ...
... Bones are the framework of the vertebrate body and thus contain much information about man's adaptive mechanisms to his environment. The study of evolution essentially would be impossible if bones were eliminated as a source of data. In summary, the answer is that bones often survive the process of ...
Michael Harkin, “Ethnohistory`s Ethnohistory: Creating a Discipline
... what might be described as a marriage of convenience, both fields have produced a long line of defenders of the faith, who make periodic maledictions against the other. Thus E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1962: 190–91) ironically quotes Frederic Maitland’s dictum that “anthropology will become history or it ...
... what might be described as a marriage of convenience, both fields have produced a long line of defenders of the faith, who make periodic maledictions against the other. Thus E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1962: 190–91) ironically quotes Frederic Maitland’s dictum that “anthropology will become history or it ...
Why People Believe in Spirits, Gods and Magic By Jack Hunter
... been able to express ourselves, through spoken words, images and writing, we have documented and described encounters with phenomena that seem to transcend the everyday world of mundane things, and hint at the existence of a universe populated by innumerable minds and powerful forces. This is the wo ...
... been able to express ourselves, through spoken words, images and writing, we have documented and described encounters with phenomena that seem to transcend the everyday world of mundane things, and hint at the existence of a universe populated by innumerable minds and powerful forces. This is the wo ...
Anthropological Perspectives on Judaism: A Comparative Review
... project through local political desires and social goals. I do not propose to review each national approach here, but rather offer a few counterpoints that demonstrate the diversity of local anthropological perspectives on the study of Jews and Judaism. As such, I turn to German and Israeli anthropo ...
... project through local political desires and social goals. I do not propose to review each national approach here, but rather offer a few counterpoints that demonstrate the diversity of local anthropological perspectives on the study of Jews and Judaism. As such, I turn to German and Israeli anthropo ...
The Human Race. - Center for Peripheral Studies
... national conflicts going on in the world today. People will continue to slaughter one another for any reason they may care to invoke, or, as daily life in our cities demonstrates, for no reason at all. Glossing over the phenomenon of human difference is intellectually mistaken because it is an unass ...
... national conflicts going on in the world today. People will continue to slaughter one another for any reason they may care to invoke, or, as daily life in our cities demonstrates, for no reason at all. Glossing over the phenomenon of human difference is intellectually mistaken because it is an unass ...
The Psychology of Cultural Experience - Assets
... need for a reinvigorated comparative perspective in contemporary psychological anthropology. Their data demonstrate that it is possible to be sensitive to cultural context in constructing valid categories for comparison while still embracing the search for regularities in human thought and behavior ...
... need for a reinvigorated comparative perspective in contemporary psychological anthropology. Their data demonstrate that it is possible to be sensitive to cultural context in constructing valid categories for comparison while still embracing the search for regularities in human thought and behavior ...
THE NEW MIDDLE EASTERN ETHNOGRAPHY
... generations of Orientalist scholars had immersed themselves in the historical study of cosmopolitan culture and in recovering and translating the great literature of Islam. For them, these books contained the essential truth about the region, and the hierarchical urban and courtly world of the Medie ...
... generations of Orientalist scholars had immersed themselves in the historical study of cosmopolitan culture and in recovering and translating the great literature of Islam. For them, these books contained the essential truth about the region, and the hierarchical urban and courtly world of the Medie ...
CHAPTER 13 Textual Desert – Emotional Oasis
... minority minzu within two years (Mullaney 2010). Social structure, the stages of historical development, cultural traits; all were recorded, categorized, analyzed, and offered up for units engaged in Nationalities Work to use. In order to record this many social groups an ...
... minority minzu within two years (Mullaney 2010). Social structure, the stages of historical development, cultural traits; all were recorded, categorized, analyzed, and offered up for units engaged in Nationalities Work to use. In order to record this many social groups an ...
Religious Revivalism as Nationalist Discourse
... studied through the lens of social mobility often conjures up images of lives lived like a game of snakes and ladders in which the sole intention of people is seen to be mobility - whether through marriage, devotion, or consumption. The possibilities of alternate meanings or motivations seem to get ...
... studied through the lens of social mobility often conjures up images of lives lived like a game of snakes and ladders in which the sole intention of people is seen to be mobility - whether through marriage, devotion, or consumption. The possibilities of alternate meanings or motivations seem to get ...
The Rashomon Effect: When Ethnographers Disagree
... c. Whatof diferent culturesof the ethnographers? Surely, any ethnographer would agree at first with the proposition that ethnographers are creatures of their own cultures and approach other cultures through their own. Yet I know of no systematic evidence for this (but see Devereux [1967:129-132] for ...
... c. Whatof diferent culturesof the ethnographers? Surely, any ethnographer would agree at first with the proposition that ethnographers are creatures of their own cultures and approach other cultures through their own. Yet I know of no systematic evidence for this (but see Devereux [1967:129-132] for ...
Talcott Parsons
... Talcott Parsons: The Structure of Social Action Actors are confronted with a variety of situational conditions, such as their own biological makeup and heredity as well as various external ecological constraints, that influence the selection of goals and means. Actors are governed by values, no ...
... Talcott Parsons: The Structure of Social Action Actors are confronted with a variety of situational conditions, such as their own biological makeup and heredity as well as various external ecological constraints, that influence the selection of goals and means. Actors are governed by values, no ...
REPORT OF THE ACCREDITATION COMMISSION
... Speaking about separate programmes for accreditation firstly we speak about academic bachelor Sociology of organization and management programme. It is necessary to mention that in the material presented there were no information on self-evaluation, strengths and weaknesses and no guidelines on the ...
... Speaking about separate programmes for accreditation firstly we speak about academic bachelor Sociology of organization and management programme. It is necessary to mention that in the material presented there were no information on self-evaluation, strengths and weaknesses and no guidelines on the ...
Cultural evidence in courts of law
... (Culhane 1998: 132), and although the judge did admit it, he reserved the option to attach little weight to it. MacCrimmon (1998) suggests, however, that social scientists’ expertise should not be equated with that of physical scientists, but with ‘the specialized knowledge of ... the fire inspector ...
... (Culhane 1998: 132), and although the judge did admit it, he reserved the option to attach little weight to it. MacCrimmon (1998) suggests, however, that social scientists’ expertise should not be equated with that of physical scientists, but with ‘the specialized knowledge of ... the fire inspector ...
reading questions - Open Anthropology
... Please note that this is one of the cornerstone articles for this course. If you don’t understand elements of this article, please ask questions. In addressing the questions below, don’t expect to find all the answers just in one particular place in the article: you will usually have to range across ...
... Please note that this is one of the cornerstone articles for this course. If you don’t understand elements of this article, please ask questions. In addressing the questions below, don’t expect to find all the answers just in one particular place in the article: you will usually have to range across ...
Archeology PowerPoint - Western Kentucky University
... Archaeology Terms Question-based: Archaeologists study artifacts in order to answer questions about how humans lived. ...
... Archaeology Terms Question-based: Archaeologists study artifacts in order to answer questions about how humans lived. ...
Ethnographic Cognition and Writing Culture1
... restricted to working brains; rather, cognition, as cognitive anthropologist Ed Hutchins (1995) puts it, is distributed. Let us call ‘ethnographic representations’ those representations that have a significant role in the causal cognitive chains that lead to the production of published ethnographie ...
... restricted to working brains; rather, cognition, as cognitive anthropologist Ed Hutchins (1995) puts it, is distributed. Let us call ‘ethnographic representations’ those representations that have a significant role in the causal cognitive chains that lead to the production of published ethnographie ...
What Makes School Ethnography `Ethnographic`?
... ethnography in Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Before Malinowski there were many accounts of primitive people written by travelers. What distinguished Malinowskian ethnography from a traveler’s account was the attempt (not always successful) to characterize meaning from the actor’s point of view. ...
... ethnography in Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Before Malinowski there were many accounts of primitive people written by travelers. What distinguished Malinowskian ethnography from a traveler’s account was the attempt (not always successful) to characterize meaning from the actor’s point of view. ...
Landscapes in Mind - The Prehistoric Society
... variation at the local level from ‘a single surface’ (page 87). Ashton (Chapter 8) reviews sites dating before and during MIS-13 in Northern Europe. Although there is by no mean a consensus on the validity of some of the earlier sites (e.g. Happisburgh, Pakefield), Ashton manages to present a scenar ...
... variation at the local level from ‘a single surface’ (page 87). Ashton (Chapter 8) reviews sites dating before and during MIS-13 in Northern Europe. Although there is by no mean a consensus on the validity of some of the earlier sites (e.g. Happisburgh, Pakefield), Ashton manages to present a scenar ...
Anthropology - American River College!
... This course explores the various customs, traditions, and forms of social organizations from a global perspective. Topics include subsistence methods, belief and religious systems, linguistics, trade and economic systems, arts, kinship systems, marriage and family systems, technology, and changes du ...
... This course explores the various customs, traditions, and forms of social organizations from a global perspective. Topics include subsistence methods, belief and religious systems, linguistics, trade and economic systems, arts, kinship systems, marriage and family systems, technology, and changes du ...
anthropology - California State University, Bakersfield
... biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology. 2. Identify how developments over time within a particular sub-discipline have been incorporated into new perspective within another subdiscipline. 3. Identify how developments in other areas of scholarship over time have been incorporated into dev ...
... biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology. 2. Identify how developments over time within a particular sub-discipline have been incorporated into new perspective within another subdiscipline. 3. Identify how developments in other areas of scholarship over time have been incorporated into dev ...
Anthropologists in Films: Snappy Title
... to be aware that fictional anthropologists are both shaped by and active in shaping these popular understandings. So what should we do? Anthropologists have long found themselves represented within popular culture: Frazer’s Golden Bough made its way into both Yeats’ Sailing to Byzantium (2004 [1928 ...
... to be aware that fictional anthropologists are both shaped by and active in shaping these popular understandings. So what should we do? Anthropologists have long found themselves represented within popular culture: Frazer’s Golden Bough made its way into both Yeats’ Sailing to Byzantium (2004 [1928 ...
Why A Public AnthroPology? - Center for a Public Anthropology
... the people of a particular group. Through participant-observation—in which they act both as participants in and observers of activities within the group they are studying—they come to understand the people involved not as strangers but as colleagues. • In presenting their results, anthropologists e ...
... the people of a particular group. Through participant-observation—in which they act both as participants in and observers of activities within the group they are studying—they come to understand the people involved not as strangers but as colleagues. • In presenting their results, anthropologists e ...
Media Anthropology: An Overview
... Many investigations have been carried out, from within the cultural anthropology, focusing on the consumption and production of mass media messages in non-modern communities, be they in the Third World, or “exotic” enclaves in Western countries (synthesis in Askew 2002, Dickey 1997, Ginsburg et al, ...
... Many investigations have been carried out, from within the cultural anthropology, focusing on the consumption and production of mass media messages in non-modern communities, be they in the Third World, or “exotic” enclaves in Western countries (synthesis in Askew 2002, Dickey 1997, Ginsburg et al, ...