Maja Nazaruk [email protected] (6665 words)
... to account for travels and experiences of alterity in faraway lands. Malinowski’s intimate journal is one such example of a travelogue. Michel Leiris gives another fascinating example of a travelogue of his journeys in central Africa in Afrique Fantôme (1934). Travelogues are important because they ...
... to account for travels and experiences of alterity in faraway lands. Malinowski’s intimate journal is one such example of a travelogue. Michel Leiris gives another fascinating example of a travelogue of his journeys in central Africa in Afrique Fantôme (1934). Travelogues are important because they ...
essays - Bruno Latour
... Fulbright scholarship to go to California and work in Roger Guillemin’s laboratory: ‘To apply ethnographic methods to scientific practice.’ I would like to go over the reasons this little phrase had such significant effects on my actual conception of an anthropological project. If we look back to th ...
... Fulbright scholarship to go to California and work in Roger Guillemin’s laboratory: ‘To apply ethnographic methods to scientific practice.’ I would like to go over the reasons this little phrase had such significant effects on my actual conception of an anthropological project. If we look back to th ...
KCCI.com, IA 08-28-07 Great Ape Trust Teams With ISU Students
... DES MOINES, Iowa -- Great Ape Trust of Iowa, the primate research facility in Des Moines, is joining forces with Iowa State University. The university's anthropology department will collaborate with the Great Ape Trust in primate research and education. Iowa State said the trust gives them an excell ...
... DES MOINES, Iowa -- Great Ape Trust of Iowa, the primate research facility in Des Moines, is joining forces with Iowa State University. The university's anthropology department will collaborate with the Great Ape Trust in primate research and education. Iowa State said the trust gives them an excell ...
Levi Fox Page 1 04/23/01 Franz Boas and the Genesis of Cultural
... all mental shackles that he might encounter. Indeed, Boas conceived of the anthropologist as a kind of enlightened observer who could understand and appreciate the culture(s) around him without ever fully accepting their cultural values as ‘true.’ While this may well be an impossibility (indeed the ...
... all mental shackles that he might encounter. Indeed, Boas conceived of the anthropologist as a kind of enlightened observer who could understand and appreciate the culture(s) around him without ever fully accepting their cultural values as ‘true.’ While this may well be an impossibility (indeed the ...
Chapter 2 - HCC Learning Web
... Anthropologists who view culture as an adaptation tend to be concerned with people’s behavior as it relates to their well-being or the relationship of cultural practices to ecosystems. They investigate the ways cultures adapt to specific environments and the ways in which cultures have changed in re ...
... Anthropologists who view culture as an adaptation tend to be concerned with people’s behavior as it relates to their well-being or the relationship of cultural practices to ecosystems. They investigate the ways cultures adapt to specific environments and the ways in which cultures have changed in re ...
Behavior Science Unit
... Culture is the entire way society lives and is organized Acculturation is the blending of cultures Ethnocentrism is the belief that your culture is superior. Assimilation is the act or process of absorbing a culture. The different components of culture include such things as art, literature, social ...
... Culture is the entire way society lives and is organized Acculturation is the blending of cultures Ethnocentrism is the belief that your culture is superior. Assimilation is the act or process of absorbing a culture. The different components of culture include such things as art, literature, social ...
Anthropology 148: Ecological Anthropology
... Define the ethnographic genre; enumerate and explain some basic ethnographic field methods, including participant observation. Define and illustrate the difference between ethnocentrism and cultural relativism; acknowledge and identify some of the assumptions inherent in one’s own cultural frame ...
... Define the ethnographic genre; enumerate and explain some basic ethnographic field methods, including participant observation. Define and illustrate the difference between ethnocentrism and cultural relativism; acknowledge and identify some of the assumptions inherent in one’s own cultural frame ...
Anthropology
... cultures” such as Mayan culture, American culture, or Indian culture, to more “micro cultures” such as college culture, Facebook culture, or the culture of anthropology itself, anthropology is concerned with exploring all human cultures with the intent of creating a comparative framework in which to ...
... cultures” such as Mayan culture, American culture, or Indian culture, to more “micro cultures” such as college culture, Facebook culture, or the culture of anthropology itself, anthropology is concerned with exploring all human cultures with the intent of creating a comparative framework in which to ...
Sample Chapter - Duke University Press
... document crafted around a case study.3 Autobiographies seek to delve into the cultural logics as interpreted by their authors, in an effort to understand the wider social system of which they are a part. In retelling a portion of a person’s life, they follow a timeline that allows both author and re ...
... document crafted around a case study.3 Autobiographies seek to delve into the cultural logics as interpreted by their authors, in an effort to understand the wider social system of which they are a part. In retelling a portion of a person’s life, they follow a timeline that allows both author and re ...
Loads of different rituals, important are
... Traditional stage: agricultural economy, low levels of science and technology, hierarchical social structure. Preconditions for take-off: triggered by external impulse, insights of modern science begin to be translated into agricultural and industrial production, emergence of elite group which was a ...
... Traditional stage: agricultural economy, low levels of science and technology, hierarchical social structure. Preconditions for take-off: triggered by external impulse, insights of modern science begin to be translated into agricultural and industrial production, emergence of elite group which was a ...
ANT 1000 Theoretical Paradigms and Case Studies
... Pfeiffer, Susan and J. Sealy. 2006. Body Size Among Holocene Foragers of the Cape Ecozone, Southern Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129:1-11. Satsuka, Shiho and Timothy Choy (Mogu Mogu), forthcoming. Mycorrhizal Translations: A Mushroom Manifesto. American Ethnologist. (available o ...
... Pfeiffer, Susan and J. Sealy. 2006. Body Size Among Holocene Foragers of the Cape Ecozone, Southern Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129:1-11. Satsuka, Shiho and Timothy Choy (Mogu Mogu), forthcoming. Mycorrhizal Translations: A Mushroom Manifesto. American Ethnologist. (available o ...
Ethics without guarantees - HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
... Now Harkness writes of language as what he calls a necessary bottleneck. But just what is the nature of that necessity? After all, if we accept Mattingly’s point about autism and extend it to the deaf or mute, an account of ethical life can’t completely exclude those with different or limited lingui ...
... Now Harkness writes of language as what he calls a necessary bottleneck. But just what is the nature of that necessity? After all, if we accept Mattingly’s point about autism and extend it to the deaf or mute, an account of ethical life can’t completely exclude those with different or limited lingui ...
Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in
... the learned and shared patterns of human behaviour and thought we call culture in order to analyze human groups. Holism separates anthropology from other academic disciplines, which generally focus on one factor – biology, psychology, physiology, or society – as the explanation for human behaviour. ...
... the learned and shared patterns of human behaviour and thought we call culture in order to analyze human groups. Holism separates anthropology from other academic disciplines, which generally focus on one factor – biology, psychology, physiology, or society – as the explanation for human behaviour. ...
Key words
... those studies. Folk literature was no longer the main object of interest; it was more often connected with a broader scope of folk culture, studied within the framework of ethnography. A concept of ethnology that focused not on the people – a social layer, but on nationalities and peoples – ethnic g ...
... those studies. Folk literature was no longer the main object of interest; it was more often connected with a broader scope of folk culture, studied within the framework of ethnography. A concept of ethnology that focused not on the people – a social layer, but on nationalities and peoples – ethnic g ...
Human Organization
... and Dunn, 1996) and ‘social capital’ (Putnam, 1993) have only served to intensify the spotlight on the third sector as a metaphor with which to understand this ‘family’ of organizations. During the last decade or so an inter-disciplinary grouping of academic researchers mostly in Europe and North Am ...
... and Dunn, 1996) and ‘social capital’ (Putnam, 1993) have only served to intensify the spotlight on the third sector as a metaphor with which to understand this ‘family’ of organizations. During the last decade or so an inter-disciplinary grouping of academic researchers mostly in Europe and North Am ...
Anthropology Student Handbook - University of Central Missouri
... The University of Central Missouri allows candidates for Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees to develop a secondary field of specialized study as a minor. Some programs also require minors as part of the degree program. A minimum of nine hours of a minor program must be completed throug ...
... The University of Central Missouri allows candidates for Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees to develop a secondary field of specialized study as a minor. Some programs also require minors as part of the degree program. A minimum of nine hours of a minor program must be completed throug ...
International Benchmarking Review of UK Social Anthropology
... performance and to report on its findings. The Steering Group and International Panel Members are listed at Annex A and B respectively. The Steering Group has warmly welcomed the Panel’s Report. The assessment contained in the following pages provides an impressive account of a strong and vibrant di ...
... performance and to report on its findings. The Steering Group and International Panel Members are listed at Annex A and B respectively. The Steering Group has warmly welcomed the Panel’s Report. The assessment contained in the following pages provides an impressive account of a strong and vibrant di ...
ScienceSocPerspective
... is that they study all aspects of nature including organisms; from animals including humans, to plants and the universe. The social sciences include disciplines such as sociology, psychology, political science, economics, cultural anthropology, etc. What the social sciences have in common is that th ...
... is that they study all aspects of nature including organisms; from animals including humans, to plants and the universe. The social sciences include disciplines such as sociology, psychology, political science, economics, cultural anthropology, etc. What the social sciences have in common is that th ...
potential exam questions.
... 6. What factors drive evolution and what factor hinder evolution according to Tylor's theory? 7. According to Ibn Khaldu, what is the relationship between "umran" and "assabiya?" 8. Compare and contrast the social theories of Tylor and Ibn Khaldun. 9. How did the introduction of guns interrupt Khald ...
... 6. What factors drive evolution and what factor hinder evolution according to Tylor's theory? 7. According to Ibn Khaldu, what is the relationship between "umran" and "assabiya?" 8. Compare and contrast the social theories of Tylor and Ibn Khaldun. 9. How did the introduction of guns interrupt Khald ...
14.9 MB - Human Evolution and Prehistory, Second Canadian Edition
... 2. The problem of being culture-bound 3. The question of the validity of one’s ethnographic account COPYRIGHT © 2008 Nelson Education Ltd. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ...
... 2. The problem of being culture-bound 3. The question of the validity of one’s ethnographic account COPYRIGHT © 2008 Nelson Education Ltd. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ...
archaeology - Montgomery College
... Archaeologists Use All artifacts collected from a unit are placed in their own bag and carefully labeled so that interpretation and analysis of the site may be done following excavation. ...
... Archaeologists Use All artifacts collected from a unit are placed in their own bag and carefully labeled so that interpretation and analysis of the site may be done following excavation. ...
Christel Mattheeuws
... this settlement as born of a drama. Through fruitful relations with the new land, the Zanadroandrena turn this drama into one of growth and expansion. The land and all its inhabitants carry specific destinies, due to astrological practices that identify the initiation of any activity or creation wit ...
... this settlement as born of a drama. Through fruitful relations with the new land, the Zanadroandrena turn this drama into one of growth and expansion. The land and all its inhabitants carry specific destinies, due to astrological practices that identify the initiation of any activity or creation wit ...
PDF of this page
... world of cultural and ethnic diversity. Anthropology majors are required to take core courses in all three focal areas of the discipline, but may emphasize one or more of them in their remaining courses. Students may also develop an interdisciplinary program in cooperation with other departments or ...
... world of cultural and ethnic diversity. Anthropology majors are required to take core courses in all three focal areas of the discipline, but may emphasize one or more of them in their remaining courses. Students may also develop an interdisciplinary program in cooperation with other departments or ...
the production of knowledge and the production of hegemony
... not particularly Spanish in their 'self-presentation'. Herzfeld creates a breach between himself and the likes of him (reflexive anthropological scholars at the centers) and the 'nativist' intellectuals, through conflating their position as anthropological objects of foreign (AngloSaxon) anthropolog ...
... not particularly Spanish in their 'self-presentation'. Herzfeld creates a breach between himself and the likes of him (reflexive anthropological scholars at the centers) and the 'nativist' intellectuals, through conflating their position as anthropological objects of foreign (AngloSaxon) anthropolog ...