Planet M : The intense abstraction of Marilyn Strathern
... large field of data. So the most basic methodological question for anthropology (as for any other ‘discipline’) is how to bring this ‘plural’ data under some kind of control. Put in very general terms, this must involve deciding which data go with each other and which do not. In this general sense a ...
... large field of data. So the most basic methodological question for anthropology (as for any other ‘discipline’) is how to bring this ‘plural’ data under some kind of control. Put in very general terms, this must involve deciding which data go with each other and which do not. In this general sense a ...
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... crime in the context of European cinema enables us to consider what is at stake in these differences and how specific cinematic traditions have shaped them and offered them as entertainment. For ...
... crime in the context of European cinema enables us to consider what is at stake in these differences and how specific cinematic traditions have shaped them and offered them as entertainment. For ...
Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title
... degree of continuity of a customary system of law and practice – of a culture, if you will. The Yorta Yorta appeal demands that anthropologists and legal scholars consider what they both mean by (1) continuity of connection to country; and (2) continuity of tradition and/or a system of law and custo ...
... degree of continuity of a customary system of law and practice – of a culture, if you will. The Yorta Yorta appeal demands that anthropologists and legal scholars consider what they both mean by (1) continuity of connection to country; and (2) continuity of tradition and/or a system of law and custo ...
Erving Goffman and the Gestural Dynamics of Modern Selfhood
... As for ‘gesture’, in English there are interesting late-medieval, earlymodern uses of the term that are now obsolete. Gesture (usually in the singular) meant the ‘bearing, carriage, deportment’ of knights, nobility, and royalty; it also meant the position of the body in acts of prayer (OED). One cou ...
... As for ‘gesture’, in English there are interesting late-medieval, earlymodern uses of the term that are now obsolete. Gesture (usually in the singular) meant the ‘bearing, carriage, deportment’ of knights, nobility, and royalty; it also meant the position of the body in acts of prayer (OED). One cou ...
Shane Donaldson
... the gaps by resorting to analogy."11 Thus it all begins, in the groves of Aricia, amongst a priesthood in which leadership was transferred through a ritualized killing. Frazer, "explained the priest of Aricia - the king of the Wood - as an embodiment of a tree spirit,"12 and therefore a deity. Throu ...
... the gaps by resorting to analogy."11 Thus it all begins, in the groves of Aricia, amongst a priesthood in which leadership was transferred through a ritualized killing. Frazer, "explained the priest of Aricia - the king of the Wood - as an embodiment of a tree spirit,"12 and therefore a deity. Throu ...
Going for the Reds Max Gluckman and the Anthropology of Football
... BBC. While we have not been able to track this eulogy, we have found several scattered references and a request to Gluckman for a paper entitled Requiem. (Letter from P.Matthey, citing information from Jack Goody, 9 December 1972. Gluckman Papers, RAI). But even before these events, Gluckman’s stude ...
... BBC. While we have not been able to track this eulogy, we have found several scattered references and a request to Gluckman for a paper entitled Requiem. (Letter from P.Matthey, citing information from Jack Goody, 9 December 1972. Gluckman Papers, RAI). But even before these events, Gluckman’s stude ...
Ethnography
... data collection are only one type of method. There are methods of data analysis, such as statistical inference, sampling and new forms of computerbased qualitative analysis, which are used to interpret and analyse the data; and methods of research enquiry, used to formulate the research, such as the ...
... data collection are only one type of method. There are methods of data analysis, such as statistical inference, sampling and new forms of computerbased qualitative analysis, which are used to interpret and analyse the data; and methods of research enquiry, used to formulate the research, such as the ...
abstract book - Life Science Events
... Mr. Frank Mullane, visiting lecturer at Gloucestershire University, Swindon, SN3 9BG, UK is credited with being the driving force behind Domestic Homicide Reviews becoming law in April 2011 and that families are given the opportunity to be integral to these reviews.Frank argues that participation of ...
... Mr. Frank Mullane, visiting lecturer at Gloucestershire University, Swindon, SN3 9BG, UK is credited with being the driving force behind Domestic Homicide Reviews becoming law in April 2011 and that families are given the opportunity to be integral to these reviews.Frank argues that participation of ...
Schools and Programs - The University of Kansas
... ANTH 293. Myth, Legend, and Folk Beliefs in East Asia. 3 Hours NW AE42 / H/W. A survey of the commonly held ideas about the beginning of the world, the role of gods and spirits in daily life, and the celebrations and rituals proper to each season of the year. The purpose of the course is to present ...
... ANTH 293. Myth, Legend, and Folk Beliefs in East Asia. 3 Hours NW AE42 / H/W. A survey of the commonly held ideas about the beginning of the world, the role of gods and spirits in daily life, and the celebrations and rituals proper to each season of the year. The purpose of the course is to present ...
Leslie Sponsel
... fact has been established and documented since the 1970’s in several major reports by the above mentioned NGOs and others (Ramos and Taylor 1979, Colchester 1985, Chiappino and Ales 1997). But apparently the fact of the dire health condition of the Yanomami and lack of adequate health services from ...
... fact has been established and documented since the 1970’s in several major reports by the above mentioned NGOs and others (Ramos and Taylor 1979, Colchester 1985, Chiappino and Ales 1997). But apparently the fact of the dire health condition of the Yanomami and lack of adequate health services from ...
svetlana slapšak
... of recipes – raw, cooked and rotten. The three forms are linked by natural transformation, two of them by cultural transformation. (2) As Claude Lévy-Strauss is above all interested in human behavior, for him the fire is the central element of relevance; the triangle reflects linguistic structure mo ...
... of recipes – raw, cooked and rotten. The three forms are linked by natural transformation, two of them by cultural transformation. (2) As Claude Lévy-Strauss is above all interested in human behavior, for him the fire is the central element of relevance; the triangle reflects linguistic structure mo ...
9 - Ram-Wan
... occurrence and in their conditions of existence and transformation. The goal is not a hermeneutics of hidden meanings behind the speeches and texts, but a careful account of the discursive and non-discursive events and their connections, emergences, ruptures, dispersions and disappearances. Not a hi ...
... occurrence and in their conditions of existence and transformation. The goal is not a hermeneutics of hidden meanings behind the speeches and texts, but a careful account of the discursive and non-discursive events and their connections, emergences, ruptures, dispersions and disappearances. Not a hi ...
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... the complex relations between global processes, world languages, and political/cultural boundaries. Cross-listed with: LING 014. ANTH 015. Writing Systems. 3 Credits. Survey of how human languages are represented orthographically, both historically and in the present day. We examine the origins of w ...
... the complex relations between global processes, world languages, and political/cultural boundaries. Cross-listed with: LING 014. ANTH 015. Writing Systems. 3 Credits. Survey of how human languages are represented orthographically, both historically and in the present day. We examine the origins of w ...
this PDF - HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
... anthropologists. Mauss’ thesis—and it is explicit—is that the confusion is in the heads of the primitive peoples, and that they are, in this respect, more primitive than children who easily make a distinction between exchange and gift. We may trace this thesis directly back to the old assimilation ( ...
... anthropologists. Mauss’ thesis—and it is explicit—is that the confusion is in the heads of the primitive peoples, and that they are, in this respect, more primitive than children who easily make a distinction between exchange and gift. We may trace this thesis directly back to the old assimilation ( ...
1983 Looking for Zora. In In Search of our Mothers` Gardens
... the basic similarity of narrative structure. Although their research problems, data collection, and writing style were distinctive, both texts are remarkably parallel in their organization. The geography of their ethnographic paths are so alike that it is logical to conjecture that Barton's book was ...
... the basic similarity of narrative structure. Although their research problems, data collection, and writing style were distinctive, both texts are remarkably parallel in their organization. The geography of their ethnographic paths are so alike that it is logical to conjecture that Barton's book was ...
Anthropological and Sociological Critiques of Bioethics
... social sciences—a stance that seems to be as much moral imperative as interpretive method—Bosk (2001, 213) writes: The most characteristic ways a social scientist learns to think are organized to disabuse any group of its own notions of its ‘specialness’. Social science is a generalizing activity. O ...
... social sciences—a stance that seems to be as much moral imperative as interpretive method—Bosk (2001, 213) writes: The most characteristic ways a social scientist learns to think are organized to disabuse any group of its own notions of its ‘specialness’. Social science is a generalizing activity. O ...
Meatify the Weak! Cannibalism and (Post) Colonial
... have recurrently been suspected of man-eating habits. In fact, as Sanday (1986) rightfully notes, those were the days that practically every group encountered was accused of this practice. But times have changed. At least in Western dominated state discourse, there are no recent examples to be found ...
... have recurrently been suspected of man-eating habits. In fact, as Sanday (1986) rightfully notes, those were the days that practically every group encountered was accused of this practice. But times have changed. At least in Western dominated state discourse, there are no recent examples to be found ...
The Concept of Kinship
... structureya,or "descent system", giving away the condition under which a recurrent relationship can come to be classed under those terms. Far from ...
... structureya,or "descent system", giving away the condition under which a recurrent relationship can come to be classed under those terms. Far from ...
Visiting Cultures: A Critique of Tourism and Anthropology Jessica Carew Kraft
... sites of pleasure... what [people] find pleasurable are buildings which seem appropriate to place and which mark that place off from others ...The universalization of the tourist gaze has made most other places enhance difference through the rediscovery of local ...
... sites of pleasure... what [people] find pleasurable are buildings which seem appropriate to place and which mark that place off from others ...The universalization of the tourist gaze has made most other places enhance difference through the rediscovery of local ...
General introduction: The critique of culture and the plurality of
... nature? (Soper 1995), the contributors to this volume provide specific answers to the question of ‘how nature is established’ as an entity.While the constructed nature of ‘nature’ may now have become accepted dogma, the volume attempts to go one step further and inquire into the processuality of thi ...
... nature? (Soper 1995), the contributors to this volume provide specific answers to the question of ‘how nature is established’ as an entity.While the constructed nature of ‘nature’ may now have become accepted dogma, the volume attempts to go one step further and inquire into the processuality of thi ...
this PDF file - UP Diliman Journals Online
... instead of its potential for rich refinements. Because discussions on culture rarely go beyond its Western, colonial, and generalizing attributes, culture became a liability instead of asset to anthropology. The very brief retracing of culture as a category in these two short sections shows that as ...
... instead of its potential for rich refinements. Because discussions on culture rarely go beyond its Western, colonial, and generalizing attributes, culture became a liability instead of asset to anthropology. The very brief retracing of culture as a category in these two short sections shows that as ...
test-gca-erickson-t1.pdf
... greetings that were exchanged during seasonal rituals-that predate these European cards by a thousand years, according to Mary Erbaugh, “Greeting Cards in China: Mixed language of Connections and ...
... greetings that were exchanged during seasonal rituals-that predate these European cards by a thousand years, according to Mary Erbaugh, “Greeting Cards in China: Mixed language of Connections and ...
The Contract with God: Patterns of Cultural Consensus across Two
... Pentecostal doctrine and ritual, I expect that this method will be able to identify aspects of the cultural domain where they have significant sharing or overlap of knowledge, and other areas where there is more subcultural differentiation. BACKGROUND The data used to demonstrate the analytical usef ...
... Pentecostal doctrine and ritual, I expect that this method will be able to identify aspects of the cultural domain where they have significant sharing or overlap of knowledge, and other areas where there is more subcultural differentiation. BACKGROUND The data used to demonstrate the analytical usef ...
Miller - Chapter 2 (short in-class version
... Approaches have changed over time “Armchair anthropology” – 1870s Sitting and reading about other cultures and formulating theories about them Edward Tylor ...
... Approaches have changed over time “Armchair anthropology” – 1870s Sitting and reading about other cultures and formulating theories about them Edward Tylor ...
2. Parsing Hybridity - Scholars at Harvard
... The concept of acculturation has the longest and possibly most controversial history of the aforementioned terms (Cusick 1998:127–132). In its early anthropological use, acculturation was defined as “those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuo ...
... The concept of acculturation has the longest and possibly most controversial history of the aforementioned terms (Cusick 1998:127–132). In its early anthropological use, acculturation was defined as “those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuo ...