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fundraising campaign for the W. W. Howells Prize
... recent recipients). To our knowledge the Howells Prize is the only award that specifically honors books in biological anthropology. As such it is a unique opportunity to recognize the exceptional work of our colleagues. The W.W. Howells Award is supported by income from an endowment to the American ...
... recent recipients). To our knowledge the Howells Prize is the only award that specifically honors books in biological anthropology. As such it is a unique opportunity to recognize the exceptional work of our colleagues. The W.W. Howells Award is supported by income from an endowment to the American ...
Anthropology in the middle - Anthropology Emory
... Other caveats also apply. My characterizations apply largely to Anglo-American anthropology and especially to American cultural anthropology during the last dozen or so years; the many and increasing contributions of world anthropology from other nations and world areas are beyond my scope (see Ribe ...
... Other caveats also apply. My characterizations apply largely to Anglo-American anthropology and especially to American cultural anthropology during the last dozen or so years; the many and increasing contributions of world anthropology from other nations and world areas are beyond my scope (see Ribe ...
Hegemony and Culture in Historical Anthropology: A Review Essay
... the frontier were justified and normalized is the central concern of these books. In this sense, the focus of analysis is less about what happened than what kinds of meanings were circulating and how those meanings shaped events. Donald Donham complains that there is too little agency in the account ...
... the frontier were justified and normalized is the central concern of these books. In this sense, the focus of analysis is less about what happened than what kinds of meanings were circulating and how those meanings shaped events. Donald Donham complains that there is too little agency in the account ...
anthropology 5: magic, science and religion
... This class will be a practical, hands-on exploration of topics within the discipline of Physical Anthropology. Students will map out the workings of the human body, be enmeshed in the theories of natural and sexual selection, observe cell division and replication, solve the mystery of inherited trai ...
... This class will be a practical, hands-on exploration of topics within the discipline of Physical Anthropology. Students will map out the workings of the human body, be enmeshed in the theories of natural and sexual selection, observe cell division and replication, solve the mystery of inherited trai ...
Translations on the Move
... authors as “the ontological turn” in anthropology 2. Next, we will focus on the important, but often neglected, connections between these developments and more recent methodological attempts to deal with the borrowing of social scientific notions by informants, a problem particularly pertinent in la ...
... authors as “the ontological turn” in anthropology 2. Next, we will focus on the important, but often neglected, connections between these developments and more recent methodological attempts to deal with the borrowing of social scientific notions by informants, a problem particularly pertinent in la ...
newsletter2001 ( PDF ) - Anthropology at the University of Florida
... chewing forces are most pronounced, and that enhanced buttressing of bone can be found where the need for such support is minimal. This seems to suggest that the relationship between bone structure and biomechanical stresses is more complex than previously realized. One problem, however, is that the ...
... chewing forces are most pronounced, and that enhanced buttressing of bone can be found where the need for such support is minimal. This seems to suggest that the relationship between bone structure and biomechanical stresses is more complex than previously realized. One problem, however, is that the ...
Cultural Anthropology Study Guide
... 2. What research in other cultures demonstrates that differences in women’s and men’s behavior are not limited to biology? 3. What is the large variation in human sexual behavior across cultures? What are the ethnographic examples? 4. How do gender and language interact to reinforce sexual asymmetry ...
... 2. What research in other cultures demonstrates that differences in women’s and men’s behavior are not limited to biology? 3. What is the large variation in human sexual behavior across cultures? What are the ethnographic examples? 4. How do gender and language interact to reinforce sexual asymmetry ...
No. 69.pmd - Society of Africanist Archaeologists
... University of Ibadan, where both in principle and in practice, archaeology is the domineering partner of the two courses. Indeed, having lived within the politics of archaeology over anthropology for over eighteen years, first as a student, then as a teacher in the Department, one observe(s) that ar ...
... University of Ibadan, where both in principle and in practice, archaeology is the domineering partner of the two courses. Indeed, having lived within the politics of archaeology over anthropology for over eighteen years, first as a student, then as a teacher in the Department, one observe(s) that ar ...
Distinguishing `self`
... (NDH, 1941-1945). However, he himself was in no way involved with the extreme nationalists during this period. 7. It is interesting that the renaming took ‘cultural’ anthropology to be the determining factor in the creation of the new (old) discipline. In several European countries (The Netherlands, ...
... (NDH, 1941-1945). However, he himself was in no way involved with the extreme nationalists during this period. 7. It is interesting that the renaming took ‘cultural’ anthropology to be the determining factor in the creation of the new (old) discipline. In several European countries (The Netherlands, ...
Anthropology SLOs
... of past civilizations. Students will be presented with case studies involving sites, cultures, and individuals and have to craft and evaluate hypotheses. Students will be evaluated on these topics through papers, in-class assignments, long term projects, and discussions. Communications Skills – Stud ...
... of past civilizations. Students will be presented with case studies involving sites, cultures, and individuals and have to craft and evaluate hypotheses. Students will be evaluated on these topics through papers, in-class assignments, long term projects, and discussions. Communications Skills – Stud ...
Christianities and Cultures
... Christianity is the most widespread religion in the world. Christian concepts have shaped Western culture and understandings of modernity and progress. Christianity is actually one of the most important globalizing forces in human history. The first semester will provide a basis for understanding Ch ...
... Christianity is the most widespread religion in the world. Christian concepts have shaped Western culture and understandings of modernity and progress. Christianity is actually one of the most important globalizing forces in human history. The first semester will provide a basis for understanding Ch ...
Anthropology fa l l 2 0 1 5 ...
... This course introduces students to the central topics and methodological approaches in medical anthropology. We will track how different medical systems and institutions — Western biomedicine among them — conceive of and act upon individual and collective bodies and subjects. Drawing from both class ...
... This course introduces students to the central topics and methodological approaches in medical anthropology. We will track how different medical systems and institutions — Western biomedicine among them — conceive of and act upon individual and collective bodies and subjects. Drawing from both class ...
UCL Anthropology PGT Options 2016/17
... Digital data is becoming an inevitable part of everyday life, mediating and instantiating our relationships with other people, the natural world, the past and the future. What can the study of data tell us about emergent forms of social life? And what can anthropology bring to the study of digital d ...
... Digital data is becoming an inevitable part of everyday life, mediating and instantiating our relationships with other people, the natural world, the past and the future. What can the study of data tell us about emergent forms of social life? And what can anthropology bring to the study of digital d ...
Introduction to Post-Social Anthropology
... be a philosophical reading. We believe, nevertheless, that philosophical issues should always be explicated in anthropology courses. They are always acting in any case, and it is better to start by coming clean about them. One can observe, for example, that anthropologists demonstrate an accentuated ...
... be a philosophical reading. We believe, nevertheless, that philosophical issues should always be explicated in anthropology courses. They are always acting in any case, and it is better to start by coming clean about them. One can observe, for example, that anthropologists demonstrate an accentuated ...
Anthropology and Literature.
... equipped to read the text of h u m an nature. T h is is also how h u m an ities are still de fined today: as an arduous deciphering of the text of h u m an n ature, w hich in itself is troublesom e because defined as such hum anities should also include genetics whose achievem ent in the reading of ...
... equipped to read the text of h u m an nature. T h is is also how h u m an ities are still de fined today: as an arduous deciphering of the text of h u m an n ature, w hich in itself is troublesom e because defined as such hum anities should also include genetics whose achievem ent in the reading of ...
ANT 465 - www7 - Northern Arizona University
... Commentaries. You will write ten commentaries that will help you prepare for class discussions. This assignment is helpful in a variety of contexts and the value of concise writing cannot be overstated. Most “Howto” references provide helpful instructions for writing a précis, or short summary, on a ...
... Commentaries. You will write ten commentaries that will help you prepare for class discussions. This assignment is helpful in a variety of contexts and the value of concise writing cannot be overstated. Most “Howto” references provide helpful instructions for writing a précis, or short summary, on a ...
September 14, 2006 - Carleton University
... AIM: To produce knowledge (process), to understand and explain some aspect of the world around us. Max Gluckman has observed, ‘a science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation’ (Gluckman, 1965). A science, then, is ...
... AIM: To produce knowledge (process), to understand and explain some aspect of the world around us. Max Gluckman has observed, ‘a science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation’ (Gluckman, 1965). A science, then, is ...
Marxism
... itself was built on exploitation, enslavement, genocide, and the formation of class structures and states It also involved ethnogenesis - the creation of peoples without history both inside and outside Europe ...
... itself was built on exploitation, enslavement, genocide, and the formation of class structures and states It also involved ethnogenesis - the creation of peoples without history both inside and outside Europe ...
Welcome to Cultural Anthropology!
... • Thus, the synthesis would be: Knowledge about mankind, or modernized: the science of humankind • What makes it unique from other disciplines that fit the same description? ...
... • Thus, the synthesis would be: Knowledge about mankind, or modernized: the science of humankind • What makes it unique from other disciplines that fit the same description? ...
LSE 120 Anniversary
... in the Department of Anthropology On Friday, 11 December 2015, as part of the celebrations for the LSE’s 120th anniversary, the Department of Anthropology held a one-day event to explore some of its history. In the 1930s, Malinowski, together with his younger colleagues and research students, who mo ...
... in the Department of Anthropology On Friday, 11 December 2015, as part of the celebrations for the LSE’s 120th anniversary, the Department of Anthropology held a one-day event to explore some of its history. In the 1930s, Malinowski, together with his younger colleagues and research students, who mo ...
history of anthro pt 2
... positioning individual cultures on the savagerybarbarism-civilization ladder discounts their particularity and integrity sidesteps the important task of reconstructing unwritten histories for non-Western peoples Rational psychological explanation is misleading i.e. people did not reason themselv ...
... positioning individual cultures on the savagerybarbarism-civilization ladder discounts their particularity and integrity sidesteps the important task of reconstructing unwritten histories for non-Western peoples Rational psychological explanation is misleading i.e. people did not reason themselv ...
Proposal
... Demonstrate an understanding of theories of human behavior, relations, culture, or institutions; or interpretations of historical causation and change; and Teaching: The second core learning outcome under Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding is achieved through the reading of articles that ...
... Demonstrate an understanding of theories of human behavior, relations, culture, or institutions; or interpretations of historical causation and change; and Teaching: The second core learning outcome under Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding is achieved through the reading of articles that ...
Jackson County
... This presentation begins with a short course in human skeletal anatomy, so that participants will be better equipped to determine the nature of skeletal remains found in the field. A hands-on approach will be used to familiarize search and rescue personnel with the anthropological techniques used to ...
... This presentation begins with a short course in human skeletal anatomy, so that participants will be better equipped to determine the nature of skeletal remains found in the field. A hands-on approach will be used to familiarize search and rescue personnel with the anthropological techniques used to ...