Archaeologies of Amalgamation in Seventeenth
... 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 ...
Chapter 1 Studying Hazard and Risk in Pastoral Societies
... systems as being in a state of equilibrium. More recent advances in cultural ecology (Moran, 1979), evolutionary biology and ecology (Borgerhoff-Mulder, 1991; Boyd & Richerson, 1985), economic theory (Ensminger, 1992) and political economy (Sen, 1981, 1985; Watts, 1983, 1991) have given risk a promi ...
... systems as being in a state of equilibrium. More recent advances in cultural ecology (Moran, 1979), evolutionary biology and ecology (Borgerhoff-Mulder, 1991; Boyd & Richerson, 1985), economic theory (Ensminger, 1992) and political economy (Sen, 1981, 1985; Watts, 1983, 1991) have given risk a promi ...
chapter 2 - Test Bank 1
... a pattern of behavior very rare learned through teasing their children seen in women but not in men REF: p. 30 ...
... a pattern of behavior very rare learned through teasing their children seen in women but not in men REF: p. 30 ...
Development, Postmodernism and Aboriginal Policy
... an awful lot like the KKK who [sic] insists they don't want government to hate black people, but that government should love white people more‖.11 But it is necessary to acknowledge that culture and race are completely different aspects of human existence: race, while plausibly a social construct, i ...
... an awful lot like the KKK who [sic] insists they don't want government to hate black people, but that government should love white people more‖.11 But it is necessary to acknowledge that culture and race are completely different aspects of human existence: race, while plausibly a social construct, i ...
Conceptualizing Death - Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative
... anthropology, is well documented in popular culture, little academic research has been conducted to investigate the sociocultural phenomena associated with working with human remains. This thesis investigates the reactions and attitudes toward death of those involved in operational and administrativ ...
... anthropology, is well documented in popular culture, little academic research has been conducted to investigate the sociocultural phenomena associated with working with human remains. This thesis investigates the reactions and attitudes toward death of those involved in operational and administrativ ...
Celtic Cultures- Spring 2011 - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... can be objective observers (for instance if they are trained in science) and that there is an objective reality to be observed and documented through empirical observation. Postmodernists would state that humans cannot be truly objective observers and there is no one objective reality to be found. I ...
... can be objective observers (for instance if they are trained in science) and that there is an objective reality to be observed and documented through empirical observation. Postmodernists would state that humans cannot be truly objective observers and there is no one objective reality to be found. I ...
Why Rajput Practice Exogamy: Anthropological Perspective
... that performs political and economic functions (Wakil, 1970). Morgan (1963) established kinship as a focal point in anthropological analysis when he studied Iroquois and other Native American people. He made comparative structural assessment about the Iroquois people which he called “Classificatory ...
... that performs political and economic functions (Wakil, 1970). Morgan (1963) established kinship as a focal point in anthropological analysis when he studied Iroquois and other Native American people. He made comparative structural assessment about the Iroquois people which he called “Classificatory ...
The Oedipus Myth and Complex in Oceania with Special Reference
... thesis that there are Oedipus-type (Aarne-Thompson Type 931) tales in Oceania and that their occurrence in these “non-Oedipal” cultures is a result of diffusion from “somewhere in a broad belt from Europe to south Asia.”1 This thesis w ill be considered specifically in relation to the Trukese narrat ...
... thesis that there are Oedipus-type (Aarne-Thompson Type 931) tales in Oceania and that their occurrence in these “non-Oedipal” cultures is a result of diffusion from “somewhere in a broad belt from Europe to south Asia.”1 This thesis w ill be considered specifically in relation to the Trukese narrat ...
What is Archaeology? - Georgia Council of Professional
... divided into four sub-fields: archaeology, cultural anthropology (the study of present-day peoples and societies), linguistics (language), and physical anthropology (human and primate behavior and evolution). Archaeologists looking at ancient remains use theories and models of human behavior develop ...
... divided into four sub-fields: archaeology, cultural anthropology (the study of present-day peoples and societies), linguistics (language), and physical anthropology (human and primate behavior and evolution). Archaeologists looking at ancient remains use theories and models of human behavior develop ...
Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory
... that most linguists interested in creole and pidgin languages have at their disposal. The authors aptly illustrate that there is little consensus among linguists on how and when these languages developed, and even less empirical data from which to draw. As creole languages are a topic that have only ...
... that most linguists interested in creole and pidgin languages have at their disposal. The authors aptly illustrate that there is little consensus among linguists on how and when these languages developed, and even less empirical data from which to draw. As creole languages are a topic that have only ...
ARTIFACTS AS DOMESTICATED KINDS OF PRACTICES Sergio F
... natural kindsviii. Sperber provides a series of examples of objects that point to a continuum of artifacts that are made and others that we can say occur naturally. The boundary between what is made and what occurs naturally cannot be located in the nature of things. Sperber gives the example of see ...
... natural kindsviii. Sperber provides a series of examples of objects that point to a continuum of artifacts that are made and others that we can say occur naturally. The boundary between what is made and what occurs naturally cannot be located in the nature of things. Sperber gives the example of see ...
Research - ICSE2010Tutorial12
... Anthropology would be the study of people and culture at a pretty broad level. Ethnography is about trying to make sense of people, not as individual personalities, not in a psychological sense, and not as societal movements, but as people embedded in what Clifford Getz used to call "webs of signifi ...
... Anthropology would be the study of people and culture at a pretty broad level. Ethnography is about trying to make sense of people, not as individual personalities, not in a psychological sense, and not as societal movements, but as people embedded in what Clifford Getz used to call "webs of signifi ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... The present study also throws light on the contributions made by sociologists towards understanding social stratification and forms of inequality in India. The literature generated by Indian sociologists is divided into decades starting from1950 onwards. In these years many sociologists have put for ...
... The present study also throws light on the contributions made by sociologists towards understanding social stratification and forms of inequality in India. The literature generated by Indian sociologists is divided into decades starting from1950 onwards. In these years many sociologists have put for ...
aDventures in the art nexus
... its viewers are likely to see in its ‘virtuosity’ evidence of its users’ ‘superior magic’, to which they must submit (ibid.: 71; see also Gell 1992). Here, Trobriand magic is the ‘folk’ model of agency on which Gell’s anthropological analysis is built. The first chapters of Art and Agency thus feat ...
... its viewers are likely to see in its ‘virtuosity’ evidence of its users’ ‘superior magic’, to which they must submit (ibid.: 71; see also Gell 1992). Here, Trobriand magic is the ‘folk’ model of agency on which Gell’s anthropological analysis is built. The first chapters of Art and Agency thus feat ...
the birth of civilization in the near east: on henri frankfort`s approach
... Scrutiny, and by 1951 he had begun to review books for such academic journals as Man, Africa, and African Affairs, but he had yet to finish his doctorate (completed in 1952) and was known only within a relatively small circle. 2 Unsurprisingly, therefore, Lienhardt was not the first person the BBC a ...
... Scrutiny, and by 1951 he had begun to review books for such academic journals as Man, Africa, and African Affairs, but he had yet to finish his doctorate (completed in 1952) and was known only within a relatively small circle. 2 Unsurprisingly, therefore, Lienhardt was not the first person the BBC a ...
Book Review - Australian Humanities Review
... Perhaps the Cartesian dualism within the English language is part of the reason why these terms, like ‘other-than-human persons’, sound awkward, as we are not yet used to other beings written or talked about as agents, or as persons in the world. Harvey presents a number of case studies, all contain ...
... Perhaps the Cartesian dualism within the English language is part of the reason why these terms, like ‘other-than-human persons’, sound awkward, as we are not yet used to other beings written or talked about as agents, or as persons in the world. Harvey presents a number of case studies, all contain ...
PDF of this page - UVM Catalogue
... impacts of economic development and social change. ANTH 153. Gender in the Middle East. 3 Credits. Exploring gendered aspects of religion, colonialism, anti-colonial struggles, feminism, revolution, family law, citizenship, expressive culture, and conflict through ethnography of the Middle East. Pre ...
... impacts of economic development and social change. ANTH 153. Gender in the Middle East. 3 Credits. Exploring gendered aspects of religion, colonialism, anti-colonial struggles, feminism, revolution, family law, citizenship, expressive culture, and conflict through ethnography of the Middle East. Pre ...
The Continuing Importance of Hunter-Gatherer Studies in - H-Net
... own definition of hunting and gathering as “subsistence activities entailing negligible control over the gene pool of food resources” (p. 3) and rightly conclude that this is Rich and largely unprecedented biological and de- still a meaningful and useful category in anthropology. mographic data for ...
... own definition of hunting and gathering as “subsistence activities entailing negligible control over the gene pool of food resources” (p. 3) and rightly conclude that this is Rich and largely unprecedented biological and de- still a meaningful and useful category in anthropology. mographic data for ...
this PDF file - Student Journals @ McMaster University
... as similar to those associated with kinship or religion. He maintains that because the rise of nationalism in Western Europe coincided temporally with the "dusk of religious modes of thought" (19), nationalism was able to replace disintegrating religious modes of thought and to provide a new sense o ...
... as similar to those associated with kinship or religion. He maintains that because the rise of nationalism in Western Europe coincided temporally with the "dusk of religious modes of thought" (19), nationalism was able to replace disintegrating religious modes of thought and to provide a new sense o ...
Sc h o o l o f Ph ilo so... St u d ie s
... national culture and history can be debated, dismissed or fortified. As a site, the cinema can be conceptualized as a public arena where the meanings of a culture are negotiated, not simply disseminated. What has been forgotten, what has been elided, and what should be remembered? What is the relati ...
... national culture and history can be debated, dismissed or fortified. As a site, the cinema can be conceptualized as a public arena where the meanings of a culture are negotiated, not simply disseminated. What has been forgotten, what has been elided, and what should be remembered? What is the relati ...
Anthropology, Theology, and the Simplicity of Benedict XVI`s Chant
... Thus begins primitive simplicity’s newly recalibrated life at the disciplinary apex of comparative musicology and anthropology. Like the society it reflects, Myers’s primitive chant gradually acquired a functionalist anthropological hue. Becoming a study in individual cultural adaptation it increasi ...
... Thus begins primitive simplicity’s newly recalibrated life at the disciplinary apex of comparative musicology and anthropology. Like the society it reflects, Myers’s primitive chant gradually acquired a functionalist anthropological hue. Becoming a study in individual cultural adaptation it increasi ...
Narratives as instrumental research and as attempts of
... socially constructed reality is generated both from outside and within; and the limits between the two sources are highly blurred. Don Slater’s work (1998) shows that nothing within human nature is indeterminate, outside cultural construction, not even the most primal of instincts or basic needs lik ...
... socially constructed reality is generated both from outside and within; and the limits between the two sources are highly blurred. Don Slater’s work (1998) shows that nothing within human nature is indeterminate, outside cultural construction, not even the most primal of instincts or basic needs lik ...
Examination Regulations
... forensic anthropology practitioner community and applicants must use this as a basis for their study. Appropriate certificates will be awarded to applicants who pass the relevant examinations and requirements in Forensic Anthropology at Levels I, II and III. Certified Forensic Anthropologists must r ...
... forensic anthropology practitioner community and applicants must use this as a basis for their study. Appropriate certificates will be awarded to applicants who pass the relevant examinations and requirements in Forensic Anthropology at Levels I, II and III. Certified Forensic Anthropologists must r ...
Anthropology of Magic - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... Introduction to the Anthropological Study of Religion and the Supernatural This semester we will engage in the anthropological study of religion and the supernatural. To be engaged and successful in this class you will need to have an open, questioning mind and work to be culturally relative. Ivan ...
... Introduction to the Anthropological Study of Religion and the Supernatural This semester we will engage in the anthropological study of religion and the supernatural. To be engaged and successful in this class you will need to have an open, questioning mind and work to be culturally relative. Ivan ...