Introduction - The University of Michigan Press
... methodological perspective? And why documents, of all things, a subject that Bruno Latour has termed “the most despised of all ethnographic subjects” (1988, 54)? Documents provide a useful point of entry into contemporary problems of ethnographic method for a number of reasons. First, there is a lon ...
... methodological perspective? And why documents, of all things, a subject that Bruno Latour has termed “the most despised of all ethnographic subjects” (1988, 54)? Documents provide a useful point of entry into contemporary problems of ethnographic method for a number of reasons. First, there is a lon ...
Excerpt - School for Advanced Research
... mutual inclusion rather than on timeless or essential difference. We call this approach “pluricultural” because it pays close attention to connections across boundaries of differentiation—ethnicity, class, gender, geography, nations—that might otherwise conjure up different cultures. Yet, it remains ...
... mutual inclusion rather than on timeless or essential difference. We call this approach “pluricultural” because it pays close attention to connections across boundaries of differentiation—ethnicity, class, gender, geography, nations—that might otherwise conjure up different cultures. Yet, it remains ...
- NIILM University
... approach to causality. Durkheim set up the first European department of sociology at the University of Bordeaux in 1895, publishing his Rules of the Sociological Method (1895). For Durkheim, sociology could be described as the "science of institutions, their genesis and their functioning".Durkheim's ...
... approach to causality. Durkheim set up the first European department of sociology at the University of Bordeaux in 1895, publishing his Rules of the Sociological Method (1895). For Durkheim, sociology could be described as the "science of institutions, their genesis and their functioning".Durkheim's ...
Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives
... cultural anthropology textbook which gives a coherent and refreshingly new vision of the discipline and its subject matter – human diversity. The fifteen chapters and three extended case studies present all of the necessary areas of cultural anthropology, organizing them in conceptually and thematic ...
... cultural anthropology textbook which gives a coherent and refreshingly new vision of the discipline and its subject matter – human diversity. The fifteen chapters and three extended case studies present all of the necessary areas of cultural anthropology, organizing them in conceptually and thematic ...
Here - CCPN Global
... and creative paradigm, which are so different from the approaches that came before them? GH: Peasant life in China was based on close, detailed fieldwork methods as pioneered by Malinowski, and ...
... and creative paradigm, which are so different from the approaches that came before them? GH: Peasant life in China was based on close, detailed fieldwork methods as pioneered by Malinowski, and ...
Cultural Anthropology 102 - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... class schedule EVERY week to keep up to date on reading assignments and homework assignments. The dates for when your assignments are due is listed in your class schedule but may also be announced in class (any changes will be announced in class- make sure that you either attend class every day or g ...
... class schedule EVERY week to keep up to date on reading assignments and homework assignments. The dates for when your assignments are due is listed in your class schedule but may also be announced in class (any changes will be announced in class- make sure that you either attend class every day or g ...
Anth 551: Strategies in Archaeology
... rather than a comprehensive historical overview. However, the early weeks of the course will be devoted to a consideration of the historical foundations of major trends in the field. Following this introductory section, we will intensively survey current theoretical positions and issues that are hav ...
... rather than a comprehensive historical overview. However, the early weeks of the course will be devoted to a consideration of the historical foundations of major trends in the field. Following this introductory section, we will intensively survey current theoretical positions and issues that are hav ...
Cultural Anthropology 102 - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... class schedule EVERY week to keep up to date on reading assignments and homework assignments. The dates for when your assignments are due is listed in your class schedule but may also be announced in class (any changes will be announced in class- make sure that you either attend class every day or g ...
... class schedule EVERY week to keep up to date on reading assignments and homework assignments. The dates for when your assignments are due is listed in your class schedule but may also be announced in class (any changes will be announced in class- make sure that you either attend class every day or g ...
Horizontal and vertical relations
... may appear hopelessly irrelevant to this special section on personhood. But its usefulness, I suggest, lies less in its analytical units than its analytical slant. Rather than pitting “the individual” against “the community,” Geddes revealed the complex, mutually constitutive dynamic between the two ...
... may appear hopelessly irrelevant to this special section on personhood. But its usefulness, I suggest, lies less in its analytical units than its analytical slant. Rather than pitting “the individual” against “the community,” Geddes revealed the complex, mutually constitutive dynamic between the two ...
Anthropology of Magic - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... systems. No aspect of culture is isolated and each part affects the other parts. A change in one area of a culture often affects other areas of the culture (a change in the economic system can affect religious values and expressions.) ...
... systems. No aspect of culture is isolated and each part affects the other parts. A change in one area of a culture often affects other areas of the culture (a change in the economic system can affect religious values and expressions.) ...
Anthropology, Cultural and Archaeology
... Anthropology, Cultural and Archaeology ANT 501: Development of Anthropological Theory Survey of the development of anthropological theory from the 19th century to the present. This course is offered as both ANT 501 and DPA 501. Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ANT 502: Social Ecolo ...
... Anthropology, Cultural and Archaeology ANT 501: Development of Anthropological Theory Survey of the development of anthropological theory from the 19th century to the present. This course is offered as both ANT 501 and DPA 501. Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ANT 502: Social Ecolo ...
Anatomy Anthropology (ANTH)
... used in research in physical/biological anthropology. The topics under study include: the scientific method, principles of evolution, human genetics, human osteology, anthropometrics, forensic anthropology, anatomy and behavior of living nonhuman primates, and paleoanthropology. ANTH 101 Introducti ...
... used in research in physical/biological anthropology. The topics under study include: the scientific method, principles of evolution, human genetics, human osteology, anthropometrics, forensic anthropology, anatomy and behavior of living nonhuman primates, and paleoanthropology. ANTH 101 Introducti ...
JAN CZEKANOWSKI ANTHROPOLOGIST AND STATISTICIAN
... textbook o f statistics in the Polish language dealing with contemporary methods o f collecting empirical data and appropriate interpretation o f results. The book came out in print merely two years after the first ever textbook of statistics namely “An introduction to the theory of statistics” by G ...
... textbook o f statistics in the Polish language dealing with contemporary methods o f collecting empirical data and appropriate interpretation o f results. The book came out in print merely two years after the first ever textbook of statistics namely “An introduction to the theory of statistics” by G ...
The Future and Frontiers of Culturalized Properties in the Global South
... forging seed exchange networks they characterized as a form of intercultural dialogue (Wright, 2008a, b). They also rejected public domain and common heritage arguments, describing their agricultural stewardship as a locally significant tradition on which they based rights, not via ...
... forging seed exchange networks they characterized as a form of intercultural dialogue (Wright, 2008a, b). They also rejected public domain and common heritage arguments, describing their agricultural stewardship as a locally significant tradition on which they based rights, not via ...
On Recent Trends in the Anthropology of Foragers: Kalahari
... The prevailing general model of forager societies crystallized in the mid-1960s, dislodging an earlier, more rigdly structured view identified with RadcliffeBrown (1930), Service (1962) and others. That new and now prevailing model was based to a sipficant degree on ethnographic work conducted among ...
... The prevailing general model of forager societies crystallized in the mid-1960s, dislodging an earlier, more rigdly structured view identified with RadcliffeBrown (1930), Service (1962) and others. That new and now prevailing model was based to a sipficant degree on ethnographic work conducted among ...
as a PDF
... It is not only people that move across the globe, but also food. For example, Goody (1982, p. 36) notes that olive oil only became an indispensable ingredient in Provencal cooking at the end of the nineteenth-century; maize, which is now regarded as a staple food in many regions of Africa, is not in ...
... It is not only people that move across the globe, but also food. For example, Goody (1982, p. 36) notes that olive oil only became an indispensable ingredient in Provencal cooking at the end of the nineteenth-century; maize, which is now regarded as a staple food in many regions of Africa, is not in ...
Introduction - OSEA, The Open School of Ethnography and
... Costa Verde, close to the park). At the gated entrance, which is reminiscent of a European grotto, we pay our $ fee (payable with U.S. cash, Visa, MasterCard, or Costa Rican colones) and get our hands stamped, which allows us to come and go all day long. For about ten minutes and in sight of the po ...
... Costa Verde, close to the park). At the gated entrance, which is reminiscent of a European grotto, we pay our $ fee (payable with U.S. cash, Visa, MasterCard, or Costa Rican colones) and get our hands stamped, which allows us to come and go all day long. For about ten minutes and in sight of the po ...
Cultural Landscape - Society for California Archaeology
... two framing devices. The first is the objective framework, which is the presence of a person within a defined area. The second framework is one that has "imputed meaning" (1995:1). This author has called this the subjective framework and defines it as how individuals interact with, perceive, or unde ...
... two framing devices. The first is the objective framework, which is the presence of a person within a defined area. The second framework is one that has "imputed meaning" (1995:1). This author has called this the subjective framework and defines it as how individuals interact with, perceive, or unde ...
Slide - University of Minnesota Duluth
... • for example, given assumptions about Westerners, it may be easier to pose research problems emphasizing decision-making individuals . . . ...
... • for example, given assumptions about Westerners, it may be easier to pose research problems emphasizing decision-making individuals . . . ...
Archaeometry and materiality: materials
... Related to this division of labour are the philosophical positions of objectivism and subjectivism. An objectivist viewpoint proposes that the world consists of objects that exist external to the internal world of human subjects. The properties and relationships between these objects can be adequate ...
... Related to this division of labour are the philosophical positions of objectivism and subjectivism. An objectivist viewpoint proposes that the world consists of objects that exist external to the internal world of human subjects. The properties and relationships between these objects can be adequate ...
SCENT, SOUND AND SYNAESTHESIA
... colours and tastes. These sensations are meaningful to different senses now, but were indistinguishable from each other in the mythic world. Thus, the sound of the baby’s cry is viewed as having contained the Tukano ‘sense ratio’ (to borrow McLuhan’s 1962 terminology) in embryo. The division and dis ...
... colours and tastes. These sensations are meaningful to different senses now, but were indistinguishable from each other in the mythic world. Thus, the sound of the baby’s cry is viewed as having contained the Tukano ‘sense ratio’ (to borrow McLuhan’s 1962 terminology) in embryo. The division and dis ...
FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY: ISSUES FOR
... would be appropriate to feminist research. The most interesting contender for such a title has been standpoint theory or methodology. Standpoint theory is most closely identified with sociology, however, many who have discussed standpoint have argued that it can be seen as a methodological approach ...
... would be appropriate to feminist research. The most interesting contender for such a title has been standpoint theory or methodology. Standpoint theory is most closely identified with sociology, however, many who have discussed standpoint have argued that it can be seen as a methodological approach ...
Document
... Gellner's paper anticipated future developments in another way as well – by provoking a controversy with Needham and Barnes that raised issues which, when revisited by Schneider (1984) two decades later, had a major impact on the study of kinship relations as cultural systems. Although I am basing t ...
... Gellner's paper anticipated future developments in another way as well – by provoking a controversy with Needham and Barnes that raised issues which, when revisited by Schneider (1984) two decades later, had a major impact on the study of kinship relations as cultural systems. Although I am basing t ...
quantitative and qualitative - BU Blogs
... the same population and therefore potential members of the same sample. They are examples of a similar phenomenon. They are apples, rather than apples and oranges, to use the time-honored metaphor. Note that comparing apples and oranges is not prohibited; however, to do so we must adopt a higher-or ...
... the same population and therefore potential members of the same sample. They are examples of a similar phenomenon. They are apples, rather than apples and oranges, to use the time-honored metaphor. Note that comparing apples and oranges is not prohibited; however, to do so we must adopt a higher-or ...
Lecture I Introduction to Sociology
... (1748 -1836) in an unpublished manuscript. The term was reinvented by August Comte (1798 1857), a Frenchman. He is considered to be the father of sociology. Sociology emerged as an independent social science in the 19th century. At the beginning Comte used the term social physics for this discipline ...
... (1748 -1836) in an unpublished manuscript. The term was reinvented by August Comte (1798 1857), a Frenchman. He is considered to be the father of sociology. Sociology emerged as an independent social science in the 19th century. At the beginning Comte used the term social physics for this discipline ...