Creolization in Anthropological Theory and in Mauritius
... flows that does not take continuity and boundedness into account ends up undermining its own social theory: Every social scientist knows that cultural meaning is being reproduced and transmitted between generations and that natives do classify and create boundaries, often amidst powerful tendencies ...
... flows that does not take continuity and boundedness into account ends up undermining its own social theory: Every social scientist knows that cultural meaning is being reproduced and transmitted between generations and that natives do classify and create boundaries, often amidst powerful tendencies ...
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
... assumptions, shared with anthropology and social theory more broadly, concerning the nature of representation. Furthermore, in attempting to address some of the difficulties these assumptions about representation create, they tend to arrive at reductionistic solutions that flatten important distinction ...
... assumptions, shared with anthropology and social theory more broadly, concerning the nature of representation. Furthermore, in attempting to address some of the difficulties these assumptions about representation create, they tend to arrive at reductionistic solutions that flatten important distinction ...
Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology
... can also benefit from its progress. Nor should we overlook the profound differences between the phonemic chart of a language and the chart of kinship terms ...
... can also benefit from its progress. Nor should we overlook the profound differences between the phonemic chart of a language and the chart of kinship terms ...
Dynamic Inuit Social Strategies in Changing Environments: A Long
... dynamics of individual societies (e.g., Trigger, 1989; Barnard, 2004; Sassaman, 2004). Second, the various projects shared the position that social and cultural change cannot be understood fully through research into only one scale of social structure; rather, society is best seen as multi-scalar (e ...
... dynamics of individual societies (e.g., Trigger, 1989; Barnard, 2004; Sassaman, 2004). Second, the various projects shared the position that social and cultural change cannot be understood fully through research into only one scale of social structure; rather, society is best seen as multi-scalar (e ...
Anthropology at the Intersections between the local, the national and
... methodological concept. According to Boas, being of equal value, cultures should be studied from a neutral point of view. He rejected the evolutionary classiications of cultures and their attendant ethnocentric value judgements. However well intentioned, the popularization of cultural relativism, es ...
... methodological concept. According to Boas, being of equal value, cultures should be studied from a neutral point of view. He rejected the evolutionary classiications of cultures and their attendant ethnocentric value judgements. However well intentioned, the popularization of cultural relativism, es ...
Shamanism and Ritual Healing
... Ritual healing: Exorcism at Mir Datar Dargahand Mehndipur Balaji Temple The field of ritual healing of people afflicted by evil spirits presents another aspect of possession and trance where unlike shamanism; the host is not in voluntary control of the mounting spirits. This type of possession being ...
... Ritual healing: Exorcism at Mir Datar Dargahand Mehndipur Balaji Temple The field of ritual healing of people afflicted by evil spirits presents another aspect of possession and trance where unlike shamanism; the host is not in voluntary control of the mounting spirits. This type of possession being ...
GACE Behavioral Science Assessment Study Companion
... types of questions you will see on the test, your performance on these sample questions should not be viewed as a predictor of your performance on the actual test. Fundamentally, the most important component in ensuring your success is familiarity with the content that is covered on the assessment. ...
... types of questions you will see on the test, your performance on these sample questions should not be viewed as a predictor of your performance on the actual test. Fundamentally, the most important component in ensuring your success is familiarity with the content that is covered on the assessment. ...
If there is nothing beyond the organic…
... culture history”, as the anthropologist David Bidney (1965: 268) writes. In part this was certainly due to the success of Boas in giving culture history a secure foundation on which his students could build. It was certainly also the “personal inclination of the investigator”, a factor Boas (1904: 5 ...
... culture history”, as the anthropologist David Bidney (1965: 268) writes. In part this was certainly due to the success of Boas in giving culture history a secure foundation on which his students could build. It was certainly also the “personal inclination of the investigator”, a factor Boas (1904: 5 ...
The Political-Economy of Enchantment: Formations in the
... with fixed loudness patterns, limited choices of intonation, partial and limited vocabulary, and so on (op.cit.:13). In these senses political oratory effectively “freezes” the full range of possibilities inherent in unrestricted and open speech. All of this makes, we might add, rational and democr ...
... with fixed loudness patterns, limited choices of intonation, partial and limited vocabulary, and so on (op.cit.:13). In these senses political oratory effectively “freezes” the full range of possibilities inherent in unrestricted and open speech. All of this makes, we might add, rational and democr ...
Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
... This is a book of some sixty essays each of which deals with an important term in the toolbox of contemporary anthropological studies. The aim is to provide a concise repository of explanatory statements cover ing a number of the major concepts that professional anthropologists might use. ‘Explanati ...
... This is a book of some sixty essays each of which deals with an important term in the toolbox of contemporary anthropological studies. The aim is to provide a concise repository of explanatory statements cover ing a number of the major concepts that professional anthropologists might use. ‘Explanati ...
Lapita People: an introductory context for
... biological populations. Thus for Bougainville, variation in blood polymorphisms and anthropometric measurements attest to two distinctive biological groups of "Papuan" or non-Austronesian speakers, one in the north of the island and another in the south (Rhoads & Friedlaender, 1987: 153; Rhoads, 198 ...
... biological populations. Thus for Bougainville, variation in blood polymorphisms and anthropometric measurements attest to two distinctive biological groups of "Papuan" or non-Austronesian speakers, one in the north of the island and another in the south (Rhoads & Friedlaender, 1987: 153; Rhoads, 198 ...
The Woman in Pieces: Advertising and the
... it as a social fact, codified in the media as a behavior model, defining “what it is,” “what it can” or “what it should be” in the feminine world, as a cultural experience and a collective identity. Next, I approach the ideas of classification and value as a way of thinking about social identities. ...
... it as a social fact, codified in the media as a behavior model, defining “what it is,” “what it can” or “what it should be” in the feminine world, as a cultural experience and a collective identity. Next, I approach the ideas of classification and value as a way of thinking about social identities. ...
Moments of Freedom: Anthropologg and Popular Culture - E
... years that followed, I understood that the very language the Jamaa movement spoke, a variefy of Swahili, was not just there, the way languagesusually seem to be becausewe don't catch them at their birth. Shaba Swahili had been created not long before by people from many different corners of Zaire a ...
... years that followed, I understood that the very language the Jamaa movement spoke, a variefy of Swahili, was not just there, the way languagesusually seem to be becausewe don't catch them at their birth. Shaba Swahili had been created not long before by people from many different corners of Zaire a ...
Divination and Power - Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard
... sure that this sentiment is shared by others. This is not an idle point or one that applies only to archaeologists. Falkenhausen urges historians of religion to develop diachronic research further, and the same call can be made to anthropologists who deal with contemporary ritual practices and the m ...
... sure that this sentiment is shared by others. This is not an idle point or one that applies only to archaeologists. Falkenhausen urges historians of religion to develop diachronic research further, and the same call can be made to anthropologists who deal with contemporary ritual practices and the m ...
1 Social status and cultural consumption
... via TV, newspapers, magazines etc. – was in fact quite extensive across all strata of American society; and also that while the small minority who did effectively ‘insulate’ themselves from mass – or popular – culture tended to be of high status, they in no way constituted a dominant elite. They wer ...
... via TV, newspapers, magazines etc. – was in fact quite extensive across all strata of American society; and also that while the small minority who did effectively ‘insulate’ themselves from mass – or popular – culture tended to be of high status, they in no way constituted a dominant elite. They wer ...
Book review: citizenship, nationality and ethnicity. by T. K. Oommen
... of the nation-state. Two forces are paramount for him in this demise, the new media technology and migration. Cultural globalization for him is where both the imagination and movement can cross boundaries. They are the unsettling and exciting aspects of a modernity beyond the nationstate. As a genre ...
... of the nation-state. Two forces are paramount for him in this demise, the new media technology and migration. Cultural globalization for him is where both the imagination and movement can cross boundaries. They are the unsettling and exciting aspects of a modernity beyond the nationstate. As a genre ...
School of Philosophical, Anthropological & Film Studies
... German Expressionism; Soviet montage; Surrealism; Classical Hollywood; Italian Neorealism; or classical Japanese cinema. Consideration will be given to the development of international film industries and movements. We will also examine the process of writing and researching film history and the sta ...
... German Expressionism; Soviet montage; Surrealism; Classical Hollywood; Italian Neorealism; or classical Japanese cinema. Consideration will be given to the development of international film industries and movements. We will also examine the process of writing and researching film history and the sta ...
What information goes into Results?
... idea of absolute objectivity is now commonly rejected as "simply unattainable or, even if attainable, [as] undesirable.“ • 3) According to Lisa Staffen (1996:154), it has become fashionable to reject the idea of absolute objectivity altogether. C. Mulligan, Copyright 2010 All rights reserved ...
... idea of absolute objectivity is now commonly rejected as "simply unattainable or, even if attainable, [as] undesirable.“ • 3) According to Lisa Staffen (1996:154), it has become fashionable to reject the idea of absolute objectivity altogether. C. Mulligan, Copyright 2010 All rights reserved ...
POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: An Introduction
... Darwin’s influence dominated the development of cultural anthropology in the second half of the nineteenth century just as it dominated biology. Much of the evolutionary theory emerging from this period was as primitive as the societies it sought to make sense of: evolutionary schemas were rigid and ...
... Darwin’s influence dominated the development of cultural anthropology in the second half of the nineteenth century just as it dominated biology. Much of the evolutionary theory emerging from this period was as primitive as the societies it sought to make sense of: evolutionary schemas were rigid and ...
Political anthropology: an introduction
... Darwin’s influence dominated the development of cultural anthropology in the second half of the nineteenth century just as it dominated biology. Much of the evolutionary theory emerging from this period was as primitive as the societies it sought to make sense of: evolutionary schemas were rigid and ...
... Darwin’s influence dominated the development of cultural anthropology in the second half of the nineteenth century just as it dominated biology. Much of the evolutionary theory emerging from this period was as primitive as the societies it sought to make sense of: evolutionary schemas were rigid and ...
Florencia E. Mallon, Courage Tastes of Blood
... that Mallon has found thanks in part to the comments of her subjects. The documents have sometimes been presented to those same subjects on issues that the latter had raised earlier in conversations with the author. Interview subjects have not only primed questions raised by the author, but have sha ...
... that Mallon has found thanks in part to the comments of her subjects. The documents have sometimes been presented to those same subjects on issues that the latter had raised earlier in conversations with the author. Interview subjects have not only primed questions raised by the author, but have sha ...
W.E.B. DuBois and the First Scientific Study of Afro
... DuBois altogether. It was the struggle against racism and its peculiar manifestations in America that led him to do what no other American social scientist of his time - in direct contradiction to the principles of the science of society and culture - was either willing or able to adequately do: ser ...
... DuBois altogether. It was the struggle against racism and its peculiar manifestations in America that led him to do what no other American social scientist of his time - in direct contradiction to the principles of the science of society and culture - was either willing or able to adequately do: ser ...
Metaphors
... just that in Euro-North American culture, we might be surprised if someone who lived in poverty also lived in a penthouse, had a high status, and was happy. I’m saying that in a general way, these metaphors reflect our societal values). The Coherence of Key Metaphors is Due to the Orientations of ou ...
... just that in Euro-North American culture, we might be surprised if someone who lived in poverty also lived in a penthouse, had a high status, and was happy. I’m saying that in a general way, these metaphors reflect our societal values). The Coherence of Key Metaphors is Due to the Orientations of ou ...
Anthropology and the Study of Culture Miller Chapter 1
... All humans have culture! Anthropologically speaking, all humans throughout the world are all “cultured” ...
... All humans have culture! Anthropologically speaking, all humans throughout the world are all “cultured” ...
One hundred semesters of educational and scientific work
... Association for Physical Education and Sports he was also in charge of regular refresher courses for medics of all medical faculties in the country, including Slovakia. These courses consisted in annual three-day topic-directed workshops for the most active medics, where lectures on the latest achie ...
... Association for Physical Education and Sports he was also in charge of regular refresher courses for medics of all medical faculties in the country, including Slovakia. These courses consisted in annual three-day topic-directed workshops for the most active medics, where lectures on the latest achie ...