Agency between humanism and posthumanism
... early work, Latour never argued that because scientific facts were constructed that they were necessarily false. He simply insisted that the objects science investigates do not speak for themselves. The facts that they are held to establish must be made through the efforts of the scientists themselv ...
... early work, Latour never argued that because scientific facts were constructed that they were necessarily false. He simply insisted that the objects science investigates do not speak for themselves. The facts that they are held to establish must be made through the efforts of the scientists themselv ...
the cultural continuum: a theory of intersystems
... Creole metaphor of culture places primary emphasis on internal variation and diachrony or change within the cultural system. The cultural intersystem contains no uniform rules or invariant properties, but derives its systematic quality from a set of transformations which cover the variability of the ...
... Creole metaphor of culture places primary emphasis on internal variation and diachrony or change within the cultural system. The cultural intersystem contains no uniform rules or invariant properties, but derives its systematic quality from a set of transformations which cover the variability of the ...
Cultures under Siege - Assets
... periods of cross-fertilization between the disciplines of anthropology and psychoanalysis. There have also been moments of considerable distancing, mutual neglect, and basic distrust. We hope to demonstrate how several path-breaking concepts such as those emerging from studies of the Holocaust can b ...
... periods of cross-fertilization between the disciplines of anthropology and psychoanalysis. There have also been moments of considerable distancing, mutual neglect, and basic distrust. We hope to demonstrate how several path-breaking concepts such as those emerging from studies of the Holocaust can b ...
Ontology is just another word for culture. Proposing the motion
... common world is one of irreducible heterogeneity, not of homogeneous and totalitarian certainty. It offers a therapeutic mobility, as against any single political, moral, or religious stasis. At the end of this slide I offer the phrase ‘the culture project’, and now I’m going to go over to my main a ...
... common world is one of irreducible heterogeneity, not of homogeneous and totalitarian certainty. It offers a therapeutic mobility, as against any single political, moral, or religious stasis. At the end of this slide I offer the phrase ‘the culture project’, and now I’m going to go over to my main a ...
Theory of `Revitalization Movement` by Anthony F
... describe how cultures change themselves. A revitalization movement is a "deliberate, organized, conscious effort by members of a group to create a new culture," and Wallace describes at length the processes by which a revitalization movement takes place. Wallace derived his theory from studies of so ...
... describe how cultures change themselves. A revitalization movement is a "deliberate, organized, conscious effort by members of a group to create a new culture," and Wallace describes at length the processes by which a revitalization movement takes place. Wallace derived his theory from studies of so ...
CULTURAL THEORY AND HISTORY: THEORETICAL ISSUES
... There are a few serious obstacles that disallow to continue today the traditional, historical antipathy for theory – some of them coming from history itself, many recognized during the last few decades in the general field of the humanities. It was decades ago, when Marc Bloch,3 analyzing the method ...
... There are a few serious obstacles that disallow to continue today the traditional, historical antipathy for theory – some of them coming from history itself, many recognized during the last few decades in the general field of the humanities. It was decades ago, when Marc Bloch,3 analyzing the method ...
``Horizontal`` and ``vertical`` skewing: similar objectives, two - Hal-SHS
... advanced the lack of cross-cousin terminology when this does not seem to be the case? One must concede that those anthropologists who have advocated the so-called Aluridja “aberration” based their analysis predominantly on very few and questionable ethnographic records: Adolphus P. Elkin’s Kinship ...
... advanced the lack of cross-cousin terminology when this does not seem to be the case? One must concede that those anthropologists who have advocated the so-called Aluridja “aberration” based their analysis predominantly on very few and questionable ethnographic records: Adolphus P. Elkin’s Kinship ...
Miller - Chapter 2
... Refers to how an anthropologist keeps track of all the information collected in the field and how it is recorded for future analysis Anthropologists take many field notes! Taking notes is still the trademark method of recording data for a cultural anthropologist May include daily logs, perso ...
... Refers to how an anthropologist keeps track of all the information collected in the field and how it is recorded for future analysis Anthropologists take many field notes! Taking notes is still the trademark method of recording data for a cultural anthropologist May include daily logs, perso ...
Cross-Cultural Research
... powerful than the California School’s. Indeed, Driver’s Indians of NorthAmerica (1961) remains a magnificent example of the utility of this technique for defining patterns of culture. Murdock’s method of ethnology, which McNett (1979, pp. 42-45) called the &dquo;Yale School,&dquo; is completely diff ...
... powerful than the California School’s. Indeed, Driver’s Indians of NorthAmerica (1961) remains a magnificent example of the utility of this technique for defining patterns of culture. Murdock’s method of ethnology, which McNett (1979, pp. 42-45) called the &dquo;Yale School,&dquo; is completely diff ...
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... ANTHROPOLOGY (ANTH) This is a list of the Anthropology (ANTH) courses available at KPU. For information about transfer of credit amongst institutions in B.C. and to see how individual courses transfer, go to the BC Transfer Guide bctransferguide.ca ANTH 1100 3 Credits Social & Cultural Anthropology ...
... ANTHROPOLOGY (ANTH) This is a list of the Anthropology (ANTH) courses available at KPU. For information about transfer of credit amongst institutions in B.C. and to see how individual courses transfer, go to the BC Transfer Guide bctransferguide.ca ANTH 1100 3 Credits Social & Cultural Anthropology ...
Research Review Cultural Anthropology 2007-2012
... up the anthropology of development, and leading to the concept of culture being increasingly embraced outside anthropology. Even so, development sociology, and even more clearly development studies, usually approach problems from a structural perspective that is broader than that of cultural anthrop ...
... up the anthropology of development, and leading to the concept of culture being increasingly embraced outside anthropology. Even so, development sociology, and even more clearly development studies, usually approach problems from a structural perspective that is broader than that of cultural anthrop ...
Anthropology - Humboldt State University
... Topics include biogeography; rainforest structure; biodiversity; development; biotic interactions; climate change; fragmentation. [Prereq: (ANTH 110 or ANTH 303) and (BIOL 104 or BIOL 105), or IA.] ...
... Topics include biogeography; rainforest structure; biodiversity; development; biotic interactions; climate change; fragmentation. [Prereq: (ANTH 110 or ANTH 303) and (BIOL 104 or BIOL 105), or IA.] ...
Anthropology of Magic - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... of anthropology has expanded to the study of modern, industrial and post-industrial cultures. Anthropologists realized that to engage in the study of “humans” they needed to study humans in all the various settings that humans live. Below are some of the key issues, dynamics and theoretical orientat ...
... of anthropology has expanded to the study of modern, industrial and post-industrial cultures. Anthropologists realized that to engage in the study of “humans” they needed to study humans in all the various settings that humans live. Below are some of the key issues, dynamics and theoretical orientat ...
... Piano (1993), Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Russian Ark (2002), and the subsequent emergence of new critical paradigms around the so-called 'heritage cinemas' have pushed contemporary period drama to the centre stage of the debates about cultural identity and the representation of the national past ...
Document
... relativists use different aspects to justify their position on the theory and argument. They use a combination of conceptual, empirical, and normative considerations in order to explain their support for Cultural Relativism. A couple of claims that cultural relativists use as justification state th ...
... relativists use different aspects to justify their position on the theory and argument. They use a combination of conceptual, empirical, and normative considerations in order to explain their support for Cultural Relativism. A couple of claims that cultural relativists use as justification state th ...
Cultural Anthropology 102 - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... 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 have a fellow student to get notes from). Attendance: Success in this class (success= passing this class with a C or better) will require that you at ...
... 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 have a fellow student to get notes from). Attendance: Success in this class (success= passing this class with a C or better) will require that you at ...
Print this article - Forum: Qualitative Social Research
... its value system in which I had been enculturated. [4] Another significant aspect of auto-interviewing is that it orginated in historical research through oral history. As a process method, it was then used for the construction of individual history. This autobiographical paper followed that methodo ...
... its value system in which I had been enculturated. [4] Another significant aspect of auto-interviewing is that it orginated in historical research through oral history. As a process method, it was then used for the construction of individual history. This autobiographical paper followed that methodo ...
life and death on the nile - University Press of Florida
... complexities of human culture, adaptation, and evolution. All anthropology has been built on the foundation laid by the early ethnographers. The wonder of a great ethnography is its capacity to give us an intimate understanding of other people—their hopes and dreams, the values and beliefs that gu ...
... complexities of human culture, adaptation, and evolution. All anthropology has been built on the foundation laid by the early ethnographers. The wonder of a great ethnography is its capacity to give us an intimate understanding of other people—their hopes and dreams, the values and beliefs that gu ...
Contraculture and Subculture
... scribe the normative qualities of an occupa- 143.) These authors then refer to class, race, occution, to contrast the value systems of social pation, residence, and region. After referring to classes, or to emphasize the controllingpower sub-group values and language, Kimball Young and Raymond W. Ma ...
... scribe the normative qualities of an occupa- 143.) These authors then refer to class, race, occution, to contrast the value systems of social pation, residence, and region. After referring to classes, or to emphasize the controllingpower sub-group values and language, Kimball Young and Raymond W. Ma ...
h. Macleod 74-91
... they have served almost as laboratories, bound and observable, for medical experiments as well as for isolating sectors of society. They have also been seen as repositories and examples of cultural survivals in terms of practices, arts, social organisation or systems of belief. Islands have been see ...
... they have served almost as laboratories, bound and observable, for medical experiments as well as for isolating sectors of society. They have also been seen as repositories and examples of cultural survivals in terms of practices, arts, social organisation or systems of belief. Islands have been see ...
Internship Report: The Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State
... and methods for estimation of sex and ancestry for individuals considered Hispanic. Spradley (2008) discusses the problems in metric identification of Hispanic skeletons. Explaining that as a group, there is little sexual dimorphism between males and females. The research Dr. Spradley is currently c ...
... and methods for estimation of sex and ancestry for individuals considered Hispanic. Spradley (2008) discusses the problems in metric identification of Hispanic skeletons. Explaining that as a group, there is little sexual dimorphism between males and females. The research Dr. Spradley is currently c ...
Full article
... idea of circulation has continued to receive relatively limited analytic attention. The concern with the typology of transactions has prompted defining the performative locus of circulation in terms of specific stages along such circuits, at the moment when objects changed hands, during which status ...
... idea of circulation has continued to receive relatively limited analytic attention. The concern with the typology of transactions has prompted defining the performative locus of circulation in terms of specific stages along such circuits, at the moment when objects changed hands, during which status ...
Working Papers
... 4). The position of the ethnographer is ‘ambiguous’: ‘on the one hand one tries to empathetically get at the points of view of numerous people – and at the same time one attempts to put these together into some kind of overall pattern’ (Hirsch and Gellner 2002, 9). It is this ambiguity that a reflex ...
... 4). The position of the ethnographer is ‘ambiguous’: ‘on the one hand one tries to empathetically get at the points of view of numerous people – and at the same time one attempts to put these together into some kind of overall pattern’ (Hirsch and Gellner 2002, 9). It is this ambiguity that a reflex ...
Open Access - Lund University Publications
... I will try to analyse this experience as a cultural phenomenon. I will use stories of two anthropologists who made their journeys in two different moments of the twentieth century. The first one, and the one who is going to be a central figure of this thesis, is Bronisław Malinowski, the author and ...
... I will try to analyse this experience as a cultural phenomenon. I will use stories of two anthropologists who made their journeys in two different moments of the twentieth century. The first one, and the one who is going to be a central figure of this thesis, is Bronisław Malinowski, the author and ...
