Primitivism, Transgression, and other Myths: The Philosophical Anthropology of Georges Bataille
... imagined by later generations of French philosophers who, through their own contributions to a discourse of ‘philosophical anthropology,’ are being taking seriously by contemporary ethnographers working in a range of traditions. But to sort out the resounding contributions of Bataille may involve im ...
... imagined by later generations of French philosophers who, through their own contributions to a discourse of ‘philosophical anthropology,’ are being taking seriously by contemporary ethnographers working in a range of traditions. But to sort out the resounding contributions of Bataille may involve im ...
Ethnology West Indies 51_61
... another. The territories or units receiving the most anthropological attention were, in order: the Caribbean in general, Trinidad, and French Guiana. For the reader's convenience, I list below, in several broad categories, those items annotated which deal with the most representative subjects or ori ...
... another. The territories or units receiving the most anthropological attention were, in order: the Caribbean in general, Trinidad, and French Guiana. For the reader's convenience, I list below, in several broad categories, those items annotated which deal with the most representative subjects or ori ...
Innovation Without the Word
... literature of the 20th century. However, as it would be a mistake to study an object or concept (innovation) in construction only through those who have used its (yet-to-come) name (as bibliometric studies that select their sample based on words do), it would also be a mistake if it is forgotten tha ...
... literature of the 20th century. However, as it would be a mistake to study an object or concept (innovation) in construction only through those who have used its (yet-to-come) name (as bibliometric studies that select their sample based on words do), it would also be a mistake if it is forgotten tha ...
Assembling blog affordances - Media Anthropology Network
... suggests. To focus only on what people do with the technology seems to be forgetting the other half of the equation. For example, when Brerentsen & Trettvik point to the affordances of objects external to the environment, such as tools, which are ‘designed for use in specific forms of societal praxi ...
... suggests. To focus only on what people do with the technology seems to be forgetting the other half of the equation. For example, when Brerentsen & Trettvik point to the affordances of objects external to the environment, such as tools, which are ‘designed for use in specific forms of societal praxi ...
Anthropology and Source Criticism
... 2012 & 2013). For one unfamiliar with the study of cannibalism, it may seem surprising that such a wide scientific approach to the theme appears nearly unheard of in modern anthropology. Such is indeed the paradoxical status of cannibalism in our time: there is a striking contrast between, on the on ...
... 2012 & 2013). For one unfamiliar with the study of cannibalism, it may seem surprising that such a wide scientific approach to the theme appears nearly unheard of in modern anthropology. Such is indeed the paradoxical status of cannibalism in our time: there is a striking contrast between, on the on ...
Cultural Relativism
... also grateful to Marcus George Singer, whose moral relativism seminar (in 1983) kindled my interest in this subject. Finally, I’m grateful to my students in P326, Ethical Theory, for useful questions and discussions. ...
... also grateful to Marcus George Singer, whose moral relativism seminar (in 1983) kindled my interest in this subject. Finally, I’m grateful to my students in P326, Ethical Theory, for useful questions and discussions. ...
Eric Wolf: The Crosser of Boundaries. - Irene Portis
... especially in the area of human rights..... It means that you can be a citizen based on where you live rather than on where you came from .... Cultural relativism, in my view, is a worthless concept when ...
... especially in the area of human rights..... It means that you can be a citizen based on where you live rather than on where you came from .... Cultural relativism, in my view, is a worthless concept when ...
Arapesh Warfare: Reo Fortune`s Veiled Critique of
... that they were inappropriately influenced by personal and situational factors (see, e.g., Romanucci-Ross 1985 on Manus; Pollmann 1990 on Bali), the most highly publicized was Derek Freeman’s (1983, 1999) rejection of her portrayal of the sexual habits of adolescent girls in Coming of Age in Samoa (M ...
... that they were inappropriately influenced by personal and situational factors (see, e.g., Romanucci-Ross 1985 on Manus; Pollmann 1990 on Bali), the most highly publicized was Derek Freeman’s (1983, 1999) rejection of her portrayal of the sexual habits of adolescent girls in Coming of Age in Samoa (M ...
(2009) 223-233 PAUL G. HIEBERT`S LEGACY OF WORLDVIEW A
... this orientation, it is not surprising that (as Hiebert notes) most of his research has focused on the cognitive dimension of cultures and worldviews, and far less on the affective ones (2008,85). Hiebert's approach to analyzing and understanding worldview is mapped out in Appendix A of Transforming ...
... this orientation, it is not surprising that (as Hiebert notes) most of his research has focused on the cognitive dimension of cultures and worldviews, and far less on the affective ones (2008,85). Hiebert's approach to analyzing and understanding worldview is mapped out in Appendix A of Transforming ...
Leia mais... - Mariza Peirano
... experience are ali around us, but our imaginations are basically European. Antonio Candido once put this problem directly but ironically: "For us Brazilians, univeralism is already European." His own solution was to recognize that our link to Europe (or the United States) was not an option but almos ...
... experience are ali around us, but our imaginations are basically European. Antonio Candido once put this problem directly but ironically: "For us Brazilians, univeralism is already European." His own solution was to recognize that our link to Europe (or the United States) was not an option but almos ...
The Uses and Meanings of Liminality
... become an instant classic. And yet, this simply did not happen. Despite rather positive reviews in British and American Journals, the framework proposed by van Gennep was neglected in subsequent scholarship. In Durkheim’s most important anthropological work, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (f ...
... become an instant classic. And yet, this simply did not happen. Despite rather positive reviews in British and American Journals, the framework proposed by van Gennep was neglected in subsequent scholarship. In Durkheim’s most important anthropological work, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (f ...
Sylvanus Griswold Morley
... where he visited a number of major Mayan sites, including Chichén Itzá, and then proceeded to Oaxaca, where he visited the ruins at Mitla and Monte Albán. Present-day visitors to many of these sites travel along modern and well-marked highways, and it is sometimes difficult to appreciate the nature ...
... where he visited a number of major Mayan sites, including Chichén Itzá, and then proceeded to Oaxaca, where he visited the ruins at Mitla and Monte Albán. Present-day visitors to many of these sites travel along modern and well-marked highways, and it is sometimes difficult to appreciate the nature ...
Remaking Resistance: Cultural Meaning and Activism in the SOA
... change, and how do they imagine their own capacity to change it, their agency? How do systems of cultural meaning—that is, “culturally constructed and historically specific guides, frames, or models of and for human feeling, intention, and action” (Ortner 1997:136)— influence the practices intended ...
... change, and how do they imagine their own capacity to change it, their agency? How do systems of cultural meaning—that is, “culturally constructed and historically specific guides, frames, or models of and for human feeling, intention, and action” (Ortner 1997:136)— influence the practices intended ...
Empathie
... proximity generated by empathy remains unanswered. Does it produce better understanding of the illness and a greater ability of cure it? While medical empathy helps to establish a relationship of trust, there is no doubt that it can also be productive. For instance, it may allow the doctor to collec ...
... proximity generated by empathy remains unanswered. Does it produce better understanding of the illness and a greater ability of cure it? While medical empathy helps to establish a relationship of trust, there is no doubt that it can also be productive. For instance, it may allow the doctor to collec ...
He may be lying but what he says is
... Castanda's books are fiction, he does nor see this as detracting from their value: "The dose parallels berween whar Castaneda describes and other areas of shanlanic experience show thar he is presenting genuine anthropological marerial ... rhe books bring rogether and commenr upon a wide range of ge ...
... Castanda's books are fiction, he does nor see this as detracting from their value: "The dose parallels berween whar Castaneda describes and other areas of shanlanic experience show thar he is presenting genuine anthropological marerial ... rhe books bring rogether and commenr upon a wide range of ge ...
Journal of Classical Sociology
... contributions that may be pointed to by using the rubrics of contemporary subdisciplines of sociology such as the sociology of emotions, social self-construction, multiculturalism, world society and civilizational processes are rooted in an innovative approach to culture understood as dynamic system ...
... contributions that may be pointed to by using the rubrics of contemporary subdisciplines of sociology such as the sociology of emotions, social self-construction, multiculturalism, world society and civilizational processes are rooted in an innovative approach to culture understood as dynamic system ...
Resenha A gringo studies Umbanda
... writing; emphasis on the contingency and flexibility of fieldwork; erosion of the boundary between informant and ethnographer; recognition of the multivocality of cultural worlds; emphasis on social action as the site where meaning is constructed; and, of course, a view of ethnography as subjective ...
... writing; emphasis on the contingency and flexibility of fieldwork; erosion of the boundary between informant and ethnographer; recognition of the multivocality of cultural worlds; emphasis on social action as the site where meaning is constructed; and, of course, a view of ethnography as subjective ...
Anthropological perspectives of infanticide
... ABSTRACT: Infanticidal behavior has been very common through-out human history. It is suggested that progenicidal behavior, whether consciously or unconsciously practiced, be defined and considered within a cultural, ecological and historical matrix in anthropological studies. Sociobiological and ma ...
... ABSTRACT: Infanticidal behavior has been very common through-out human history. It is suggested that progenicidal behavior, whether consciously or unconsciously practiced, be defined and considered within a cultural, ecological and historical matrix in anthropological studies. Sociobiological and ma ...
New Social Connections: Sociology`s Subjects
... in here you know; it’s almost as bad as being out there. By and large, it’s much more fun. This book addresses, or at least throws up, some of the substantive questions of sociology and its place in the world. It sets out to explore the reconfiguration and fragmentation of sociological thought and a ...
... in here you know; it’s almost as bad as being out there. By and large, it’s much more fun. This book addresses, or at least throws up, some of the substantive questions of sociology and its place in the world. It sets out to explore the reconfiguration and fragmentation of sociological thought and a ...
GENDER, CULTURE CHANGE, AND FERTILITY DECLINE IN HONDURAS: AN
... Madrid for her facilitation of my research and her friendship while my wife and I grew accustomed to living in a strange environment. I would also like to thank Amanda’s family, Doris Clark, Celia Lett, and all the other members of PREDISAN for their generous support and friendship. I would like to ...
... Madrid for her facilitation of my research and her friendship while my wife and I grew accustomed to living in a strange environment. I would also like to thank Amanda’s family, Doris Clark, Celia Lett, and all the other members of PREDISAN for their generous support and friendship. I would like to ...
Pierre Bourdieu as a Post-cultural Theorist
... wide-ranging concept of culture, other analysts such as Broady (1991) suggests that Bourdieu’s concept of culture went from being vague and overly general (in the sense inherited from mid-20th century Franco-American anthropology) to being more specific and precise, essentially moving back to the cl ...
... wide-ranging concept of culture, other analysts such as Broady (1991) suggests that Bourdieu’s concept of culture went from being vague and overly general (in the sense inherited from mid-20th century Franco-American anthropology) to being more specific and precise, essentially moving back to the cl ...
curriculum vitae - Anthropology, UC Berkeley
... Viewing Serbian Prehistoric International Relationships Via Obsidian Source Characterization Studies. Peter N. Kujachich Endowment in Serbian and Montenegrin Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Mentoring Marina Milić. 2006-2007. ...
... Viewing Serbian Prehistoric International Relationships Via Obsidian Source Characterization Studies. Peter N. Kujachich Endowment in Serbian and Montenegrin Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Mentoring Marina Milić. 2006-2007. ...
Ethnology: West Indies. - Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study
... Jamaica, Martinique, Nevis, Tobago. The remaining publications deal with the Caribbean in either regional or sub-regional terms. During this biennium, the territories or units receiving the most attention were, in order: the Caribbean in general, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica. As usual, ...
... Jamaica, Martinique, Nevis, Tobago. The remaining publications deal with the Caribbean in either regional or sub-regional terms. During this biennium, the territories or units receiving the most attention were, in order: the Caribbean in general, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica. As usual, ...
Dancing the Black Atlantic: Katherine Dunham`s
... stance that blacks had lost all African traits. Further, her need to rectify how black Americans had lacked “contact with those things which were racially his” was partially verified, as we shall see, in how Haitians viewed her as part of the “lost tribe of North America.” Hence, Dunham’s efforts in ...
... stance that blacks had lost all African traits. Further, her need to rectify how black Americans had lacked “contact with those things which were racially his” was partially verified, as we shall see, in how Haitians viewed her as part of the “lost tribe of North America.” Hence, Dunham’s efforts in ...
Caste(s): Through the Archetypal
... deserves mention. In the first volume of the Sociological Bulletin in 1952 M.N. Srinivas (1916– 1999) wrote an article on ‘Social Anthropology and Sociology’ where he enthusiastically commented that the experience of intensive fieldwork has chiefly made social anthropology a respected and respectabl ...
... deserves mention. In the first volume of the Sociological Bulletin in 1952 M.N. Srinivas (1916– 1999) wrote an article on ‘Social Anthropology and Sociology’ where he enthusiastically commented that the experience of intensive fieldwork has chiefly made social anthropology a respected and respectabl ...