mezcal and mexicanness: the symbolic and social
... ‘autochthonous’ by most villagers and as such they constitute a strong basis for collective identity and solidarity. Their legitimacy stems from the perception that usos y costumbres embrace native practices and values inherited from the past generations. “Here custom is law (Aquí la costumbre es la ...
... ‘autochthonous’ by most villagers and as such they constitute a strong basis for collective identity and solidarity. Their legitimacy stems from the perception that usos y costumbres embrace native practices and values inherited from the past generations. “Here custom is law (Aquí la costumbre es la ...
School of Philosophical & Anthropological ... Head of School Degree Programmes
... Joint Honours Degree: At least 90 credits from PY3001 - PY3803, including PY3801 and at least 30 credits from PY3001 - PY3007 and at least 30 credits from PY3401 - PY3409 Logic & Philosophy of Science (for those entering Honours in 2000): Joint Honours Degree: At least 90 credits from PY3001 - ...
... Joint Honours Degree: At least 90 credits from PY3001 - PY3803, including PY3801 and at least 30 credits from PY3001 - PY3007 and at least 30 credits from PY3401 - PY3409 Logic & Philosophy of Science (for those entering Honours in 2000): Joint Honours Degree: At least 90 credits from PY3001 - ...
Erving Goffman and the Gestural Dynamics of Modern Selfhood
... such a conception to the idea that gestures, of the body, are by definition natural, not cultural. Farnell was careful to announce that gesture and movement must not be considered natural; rather, they are ‘socially acquired and laden with cultural significance’, and, as such, they vary across space ...
... such a conception to the idea that gestures, of the body, are by definition natural, not cultural. Farnell was careful to announce that gesture and movement must not be considered natural; rather, they are ‘socially acquired and laden with cultural significance’, and, as such, they vary across space ...
Holbraad, Can the Thing Speak? - Open Anthropology Cooperative
... as opposed to emancipating them ‘as such’ – a pretty tricky distinction, as we shall see, and subject to all sorts of caveats. Emancipation as the entanglement of persons and things In line with Fowles’s analogy with writings in post-colonialism, the past twenty years’ or so literature on the rise ...
... as opposed to emancipating them ‘as such’ – a pretty tricky distinction, as we shall see, and subject to all sorts of caveats. Emancipation as the entanglement of persons and things In line with Fowles’s analogy with writings in post-colonialism, the past twenty years’ or so literature on the rise ...
What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee : Apes, People, and Their
... The general estimate, which there is no good reason to doubt at present, is that about seven million years ago Homo, Pan, and Gorilla all comprised a single species. That species lived in Africa (which is, after all, where its descendants live), and probably resembled the chimpanzee. One group evolv ...
... The general estimate, which there is no good reason to doubt at present, is that about seven million years ago Homo, Pan, and Gorilla all comprised a single species. That species lived in Africa (which is, after all, where its descendants live), and probably resembled the chimpanzee. One group evolv ...
Foregone Conclusions?
... (1899:131) put it, “Everywhere the priority of the Melanesians is manifest; their origins are lost in the depths of an unfathomable past.” It was further assumed that the Polynesians had arrived sometime early in the Christian era (e.g., Buck 1938, Marett 1912, Keesing 1941). Nonetheless, before Wor ...
... (1899:131) put it, “Everywhere the priority of the Melanesians is manifest; their origins are lost in the depths of an unfathomable past.” It was further assumed that the Polynesians had arrived sometime early in the Christian era (e.g., Buck 1938, Marett 1912, Keesing 1941). Nonetheless, before Wor ...
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
... The minor in the indigenous peoples of the Americas (that is, North, Central and South American and the Caribbean region) requires a minimum of 24 s.h. and is housed within the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences. Courses are drawn from three disciplines and no more than 12 s.h. can be taken ...
... The minor in the indigenous peoples of the Americas (that is, North, Central and South American and the Caribbean region) requires a minimum of 24 s.h. and is housed within the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences. Courses are drawn from three disciplines and no more than 12 s.h. can be taken ...
Narrative and Experience: Telling Stories of Illness
... life and meaning making. Good (1994:88-115), for example, explores the complex semiotic relations of a young woman's complaint of rectal bleeding. Based in her Jehovah's Witness belief system she symbolically opposes "blood as the essence of life" and "blood as filthy" (for a second example see Litt ...
... life and meaning making. Good (1994:88-115), for example, explores the complex semiotic relations of a young woman's complaint of rectal bleeding. Based in her Jehovah's Witness belief system she symbolically opposes "blood as the essence of life" and "blood as filthy" (for a second example see Litt ...
The Robust Australopithecines: Evidence for the genus Paranthropus
... Of great debate among anthropologists over the past few decades is the identity of the "robust" australopithecines and if this group warrants a separate genus name, Paranthropus, to distinguish them from the "gracile" australopithecines. The first robust australopithecine to be discovered was found ...
... Of great debate among anthropologists over the past few decades is the identity of the "robust" australopithecines and if this group warrants a separate genus name, Paranthropus, to distinguish them from the "gracile" australopithecines. The first robust australopithecine to be discovered was found ...
School of Philosophical & Anthropological ... Head of School Degree Programmes
... Three lectures and one seminar each week and fortnightly tutorials. ...
... Three lectures and one seminar each week and fortnightly tutorials. ...
SAS Newsletter The Southern Anthropological
... Vietnamese ethnic group hailing from what is now north and north-central Vietnam, Hoi An was an agricultural and fishing village. It eventually also began to specialize in handicrafts for trade with other villages, which ultimately led to foreign trade. Hoi An was historically the site of a deep-wat ...
... Vietnamese ethnic group hailing from what is now north and north-central Vietnam, Hoi An was an agricultural and fishing village. It eventually also began to specialize in handicrafts for trade with other villages, which ultimately led to foreign trade. Hoi An was historically the site of a deep-wat ...
Toward a Critical Anthropology of Security
... While matters of security have appeared as paramount themes in a post-9/11 world, anthropology has not developed a critical comparative ethnography of security and its contemporary problematics. In this article I call for the emergence of a critical “security anthropology,” one that recognizes the s ...
... While matters of security have appeared as paramount themes in a post-9/11 world, anthropology has not developed a critical comparative ethnography of security and its contemporary problematics. In this article I call for the emergence of a critical “security anthropology,” one that recognizes the s ...
Can Tocqueville Karaoke? Global Contrasts of
... participation and local development. Many of these foundational points also hold in the rest of the volume, which make possible building a new framework that can span and join at least the three subfields of citizen participation: innovation in economic development, and arts and cultural activities ...
... participation and local development. Many of these foundational points also hold in the rest of the volume, which make possible building a new framework that can span and join at least the three subfields of citizen participation: innovation in economic development, and arts and cultural activities ...
Dancing the Black Atlantic: Katherine Dunham`s
... the ‘natural endowment’ view that was a modification of the other two stereotypes that developed in the 1930s and 1940s.”5 Dunham’s choice of the Caribbean as milieux de mémoire was crucial to her conscious decision to find and articulate the fundamental nature of African-derived dances remaining in ...
... the ‘natural endowment’ view that was a modification of the other two stereotypes that developed in the 1930s and 1940s.”5 Dunham’s choice of the Caribbean as milieux de mémoire was crucial to her conscious decision to find and articulate the fundamental nature of African-derived dances remaining in ...
Who are the Kuchi? Nomad self
... to group names, but also to categories of identity, such as the Afghan term qawm: family, tribe, descent group, people like us. In any context, identities, ethnic and other, are flexible, negotiable, multiple, and always situational. There are ‘primary, though not primordial’ (Jenkins 1997: 47) iden ...
... to group names, but also to categories of identity, such as the Afghan term qawm: family, tribe, descent group, people like us. In any context, identities, ethnic and other, are flexible, negotiable, multiple, and always situational. There are ‘primary, though not primordial’ (Jenkins 1997: 47) iden ...
PDF of this page - University of Illinois at Urbana
... offering engagingly written narratives of actual lives lived. The texts may be a combination of memoirs written by Africans (about their childhood experiences growing up in various regions of Africa) and by non-African scholars and other authors (including but not limited to anthropologists) who hav ...
... offering engagingly written narratives of actual lives lived. The texts may be a combination of memoirs written by Africans (about their childhood experiences growing up in various regions of Africa) and by non-African scholars and other authors (including but not limited to anthropologists) who hav ...
Workshop on Ethnofiction
... informants that would be difficult to achieve for a large film team that might have to limit their shooting to couple of weeks due to the high costs. For the ethnographic filmmaker losses in technical quality are compensated with more opportunities to gain an unforced access to the daily lives of th ...
... informants that would be difficult to achieve for a large film team that might have to limit their shooting to couple of weeks due to the high costs. For the ethnographic filmmaker losses in technical quality are compensated with more opportunities to gain an unforced access to the daily lives of th ...
NGOintrosteve15nov15 - Lund University Publications
... organs or international NGOs, started their own consulting companies, or entered academia (invariably Central European University or The New School. Like many of the authors in this book, I have watched NGOs develop as organizations, but also made close relationships, even friendships, with individu ...
... organs or international NGOs, started their own consulting companies, or entered academia (invariably Central European University or The New School. Like many of the authors in this book, I have watched NGOs develop as organizations, but also made close relationships, even friendships, with individu ...
Post-Processual Archaeology and After
... Theterm“post-processual”tellsyouonlythatthis archaeology came after processual. Implied is a coherent program, approach, method, body of theory. But post-processual archaeology cannot be said to have any of these. Processual archaeology is still a dominant orthodoxy in the largest community of archa ...
... Theterm“post-processual”tellsyouonlythatthis archaeology came after processual. Implied is a coherent program, approach, method, body of theory. But post-processual archaeology cannot be said to have any of these. Processual archaeology is still a dominant orthodoxy in the largest community of archa ...
Opening Archaeology Repatriation`s Impact on Contemporary
... corresponding intellectual biases of the time. In addition, anthropology’s short history as a discipline is woven into the larger half millennium of Euro-American expansion and domination of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas and into the long-term patterns of violence and injustice that onl ...
... corresponding intellectual biases of the time. In addition, anthropology’s short history as a discipline is woven into the larger half millennium of Euro-American expansion and domination of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas and into the long-term patterns of violence and injustice that onl ...
Constituted through Conflict: Images of Community (and
... might refer to as “romantic.” The search for such a community easily leads to social fragmentation or violence as people strive for associations that are uniform and cohesive. So the national tendency to spawn separatist movements, or alternatively to construct unity through cultural homogenization ...
... might refer to as “romantic.” The search for such a community easily leads to social fragmentation or violence as people strive for associations that are uniform and cohesive. So the national tendency to spawn separatist movements, or alternatively to construct unity through cultural homogenization ...
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 ...
(in)communicability of pain
... How do we attend to both the individual and social aspects of pain? João Biehl’s technique of writing an ethnography of one person offers one useful model in which this can be done. In Vita, Biehl is interested not just in Catarina per se, but in how Catarina can also function as a kind of heuristic ...
... How do we attend to both the individual and social aspects of pain? João Biehl’s technique of writing an ethnography of one person offers one useful model in which this can be done. In Vita, Biehl is interested not just in Catarina per se, but in how Catarina can also function as a kind of heuristic ...
Roger Curtis Green - National Academy of Sciences
... lilikoi‘i seeds. I’ll never forget Roger’s face at the end of the day: a wide broad smile and dozens of lilikoi‘i seeds matted in his beard. The Lapakahi, Makaha, and Hālawa projects have been cited many times as a set of three closely linked studies that revolutionized Hawaiian archaeology, taking ...
... lilikoi‘i seeds. I’ll never forget Roger’s face at the end of the day: a wide broad smile and dozens of lilikoi‘i seeds matted in his beard. The Lapakahi, Makaha, and Hālawa projects have been cited many times as a set of three closely linked studies that revolutionized Hawaiian archaeology, taking ...
pegahmagabow of parry island: from jenness
... (about 90), Mary Sugedub (about 50), and James Walker (about 75). It is not difficult to understand why Pegahmagabow was included with the others, who would more usually have been thought of as Elders. There would be an easy relating of the two men, Pegahmagabow and ...
... (about 90), Mary Sugedub (about 50), and James Walker (about 75). It is not difficult to understand why Pegahmagabow was included with the others, who would more usually have been thought of as Elders. There would be an easy relating of the two men, Pegahmagabow and ...
Cultural anthropology
Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans and is in contrast to social anthropology which perceives cultural variation as a subset of the anthropological constant. A variety of methods are part of anthropological methodology, including participant observation (often called fieldwork because it involves the anthropologist spending an extended period of time at the research location), interviews, and surveys.One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term ""culture"" came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: ""Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society."" The term ""civilization"" later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.The anthropological concept of ""culture"" reflects in part a reaction against earlier Western discourses based on an opposition between ""culture"" and ""nature"", according to which some human beings lived in a ""state of nature"". Anthropologists have argued that culture is ""human nature"", and that all people have a capacity to classify experiences, encode classifications symbolically (i.e. in language), and teach such abstractions to others.Since humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, people living in different places or different circumstances develop different cultures. Anthropologists have also pointed out that through culture people can adapt to their environment in non-genetic ways, so people living in different environments will often have different cultures. Much of anthropological theory has originated in an appreciation of and interest in the tension between the local (particular cultures) and the global (a universal human nature, or the web of connections between people in distinct places/circumstances).The rise of cultural anthropology occurred within the context of the late 19th century, when questions regarding which cultures were ""primitive"" and which were ""civilized"" occupied the minds of not only Marx and Freud, but many others. Colonialism and its processes increasingly brought European thinkers in contact, directly or indirectly with ""primitive others."" The relative status of various humans, some of whom had modern advanced technologies that included engines and telegraphs, while others lacked anything but face-to-face communication techniques and still lived a Paleolithic lifestyle, was of interest to the first generation of cultural anthropologists.Parallel with the rise of cultural anthropology in the United States, social anthropology, in which sociality is the central concept and which focuses on the study of social statuses and roles, groups, institutions, and the relations among them—developed as an academic discipline in Britain and in France. An umbrella term socio-cultural anthropology makes reference to both cultural and social anthropology traditions.