... This module surveys the history of various cinema technologies. Particular attention will be given to the ways in which the emergence of new technologies - such as sound, colour, cameras and camera mounts, varying screen dimensions, and lighting systems - affect aesthetic issues in global cinemas. B ...
POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: An Introduction
... (1877). Morgan had studied the Iroquois Indians of New York State firsthand and had been fascinated by their kinship terminology, which was very different from that used in Western European countries but similar to that employed in other parts of the world. His description and categorization of kinsh ...
... (1877). Morgan had studied the Iroquois Indians of New York State firsthand and had been fascinated by their kinship terminology, which was very different from that used in Western European countries but similar to that employed in other parts of the world. His description and categorization of kinsh ...
Political anthropology: an introduction
... (1877). Morgan had studied the Iroquois Indians of New York State firsthand and had been fascinated by their kinship terminology, which was very different from that used in Western European countries but similar to that employed in other parts of the world. His description and categorization of kinsh ...
... (1877). Morgan had studied the Iroquois Indians of New York State firsthand and had been fascinated by their kinship terminology, which was very different from that used in Western European countries but similar to that employed in other parts of the world. His description and categorization of kinsh ...
The Continuing Importance of Hunter-Gatherer Studies in - H-Net
... To answer the first question, the editors provide their own definition of hunting and gathering as “subsistence activities entailing negligible control over the gene pool of food resources” (p. 3) and rightly conclude that this is Rich and largely unprecedented biological and de- still a meaningful ...
... To answer the first question, the editors provide their own definition of hunting and gathering as “subsistence activities entailing negligible control over the gene pool of food resources” (p. 3) and rightly conclude that this is Rich and largely unprecedented biological and de- still a meaningful ...
Reading Nanook`s Smile: Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous Revisions
... ground the ways in which the Inuit instructed him on working collaboratively, according to their views of social and cultural interaction. Faye Ginsburg has determined that Allakariallak and other Inuit community members worked with Flaherty “as technicians, camera operators, film developers, and pr ...
... ground the ways in which the Inuit instructed him on working collaboratively, according to their views of social and cultural interaction. Faye Ginsburg has determined that Allakariallak and other Inuit community members worked with Flaherty “as technicians, camera operators, film developers, and pr ...
Miller - Chapter 2 (short in-class version
... Search for themes or patterns in the data Can be done by hand or with the ...
... Search for themes or patterns in the data Can be done by hand or with the ...
JAN CZEKANOWSKI ANTHROPOLOGIST AND STATISTICIAN
... and 7 camps were organized along the route. They were equipped with food and drink, medicines and clothes, tools and tents, guns or even folded bathtubs made o f waterproof material - in short, everything the explorers might need. Wherever possible, the expedition members stayed with missionaries, i ...
... and 7 camps were organized along the route. They were equipped with food and drink, medicines and clothes, tools and tents, guns or even folded bathtubs made o f waterproof material - in short, everything the explorers might need. Wherever possible, the expedition members stayed with missionaries, i ...
Methods for the Systematic Study of Human Behavior (PDF
... methodological step is to establish the period of time during which respondents will be asked to recall their activities. The most commonly used recall period is the previous 24 hours. For example, respondents can be asked to recall their activities from 4:00am yesterday to 4:00am today. More dista ...
... methodological step is to establish the period of time during which respondents will be asked to recall their activities. The most commonly used recall period is the previous 24 hours. For example, respondents can be asked to recall their activities from 4:00am yesterday to 4:00am today. More dista ...
O verview Methods and Ethics in Physical - McGraw
... from diverse fields in the study of sites, fossils, and artifacts. • Palynology, the study of ancient plants through pollen samples, is used to shed light on the diet of the people and the site’s environment at the time of occupation. • Bioarchaeologists examine human remains to reconstruct physical ...
... from diverse fields in the study of sites, fossils, and artifacts. • Palynology, the study of ancient plants through pollen samples, is used to shed light on the diet of the people and the site’s environment at the time of occupation. • Bioarchaeologists examine human remains to reconstruct physical ...
Shamanism and Ritual Healing
... functional psychiatric healthcare system. The emergence of neo-shamanism has refueled the need of understanding this phenomenon deeply not only from an indigenous culture perspective but also from the view of a more ecological and numinous category of phenomenon. Whereas shamanism has mostly been se ...
... functional psychiatric healthcare system. The emergence of neo-shamanism has refueled the need of understanding this phenomenon deeply not only from an indigenous culture perspective but also from the view of a more ecological and numinous category of phenomenon. Whereas shamanism has mostly been se ...
Narratives as instrumental research and as attempts of
... collection is carefully selected and constructed. But the method of collecting this data can be, according to Bold, very different from one case to the other: the selection of preserving of the stories can be automatic, done with the help of a specialized computer program, or ethnographic, or by con ...
... collection is carefully selected and constructed. But the method of collecting this data can be, according to Bold, very different from one case to the other: the selection of preserving of the stories can be automatic, done with the help of a specialized computer program, or ethnographic, or by con ...
View/Open - Digital Collections Home
... According to the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, “forensic anthropologists apply standard scientific techniques developed in physical anthropology to analyze human remains, and to aid in the detection of crime” (ABFA, 2008). Furthermore, forensic anthropology today is defined as “the scient ...
... According to the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, “forensic anthropologists apply standard scientific techniques developed in physical anthropology to analyze human remains, and to aid in the detection of crime” (ABFA, 2008). Furthermore, forensic anthropology today is defined as “the scient ...
Workforce Diveristy Management
... • The changes taking place in all sectors of twenty-first century society are unprecedented. There are vast changes taking place in the political, religious, economic, social, and cultural arenas that are direct and indirect results of the need for diversity and universal perspectives in responding ...
... • The changes taking place in all sectors of twenty-first century society are unprecedented. There are vast changes taking place in the political, religious, economic, social, and cultural arenas that are direct and indirect results of the need for diversity and universal perspectives in responding ...
INTRODUCTION - Berghahn Journals
... part of the overhauling of anthropology—is organic to new forms of politicaleconomic formations and processes. The virtual business-management-speak of some anthropology inspired within contemporary globalization insufficiently recognizes that it manifests some of the ideology that is vital in the co ...
... part of the overhauling of anthropology—is organic to new forms of politicaleconomic formations and processes. The virtual business-management-speak of some anthropology inspired within contemporary globalization insufficiently recognizes that it manifests some of the ideology that is vital in the co ...
Symmetry and Symbolism in Ban Chiang Painted Pottery
... motifs, and to extend radial figures and spirals in a band. Class two, longitudinal reflection, is rarely used alone. It can be identified in multiple line designs where it is a reduced form of radial symmetry. Similarly, class three, transversereflection, is seldom used alone. It, too, occurs in mu ...
... motifs, and to extend radial figures and spirals in a band. Class two, longitudinal reflection, is rarely used alone. It can be identified in multiple line designs where it is a reduced form of radial symmetry. Similarly, class three, transversereflection, is seldom used alone. It, too, occurs in mu ...
Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title
... appeal demands that anthropologists and legal scholars consider what they both mean by (1) continuity of connection to country; and (2) continuity of tradition and/or a system of law and custom; as well as a number of possible relations between them (from which the ‘causal’ should not be automatical ...
... appeal demands that anthropologists and legal scholars consider what they both mean by (1) continuity of connection to country; and (2) continuity of tradition and/or a system of law and custom; as well as a number of possible relations between them (from which the ‘causal’ should not be automatical ...
What kinship does—and how - HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
... adult children move away from the natal home, and this effect will tend to be compounded if distances are great and visits are rare. But these are complex matters— paradoxically, moving away may also intensify nostalgic ties of memory to a natal home as, for example, Joelle Bahloul (1996) documents ...
... adult children move away from the natal home, and this effect will tend to be compounded if distances are great and visits are rare. But these are complex matters— paradoxically, moving away may also intensify nostalgic ties of memory to a natal home as, for example, Joelle Bahloul (1996) documents ...
What do we mean by `media practices`?
... whom, on what occasion, for what purpose. As Nelson Goodman has argued (1968: 27-31), a pragmatist approach to reference entails not imposing correspondence theories, usually unthinkingly. It requires us to consider ‘representation as’ as a practice. Far from hierarchy solving the problem, it compli ...
... whom, on what occasion, for what purpose. As Nelson Goodman has argued (1968: 27-31), a pragmatist approach to reference entails not imposing correspondence theories, usually unthinkingly. It requires us to consider ‘representation as’ as a practice. Far from hierarchy solving the problem, it compli ...
Anthropology Courses (ANTH)
... ethnographies from diverse contexts used to examine intersections of kinship, religion, health, and medicine in later life. Same as ASP:2181, GHS:2181. ANTH:2182 Africa: Health and Society 3 s.h. Cultural, political, and economic diversity of African societies from precolonial period to present day; ...
... ethnographies from diverse contexts used to examine intersections of kinship, religion, health, and medicine in later life. Same as ASP:2181, GHS:2181. ANTH:2182 Africa: Health and Society 3 s.h. Cultural, political, and economic diversity of African societies from precolonial period to present day; ...
Anthropological perspectives on corruption
... Trying to understand how corruption is conceptualised the question we need to raise is; what behaviour is being compared, how are practices evaluated, and by whom? Supporting the view that Weberian informed definitions of corruption is “too narrow and excessively concerned with the illegality of suc ...
... Trying to understand how corruption is conceptualised the question we need to raise is; what behaviour is being compared, how are practices evaluated, and by whom? Supporting the view that Weberian informed definitions of corruption is “too narrow and excessively concerned with the illegality of suc ...
Experimentalité: Pharmaceutical Insights Into Anthropology’s Epistemologically Fractured Self.
... within anthropology, as exemplified, albeit in somewhat dramatic fashion, by Neel’s research on the Yanomami. Anthropology as a discipline still honours a holistic Boasian ideal, even when members of its four traditional subfields cohabit with vastly different methodologies and epistemologies. By co ...
... within anthropology, as exemplified, albeit in somewhat dramatic fashion, by Neel’s research on the Yanomami. Anthropology as a discipline still honours a holistic Boasian ideal, even when members of its four traditional subfields cohabit with vastly different methodologies and epistemologies. By co ...
The Virgin-Birth Debate in Anthropological Literature
... Three answers are listed: (1) One may hold that people profess such beliefs because of childish ignorance—a position Leach rejects outright as inapplicable just as much to the Australian aborigines as to Christians.18 (2) One may take the theologian's or the believer's answer, which states simply th ...
... Three answers are listed: (1) One may hold that people profess such beliefs because of childish ignorance—a position Leach rejects outright as inapplicable just as much to the Australian aborigines as to Christians.18 (2) One may take the theologian's or the believer's answer, which states simply th ...
Development, Postmodernism and Aboriginal Policy
... ―savages‖ to refer to aboriginal peoples, rather than an historical period in human cultural development, questions about the validity of our argument concerning developmental differences remain. Wente wrote in her infamous column: ―Mr. Pound's choice of words was inflammatory, to say the least. But ...
... ―savages‖ to refer to aboriginal peoples, rather than an historical period in human cultural development, questions about the validity of our argument concerning developmental differences remain. Wente wrote in her infamous column: ―Mr. Pound's choice of words was inflammatory, to say the least. But ...
Book Review - Australian Humanities Review
... Graham Harvey defines what he means by animism in his first paragraph, when he states that ‘animists are people who recognise that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is always lived in relationship to others. Animism is lived out in various ways that are all abo ...
... Graham Harvey defines what he means by animism in his first paragraph, when he states that ‘animists are people who recognise that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is always lived in relationship to others. Animism is lived out in various ways that are all abo ...
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.