history pt 1
... distant past when northern European society was in the stage of Barbarism just as an Australian Aboriginal society could inform Europeans of their history in the stage of Savagery ...
... distant past when northern European society was in the stage of Barbarism just as an Australian Aboriginal society could inform Europeans of their history in the stage of Savagery ...
Intro
... individual as affected by the habits of the group in which he lives, and the products of human activity as determined by these habits.” Franz Boas, 1930 “[Culture] obviously is the integral whole consisting of implements and consumer goods, of constitutional charters for the various social groupings ...
... individual as affected by the habits of the group in which he lives, and the products of human activity as determined by these habits.” Franz Boas, 1930 “[Culture] obviously is the integral whole consisting of implements and consumer goods, of constitutional charters for the various social groupings ...
Symbolic anthropology Symbolic Anthropology Victor Turner (1920
... • She died May 2007 in London, aged 86, from complications of cancer ...
... • She died May 2007 in London, aged 86, from complications of cancer ...
Anthropology, Human Rights, and “Human Terrain”
... believe that anthropologists should refrain from directly assisting the US military in combat, be it through torture, interrogation, or tactical advice. US military and intelligence agencies and military contractors have identified “cultural knowledge,” “ethnographic intelligence,” and “human terrai ...
... believe that anthropologists should refrain from directly assisting the US military in combat, be it through torture, interrogation, or tactical advice. US military and intelligence agencies and military contractors have identified “cultural knowledge,” “ethnographic intelligence,” and “human terrai ...
Why Conduct Qualitative Research?
... and behavior is less than half that. Aristotle insisted that knowledge should be based on experience and that conclusions about general cases should be based on the observation of more limited ones. But Aristotle did not advocate disinterested, objective accumulation of reliable knowledge. ...
... and behavior is less than half that. Aristotle insisted that knowledge should be based on experience and that conclusions about general cases should be based on the observation of more limited ones. But Aristotle did not advocate disinterested, objective accumulation of reliable knowledge. ...
PAVLOS KAVOURAS (NIKOS POULAKIS) Ethnographic cinema
... The aim of the course is to introduce students to the subject of study, methodologies and products of work of social/cultural anthropology. More analytically, we will make an historical review of the key concepts, methods, questions, topics and tendencies in anthropologists' effort to understand cul ...
... The aim of the course is to introduce students to the subject of study, methodologies and products of work of social/cultural anthropology. More analytically, we will make an historical review of the key concepts, methods, questions, topics and tendencies in anthropologists' effort to understand cul ...
Graduate Seminar in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
... The aim of this class is to give graduate students an overview of the history of anthropological theory, beginning with the classical theorists of the nineteenth century and moving to contemporary theoretical debates. A close and critical reading of theory in cultural anthropology should give studen ...
... The aim of this class is to give graduate students an overview of the history of anthropological theory, beginning with the classical theorists of the nineteenth century and moving to contemporary theoretical debates. A close and critical reading of theory in cultural anthropology should give studen ...
STEM Career Spotlight - Forensic Anthropologist
... Forensic anthropology combines the science of physical anthropology (human evolutionary biology, physical variation, and classification) and osteology (study of the human skeleton) and applies the science in a legal setting. Daily activities may involve identification of deceased individuals where t ...
... Forensic anthropology combines the science of physical anthropology (human evolutionary biology, physical variation, and classification) and osteology (study of the human skeleton) and applies the science in a legal setting. Daily activities may involve identification of deceased individuals where t ...
General reading list (coursepack)
... Rubin and Rubin. 2005. “Assembling the parts: Structuring a qualitative interview,” Qualitative Interviewing: Learning How to Listen. Pp. 145-167. ...
... Rubin and Rubin. 2005. “Assembling the parts: Structuring a qualitative interview,” Qualitative Interviewing: Learning How to Listen. Pp. 145-167. ...
What Is Anthropology?
... A society’s shared and learned ideas, values, and perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience and which generate behavior and are reflected in that behavior. ...
... A society’s shared and learned ideas, values, and perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience and which generate behavior and are reflected in that behavior. ...
document
... Ethnologists try to find patterns of behavior that are common to the various groups under investigation. ...
... Ethnologists try to find patterns of behavior that are common to the various groups under investigation. ...
B. A Definition of Culture
... within a broader context of a meaning system. To interpret a symbol, therefore, anthropologists must investigate the interrelatedness of elements and the presence of unifying principles that connect symbols to form larger patterns and cultural wholes. Let us take as an example a prevalent Dani insti ...
... within a broader context of a meaning system. To interpret a symbol, therefore, anthropologists must investigate the interrelatedness of elements and the presence of unifying principles that connect symbols to form larger patterns and cultural wholes. Let us take as an example a prevalent Dani insti ...
Midterm study guide The midterm will be worth 100 points. As stated
... Be aware of the special ethical challenges presented by field research or applied work in conflict zones. o You have two examples of that in Elisabeth Wood’s article on El Salvador and Omidian’s book on Afghanistan. You should be able to explain what policy is and how/why anthropologists have/have n ...
... Be aware of the special ethical challenges presented by field research or applied work in conflict zones. o You have two examples of that in Elisabeth Wood’s article on El Salvador and Omidian’s book on Afghanistan. You should be able to explain what policy is and how/why anthropologists have/have n ...
Introduction 2007
... believing’, ‘an abstraction from behaviour’, etc. Two definitions have been the most influential: ...
... believing’, ‘an abstraction from behaviour’, etc. Two definitions have been the most influential: ...
Daryll Forde Seminar Room, UCL Anthropology – 6 pm
... everyday Christian life. How does the researcher’s own religious background affect research? How much emphasis should be placed on theology and how can this be balanced with ethnography? These questions have been given new vitality by recent work in the broad area of the anthropology of Christianity ...
... everyday Christian life. How does the researcher’s own religious background affect research? How much emphasis should be placed on theology and how can this be balanced with ethnography? These questions have been given new vitality by recent work in the broad area of the anthropology of Christianity ...
Anthropology 5 Magic, Science & Religion
... • Also, an integrated study of humanity – Holism: Integrating as many different aspects of human society (like psychology, politics, religion, customs, institutions like marriage, funerary rituals, gender, subsistence economy, etc.) to create the most ...
... • Also, an integrated study of humanity – Holism: Integrating as many different aspects of human society (like psychology, politics, religion, customs, institutions like marriage, funerary rituals, gender, subsistence economy, etc.) to create the most ...
Cultural Ecology
... individuals in later generations will come to share that feature. That feature is adaptive Selective advantage ...
... individuals in later generations will come to share that feature. That feature is adaptive Selective advantage ...
The accounting program is designed to serve
... history of cultures, to defining group behavior in non-western and western cultures. Thus, anthropology is considered to be the most holistic of the social sciences. The goal of anthropology is to answer the question, “What is humankind?” from a biological, prehistoric, and behavioral perspective. T ...
... history of cultures, to defining group behavior in non-western and western cultures. Thus, anthropology is considered to be the most holistic of the social sciences. The goal of anthropology is to answer the question, “What is humankind?” from a biological, prehistoric, and behavioral perspective. T ...
syllabus - Laura A. Ogden
... Understand "culture" as a process of sense-making, Reflect on how cultural difference is constituted and challenged Consider the ways anthropologists use ethnography to translate cultural difference Reflect on the relationship between global & local processes of cultural production On writte ...
... Understand "culture" as a process of sense-making, Reflect on how cultural difference is constituted and challenged Consider the ways anthropologists use ethnography to translate cultural difference Reflect on the relationship between global & local processes of cultural production On writte ...
Symposium: Ethnography of everyday life
... that true? Often, we rather seem to focus our attention on very dramatic and distressing issues – and understandably so, because we want to be relevant to contemporary society. But this shift towards grim actuality – which begins already in teaching and in the topics that students choose for their m ...
... that true? Often, we rather seem to focus our attention on very dramatic and distressing issues – and understandably so, because we want to be relevant to contemporary society. But this shift towards grim actuality – which begins already in teaching and in the topics that students choose for their m ...
The Anthropological Study of Religion
... Anthropology unlocked the answer of kuru, not medical knowledge Holism involves viewing something from the insider (emic) and outsider (etic) perspectives Both views provide a holistic picture Keep this in mind while reading the novel for this class ...
... Anthropology unlocked the answer of kuru, not medical knowledge Holism involves viewing something from the insider (emic) and outsider (etic) perspectives Both views provide a holistic picture Keep this in mind while reading the novel for this class ...
PowerPoint to accompany lecture
... •In unilinear evolution, cultures evolved from savages to barbarians to civilized. •The notion of progress was associated with it. Indians were ...
... •In unilinear evolution, cultures evolved from savages to barbarians to civilized. •The notion of progress was associated with it. Indians were ...
Interpreting Cultural Practices
... thought that Aboriginal chiefs were exactly like kings. These anthropologists inappropriately applied concepts from their culture to explain the political structures of Aboriginal groups without appreciating that the structures differed. Ethnocentricity arises because we tend to make sense of what w ...
... thought that Aboriginal chiefs were exactly like kings. These anthropologists inappropriately applied concepts from their culture to explain the political structures of Aboriginal groups without appreciating that the structures differed. Ethnocentricity arises because we tend to make sense of what w ...
Doing Anthropology on Democracy and Public Engagement
... Uppsala University’s Forum for Africa Studies and Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography ...
... Uppsala University’s Forum for Africa Studies and Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography ...
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.