The Hofstede model
... cultures, one’s social status must be clear so that others can show proper respect. Global brands serve that purpose. Luxury articles, some alcoholic beverages and fashion items typically appeal to social status needs. The contrast individualism/collectivism can be defined as ‘people looking after t ...
... cultures, one’s social status must be clear so that others can show proper respect. Global brands serve that purpose. Luxury articles, some alcoholic beverages and fashion items typically appeal to social status needs. The contrast individualism/collectivism can be defined as ‘people looking after t ...
Chapt002 - In the Field
... These PowerPoint slides have been designed for use by students and instructors using the Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity textbook by Conrad Kottak. These files contain short outlines of the content of the chapters, as well as selected photographs, maps, and tables. Students may find ...
... These PowerPoint slides have been designed for use by students and instructors using the Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity textbook by Conrad Kottak. These files contain short outlines of the content of the chapters, as well as selected photographs, maps, and tables. Students may find ...
The Political-Economy of Enchantment: Formations in the
... to such ethnographic moorings as the journeys of the Kula ring, the seasonal and other forms of travel that are integral to pastoralist societies, routine movements associated with work and visiting kin, together with such historical journeys as those of imperial explorers and pilgrims. Questions ab ...
... to such ethnographic moorings as the journeys of the Kula ring, the seasonal and other forms of travel that are integral to pastoralist societies, routine movements associated with work and visiting kin, together with such historical journeys as those of imperial explorers and pilgrims. Questions ab ...
On Culture, Thick and Thin - U
... of the discipline. A search of JSTOR shows that the earliest reference is by Burgess (1886) in the very first issue of the Political Science Quarterly. Indeed, JSTOR, which includes only a small subset of political science journals, records more than 4,000 articles referencing the concept since 1886 ...
... of the discipline. A search of JSTOR shows that the earliest reference is by Burgess (1886) in the very first issue of the Political Science Quarterly. Indeed, JSTOR, which includes only a small subset of political science journals, records more than 4,000 articles referencing the concept since 1886 ...
Anthropology and Rabbinic Exegesis: Levirate Marriage and - H-Net
... Utilizing the institution of levirate marriage as a primary lens through which to explore rabbinic conceptions of the family, Dvora E. Weisberg aims to articulate how the sages of classical rabbinic literature understood kinship and family. Since levirate marriage is situated at the time of the coll ...
... Utilizing the institution of levirate marriage as a primary lens through which to explore rabbinic conceptions of the family, Dvora E. Weisberg aims to articulate how the sages of classical rabbinic literature understood kinship and family. Since levirate marriage is situated at the time of the coll ...
See Preview - Cordillera Studies Center
... along with what is perhaps the first extended discussion of the Kalinga epic form known as gasumbi. This work reflects the influence of, among others, two eminent anthropologists, Victor Turner and Terence Turner, who were mentors and members of the dissertation committee. The two Turners continue t ...
... along with what is perhaps the first extended discussion of the Kalinga epic form known as gasumbi. This work reflects the influence of, among others, two eminent anthropologists, Victor Turner and Terence Turner, who were mentors and members of the dissertation committee. The two Turners continue t ...
Transcultural Literary Studies: Politics, Theory, and Literary Analysis
... standoff, basically the Herderian paradox that humanism’s and, for that matter, transculturalism’s aim to transcend cultural baggage is itself rooted in a specific historical and geographical culture. Tartaglia stresses the difference between evaluative and descriptive judgments about the meaning of ...
... standoff, basically the Herderian paradox that humanism’s and, for that matter, transculturalism’s aim to transcend cultural baggage is itself rooted in a specific historical and geographical culture. Tartaglia stresses the difference between evaluative and descriptive judgments about the meaning of ...
How Do Religions End? - Department of Anglo
... Christianity in particular, has fostered a turn towards the study of cultural change. But for the purposes of this article, I want to leave that task aside and instead point out one peculiarity of this new-found interest in religious change that I had not noticed until I began to think about the sub ...
... Christianity in particular, has fostered a turn towards the study of cultural change. But for the purposes of this article, I want to leave that task aside and instead point out one peculiarity of this new-found interest in religious change that I had not noticed until I began to think about the sub ...
Anthropology, Cultural and Archaeology
... areas where early agriculture is evidenced, but will also contrast these areas with those where agriculture was a later development. Emphasis will be on the environmental, technological, biological, social, and cultural processes associated with the "Neolithic Revolution." This course is offered as ...
... areas where early agriculture is evidenced, but will also contrast these areas with those where agriculture was a later development. Emphasis will be on the environmental, technological, biological, social, and cultural processes associated with the "Neolithic Revolution." This course is offered as ...
Case of the Missing Brain Laura Bruns ANTHRO 4312 Dr. Michael
... National Park and around two hundred people showed up for the event (Starn, 2004: 271). Bumps in the Repatriation Road There are some problems that have come up along the way that have caused some discussion and dispute among the anthropological and Native American communities still. A couple of the ...
... National Park and around two hundred people showed up for the event (Starn, 2004: 271). Bumps in the Repatriation Road There are some problems that have come up along the way that have caused some discussion and dispute among the anthropological and Native American communities still. A couple of the ...
- Digital Commons @ New Haven
... their meaning and either promote a counter-discourse or to simply disrupt taken-for-granted cultural assumptions—a process referred to as bricolage (Lévi-Strauss 1966). In these ways, subcultural style is intended to offend the mainstream, and to challenge the taken-for-granted meaning of objects al ...
... their meaning and either promote a counter-discourse or to simply disrupt taken-for-granted cultural assumptions—a process referred to as bricolage (Lévi-Strauss 1966). In these ways, subcultural style is intended to offend the mainstream, and to challenge the taken-for-granted meaning of objects al ...
this PDF file - Student Journals @ McMaster University
... anthropologists to rethink, runs through both popular and academic imaginaries of nations. One attempt to undo the assumed nation-state link comes from Anthony Smith (1989), who offers his readers a binary, typological distinction between "ethnic" and "civic" nationalisms. Smith's ethnic nationalism ...
... anthropologists to rethink, runs through both popular and academic imaginaries of nations. One attempt to undo the assumed nation-state link comes from Anthony Smith (1989), who offers his readers a binary, typological distinction between "ethnic" and "civic" nationalisms. Smith's ethnic nationalism ...
ARTIFACTS AS DOMESTICATED KINDS OF PRACTICES Sergio F
... arguing against the idea that classifications in general are independent of the situation or the task. There are other ways of questioning the central role attributed to intentions in the classifications of artifacts. Whose intentions and which productive activities are supposed to determine kind me ...
... arguing against the idea that classifications in general are independent of the situation or the task. There are other ways of questioning the central role attributed to intentions in the classifications of artifacts. Whose intentions and which productive activities are supposed to determine kind me ...
Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality”
... and consider what’s at stake before proceeding. We appear to be in the presence of two quite different conceptions of what anthropology is ultimately about. Are we unsettling our categories so as (1) to better understand the “radical alterity” of a specific group of people (whoever “we” are here tak ...
... and consider what’s at stake before proceeding. We appear to be in the presence of two quite different conceptions of what anthropology is ultimately about. Are we unsettling our categories so as (1) to better understand the “radical alterity” of a specific group of people (whoever “we” are here tak ...
as a PDF
... study of culinary changes can be a way of understanding the social shifts as well as technological development. This can be readily seen in Sidney Mintz‘s work (1985) about the history of sugar. The widespread availability of sugar calories from the New World (consumed in relatively new beverages) d ...
... study of culinary changes can be a way of understanding the social shifts as well as technological development. This can be readily seen in Sidney Mintz‘s work (1985) about the history of sugar. The widespread availability of sugar calories from the New World (consumed in relatively new beverages) d ...
TOC and sample chapter - University Press of Colorado
... and practice, with the result that he has created entirely new ways of comprehending ancient cultures through their knowledge and perceptions of the skies. It is particularly appropriate that he occupies the cross-faculty post of Russell B. Colgate Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology at Colgate ...
... and practice, with the result that he has created entirely new ways of comprehending ancient cultures through their knowledge and perceptions of the skies. It is particularly appropriate that he occupies the cross-faculty post of Russell B. Colgate Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology at Colgate ...
ANTHROPOLOGICAL TURN IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY: AN
... however, this new trend initiated by Jurgen Moltmann, has no new properly anthropological message. It propagates mostly social ideas, while both anthropological and religious (spiritual) discourses are reduced to a supporting function. And this course of things makes one to ask questions about the l ...
... however, this new trend initiated by Jurgen Moltmann, has no new properly anthropological message. It propagates mostly social ideas, while both anthropological and religious (spiritual) discourses are reduced to a supporting function. And this course of things makes one to ask questions about the l ...
Robert Mcc. Netting - National Academy of Sciences
... Nigerian escarpment? At his return from the field Netting wrote two papers answering these questions (full references are given in the Selected Bibliography). In “Trial Model of Cultural Ecology” (1965,1) Netting argues that social and cultural factors, and not only biological and physical factors ( ...
... Nigerian escarpment? At his return from the field Netting wrote two papers answering these questions (full references are given in the Selected Bibliography). In “Trial Model of Cultural Ecology” (1965,1) Netting argues that social and cultural factors, and not only biological and physical factors ( ...
Undergraduate Studies in Anthropology Handbook
... a variety of capacities in government, industry, health care, consulting and more. In broad terms, anthropology is the study of human populations and cultures in evolutionary, historical, and comparative frameworks. Our department’s curriculum promotes understanding the variety both of past and pres ...
... a variety of capacities in government, industry, health care, consulting and more. In broad terms, anthropology is the study of human populations and cultures in evolutionary, historical, and comparative frameworks. Our department’s curriculum promotes understanding the variety both of past and pres ...
Open Access - Lund University Publications
... 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 main character of A Diary in the strict sense of the term. The second anthropologist is Ki ...
... 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 main character of A Diary in the strict sense of the term. The second anthropologist is Ki ...
Human Bio-sociocultural Diversity Expanded through Space
... This denotes the process in which children or novices learn existing cognitive skills through cultural learning. It is through this process that the pool of cognitive skills and products that have been created or invented in the past are faithfully transmitted over generations and preserved as resou ...
... This denotes the process in which children or novices learn existing cognitive skills through cultural learning. It is through this process that the pool of cognitive skills and products that have been created or invented in the past are faithfully transmitted over generations and preserved as resou ...
The Concept of Race in Contemporary Anthropology
... American “race relations.” Other meanings are used in government offices and forms, as when Americans note which of a number of races they belong to for the Census. Yet other meanings of the term “race” are more technical, when for example a biologist talks about different races of a particular spec ...
... American “race relations.” Other meanings are used in government offices and forms, as when Americans note which of a number of races they belong to for the Census. Yet other meanings of the term “race” are more technical, when for example a biologist talks about different races of a particular spec ...
What is Archaeology? - Georgia Council of Professional
... Anthropology, broadly speaking, is the study of human beings. In North America, anthropology is divided into four sub-fields: archaeology, cultural anthropology (the study of present-day peoples and societies), linguistics (language), and physical anthropology (human and primate behavior and evoluti ...
... Anthropology, broadly speaking, is the study of human beings. In North America, anthropology is divided into four sub-fields: archaeology, cultural anthropology (the study of present-day peoples and societies), linguistics (language), and physical anthropology (human and primate behavior and evoluti ...
Careers in Anthropology
... Jordan Hasselbalch, The Hub David Homa, Los Gatos HS Caroline Jones, KSU ...
... Jordan Hasselbalch, The Hub David Homa, Los Gatos HS Caroline Jones, KSU ...
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.] ...
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.