syllabus.96 - Oberlin College
... questions that have shaped anthropological thinking from the last half of the nineteenth century until the present. Our aim is to reach a critical understanding of the most important modes of thought about the nature of culture, how it is studied, and the ways anthropologists from various theoretica ...
... questions that have shaped anthropological thinking from the last half of the nineteenth century until the present. Our aim is to reach a critical understanding of the most important modes of thought about the nature of culture, how it is studied, and the ways anthropologists from various theoretica ...
COURSE DESCRIPTION (Group C)
... anthropological research Harris). in comparative 7. Symbolic construction of social worlds (V. Turner, M. Douglas, C. Geertz). perspective. 8. Understanding of the processes of globalization and fragmentation (U. 1.Ability to master anthropological theories, concept and approaches through a critical ...
... anthropological research Harris). in comparative 7. Symbolic construction of social worlds (V. Turner, M. Douglas, C. Geertz). perspective. 8. Understanding of the processes of globalization and fragmentation (U. 1.Ability to master anthropological theories, concept and approaches through a critical ...
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
... seamlessly with the spinal cord and creates the base of the brainstem. The medulla is primarily a control center for vital involuntary reflexes such as swallowing, vomiting, sneezing, coughing, and regulation of cardiovascular and respiratory activity. The medulla is also the origin of many ...
... seamlessly with the spinal cord and creates the base of the brainstem. The medulla is primarily a control center for vital involuntary reflexes such as swallowing, vomiting, sneezing, coughing, and regulation of cardiovascular and respiratory activity. The medulla is also the origin of many ...
Famous Russian brains: historical attempts to understand intelligence
... Alla A. Vein and Marion L. C. Maat-Schieman Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands Correspondence to: Alla A. Vein, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected] Russia ...
... Alla A. Vein and Marion L. C. Maat-Schieman Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands Correspondence to: Alla A. Vein, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected] Russia ...
presentation source - Arkansas Tech Faculty Web Sites
... First beginnings of scientific thought • Charles Spearman (1863-1945) for whom the Spearman correlation was also named • Used correlation to prove that there were at least two factors of intelligence • Two-factor theory--a general or inherited factor, and a specific factor, which we would today att ...
... First beginnings of scientific thought • Charles Spearman (1863-1945) for whom the Spearman correlation was also named • Used correlation to prove that there were at least two factors of intelligence • Two-factor theory--a general or inherited factor, and a specific factor, which we would today att ...
Ethics in Anthropology or Anthropology of Morals?!
... “ideologically and emotionally found their cultural distinction between good and evil, and how social agents concretely work out this separation in their everyday life” (ibid.; Fassin & Stoczkowski 2008:331). The ideological point of view that a researcher takes is central regarding these topics. Ou ...
... “ideologically and emotionally found their cultural distinction between good and evil, and how social agents concretely work out this separation in their everyday life” (ibid.; Fassin & Stoczkowski 2008:331). The ideological point of view that a researcher takes is central regarding these topics. Ou ...
What is Neuroscience?
... NERVOUS SYSTEM ie. Brain, spinal cord and all nerves of the body We study it from all aspects – the tiny (eg. DNA/genes)….. ….. to the large (eg. thought, consciousness) ...
... NERVOUS SYSTEM ie. Brain, spinal cord and all nerves of the body We study it from all aspects – the tiny (eg. DNA/genes)….. ….. to the large (eg. thought, consciousness) ...
Terrestriality, Bipedalism and the Origin of
... ability should perhaps not seem too surprising in view of the fact that at least one species of monkey is known to produce calls in the wild that have specific symbolic content (Seyfarth et al. 1980). Claims for syntactic abilities in non-human primates are arguably more controversial, but apes are ...
... ability should perhaps not seem too surprising in view of the fact that at least one species of monkey is known to produce calls in the wild that have specific symbolic content (Seyfarth et al. 1980). Claims for syntactic abilities in non-human primates are arguably more controversial, but apes are ...
Racial History and Bio-Cultural Adaptation of Nubian
... Caucasoid genes during the last 14,000 years. I n support of this hypothesis, the skeletal remains of a Nubian Mesolithic population are described as possessing bun-shaped occiputs, massive browridges, sloping foreheads, extreme facial flattening, large teeth and deep mandibles. This and other evide ...
... Caucasoid genes during the last 14,000 years. I n support of this hypothesis, the skeletal remains of a Nubian Mesolithic population are described as possessing bun-shaped occiputs, massive browridges, sloping foreheads, extreme facial flattening, large teeth and deep mandibles. This and other evide ...
consciousness as an afterthought
... levels of philosophy, psychology, social sciences, anthropology and evolution. Between the domains of these two approaches lies an explanatory gap. This essay addresses that gap from many perspectives. The details of top-down and bottom-up scientific data and concepts are necessary but not sufficien ...
... levels of philosophy, psychology, social sciences, anthropology and evolution. Between the domains of these two approaches lies an explanatory gap. This essay addresses that gap from many perspectives. The details of top-down and bottom-up scientific data and concepts are necessary but not sufficien ...
optional biology 1 study packet the brain
... brain is a very complex organ made up of millions, if not billions, of cells. The average human brain is nearly three-pounds and fills most of the top half of your head and is roughly the size of a coconut fruit. ...
... brain is a very complex organ made up of millions, if not billions, of cells. The average human brain is nearly three-pounds and fills most of the top half of your head and is roughly the size of a coconut fruit. ...
Psychology Brain Body Behavior Chapter Syllabus
... of the study of the brain, the parts and functions of the human brain, various methods for studying the human brain, the role of neurons and neurotransmitters on brain communication, the structure and function of the nervous system, and the role of glands and hormones on the endocrine system. Studen ...
... of the study of the brain, the parts and functions of the human brain, various methods for studying the human brain, the role of neurons and neurotransmitters on brain communication, the structure and function of the nervous system, and the role of glands and hormones on the endocrine system. Studen ...
Design Anthropology Is Not, and Cannot Be, Ethnography
... alleged contradiction between participation and observation is no more than a corollary of this split. As human beings, it seems, we can aspire to truth about the world only by way of an emancipation that takes us from it and leaves us strangers to ourselves. Anthropology, surely, cannot passively a ...
... alleged contradiction between participation and observation is no more than a corollary of this split. As human beings, it seems, we can aspire to truth about the world only by way of an emancipation that takes us from it and leaves us strangers to ourselves. Anthropology, surely, cannot passively a ...
Anthropology in the German Democratic Republic: A Personal
... biocultural endeavor began to divide up into relatively separate disciplines consisting of Anthropologie (physical anthropology), Ethnologie or Ethnographie (ethnology or ethnography), and Ur-Geschichte or Archeologie (prehistory or archeology) beginning in the 1860s. Nevertheless, the three discipl ...
... biocultural endeavor began to divide up into relatively separate disciplines consisting of Anthropologie (physical anthropology), Ethnologie or Ethnographie (ethnology or ethnography), and Ur-Geschichte or Archeologie (prehistory or archeology) beginning in the 1860s. Nevertheless, the three discipl ...
Brain and Nerve PowerPoint
... • Although both sides are involved in all of the activities previously mentioned for the lobes, brain research shows that the left side is used more for language and logical processing (math and science), while the right side is used more for visual and intuitive processing (creativity). • Damage to ...
... • Although both sides are involved in all of the activities previously mentioned for the lobes, brain research shows that the left side is used more for language and logical processing (math and science), while the right side is used more for visual and intuitive processing (creativity). • Damage to ...
Chapter 3 - International Institute of Anthropology
... Cultural anthropologists who have studied pastoralism in East Africa have topical experience with and knowledge about pastoralism that can also be applied in the Middle East or Central Asia. ...
... Cultural anthropologists who have studied pastoralism in East Africa have topical experience with and knowledge about pastoralism that can also be applied in the Middle East or Central Asia. ...
On a nineteenth century argument against armchair
... that Frazer’s argument leads to regarding how anthropology should be organized. The division of labour between theorists and field researchers was challenged in anthropology at a time when it was also being challenged or was collapsing in other disciplines. According to Kuklick, in Britain this divi ...
... that Frazer’s argument leads to regarding how anthropology should be organized. The division of labour between theorists and field researchers was challenged in anthropology at a time when it was also being challenged or was collapsing in other disciplines. According to Kuklick, in Britain this divi ...
III *** A unique evolutionary trajectory 1\\
... The writer seems to have forgotten that already many dinosaurs were walking upright (bipedal) and that their modern descendants, the birds, do the same, as do kangaroos, while there is little evidence in all these groups of an ability to objectivity and critical distance toward the world that surrou ...
... The writer seems to have forgotten that already many dinosaurs were walking upright (bipedal) and that their modern descendants, the birds, do the same, as do kangaroos, while there is little evidence in all these groups of an ability to objectivity and critical distance toward the world that surrou ...
Anatomy and Physiology brain
... hemispheres. These hemispheres are separated by a groove called the great longitudinal fissure and are joined at the bottom of this fissure by a struture called the corpus callosum which allows communication between the two sides of the brain. The surface of the cerebrum contains billions of neurons ...
... hemispheres. These hemispheres are separated by a groove called the great longitudinal fissure and are joined at the bottom of this fissure by a struture called the corpus callosum which allows communication between the two sides of the brain. The surface of the cerebrum contains billions of neurons ...
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... Films/Video: Segment 7 of the Scientific American Frontiers series, 2nd ed.; Module 5 of The Brain series, 2nd ed.; Mind Talk:The Brain’s New Story; Divided Brain and Consciousness; Left Brain, Right Brain ...
... Films/Video: Segment 7 of the Scientific American Frontiers series, 2nd ed.; Module 5 of The Brain series, 2nd ed.; Mind Talk:The Brain’s New Story; Divided Brain and Consciousness; Left Brain, Right Brain ...
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
... seamlessly with the spinal cord and creates the base of the brainstem. The medulla is primarily a control center for vital involuntary reflexes such as swallowing, vomiting, sneezing, coughing, and regulation of cardiovascular and respiratory activity. The medulla is also the origin of many ...
... seamlessly with the spinal cord and creates the base of the brainstem. The medulla is primarily a control center for vital involuntary reflexes such as swallowing, vomiting, sneezing, coughing, and regulation of cardiovascular and respiratory activity. The medulla is also the origin of many ...
Telemetric recording of neuronal activity
... potentiometer is milled down to a cross-section of 5 £ 3 mm (height 20 mm), so that only the spindle drive remains. The original slide is removed and replaced by a drop of acrylic cement embracing the worm. At the lower end of the potentiometer case, two stainless steel guiding tubes (outer diameter ...
... potentiometer is milled down to a cross-section of 5 £ 3 mm (height 20 mm), so that only the spindle drive remains. The original slide is removed and replaced by a drop of acrylic cement embracing the worm. At the lower end of the potentiometer case, two stainless steel guiding tubes (outer diameter ...
Ethnographic Present
... romanticized timelessness before westernization, which gave the ethnographies an eternal, unchanging quality. Ethnographers today recognize that cultures constantly change and that this quality must be represented in the ethnography. ...
... romanticized timelessness before westernization, which gave the ethnographies an eternal, unchanging quality. Ethnographers today recognize that cultures constantly change and that this quality must be represented in the ethnography. ...
History of anthropometry
The history of anthropometry includes the use of anthropometry as an early tool of physical anthropology, use for identification, use for the purposes of understanding human physical variation, in paleoanthropology, and in various attempts to correlate physical with racial and psychological traits. At various points in history, certain anthropometrics have been cited by advocates of discrimination and eugenics, often as part of novel social movements or based upon pseudoscientific claims.