fallkinship
... that the study of kinship is dead or moribund. Although such views remind one of Mark Twain’s remark that reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated, they do resonate with two important changes in the status, scope and constitution of kinship studies that have occurred since the early 1970s. ...
... that the study of kinship is dead or moribund. Although such views remind one of Mark Twain’s remark that reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated, they do resonate with two important changes in the status, scope and constitution of kinship studies that have occurred since the early 1970s. ...
On the ethics and practice of contemporary social theory: from crisis
... which provides further clues for understanding our contemporary sense of crisis. As noted in the first section, a sense of impasse in theory is by no means limited to anthropology, let alone to a specific subfield of anthropology. The story I tell below (a very compressed one, I am afraid) outlines ...
... which provides further clues for understanding our contemporary sense of crisis. As noted in the first section, a sense of impasse in theory is by no means limited to anthropology, let alone to a specific subfield of anthropology. The story I tell below (a very compressed one, I am afraid) outlines ...
Fear of Scandalous Knowledge: Arguing About
... work emerged what came to be called ‘‘developmental systems theory,’’ or DST; an essential volume exploring the implications of DST for evolutionary theory is Cycles of Contingency (Oyama, Griffiths, and Gray 2001), to which anthropologist Tim Ingold contributed an essay. Another recent, indispensab ...
... work emerged what came to be called ‘‘developmental systems theory,’’ or DST; an essential volume exploring the implications of DST for evolutionary theory is Cycles of Contingency (Oyama, Griffiths, and Gray 2001), to which anthropologist Tim Ingold contributed an essay. Another recent, indispensab ...
How to use this Study Guide
... The Roman, Han, Mauryan, and Gupta empires created political, cultural, and administrative difficulties that they could not manage, which eventually led to their decline, collapse and transformation into successor empires or states. 2.2.13 What caused Classical Empires to decline, collapse, or trans ...
... The Roman, Han, Mauryan, and Gupta empires created political, cultural, and administrative difficulties that they could not manage, which eventually led to their decline, collapse and transformation into successor empires or states. 2.2.13 What caused Classical Empires to decline, collapse, or trans ...
Beyond Empiricism (Word 97/98) - Center for Digital Discourse and
... without the existence of fixed categories of natural and social life-categories that impose themselves on everybody because of their undeniable validity--this collapse of authority was a primary concern (Wagner 1995). In an effort to establish a new basis for the determination of truth, which could ...
... without the existence of fixed categories of natural and social life-categories that impose themselves on everybody because of their undeniable validity--this collapse of authority was a primary concern (Wagner 1995). In an effort to establish a new basis for the determination of truth, which could ...
Open Access - Lund University Publications
... I will try to analyse this experience as a cultural phenomenon. I will use stories of two 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 ...
... I will try to analyse this experience as a cultural phenomenon. I will use stories of two 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 ...
First chapter of study guide
... management as a complex social role within the structure and process of an organisation that is situated (or embedded) within particular national contexts. The last sentence in the paragraph above makes management sound complicated but we will unravel the ideas and concepts involved in management sl ...
... management as a complex social role within the structure and process of an organisation that is situated (or embedded) within particular national contexts. The last sentence in the paragraph above makes management sound complicated but we will unravel the ideas and concepts involved in management sl ...
Social studies of social science
... fore. If ‘facts’ are products, what is the status of social scientific accounts of their making? Are they not constructions too and, if so, how can the social sciences be ...
... fore. If ‘facts’ are products, what is the status of social scientific accounts of their making? Are they not constructions too and, if so, how can the social sciences be ...
B. Kapferer: In the event
... example, contrary to colonialist European imaginaries, some forms of chieftainship and kingship in southern African situations were comparatively egalitarian and were centers of redistribution rather than accumulation. Gluckman was interested, especially with regard to his Zulu research, in how such ...
... example, contrary to colonialist European imaginaries, some forms of chieftainship and kingship in southern African situations were comparatively egalitarian and were centers of redistribution rather than accumulation. Gluckman was interested, especially with regard to his Zulu research, in how such ...
The life of an artifact in an interpretive archaeology
... a radical opposition of people and things should be rethought. This has various dimensions. The issue of alienation and the commodity form finds clear definition in the work of Hegel and Marx, with a dialectic of production and the relationships between people and their creations. It has been the fo ...
... a radical opposition of people and things should be rethought. This has various dimensions. The issue of alienation and the commodity form finds clear definition in the work of Hegel and Marx, with a dialectic of production and the relationships between people and their creations. It has been the fo ...
Curating Post-Mexican Film And Media Arts - Works
... oriented forms of artistic practice that have characterized the “ethnographic turn” in contemporary art on the other. Leading a small seminar at the Escuela Adolfo Prieto in Monterrey, an industrial city in northern Mexico (129), Elhaik trained his students to see a nearby public park, Parque Fundid ...
... oriented forms of artistic practice that have characterized the “ethnographic turn” in contemporary art on the other. Leading a small seminar at the Escuela Adolfo Prieto in Monterrey, an industrial city in northern Mexico (129), Elhaik trained his students to see a nearby public park, Parque Fundid ...
Checklist for Major in Anthropology with Global Health Focus
... participate in foreign language training beyond the introductory level to enhance their cultural awareness and communication skills. develop skills in qualitative research methods through a course like ANTH 290 cultivate relevant laboratory skills through a course like ANTH 240 pursue traini ...
... participate in foreign language training beyond the introductory level to enhance their cultural awareness and communication skills. develop skills in qualitative research methods through a course like ANTH 290 cultivate relevant laboratory skills through a course like ANTH 240 pursue traini ...
Social Constructivism
... is the insight behind the oft-repeated phrase by constructivist Alexander Wendt: ‘anarchy is what states make of it’ (1992). The claim sounds innocent but the potential consequences are far-reaching: suddenly the world of IR becomes less fixated in an age-old structure of anarchy; change becomes pos ...
... is the insight behind the oft-repeated phrase by constructivist Alexander Wendt: ‘anarchy is what states make of it’ (1992). The claim sounds innocent but the potential consequences are far-reaching: suddenly the world of IR becomes less fixated in an age-old structure of anarchy; change becomes pos ...
Geography Policy - Norfolk Community Primary School
... such as maps, statistics, graphs, pictures, and aerial photographs, and we enable them to use IT in geography lessons where this serves to enhance their learning. Children take part in role-play and discussions, and they present reports to the rest of the class. They engage in a wide variety of pro ...
... such as maps, statistics, graphs, pictures, and aerial photographs, and we enable them to use IT in geography lessons where this serves to enhance their learning. Children take part in role-play and discussions, and they present reports to the rest of the class. They engage in a wide variety of pro ...
24 Does Culture Evolve?
... their imperialist venture; and it has quickly drawn the participation of those social scientists optimistic about overcoming their inferiority complex and gaining respectability by grounding their own disciplines in the natural sciences. The bridge itself is the concept of ‘‘cultural evolution’’ who ...
... their imperialist venture; and it has quickly drawn the participation of those social scientists optimistic about overcoming their inferiority complex and gaining respectability by grounding their own disciplines in the natural sciences. The bridge itself is the concept of ‘‘cultural evolution’’ who ...
Social Anthropology - Calicut University
... civilized human societies and of different levels of evolution in them. 4. Political anthropology: Political anthropology has also an important place in social structure along with economic administration. Social anthropology, therefore, studies all types of political administration, laws, governmen ...
... civilized human societies and of different levels of evolution in them. 4. Political anthropology: Political anthropology has also an important place in social structure along with economic administration. Social anthropology, therefore, studies all types of political administration, laws, governmen ...
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... MSC: Applying 16. The study of fossils and ancient DNA to trace changes in human ancestors over time involves which specialization of anthropology? a. prehistoric archaeology c. paleoanthropology b. forensic anthropology d. historic archaeology ANS: C DIF: Easy REF: Through What Lenses Do Anthropolo ...
... MSC: Applying 16. The study of fossils and ancient DNA to trace changes in human ancestors over time involves which specialization of anthropology? a. prehistoric archaeology c. paleoanthropology b. forensic anthropology d. historic archaeology ANS: C DIF: Easy REF: Through What Lenses Do Anthropolo ...
The Four-Field Model
... the discipline because of the role these played in development of the study of material items, mostly collected in the course of Indianology (Adams 1999). These materials were arranged and examined by ethnographers, physical anthropologists, and archaeologists. They were central to the paradigm of u ...
... the discipline because of the role these played in development of the study of material items, mostly collected in the course of Indianology (Adams 1999). These materials were arranged and examined by ethnographers, physical anthropologists, and archaeologists. They were central to the paradigm of u ...
View/Open - Cadair - Aberystwyth University
... Archimedean starting-point, not just for knowledge itself (from a Foundationalist perspective) but also for a long-lasting tradition in the philosophy of knowledge, which Richard Rorty (1979) critiqued as the “truth as correspondence” theory of knowledge, and which is central to Foundationalism its ...
... Archimedean starting-point, not just for knowledge itself (from a Foundationalist perspective) but also for a long-lasting tradition in the philosophy of knowledge, which Richard Rorty (1979) critiqued as the “truth as correspondence” theory of knowledge, and which is central to Foundationalism its ...
Social participation and cultural policy: a position
... civil society as ‘the sphere of institutions, organisations and individuals located between the family, the state and the market, in which people associate voluntarily to advance common interests’. This operational definition does ‘not attempt to define all aspects of civil society, nor does it nece ...
... civil society as ‘the sphere of institutions, organisations and individuals located between the family, the state and the market, in which people associate voluntarily to advance common interests’. This operational definition does ‘not attempt to define all aspects of civil society, nor does it nece ...
Anthropology in Southeast Asia: National Traditions and
... scholars rather than an established discipline, has not been tied to nationbuilding. If anything, anthropology was conceptually excluded from the process in favour of sociology. The latter is seen as the study of ‘advanced’ modern, urban, industrial societies, rather than ‘primitive’ ones, and there ...
... scholars rather than an established discipline, has not been tied to nationbuilding. If anything, anthropology was conceptually excluded from the process in favour of sociology. The latter is seen as the study of ‘advanced’ modern, urban, industrial societies, rather than ‘primitive’ ones, and there ...
Hosts and Hosts
... Anthropologists can add new dimensions to the analysis, holistically assessing many other changes catalyzed by ecotourism and ultimately helping to discern what the local changes might imply for conservation. Anthropologist as Cultural Broker In this paper, I will describe the various methods, chall ...
... Anthropologists can add new dimensions to the analysis, holistically assessing many other changes catalyzed by ecotourism and ultimately helping to discern what the local changes might imply for conservation. Anthropologist as Cultural Broker In this paper, I will describe the various methods, chall ...
towards objective international social inquiry: social science as
... discussions in the discipline have given rise to a post-positivist ‘common-sense’ view that objectivity entails value-free neutrality. The third section therefore moves to the level of philosophical underlabouring, to qualify and clarify the particular, critical realist notion of objectivity defende ...
... discussions in the discipline have given rise to a post-positivist ‘common-sense’ view that objectivity entails value-free neutrality. The third section therefore moves to the level of philosophical underlabouring, to qualify and clarify the particular, critical realist notion of objectivity defende ...
Paper - The Cambridge Social Ontology Group
... discussions in the discipline have given rise to a post-positivist ‘common-sense’ view that objectivity entails value-free neutrality. The third section therefore moves to the level of philosophical underlabouring, to qualify and clarify the particular, critical realist notion of objectivity defende ...
... discussions in the discipline have given rise to a post-positivist ‘common-sense’ view that objectivity entails value-free neutrality. The third section therefore moves to the level of philosophical underlabouring, to qualify and clarify the particular, critical realist notion of objectivity defende ...
On Microsociology of Toys: Material Turn and Non
... construction. At the same time we sow it as the best tool for the upbringing of responsible and self-confident community member, as the crucial part of the famous kibbutz experiment in socialization. Later on we realized that the steering wheel was not connected to the wheels. Immediately friends of ...
... construction. At the same time we sow it as the best tool for the upbringing of responsible and self-confident community member, as the crucial part of the famous kibbutz experiment in socialization. Later on we realized that the steering wheel was not connected to the wheels. Immediately friends of ...