Template108 - Duke People
... anthropological theory and methods to provide a better understanding of demographic phenomena in current and past populations. Its genesis and ongoing growth lie at the intersection between demography and socio-cultural anthropology and with their efforts to understand population processes, mainly f ...
... anthropological theory and methods to provide a better understanding of demographic phenomena in current and past populations. Its genesis and ongoing growth lie at the intersection between demography and socio-cultural anthropology and with their efforts to understand population processes, mainly f ...
beliefs, values and intercultural communication
... Indeed, Segal (1991: 239) describes Indians as being ‘reserved and reluctant to discuss their problems outside the family’. Most forms of counselling tend to value one’s ability to self-disclose and to talk about the most intimate aspects of one’s life. Indeed, self-disclosure has often been discuss ...
... Indeed, Segal (1991: 239) describes Indians as being ‘reserved and reluctant to discuss their problems outside the family’. Most forms of counselling tend to value one’s ability to self-disclose and to talk about the most intimate aspects of one’s life. Indeed, self-disclosure has often been discuss ...
Sample Chapter - Duke University Press
... study violence for what it can teach us about society. ...
... study violence for what it can teach us about society. ...
Epistemological Bias in the Physical and Social Sciences
... a general critical approach is preferable. Western schools of thought confirmed that human beings are by nature worldly (secular) and place physical self-interest above any other consideration. This viewpoint emphasizes technological and industrial development as a way to gratify this materialist se ...
... a general critical approach is preferable. Western schools of thought confirmed that human beings are by nature worldly (secular) and place physical self-interest above any other consideration. This viewpoint emphasizes technological and industrial development as a way to gratify this materialist se ...
David Graeber Radical alterity is just another way of
... Let me state the matter in brief. Viveiros de Castro has over the last decade become something of a standard bearer for what has come to be known in anthropology as the “ontological turn” (hence, OT; see, among others: Candea 2011; Henare, Holbraad, and Wastel 2007; Holbraad 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012a, ...
... Let me state the matter in brief. Viveiros de Castro has over the last decade become something of a standard bearer for what has come to be known in anthropology as the “ontological turn” (hence, OT; see, among others: Candea 2011; Henare, Holbraad, and Wastel 2007; Holbraad 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012a, ...
1 Empowered Individualism in World Culture
... culture scholars argue that a growing endorsement of individuals as central actors in modern society intensified after World War II (Meyer & Jepperson, 2000). A large number of empirical studies support arguments that the emergence of world culture after World War II emphasizes universalistic notion ...
... culture scholars argue that a growing endorsement of individuals as central actors in modern society intensified after World War II (Meyer & Jepperson, 2000). A large number of empirical studies support arguments that the emergence of world culture after World War II emphasizes universalistic notion ...
Communicative Action and Mass Communication via Internet
... through morality and norm boundaries thereby shedding morality, one becomes elite. What occurs, in nihilism, is that instead of a reasonable science aimed at understanding the world of material and ideal, for the purpose of advancing the human species toward freedom, there is a scientific rational a ...
... through morality and norm boundaries thereby shedding morality, one becomes elite. What occurs, in nihilism, is that instead of a reasonable science aimed at understanding the world of material and ideal, for the purpose of advancing the human species toward freedom, there is a scientific rational a ...
Chapter II Roots of Ecocriticism The study of literature
... nature writing. It is a broad genre that is known by many names like green cultural studies, ecopoetics and environmental literary criticism, which are some popular names for this relatively new branch of literary criticism. Literary criticism in general examines the relations between writers, texts ...
... nature writing. It is a broad genre that is known by many names like green cultural studies, ecopoetics and environmental literary criticism, which are some popular names for this relatively new branch of literary criticism. Literary criticism in general examines the relations between writers, texts ...
ANTH 301 - Wellesley College
... development of contemporary theory will be examined both as internal to the discipline and as a response to changing intellectual climates and social milieu. The course will focus on each theory in action, as the theoretical principles and methods apply to ethnographic case studies. Course Goal and ...
... development of contemporary theory will be examined both as internal to the discipline and as a response to changing intellectual climates and social milieu. The course will focus on each theory in action, as the theoretical principles and methods apply to ethnographic case studies. Course Goal and ...
Beyond Sontag as a reader of Lévi-Strauss: `anthropologist as hero
... To a large extent, this may still be how the practice of anthropology is viewed from outside the discipline. Yet, as anthropologists increasingly study groups that are not necessarily ‘non-Western’ or located abroad, as they study elites or their own societies, or celebrate their intervention into s ...
... To a large extent, this may still be how the practice of anthropology is viewed from outside the discipline. Yet, as anthropologists increasingly study groups that are not necessarily ‘non-Western’ or located abroad, as they study elites or their own societies, or celebrate their intervention into s ...
Epistemology, Theory, and Methodology in Knowledge Organization
... One “radical” example of epistemic constructs and knowledge claims comes from radical liberation theology, and its reclamation of words, classification, and dictionaries. Mary Daly in cahoots with Jane Caputi (1987) conjured the Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language. Th ...
... One “radical” example of epistemic constructs and knowledge claims comes from radical liberation theology, and its reclamation of words, classification, and dictionaries. Mary Daly in cahoots with Jane Caputi (1987) conjured the Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language. Th ...
emergence and the logic of explanation an argument for the unity of
... rise of self-organization concepts, the concept of emergence has been revisited. Actually, the latter may serve as a proper philosophical foundation of the former, if the selforganization paradigm is understood as a turn away from the mechanistic world view and if the philosophy of emergence gets ri ...
... rise of self-organization concepts, the concept of emergence has been revisited. Actually, the latter may serve as a proper philosophical foundation of the former, if the selforganization paradigm is understood as a turn away from the mechanistic world view and if the philosophy of emergence gets ri ...
Leslie Spier on the Censure of Franz Boas
... before the annual meeting of the AAA. You've undertaken quite a job there, writing the history of the Association, and we thank you for doing it. It is just as well that something of the sort be put together now while some of the founders and men who were members in earlier years are still with us. ...
... before the annual meeting of the AAA. You've undertaken quite a job there, writing the history of the Association, and we thank you for doing it. It is just as well that something of the sort be put together now while some of the founders and men who were members in earlier years are still with us. ...
All of the Above: New Coalitions in Sociocultural Linguistics
... many linguistic anthropologists engaging more with scholarship on language in other disciplines than with the other subfields of anthropology.2 At the same time, scholars involved in this research program were equally concerned with specialization and disciplinarity as they established the sociocult ...
... many linguistic anthropologists engaging more with scholarship on language in other disciplines than with the other subfields of anthropology.2 At the same time, scholars involved in this research program were equally concerned with specialization and disciplinarity as they established the sociocult ...
Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality”
... Let me state the matter in brief. Viveiros de Castro has over the last decade become something of a standard bearer for what has come to be known in anthropology as the “ontological turn” (hence, OT; see, among others: Candea 2011; Henare, Holbraad, and Wastel 2007; Holbraad 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012a, ...
... Let me state the matter in brief. Viveiros de Castro has over the last decade become something of a standard bearer for what has come to be known in anthropology as the “ontological turn” (hence, OT; see, among others: Candea 2011; Henare, Holbraad, and Wastel 2007; Holbraad 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012a, ...
Conversions, Dreams, Defining Aims? Following Boas, Malinowski
... Anthropology’s founding figures were academic travelers, who brought skills that were honed in a variety of fields to their new enterprise. Two such figures were Franz Boas, born in Minden, Westphalia in 1858, and Bronislaw Malinowski, born in Kraków, Galicia, in 1884. Both were recognized for helpi ...
... Anthropology’s founding figures were academic travelers, who brought skills that were honed in a variety of fields to their new enterprise. Two such figures were Franz Boas, born in Minden, Westphalia in 1858, and Bronislaw Malinowski, born in Kraków, Galicia, in 1884. Both were recognized for helpi ...
CSGP 07/2 - Trent University
... as a black box beyond individuals. Arguably, systemism is the approach adopted by anyone who endeavors to explain the formation, maintenance, repair, or dismantling of a concrete complex ...
... as a black box beyond individuals. Arguably, systemism is the approach adopted by anyone who endeavors to explain the formation, maintenance, repair, or dismantling of a concrete complex ...
Cultural evolution and archaeology : Historical and cultural trends
... reality and evolution theory (Bamforth 2003; Fracchia and Lewontin 1999, 2005; Gabora 2006). In the current archaeological debate, a contrast is often made between agency perspectives, which stress individual choices and particularistic historicism, and evolutionary and Darwinian explanations (Krist ...
... reality and evolution theory (Bamforth 2003; Fracchia and Lewontin 1999, 2005; Gabora 2006). In the current archaeological debate, a contrast is often made between agency perspectives, which stress individual choices and particularistic historicism, and evolutionary and Darwinian explanations (Krist ...
Chapter 2 Malinowski as Applied Anthropologist
... across fields of action in a systematic fashion and to ask “If this changed, what else would happen?,” no bad directive whether one is an applied or an academic anthropologist. In fact, while functionalism never was very much a theory it provided a good working method. Today, of course, one would us ...
... across fields of action in a systematic fashion and to ask “If this changed, what else would happen?,” no bad directive whether one is an applied or an academic anthropologist. In fact, while functionalism never was very much a theory it provided a good working method. Today, of course, one would us ...
after the end of theory. Why do Cultural Studies need to be
... But at the same time, this thinking has many values that the great cultural theories of the XX century lacked. Here, there is a different point of distribution. Thinkers who were working in the XX century, in comparison to contemporary researchers, had the privilege of being able to think slowly. Th ...
... But at the same time, this thinking has many values that the great cultural theories of the XX century lacked. Here, there is a different point of distribution. Thinkers who were working in the XX century, in comparison to contemporary researchers, had the privilege of being able to think slowly. Th ...
Elements of Culturally Competent Counseling
... What is evident from the outset is that any counselor who claims to be culturally competent must ground his or her practice with a solid understanding of history and the social movements which shape it. In the United States this means understanding the history of multicultural counseling as a discip ...
... What is evident from the outset is that any counselor who claims to be culturally competent must ground his or her practice with a solid understanding of history and the social movements which shape it. In the United States this means understanding the history of multicultural counseling as a discip ...
Chapter II Theoretical Approaches and Key Concepts in Medical
... other approaches in medical anthropology have departed. In order to reach this middle ground approach I continue by discussing the political economy of health approach. The importance of this approach lays in its emphasis upon societal forces and their influence on health, introducing the dimension ...
... other approaches in medical anthropology have departed. In order to reach this middle ground approach I continue by discussing the political economy of health approach. The importance of this approach lays in its emphasis upon societal forces and their influence on health, introducing the dimension ...
Cultural Evolutionary Processes
... evolutionary social science more generally, and is concerned with analyses that are oriented towards relatively fine grained understanding, rather than broad theoretical analyses. For this reason the evolutionary social science that will be the center of attention in what follows will be the interdi ...
... evolutionary social science more generally, and is concerned with analyses that are oriented towards relatively fine grained understanding, rather than broad theoretical analyses. For this reason the evolutionary social science that will be the center of attention in what follows will be the interdi ...
Spaces of Indigenous cultural performance as spaces of
... relations (Howard-Wagner 2009). That is, ‘faced with a relationship of power, a whole field of responses, reactions, results, and possible inventions open up’ (Foucault 1994: 340). Subjectivities work through resistance, but, as a form of resistance, that are not fixed or static (Howard-Wagner 2009: ...
... relations (Howard-Wagner 2009). That is, ‘faced with a relationship of power, a whole field of responses, reactions, results, and possible inventions open up’ (Foucault 1994: 340). Subjectivities work through resistance, but, as a form of resistance, that are not fixed or static (Howard-Wagner 2009: ...
Using mixed methods for analysing culture: The cultural capital and
... it reveals the relationality of social life implicit in Bourdieu’s theorising, notwithstanding subsequent critical readings of his claims that he portrays the relationship between taste and social class as determinist. MCA creates a cultural map, showing the spread of relations between forms of cul ...
... it reveals the relationality of social life implicit in Bourdieu’s theorising, notwithstanding subsequent critical readings of his claims that he portrays the relationship between taste and social class as determinist. MCA creates a cultural map, showing the spread of relations between forms of cul ...