Anthropologists in Films: Snappy Title
... turned out to be duplicates bearing alternate titles (Laure/Forever Emmanuelle, The Beacon/The Haunting at the Beacon), while others (like Alone in the Dark) were watched in their entirety only to turn out to be devoid of anthropologists. To make our list, a film had to contain at least one characte ...
... turned out to be duplicates bearing alternate titles (Laure/Forever Emmanuelle, The Beacon/The Haunting at the Beacon), while others (like Alone in the Dark) were watched in their entirety only to turn out to be devoid of anthropologists. To make our list, a film had to contain at least one characte ...
Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps for Women
... insights and experiences in a talking circle. They also learn how to mind map their own innate knowledge around these teachings and then apply that knowledge to their daily lives and decision making processes. For those working through the program in a group setting (i.e. Circles of Recovery) very s ...
... insights and experiences in a talking circle. They also learn how to mind map their own innate knowledge around these teachings and then apply that knowledge to their daily lives and decision making processes. For those working through the program in a group setting (i.e. Circles of Recovery) very s ...
Michèle Lamont: A Portrait of a Capacious Sociologist
... forward without having books that would be the equivalent of Samuelson’s textbooks on micro and macroeconomics. Earlier sociologists of science had this notion that knowledge accumulation would follow a linear pattern, based on a fantasy of how physics would have been practised in the 1950s. As ...
... forward without having books that would be the equivalent of Samuelson’s textbooks on micro and macroeconomics. Earlier sociologists of science had this notion that knowledge accumulation would follow a linear pattern, based on a fantasy of how physics would have been practised in the 1950s. As ...
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... • Culture is the shared values, norms, symbols, language, objects, and way of life that is passed on from one generation to the next. • Values are defined standards of what is good, bad, desirable, or undesirable for ourselves and others. • In addition to culture, humans have biological needs, which ...
... • Culture is the shared values, norms, symbols, language, objects, and way of life that is passed on from one generation to the next. • Values are defined standards of what is good, bad, desirable, or undesirable for ourselves and others. • In addition to culture, humans have biological needs, which ...
this PDF - HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
... of … subjectivation, the former indicating the submission to power and the latter referring to the constitution of identities, the knowledge of oneself, and, in L’Herméneutique du sujet (2001: 317) in particular, increasingly to “an art of life” and “an exercise of the self on the self.” It is in th ...
... of … subjectivation, the former indicating the submission to power and the latter referring to the constitution of identities, the knowledge of oneself, and, in L’Herméneutique du sujet (2001: 317) in particular, increasingly to “an art of life” and “an exercise of the self on the self.” It is in th ...
Discourse analysis
... any setting organises its activities to make its properties as an organised environment of practical activities detectable, countable, recordable, reportable, tell-a-story-aboutable, analysable, in short: accountable e.g. a setting of a doctor visit in a medical room with validated documentation (hi ...
... any setting organises its activities to make its properties as an organised environment of practical activities detectable, countable, recordable, reportable, tell-a-story-aboutable, analysable, in short: accountable e.g. a setting of a doctor visit in a medical room with validated documentation (hi ...
the cultural continuum: a theory of intersystems
... was in effect a black minority government. During his sixteen years in office, Prime Minister Burnham has created a highly centralized State and proclaimed that Guyana has undergone a “socialist revolution.” Yet there was no political revolution; only an election in which subversive Western powers ...
... was in effect a black minority government. During his sixteen years in office, Prime Minister Burnham has created a highly centralized State and proclaimed that Guyana has undergone a “socialist revolution.” Yet there was no political revolution; only an election in which subversive Western powers ...
Notes for Consilience
... discipline. Or, using the words of Edward O. Wilson from his Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, “Grants and honors are given in science for discoveries, not for scholarship and wisdom….The same professionalism atomization afflicts the social sciences and humanities.” [p.42] { I did adlib some disc ...
... discipline. Or, using the words of Edward O. Wilson from his Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, “Grants and honors are given in science for discoveries, not for scholarship and wisdom….The same professionalism atomization afflicts the social sciences and humanities.” [p.42] { I did adlib some disc ...
Diversity in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences 1
... Although data from these samples are often treated as representing species-general phenomena, this assumption typically remains unexamined. Where generality is examined, it is often found to be unwarranted. A recent extensive review of cultural comparisons involving a wide range of phenomena, includ ...
... Although data from these samples are often treated as representing species-general phenomena, this assumption typically remains unexamined. Where generality is examined, it is often found to be unwarranted. A recent extensive review of cultural comparisons involving a wide range of phenomena, includ ...
Rethinking the culture-economy dialectic Brons, Lajos Ludovic
... Although 'man is necessarily always a prey to his passions' (Spinoza 1677, p. 194), free and virtuous men are 'led solely by reason' (p. 232); freedom comes from understanding your passions. Hence, while reason should guide our behaviour, it often does not. Hume (1740) took a further step by claimin ...
... Although 'man is necessarily always a prey to his passions' (Spinoza 1677, p. 194), free and virtuous men are 'led solely by reason' (p. 232); freedom comes from understanding your passions. Hence, while reason should guide our behaviour, it often does not. Hume (1740) took a further step by claimin ...
Key Competences for Lifelong Learning
... to master a whole new digital world, not only by acquiring technical skills, but also by gaining a deeper understanding of the opportunities, challenges and even ethical questions posed by new technologies. In this climate of rapid change, there is increasing concern about our social cohesion. There ...
... to master a whole new digital world, not only by acquiring technical skills, but also by gaining a deeper understanding of the opportunities, challenges and even ethical questions posed by new technologies. In this climate of rapid change, there is increasing concern about our social cohesion. There ...
FEMINISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES
... recognize their agency as they resist oppression in ways that also enable them to envision alternatives. Culture Studies allows feminist scholars who focus on cultural production (a “soft” academic area where female researchers have often been concentrated) to insist upon culture’s crucially importa ...
... recognize their agency as they resist oppression in ways that also enable them to envision alternatives. Culture Studies allows feminist scholars who focus on cultural production (a “soft” academic area where female researchers have often been concentrated) to insist upon culture’s crucially importa ...
Fifth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change
... other stories, revealing our experience, potentialities and desires. We understand our lives by telling parts of our stories to ourselves, about who we are, what we want, what we can and cannot do, what happened to us. Narratives are one of the most common and easy way to approach the archetypal pat ...
... other stories, revealing our experience, potentialities and desires. We understand our lives by telling parts of our stories to ourselves, about who we are, what we want, what we can and cannot do, what happened to us. Narratives are one of the most common and easy way to approach the archetypal pat ...
The Iconomy of Creative Currencies in the City of Knowledge
... After two decades of internet propaganda, the political and economic issues underlying the advocacy of technological convergence as a gateway to freedom of expression and economic emancipation are still much neglected, despite the evidences to the contrary (especially after the 2008 global financial ...
... After two decades of internet propaganda, the political and economic issues underlying the advocacy of technological convergence as a gateway to freedom of expression and economic emancipation are still much neglected, despite the evidences to the contrary (especially after the 2008 global financial ...
Three modes of experimentation with art and
... intriguing that Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle8 in German is referred to as Unbestimmtheitsrelation (literally ‘relation of uncertainty’), but also as Unschärferelation (literally relation of fuzziness, blurredness, or ‘out-of-focus’ principle). It is this relative positioning of focus to the pe ...
... intriguing that Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle8 in German is referred to as Unbestimmtheitsrelation (literally ‘relation of uncertainty’), but also as Unschärferelation (literally relation of fuzziness, blurredness, or ‘out-of-focus’ principle). It is this relative positioning of focus to the pe ...
maximum mark: 60
... 0–3 A few general points based on commonsense rather than sociological insight can be expected at this level. 4–6 A few relevant sociological observations, possibly relying on a descriptive account of who owns and controls the media. There needs to be evidence of some understanding of the constraint ...
... 0–3 A few general points based on commonsense rather than sociological insight can be expected at this level. 4–6 A few relevant sociological observations, possibly relying on a descriptive account of who owns and controls the media. There needs to be evidence of some understanding of the constraint ...
Chapter 15 - Lowitja Institute
... comprising the different cultures that might impact upon Aboriginal health, partly because, as we shall demonstrate later, the current literature provides no basis for such a task; but, also, mainly because of our argument that the static description, categorisation and comparison of cultures, which ...
... comprising the different cultures that might impact upon Aboriginal health, partly because, as we shall demonstrate later, the current literature provides no basis for such a task; but, also, mainly because of our argument that the static description, categorisation and comparison of cultures, which ...
1 ANTHROPOLOGY 460 Anthropological Theory Professor Paul E
... 3. There is a paradox in Durkheim’s views on the relation between the individual and society. On the one hand, human beings are absolutely dependent upon society, and since religion is society writ large, humans are absolutely dependent upon their religion. On the other hand, he writes that the exis ...
... 3. There is a paradox in Durkheim’s views on the relation between the individual and society. On the one hand, human beings are absolutely dependent upon society, and since religion is society writ large, humans are absolutely dependent upon their religion. On the other hand, he writes that the exis ...
1 what is anthropology? - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... do things? How do we make sense of the world? How do we tell right from wrong? What is right, and what is wrong? A culture produces a degree of consistency in behavior and thought among the people who live in a particular society. The most critical element of cultural traditions is their transmissio ...
... do things? How do we make sense of the world? How do we tell right from wrong? What is right, and what is wrong? A culture produces a degree of consistency in behavior and thought among the people who live in a particular society. The most critical element of cultural traditions is their transmissio ...
Social Science and Social Struggle: Understanding the Necessary
... that perceptions must be “transformed into observation reports before it can begin to enter into scientific knowledge” (ix) - before they become meaningful as scientific data. Observation reports - reports on what we have perceived - they argue, are always laden with assumptions, most derived from p ...
... that perceptions must be “transformed into observation reports before it can begin to enter into scientific knowledge” (ix) - before they become meaningful as scientific data. Observation reports - reports on what we have perceived - they argue, are always laden with assumptions, most derived from p ...
The cultural economy
... At least six lines of current debate about the cultural economy can be identified. First, researchers have sought to show how economics is one rhetoric amongst others; it is a mode of argumentation rather than revealed truth. Second, others have sought to demonstrate how truth claims are sustained ...
... At least six lines of current debate about the cultural economy can be identified. First, researchers have sought to show how economics is one rhetoric amongst others; it is a mode of argumentation rather than revealed truth. Second, others have sought to demonstrate how truth claims are sustained ...
Enriching indigenous knowledge scholarship via collaborative
... need to meet with Wounaan leaders to develop research and an agreement; however, rather than the pro forma agreements that I knew as a practitioner, I wanted to develop something of a decolonizing agreement that explicitly addressed interests and commitments of all parties. I heard about the work by ...
... need to meet with Wounaan leaders to develop research and an agreement; however, rather than the pro forma agreements that I knew as a practitioner, I wanted to develop something of a decolonizing agreement that explicitly addressed interests and commitments of all parties. I heard about the work by ...
educational futures, culture change, and the community college
... stood by me patiently throughout the research process, giving your continual support for my endeavors through thick-and-thin. You were my teachers, my critics, my support. It is to you that I owe this work and this degree. I would first of all like to thank my friends and family. It was your loving ...
... stood by me patiently throughout the research process, giving your continual support for my endeavors through thick-and-thin. You were my teachers, my critics, my support. It is to you that I owe this work and this degree. I would first of all like to thank my friends and family. It was your loving ...
Ethnographic fieldwork - The Political Studies Association
... to teachers, police officers and social workers and any other semi-profession in face-to-face contact with clients of state services. Although the term ‘street-level bureaucrat’ was not in common currency, Kaufman’s The Forest Ranger (1960) pioneered the topic. He studied forest rangers and their su ...
... to teachers, police officers and social workers and any other semi-profession in face-to-face contact with clients of state services. Although the term ‘street-level bureaucrat’ was not in common currency, Kaufman’s The Forest Ranger (1960) pioneered the topic. He studied forest rangers and their su ...
Ethnography as a nonlinear dynamic system
... most sense here is “algorithmic complexity.” An algorithm is just a set of procedures for doing something. So, one measures algorithmic complexity by answering a question: “Is there an algorithm to produce the expression of interest that is simpler than the expression itself? How much simpler is it? ...
... most sense here is “algorithmic complexity.” An algorithm is just a set of procedures for doing something. So, one measures algorithmic complexity by answering a question: “Is there an algorithm to produce the expression of interest that is simpler than the expression itself? How much simpler is it? ...