Executive Summary Report - Understanding Migration
... Evident in the textured, full-group discussion that took place during the first half of the day on April 26, the Public Education Initiative on Migration and Displacement responds to critical and interdisciplinary concerns and questions that resonate with researchers' overlapping and distinct foci a ...
... Evident in the textured, full-group discussion that took place during the first half of the day on April 26, the Public Education Initiative on Migration and Displacement responds to critical and interdisciplinary concerns and questions that resonate with researchers' overlapping and distinct foci a ...
From Culture Areas to Ethnoscapes - Journal of Regional Analysis
... of the culture area concept but noted that the idea had existed long before Wissler (Freed and Freed 1983). In fact, Wissler had developed the concept based on an 1895 article by Otis T. Mason (1895) in which he had identified eighteen American Indian ‗culture areas‘ (Harris 1968). However, it was W ...
... of the culture area concept but noted that the idea had existed long before Wissler (Freed and Freed 1983). In fact, Wissler had developed the concept based on an 1895 article by Otis T. Mason (1895) in which he had identified eighteen American Indian ‗culture areas‘ (Harris 1968). However, it was W ...
Approaching material culture
... of cross-cultural laws, which also undermined its own basis, and gave rise to its counterpart – post-processual archaeology (Hodder 1982 a, b, c). “Ethnoarchaeology” has traditionally been, on the one hand, the sub-discipline which has aimed to bridge archaeology and anthropology, and on the other h ...
... of cross-cultural laws, which also undermined its own basis, and gave rise to its counterpart – post-processual archaeology (Hodder 1982 a, b, c). “Ethnoarchaeology” has traditionally been, on the one hand, the sub-discipline which has aimed to bridge archaeology and anthropology, and on the other h ...
Marvin Harris at Columbia in the 1970`s
... ideas throughout the world. Besides Marx, cultural materialism had other powerful inspirations, especially in its strong evolutionary orientation. Darwin was bedrock, for explaining how complex structures can evolve over time, through short-term efforts to cope with environmental realities. Malthus ...
... ideas throughout the world. Besides Marx, cultural materialism had other powerful inspirations, especially in its strong evolutionary orientation. Darwin was bedrock, for explaining how complex structures can evolve over time, through short-term efforts to cope with environmental realities. Malthus ...
The Anthropological Society of Western Australia
... Aborigines. The fields to be included are Social and Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Ethnology, Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics and Semantics. (b) To provide a common medium and meeting place for people interested in these subjects, and facilitate the interchange of ideas. (c) To en ...
... Aborigines. The fields to be included are Social and Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Ethnology, Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics and Semantics. (b) To provide a common medium and meeting place for people interested in these subjects, and facilitate the interchange of ideas. (c) To en ...
knowledge, sociology of
... redirection of the field from the study of conflicting ideologies to the study of the tacit and taken-for-granted understandings of everyday life can be characterized as a shift from concerns with the truth-status of ideas and ideologies to the concerns of a cultural ‘‘sociology of meaning.’’ These ...
... redirection of the field from the study of conflicting ideologies to the study of the tacit and taken-for-granted understandings of everyday life can be characterized as a shift from concerns with the truth-status of ideas and ideologies to the concerns of a cultural ‘‘sociology of meaning.’’ These ...
Encounters on Education Encuentros sobre Educación Rencontres sur l’Éducation
... ourselves in the game of belongings and exclusions. Being “myself” always implies referring to “we” and “they”. Such references operate by means of categories of identification: citizenship, nation, culture, etc. Though historically these categories have never had set bounds, perhaps today’s world, ...
... ourselves in the game of belongings and exclusions. Being “myself” always implies referring to “we” and “they”. Such references operate by means of categories of identification: citizenship, nation, culture, etc. Though historically these categories have never had set bounds, perhaps today’s world, ...
Socialisation - NC Sociology
... role models. The way it treats people by gender, sexuality etc. can impact society’s views on these issues. It has strong links to ethnicity. Many people consider their religion to be a central part of their ethnic identity. ...
... role models. The way it treats people by gender, sexuality etc. can impact society’s views on these issues. It has strong links to ethnicity. Many people consider their religion to be a central part of their ethnic identity. ...
ii - Forskning
... The background of the paper is a long experience of collaboration with Chinese colleagues and doctoral students on researcher training in the field of lifelong learning. The point of departure for this work was concrete academic interest in exchange between research groups within similar research ar ...
... The background of the paper is a long experience of collaboration with Chinese colleagues and doctoral students on researcher training in the field of lifelong learning. The point of departure for this work was concrete academic interest in exchange between research groups within similar research ar ...
II. A Certain Inheritance: Nineteenth Century German
... … do not limit your response to a word, but penetrate deeply into this century, this region, this entire history, plunge yourself into it all and feel it all inside yourself – then only will you be in a position to understand; then only will you give up the idea of comparing everything, in general o ...
... … do not limit your response to a word, but penetrate deeply into this century, this region, this entire history, plunge yourself into it all and feel it all inside yourself – then only will you be in a position to understand; then only will you give up the idea of comparing everything, in general o ...
How to value socio-economic impacts?
... – Difficult to value intellectual capital from an accounting point of view – Need for accountability through planned objectives, organisation of resources and performance indicators – Knowledge narrative = how knowledge resources are organised to form value creation (resources, activities, effects) ...
... – Difficult to value intellectual capital from an accounting point of view – Need for accountability through planned objectives, organisation of resources and performance indicators – Knowledge narrative = how knowledge resources are organised to form value creation (resources, activities, effects) ...
Cover Sheet - Ciem-UCR
... the process of appropriation of concepts could be an interesting approach to establish a decolonial knowledge. According to Burns, “appropriations have no interest in the intentions of the author, or the meaning which a text has for the person who wrote it. Nor are they interested in the ‘truth’” (B ...
... the process of appropriation of concepts could be an interesting approach to establish a decolonial knowledge. According to Burns, “appropriations have no interest in the intentions of the author, or the meaning which a text has for the person who wrote it. Nor are they interested in the ‘truth’” (B ...
epistemic confusion and patterns of sociological knowledge
... When it results from the inability to sift between too many cognitive and explanatory options, it indicates deficient cultural learning mechanisms. When it results from the incapacity to confront social reality as it is, it indicates severe structural problems with the accessibility to social and mo ...
... When it results from the inability to sift between too many cognitive and explanatory options, it indicates deficient cultural learning mechanisms. When it results from the incapacity to confront social reality as it is, it indicates severe structural problems with the accessibility to social and mo ...
Fall 2015 - University of Louisville
... introduces students to the discipline of archaeology and seeks to explain the processes through which archaeologists investigate the past. We will cover the kinds of questions archaeologists ask, how we design and execute research, and how we analyze archaeological materials and data. In this course ...
... introduces students to the discipline of archaeology and seeks to explain the processes through which archaeologists investigate the past. We will cover the kinds of questions archaeologists ask, how we design and execute research, and how we analyze archaeological materials and data. In this course ...
Contraculture and Subculture
... recentyears therehas beenwidespread ture within some societies. It is unfortunate and fruitful employment of the concept that "subculture," a central concept in this of subculture in sociological and anthro- process, has seldom been adequately depological research. The term has been used fined.1It h ...
... recentyears therehas beenwidespread ture within some societies. It is unfortunate and fruitful employment of the concept that "subculture," a central concept in this of subculture in sociological and anthro- process, has seldom been adequately depological research. The term has been used fined.1It h ...
What is Anthropology?
... shoulders and firm bodies, competitive swimming is not very popular among Brazilian females. – In the U.S., there are not many African-American swimmers or hockey players, not because of some biological reason, but because those sports are not as culturally significant as football, basketball, baseb ...
... shoulders and firm bodies, competitive swimming is not very popular among Brazilian females. – In the U.S., there are not many African-American swimmers or hockey players, not because of some biological reason, but because those sports are not as culturally significant as football, basketball, baseb ...
PDF 139k - Etnográfica
... demonstrate the observable and measurable impact of their research outside the academic sphere – in broader society, economy, polity. As with interdisciplinarity, as Dyck’s essay demonstrates, there is nothing new to anthropologists having an impact beyond the academy. Anthropologists and more than ...
... demonstrate the observable and measurable impact of their research outside the academic sphere – in broader society, economy, polity. As with interdisciplinarity, as Dyck’s essay demonstrates, there is nothing new to anthropologists having an impact beyond the academy. Anthropologists and more than ...
first_2014_-_rajagopalan-_raj_-_anthropology
... techniques 1. SOC analysts’ knowledge is very tribal, there is no alternative to experience. 2. Analysts are not always aware of their own knowledge, which comes out in interactions. 3. It is necessary and possible to become a SOC “insider” to learn how it really works 4. SOC management need to empo ...
... techniques 1. SOC analysts’ knowledge is very tribal, there is no alternative to experience. 2. Analysts are not always aware of their own knowledge, which comes out in interactions. 3. It is necessary and possible to become a SOC “insider” to learn how it really works 4. SOC management need to empo ...
Chapter 1. Introduction After culture: anthropology as radical
... and invidious ways of distinguishing humans, such as by religion or race,2 which have been turned so destructively in the course of history against other human beings. Culture by contrast is democratic: we all have it and, in principle at least, nobody’s is inherently superior to anyone else’s. Now, ...
... and invidious ways of distinguishing humans, such as by religion or race,2 which have been turned so destructively in the course of history against other human beings. Culture by contrast is democratic: we all have it and, in principle at least, nobody’s is inherently superior to anyone else’s. Now, ...
Final Exam: Humanities 399
... III-1 Darwin and Lemarck account for the formation and evolution of species in different ways. Explain the difference between these two viewpoints and how each of these two theories have been used to defend a political order. ...
... III-1 Darwin and Lemarck account for the formation and evolution of species in different ways. Explain the difference between these two viewpoints and how each of these two theories have been used to defend a political order. ...
The Historical Study of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Margaret Mead and
... men to war. There was nothing comparable in Mead's experience that testified to this precolonial Arapesh culture of conflict, and it found no place in her ethnography (Dobrin and Bashkow 2006). Second, Mead and Fortune experienced Mountain Arapesh life in the form of a particular social world they p ...
... men to war. There was nothing comparable in Mead's experience that testified to this precolonial Arapesh culture of conflict, and it found no place in her ethnography (Dobrin and Bashkow 2006). Second, Mead and Fortune experienced Mountain Arapesh life in the form of a particular social world they p ...
chapter 2 - Test Bank 1
... a. the people who share a culture are all members of the same nation-state. b. people who share a culture are able to communicate and interact without serious misunderstandings or needing to explain their behavior. c. culture is always shared by an easily identifiable group of people. d. people who ...
... a. the people who share a culture are all members of the same nation-state. b. people who share a culture are able to communicate and interact without serious misunderstandings or needing to explain their behavior. c. culture is always shared by an easily identifiable group of people. d. people who ...
National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples
... The recognition that people are increasingly "moving targets" (Breckenridge and Appadurai 1989:i) of anthropological enquiry is associated with the placing of boundaries and borderlands at the center of our analytical frameworks, as opposed to relegating them to invisible peripheries or anomalous da ...
... The recognition that people are increasingly "moving targets" (Breckenridge and Appadurai 1989:i) of anthropological enquiry is associated with the placing of boundaries and borderlands at the center of our analytical frameworks, as opposed to relegating them to invisible peripheries or anomalous da ...
Is Science Scientific?
... between ideas (which, in a nutshell, is the task of theory) and, once we do this, we start to organise knowledge into an ideological framework - a pattern of ideas that specifies how various bits and pieces of knowledge relate to one another. A classic example of this might be the idea of "cause and ...
... between ideas (which, in a nutshell, is the task of theory) and, once we do this, we start to organise knowledge into an ideological framework - a pattern of ideas that specifies how various bits and pieces of knowledge relate to one another. A classic example of this might be the idea of "cause and ...
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... studies can illuminate the political constitution of “the West” itself. Such a comparison can illustrate “how not just the colonies but the existence of socialism itself affected the constitution and becoming of “the West,” often simultaneously with processes involving the colonies, postcolonies, an ...
... studies can illuminate the political constitution of “the West” itself. Such a comparison can illustrate “how not just the colonies but the existence of socialism itself affected the constitution and becoming of “the West,” often simultaneously with processes involving the colonies, postcolonies, an ...