Anthropological Theory and Intelligence
... combining insights from a range of scientific and humanistic fields. Franz Boas, the trained physicist who founded modern American anthropology, conceived of anthropology as comprising “four fields:” biological (or physical) anthropology, archaeology, sociocultural (or cultural or social) anthropolo ...
... combining insights from a range of scientific and humanistic fields. Franz Boas, the trained physicist who founded modern American anthropology, conceived of anthropology as comprising “four fields:” biological (or physical) anthropology, archaeology, sociocultural (or cultural or social) anthropolo ...
Hopscotch modernism - Modernist Cultures
... Such a generalized ethnographic perspective that can link anthropology and sociology with the artistic project of modernism might allow us to rethink the monuments of canonical modernism (Ulysses as experimental ethnography of Dublin, for instance) while also allowing for the re-centring of seemingl ...
... Such a generalized ethnographic perspective that can link anthropology and sociology with the artistic project of modernism might allow us to rethink the monuments of canonical modernism (Ulysses as experimental ethnography of Dublin, for instance) while also allowing for the re-centring of seemingl ...
Archaeometry and materiality: materials
... involved the importation of expertise from the physical sciences, such as chemistry and physics (Tite 1972) and geology (Peacock 1969a,b; 1982). The success of these approaches is perhaps exemplified by the useful translation of tried and tested techniques of characterization, such as petrology, to ...
... involved the importation of expertise from the physical sciences, such as chemistry and physics (Tite 1972) and geology (Peacock 1969a,b; 1982). The success of these approaches is perhaps exemplified by the useful translation of tried and tested techniques of characterization, such as petrology, to ...
ANTHRONOTES - Anthropology
... outside of an evolutionary model, helping establish American anthropology within a more relativistic approach. Seeking to understand the “native point of view”—a phrase made famous by British anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski—necessarily implied a more intense focus on field collaboration. Ethnogr ...
... outside of an evolutionary model, helping establish American anthropology within a more relativistic approach. Seeking to understand the “native point of view”—a phrase made famous by British anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski—necessarily implied a more intense focus on field collaboration. Ethnogr ...
how should knowledge in the management sciences
... available model of management by public and private sector managers in several countries is strong evidence for the merit of structuring knowledge of management in the form of methods. The criteria in the quality awards are reviewed each year and questions are added or removed by the judges to refle ...
... available model of management by public and private sector managers in several countries is strong evidence for the merit of structuring knowledge of management in the form of methods. The criteria in the quality awards are reviewed each year and questions are added or removed by the judges to refle ...
methods of humanization - Center for Ethnography
... The event was titled Methods of Humanization: Death Penalty Mitigation and Ethnography as Antidiscipline. In promotional materials, I set up the dialogue with a quote from the legal scholar David Westbrook. As he sees it, the capitalist world order operates according to a logic that “does not expres ...
... The event was titled Methods of Humanization: Death Penalty Mitigation and Ethnography as Antidiscipline. In promotional materials, I set up the dialogue with a quote from the legal scholar David Westbrook. As he sees it, the capitalist world order operates according to a logic that “does not expres ...
Marketplace conversations in Cameroon: How
... that supported the roof o f the market. In the night he withdrew to the back of his shop where he had a bed and some possessions, most o f them in old bags. Everything looked sordid, and I never fully understood how he managed to live. When I passed in the night, I found his place closed. He was at ...
... that supported the roof o f the market. In the night he withdrew to the back of his shop where he had a bed and some possessions, most o f them in old bags. Everything looked sordid, and I never fully understood how he managed to live. When I passed in the night, I found his place closed. He was at ...
Book Prospectus - Stanford University
... growth over the twentieth century, the expansion rates of sociology and geography far outpace those of political science, economics, anthropology, and psychology. The basic subject matter of the social sciences is human society, explicitly conceived as a dynamic system, amenable to rational manageme ...
... growth over the twentieth century, the expansion rates of sociology and geography far outpace those of political science, economics, anthropology, and psychology. The basic subject matter of the social sciences is human society, explicitly conceived as a dynamic system, amenable to rational manageme ...
What is Anthropology?
... My new project analyses historical and contemporary dynamics in the livestock industry in Botswana, especially as the industry is increasingly constrained and affected by changing international trade arrangements, consumer preferences, and market competition. The manner in which the state manage ...
... My new project analyses historical and contemporary dynamics in the livestock industry in Botswana, especially as the industry is increasingly constrained and affected by changing international trade arrangements, consumer preferences, and market competition. The manner in which the state manage ...
The Historical Study of Ethnographic Fieldwork
... culture they subsequently offered differ from one another in striking ways. In her best-selling book Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), Mead famously concluded that Mountain Arapesh culture embodies a nurturing, maternal, and peaceful ideal for both sexes. But Fortune objected ...
... culture they subsequently offered differ from one another in striking ways. In her best-selling book Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), Mead famously concluded that Mountain Arapesh culture embodies a nurturing, maternal, and peaceful ideal for both sexes. But Fortune objected ...
Exam #1 Study Guide… Chapter 1… Explain how anthropology
... Recognize that culture is now humanity’s major mode of adaptation. [Remember/Understand] Identify the fossil ancestors of our species and approximately where and when they lived. ...
... Recognize that culture is now humanity’s major mode of adaptation. [Remember/Understand] Identify the fossil ancestors of our species and approximately where and when they lived. ...
ANTHROPOlOgy - UTP Publishing
... areas one would expect in an introductory class. The text itself, rich with ethnographic examples, will certainly inspire classroom debates, and discussion questions and classroom activity suggestions are well formulated, encouraging students to get their hands dirty as they wrangle with the issues ...
... areas one would expect in an introductory class. The text itself, rich with ethnographic examples, will certainly inspire classroom debates, and discussion questions and classroom activity suggestions are well formulated, encouraging students to get their hands dirty as they wrangle with the issues ...
Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina Elana
... (“Administration”) analyzes the development of the “illegal” state’s administrative apparatuses and practices, as well as the critical attitudes of Turkish-Cypriots toward those apparatuses. Particular attention is given to the state’s documentary practices and the forms of affect they produce. Part ...
... (“Administration”) analyzes the development of the “illegal” state’s administrative apparatuses and practices, as well as the critical attitudes of Turkish-Cypriots toward those apparatuses. Particular attention is given to the state’s documentary practices and the forms of affect they produce. Part ...
Communicating with Transculturation
... would only use it in his sense and always acknowledge its paternity. Coronil points out that only very few anthropologists, literary critics and exponents of cultural studies have so far been willing to seriously address Ortiz’ book. Amid those studies that have injected the concept of «transcultura ...
... would only use it in his sense and always acknowledge its paternity. Coronil points out that only very few anthropologists, literary critics and exponents of cultural studies have so far been willing to seriously address Ortiz’ book. Amid those studies that have injected the concept of «transcultura ...
UCL Anthropology PGT Options 2016/17
... Digital data is becoming an inevitable part of everyday life, mediating and instantiating our relationships with other people, the natural world, the past and the future. What can the study of data tell us about emergent forms of social life? And what can anthropology bring to the study of digital d ...
... Digital data is becoming an inevitable part of everyday life, mediating and instantiating our relationships with other people, the natural world, the past and the future. What can the study of data tell us about emergent forms of social life? And what can anthropology bring to the study of digital d ...
theoretical framework and genesis of cultural materialism
... life into mental and behavioral events, in other words. In order to explain people’s thoughts and behavior in scientific Adapting linguistic theory of Kenneth Pike, Harris calls participant’s perspective “emic,” and observer’s perspective “etic” [3, p. 31– 32]. Harris premonishes from confusing emic ...
... life into mental and behavioral events, in other words. In order to explain people’s thoughts and behavior in scientific Adapting linguistic theory of Kenneth Pike, Harris calls participant’s perspective “emic,” and observer’s perspective “etic” [3, p. 31– 32]. Harris premonishes from confusing emic ...
Abel, Tom 1998. Complex adaptive systems, evolutionism, and
... studies of existing and past societies to build arguments for understanding structure and function in cultures, and the processes that create change. What emerges from the comparison and contrasting of cases is a number of hypothesized relationships.4 The result of their analysis is to produce expla ...
... studies of existing and past societies to build arguments for understanding structure and function in cultures, and the processes that create change. What emerges from the comparison and contrasting of cases is a number of hypothesized relationships.4 The result of their analysis is to produce expla ...
The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution
... increases our power to act, via the increase of scientific knowledge and technological know-how. But without wisdom – without a solution to the second problem of learning – our immensely increased power to act may have good consequences, but will as often as not have all sorts of harmful consequenc ...
... increases our power to act, via the increase of scientific knowledge and technological know-how. But without wisdom – without a solution to the second problem of learning – our immensely increased power to act may have good consequences, but will as often as not have all sorts of harmful consequenc ...
ANT 465 - www7 - Northern Arizona University
... Any study involving observation of or interaction with human subjects that originates at NAU, including a class project, report, or research paper, must be reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research and Research-Related activities. ...
... Any study involving observation of or interaction with human subjects that originates at NAU, including a class project, report, or research paper, must be reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research and Research-Related activities. ...
Film20A: The Film Experience Fall 2007
... to the unseen, unheard questions.) This is also a structure used by Paris is Burning. ...
... to the unseen, unheard questions.) This is also a structure used by Paris is Burning. ...
Information Retrieval vs Knowledge Retrieval: A - CEUR
... known from the world of fashion. In the world of news, research and technology this may translate to the fact that a trend is a trend when ’relevant’ people or websites take up the topic. But how can the relevant people or websites be distinguished from the less relevant? How can ’relevant’ be defin ...
... known from the world of fashion. In the world of news, research and technology this may translate to the fact that a trend is a trend when ’relevant’ people or websites take up the topic. But how can the relevant people or websites be distinguished from the less relevant? How can ’relevant’ be defin ...
Spring 2013 - Tufts University
... study. Issues of cultural ecology, environmental determinism, warfare, state formation, gender, shamanism, mythology, and art will all be addressed in relation to hunters and gatherers such as the Yanomami, lowland horticulturalists such as the Yekuana and Tukano, and Andean herders and planters suc ...
... study. Issues of cultural ecology, environmental determinism, warfare, state formation, gender, shamanism, mythology, and art will all be addressed in relation to hunters and gatherers such as the Yanomami, lowland horticulturalists such as the Yekuana and Tukano, and Andean herders and planters suc ...
- Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive
... existence of connections between some at least of these developments, but without making the attempt to analyse them as parts of a single historical process or as aspects of a more complex social formation. It may be possible to overcome the (theoretical, methodological, disciplinary) isolation of t ...
... existence of connections between some at least of these developments, but without making the attempt to analyse them as parts of a single historical process or as aspects of a more complex social formation. It may be possible to overcome the (theoretical, methodological, disciplinary) isolation of t ...
ENG 241 Fall 2014 Essay 2: Literary Analysis Requirements: 3
... 2. There are a multitude of vantage points or “lenses” in literary criticism through which you might look at Beowulf: feminists, eco-critical, post-modern, etc.). What do we learn about the poem when read in this way? What changes and what stays the same? Is it even fair to impose contemporary criti ...
... 2. There are a multitude of vantage points or “lenses” in literary criticism through which you might look at Beowulf: feminists, eco-critical, post-modern, etc.). What do we learn about the poem when read in this way? What changes and what stays the same? Is it even fair to impose contemporary criti ...
Anthropology 148: Ecological Anthropology
... suburban San Diegans, this class will introduce you to different ways of life. It will familiarize you with other societies while also making aspects of our society seem strange. From this course you will be able to more fully understand and explain differences in the ways that various groups of peo ...
... suburban San Diegans, this class will introduce you to different ways of life. It will familiarize you with other societies while also making aspects of our society seem strange. From this course you will be able to more fully understand and explain differences in the ways that various groups of peo ...