Masks of Identity - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... of alterity. But as soon as one form of Otherness is successfully discredited, another one appears to take its place, as strong as ever. In this sense, alterity is like a hydra – the more heads we cut off, the more we will have to cut off in the future. The question of the Other, therefore, is not s ...
... of alterity. But as soon as one form of Otherness is successfully discredited, another one appears to take its place, as strong as ever. In this sense, alterity is like a hydra – the more heads we cut off, the more we will have to cut off in the future. The question of the Other, therefore, is not s ...
Bielawski1991
... comments, we have paid much less attention to why Eskimos do what they do (1990:4). The difficulty in answering questions of "why" and "how" is emphasized in the relevant literature. Salmond, Overing, and others emphasize that an openness to other rationalities, a critical understanding of assumptio ...
... comments, we have paid much less attention to why Eskimos do what they do (1990:4). The difficulty in answering questions of "why" and "how" is emphasized in the relevant literature. Salmond, Overing, and others emphasize that an openness to other rationalities, a critical understanding of assumptio ...
Reading Context Into Performance: Theatrical Formations and
... Most neo-Marxists begin their critique of these assumptions by drawing on a different definition of culture. Raymond Williams and others sharing this orientation see culture~and within it, the theatre~as patterns of symbolic actions, not as products, texts, or artifacts per se. In this sense, theatr ...
... Most neo-Marxists begin their critique of these assumptions by drawing on a different definition of culture. Raymond Williams and others sharing this orientation see culture~and within it, the theatre~as patterns of symbolic actions, not as products, texts, or artifacts per se. In this sense, theatr ...
Context for Public Health Nutrition Practice: Cultural Competence
... How do leaders make it happen? • Frame ideas—the capacity to define opportunities and issues in ways that lead to effective action. Through framing, a group understands and decides what needs to be done, how it is to be done, and why it is important. • Build social capital—the capacity to develop a ...
... How do leaders make it happen? • Frame ideas—the capacity to define opportunities and issues in ways that lead to effective action. Through framing, a group understands and decides what needs to be done, how it is to be done, and why it is important. • Build social capital—the capacity to develop a ...
Applied anthropology
... preserving sites threatened by dams, highways, and other projects – Involves not only preserving sites but allowing their destruction if they are not significant ...
... preserving sites threatened by dams, highways, and other projects – Involves not only preserving sites but allowing their destruction if they are not significant ...
Talking Culture: New Boundaries, New Rhetorics of Exclusion in
... of this shift in the way in which European antiimmigrantsentimentis phrased.Then I will trace the social and political roots and the implicationsof this new rhetoric.The formationofliberalstatesand notions of belonginghas, of course, been quite different from one WesternEuropeancountryto another.His ...
... of this shift in the way in which European antiimmigrantsentimentis phrased.Then I will trace the social and political roots and the implicationsof this new rhetoric.The formationofliberalstatesand notions of belonginghas, of course, been quite different from one WesternEuropeancountryto another.His ...
1 - Michigan State University
... himself stated the case, the “limitation of the field of the work of the anthropologist is more or less accidental, and originated because other sciences occupied part of the ground before the development of modern anthropology.”9 Anthropology’s place, at the time of its emergence and within the aca ...
... himself stated the case, the “limitation of the field of the work of the anthropologist is more or less accidental, and originated because other sciences occupied part of the ground before the development of modern anthropology.”9 Anthropology’s place, at the time of its emergence and within the aca ...
Julian Steward and the Rise of Anthropological Theory
... to your section on Kroeber and Steward. As a student of Kroeber and Lowie, my first year, 1925-6, was loaded with area courses which lacked anything nomothetic . Despite the Boasian of Kroeber and Lowie, which I did not know at that time, I entered anthropology hoping to find a means of explaining c ...
... to your section on Kroeber and Steward. As a student of Kroeber and Lowie, my first year, 1925-6, was loaded with area courses which lacked anything nomothetic . Despite the Boasian of Kroeber and Lowie, which I did not know at that time, I entered anthropology hoping to find a means of explaining c ...
Slide 1 The Rejection of Cultural Evolution (How Evolution Came to
... •“interaction of culture and environment becomes increasingly complex when followed out. … this complexity makes generalization unprofitable,… in each situation or area, different environmental facotrs are likely to be impinging on culture with different intensity Slide 22 Environmental Possibilism ...
... •“interaction of culture and environment becomes increasingly complex when followed out. … this complexity makes generalization unprofitable,… in each situation or area, different environmental facotrs are likely to be impinging on culture with different intensity Slide 22 Environmental Possibilism ...
Sample Chapter 1
... human behavior, thought, and feeling if we studied only our own kind? What if our entire understanding of human behavior were based on analysis of questionnaires filled out by college students in Oregon? One culture, age group, or gender can’t tell us everything we need to know about what it means t ...
... human behavior, thought, and feeling if we studied only our own kind? What if our entire understanding of human behavior were based on analysis of questionnaires filled out by college students in Oregon? One culture, age group, or gender can’t tell us everything we need to know about what it means t ...
Social Theory of International Politics, Chapters 3 and 4
... game theory, which provides a useful model of how culture is structured at the microlevel. Common knowledge concerns actors’ beliefs, about each other’s rationality, strategies, preferences and beliefs, as well as about states of the external world. Specific cultural forms like norms, rules, institu ...
... game theory, which provides a useful model of how culture is structured at the microlevel. Common knowledge concerns actors’ beliefs, about each other’s rationality, strategies, preferences and beliefs, as well as about states of the external world. Specific cultural forms like norms, rules, institu ...
The Cultural Environments Facing Business
... similar Cultural collision can occur when a company implements practices that are counters a country’s cultural norms Copyright © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. ...
... similar Cultural collision can occur when a company implements practices that are counters a country’s cultural norms Copyright © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. ...
THE SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELD EXPERIENCE* George
... carry out field investigations. In the late spring of 1937, prior to embarking on my first field venture among the Yuki Indians of Round Valley, California, I asked A. L. Kroeber how I should prepare myself. He suggested I buy a notebook and pencil. At that time it was assumed that a well-prepared ...
... carry out field investigations. In the late spring of 1937, prior to embarking on my first field venture among the Yuki Indians of Round Valley, California, I asked A. L. Kroeber how I should prepare myself. He suggested I buy a notebook and pencil. At that time it was assumed that a well-prepared ...
Chapter 3, Exploring the Family
... Conflict and Feminist Perspective on the Family Gender is central to the analysis of Theme family; male dominance in family and society is oppressive of women. Key Male dominance; Power and Concepts inequality; Sex/gender systems Work and family; Domestic violence; Current Family power; Advocacy of ...
... Conflict and Feminist Perspective on the Family Gender is central to the analysis of Theme family; male dominance in family and society is oppressive of women. Key Male dominance; Power and Concepts inequality; Sex/gender systems Work and family; Domestic violence; Current Family power; Advocacy of ...
Slide 1
... Key (tone, manner, or spirit of the event) Instrumentalities (forms and styles used) Norms (social rules governing the action) Genre not what’s being said … it’s what what’s being said says ...
... Key (tone, manner, or spirit of the event) Instrumentalities (forms and styles used) Norms (social rules governing the action) Genre not what’s being said … it’s what what’s being said says ...
doc Anthropology Final Essay 11
... designs where others may possibly be absolutely breathtaking. Furthermore, family ties including kinship and social networks were also explained in this chapter along with what makes a true Maisin person moral. A good example of being a moral and good individual comes from Barkers book stating that ...
... designs where others may possibly be absolutely breathtaking. Furthermore, family ties including kinship and social networks were also explained in this chapter along with what makes a true Maisin person moral. A good example of being a moral and good individual comes from Barkers book stating that ...
Read the introduction - Duke University Press
... of Canberra; Mat Poll, Macleay Museum; and Chris Wilson, Flinders University. In New Zealand we were helpfully advised by Professor Paul Tapsell, Te Tumu: School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago. We thank all of the individuals mentioned here for giving so generously of ...
... of Canberra; Mat Poll, Macleay Museum; and Chris Wilson, Flinders University. In New Zealand we were helpfully advised by Professor Paul Tapsell, Te Tumu: School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago. We thank all of the individuals mentioned here for giving so generously of ...
ScienceSocPerspective
... sociological perspectives because they have in common the sociological perspective. Quick – what is the sociological perspective? Two of the theories are referred to as macroanalysis theories (macrosociology) and one theory is referred to as a microanalysis theory (microsociology). Let’s go back to ...
... sociological perspectives because they have in common the sociological perspective. Quick – what is the sociological perspective? Two of the theories are referred to as macroanalysis theories (macrosociology) and one theory is referred to as a microanalysis theory (microsociology). Let’s go back to ...
Anthropology of Everydayness Cultural Theory and Social Practice
... in many cases have been accepted for granted while in fact consist of hidden characteristics that can be revealed by research in depth at different hierarchical levels. ...
... in many cases have been accepted for granted while in fact consist of hidden characteristics that can be revealed by research in depth at different hierarchical levels. ...
let`s avoid ethnocentrism - National Commission On Culture
... An attitude for learning is required of us. In this process, it is important for us to remember that we do not know, and that is why we are seeking to develop better understanding. The best method is to ask for their explanations about what they do or say. ...
... An attitude for learning is required of us. In this process, it is important for us to remember that we do not know, and that is why we are seeking to develop better understanding. The best method is to ask for their explanations about what they do or say. ...
PT Ch03 - HCC Learning Web
... Understanding Ourselves • Ethnographic method – valuable tool for applied anthropology • Study societies firsthand: living with, observing, and learning from ordinary people • Participant observation • “Take me to the local peoples” • The people must play and active role in changes that affect them ...
... Understanding Ourselves • Ethnographic method – valuable tool for applied anthropology • Study societies firsthand: living with, observing, and learning from ordinary people • Participant observation • “Take me to the local peoples” • The people must play and active role in changes that affect them ...
Reading and Interpreting Ethnography
... even defining, method of anthropological inquiry. This is, it should be noted, a European history. Many of the same considerations that animated Malinowski’s work were also important concerns in the approximately contemporaneous work of American anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas. For Boas and h ...
... even defining, method of anthropological inquiry. This is, it should be noted, a European history. Many of the same considerations that animated Malinowski’s work were also important concerns in the approximately contemporaneous work of American anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas. For Boas and h ...
Social Constructions
... • science does not progress via a linear accumulation of new knowledge • periodic revolutions: "paradigm shifts" • anomalous results build up, science reaches a crisis, at which point a new paradigm • it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of a ...
... • science does not progress via a linear accumulation of new knowledge • periodic revolutions: "paradigm shifts" • anomalous results build up, science reaches a crisis, at which point a new paradigm • it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of a ...
situation of freelancers in slovenia
... gross wage of the employee in the same rang. The situation gets even worse if we consider that freelancers in culture sector deals with institutions and organisations that gets state subsidy for their production. Therefore they are not entirely on free market and the quality of their outcome is not ...
... gross wage of the employee in the same rang. The situation gets even worse if we consider that freelancers in culture sector deals with institutions and organisations that gets state subsidy for their production. Therefore they are not entirely on free market and the quality of their outcome is not ...
Moro-Myers-Lehman Text Supplement
... Myths are sacred and true cultural narratives. They allow people to explain their origins and worldview, and act as social charters. Myths and religions depend on symbols and symbolic behavior. It is the task of the anthropologist to interpret the meaning of such symbols and myths, and to discern th ...
... Myths are sacred and true cultural narratives. They allow people to explain their origins and worldview, and act as social charters. Myths and religions depend on symbols and symbolic behavior. It is the task of the anthropologist to interpret the meaning of such symbols and myths, and to discern th ...