Observation and ``Science`` in British anthropology
... along with Thomas Huxley, as a scientific reformer. He contrasts the work of Hunt and Huxley in order to highlight their differences as merely one of professional competition, thereby sidelining substantive disagreements over Darwinism, polygenism, slavery, and British colonialism. Instead of examini ...
... along with Thomas Huxley, as a scientific reformer. He contrasts the work of Hunt and Huxley in order to highlight their differences as merely one of professional competition, thereby sidelining substantive disagreements over Darwinism, polygenism, slavery, and British colonialism. Instead of examini ...
Doing Cultural Anthropology
... only a general idea about a location that might suit their research interests.The ultimate choice involves some practical matters, such as the availability of housing, health care, and transportation, but the major consideration is whether the site will allow the researchers to answer the questions ...
... only a general idea about a location that might suit their research interests.The ultimate choice involves some practical matters, such as the availability of housing, health care, and transportation, but the major consideration is whether the site will allow the researchers to answer the questions ...
Levi Fox Page 1 04/23/01 Franz Boas and the Genesis of Cultural
... widely practiced and understood in the years since for two main reasons. Firstly, in arguing that each culture functions as a consistent and integrated whole, she explicitly lays out the idea that each individual culture has its own internal logic that cannot be readily compared to (or judged with r ...
... widely practiced and understood in the years since for two main reasons. Firstly, in arguing that each culture functions as a consistent and integrated whole, she explicitly lays out the idea that each individual culture has its own internal logic that cannot be readily compared to (or judged with r ...
Translations on the Move
... counterfeit. At the same time, taking the informants’ analysis at face value was also problematic because it would render the anthropological analysis a simple act of replication of indigenous concepts. Her solution was to juxtapose the socialscientific and the informant usages of ‘network’ and deli ...
... counterfeit. At the same time, taking the informants’ analysis at face value was also problematic because it would render the anthropological analysis a simple act of replication of indigenous concepts. Her solution was to juxtapose the socialscientific and the informant usages of ‘network’ and deli ...
CHAPTER 2 Cultural Diversity
... Cultural relativism helps sociologists in understanding why people in different societies have different cultural norms. – e.g. the Sepoy Rebellion of India in 1857 (gunpowder cartridges were sealed with pig or beef fat, both are religiously offensive to Hindu and Muslims) ...
... Cultural relativism helps sociologists in understanding why people in different societies have different cultural norms. – e.g. the Sepoy Rebellion of India in 1857 (gunpowder cartridges were sealed with pig or beef fat, both are religiously offensive to Hindu and Muslims) ...
Cultural evidence in courts of law
... to a mechanical approach, relying on ‘quantification, formal rules and a fixation with methodological review’ (Edmond & Mercer 2004: 8, citing Porter 1995), in an attempt to limit the acceptability of individual (read unreliable) opinions. English courts are less precise in specifying reliability cr ...
... to a mechanical approach, relying on ‘quantification, formal rules and a fixation with methodological review’ (Edmond & Mercer 2004: 8, citing Porter 1995), in an attempt to limit the acceptability of individual (read unreliable) opinions. English courts are less precise in specifying reliability cr ...
marcotte_hpr - DigitalCommons@URI
... systems of the very people we have been studying and working with for generations. It is well past the time for this to change. Do anthropologists still use science? Of course, and science may well offer the most appropriate methodology for many. Still, we must also recognize that there are other me ...
... systems of the very people we have been studying and working with for generations. It is well past the time for this to change. Do anthropologists still use science? Of course, and science may well offer the most appropriate methodology for many. Still, we must also recognize that there are other me ...
Position paper - Vanderbilt University
... communities in the United States (Strong 1933, 1935; Steward 1946). In some cases, strong connections were demonstrated between prehistoric cultures and modern tribes. However, the direct historical approach was broadened thereafter – made heuristic and applied in circumstances in which historical c ...
... communities in the United States (Strong 1933, 1935; Steward 1946). In some cases, strong connections were demonstrated between prehistoric cultures and modern tribes. However, the direct historical approach was broadened thereafter – made heuristic and applied in circumstances in which historical c ...
Culture in Business: Using a Symbolic Approach
... usually only corporate culture which reflects reality in very limited ways. Culture becomes a pale imitation of what the organization should look like based on the often‐detached perspective of senior management. What’s needed is a refreshed view of culture that takes into account a more holistic ...
... usually only corporate culture which reflects reality in very limited ways. Culture becomes a pale imitation of what the organization should look like based on the often‐detached perspective of senior management. What’s needed is a refreshed view of culture that takes into account a more holistic ...
Anthropologists of the central Andes have been accused of failing to
... communities in the United States (Strong 1933, 1935; Steward 1946). In some cases, strong connections were demonstrated between prehistoric cultures and modern tribes. However, the direct historical approach was broadened thereafter – made heuristic and applied in circumstances in which historical c ...
... communities in the United States (Strong 1933, 1935; Steward 1946). In some cases, strong connections were demonstrated between prehistoric cultures and modern tribes. However, the direct historical approach was broadened thereafter – made heuristic and applied in circumstances in which historical c ...
Test No Topics for the Test
... gathering, fishing, swiddening, pastoralism, horticulture, and agriculture; globalization and indigenous economic systems. ...
... gathering, fishing, swiddening, pastoralism, horticulture, and agriculture; globalization and indigenous economic systems. ...
There are a number of specific points I wish surface in my paper
... in the wholesale rethinking of how something is understood and what is at stake.” (Cefkin 2011, p. 26) Further, “the moments for such actions are often fleeting, nearly invisible and remain unmarked”. So what does that say about forms of intervention and about their temporal modes, when they enter t ...
... in the wholesale rethinking of how something is understood and what is at stake.” (Cefkin 2011, p. 26) Further, “the moments for such actions are often fleeting, nearly invisible and remain unmarked”. So what does that say about forms of intervention and about their temporal modes, when they enter t ...
Cultural Anthropology by Nancy Bonvillain
... means of communicating those ideas. Material culture: The tools, utensils, clothing, housing, and other objects that people make or use. ...
... means of communicating those ideas. Material culture: The tools, utensils, clothing, housing, and other objects that people make or use. ...
Critical Contextualization
... know something about the political, economic, and social structures of the people they ruled. Consequently, early anthropological research in Africa, often funded by the government, focused on indigenous forms of social organization. Africa began to play a key role in the formation of anthropologica ...
... know something about the political, economic, and social structures of the people they ruled. Consequently, early anthropological research in Africa, often funded by the government, focused on indigenous forms of social organization. Africa began to play a key role in the formation of anthropologica ...
Department of Anthropology and Tribal Development Guru
... to him, culture is invention of man for the fulfillment of social needs and it is transferred from one generation to another through socialization process and exchange of ideas. Herskovits, an American anthropologist, in his book, Man and his Work, has defined culture as man-made part of environment ...
... to him, culture is invention of man for the fulfillment of social needs and it is transferred from one generation to another through socialization process and exchange of ideas. Herskovits, an American anthropologist, in his book, Man and his Work, has defined culture as man-made part of environment ...
Conclusion: Implications of a Cultural Lens for Public Policy and
... Learning by Doing and the Incorporation of Context Culturally informed public action is not easy. The process requires paying close attention to context in shaping interventions both globally and locally. It therefore argues against the idea of “best practice” -- that an intervention that worked won ...
... Learning by Doing and the Incorporation of Context Culturally informed public action is not easy. The process requires paying close attention to context in shaping interventions both globally and locally. It therefore argues against the idea of “best practice” -- that an intervention that worked won ...
The Theoretical Legacies of Cultural
... theoretical formulation that purports to offer a causal explanation of human behavior in terms of some extrinsic factor must explicitly specify the mode of this articulation.” O’Meara does not deny that cultural materialism identifies useful correlations among different types of events (such as the ...
... theoretical formulation that purports to offer a causal explanation of human behavior in terms of some extrinsic factor must explicitly specify the mode of this articulation.” O’Meara does not deny that cultural materialism identifies useful correlations among different types of events (such as the ...
'Colonial Governmentalities: conference report'
... museological gaze, but one with a different political logic. Focusing on the Austrian Museum for Folk Culture (Osterreichisches Museum fOr Volkskunde), she examined a series of ethnographic exhibitions held in the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian empire, describing how the monarchy, museums and ...
... museological gaze, but one with a different political logic. Focusing on the Austrian Museum for Folk Culture (Osterreichisches Museum fOr Volkskunde), she examined a series of ethnographic exhibitions held in the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian empire, describing how the monarchy, museums and ...
The Body`s appearance in Anthropology: Cultures
... and this problem seems to be closely linked to others that appear as “personal concept” and “body techniques”, isolated by Marcel Mauss in 1950. In anthropology, the individual body images represented face this double heuristic ambiguity, and that double interpretation challenge: what to do with the ...
... and this problem seems to be closely linked to others that appear as “personal concept” and “body techniques”, isolated by Marcel Mauss in 1950. In anthropology, the individual body images represented face this double heuristic ambiguity, and that double interpretation challenge: what to do with the ...
he Value of `Culture`
... Just like us, Mongolians contest the different meanings of democracy at each election. In 2000 and 2001, the MPRP regained control of Mongolia’s Parliament and reinstated the MPRP president. The Communist ideas of economic equality and a ‘humane government’ (responsible for the people’s welfare) res ...
... Just like us, Mongolians contest the different meanings of democracy at each election. In 2000 and 2001, the MPRP regained control of Mongolia’s Parliament and reinstated the MPRP president. The Communist ideas of economic equality and a ‘humane government’ (responsible for the people’s welfare) res ...
Culture, Identity and Representations of Region
... simply a way of talking about collective identities’ (Kuper 1999: 3). This follows a general line of anthropological, multiculturalist and communitarian thinking which deals with groups rather than notions of the individual. ...
... simply a way of talking about collective identities’ (Kuper 1999: 3). This follows a general line of anthropological, multiculturalist and communitarian thinking which deals with groups rather than notions of the individual. ...
This material is Copyright 1995 by Brett Dellinger
... One can therefore say that Van Dijk's theory is, in some imporatant ways, a development of Fiske's own concept of cognition, which he expressed follows: ... to take an example, a Catholic trade unionist working in a Detroit car plant will inflect working-class social experience quite differently fr ...
... One can therefore say that Van Dijk's theory is, in some imporatant ways, a development of Fiske's own concept of cognition, which he expressed follows: ... to take an example, a Catholic trade unionist working in a Detroit car plant will inflect working-class social experience quite differently fr ...
Anthropology - Diversity at Rice
... ANTH 316 - CULTURAL ANALYSIS Credits: 3 This course is specifically intended for lower level undergraduates as a means of gaining familiarity with the analytical tradition of cultural anthropology from the beginning of the Twentieth Century. The course is intended to provide students with background ...
... ANTH 316 - CULTURAL ANALYSIS Credits: 3 This course is specifically intended for lower level undergraduates as a means of gaining familiarity with the analytical tradition of cultural anthropology from the beginning of the Twentieth Century. The course is intended to provide students with background ...
Chapter one ppt
... e.g. “rescue” archaeology being conducted by the private sector in the face of development projects ...
... e.g. “rescue” archaeology being conducted by the private sector in the face of development projects ...
Anthropology - Whitman College
... This seminar examines a range of approaches to the analysis of ecological and social processes, drawing on interpretations of different socio-ecological studies in anthropology and geography. Covers cultural ecology and political ecology. Topics include human/environment relations through the lens o ...
... This seminar examines a range of approaches to the analysis of ecological and social processes, drawing on interpretations of different socio-ecological studies in anthropology and geography. Covers cultural ecology and political ecology. Topics include human/environment relations through the lens o ...