Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris`s Cultural
... symposia, except for those of Robert Carneiro and David Kennedy. These were invited afterwards and prepared only for this volume. Inasmuch as Harris’s work had a broad impact on all subfields of anthropology, we hope this book will be of interest to all anthropologists. Those contemporary anthropolo ...
... symposia, except for those of Robert Carneiro and David Kennedy. These were invited afterwards and prepared only for this volume. Inasmuch as Harris’s work had a broad impact on all subfields of anthropology, we hope this book will be of interest to all anthropologists. Those contemporary anthropolo ...
Research Methods for Cultural Studies
... critical enquiry and investigation, but are now characterised just as much by the degree to which they draw on their neighbours and are informed by a range of different perspectives. Academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have, in other words, become increasingly interdisciplinary ...
... critical enquiry and investigation, but are now characterised just as much by the degree to which they draw on their neighbours and are informed by a range of different perspectives. Academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have, in other words, become increasingly interdisciplinary ...
Universal Values, Contextualization and Bioethics: Knowledge
... to the various problems raised by the techno-scientific developments are shaped by various contexts: social, cultural, economic, political and scientific? The difficulties we face when trying to relate to and especially to take responsible decisions about the future of techno-scientific developments ...
... to the various problems raised by the techno-scientific developments are shaped by various contexts: social, cultural, economic, political and scientific? The difficulties we face when trying to relate to and especially to take responsible decisions about the future of techno-scientific developments ...
Arapesh Warfare: Reo Fortune`s Veiled Critique of
... The fact that we can read in Sex and Temperament an analysis of Mead’s personal concerns is no accident. Both the organizing paradigm and the specific cultural characterizations presented in the book were motivated by a private theory of temperamental types that Mead began working out in discussions ...
... The fact that we can read in Sex and Temperament an analysis of Mead’s personal concerns is no accident. Both the organizing paradigm and the specific cultural characterizations presented in the book were motivated by a private theory of temperamental types that Mead began working out in discussions ...
Ineffable, Tacit, Explicable and Explicit
... language community, would normally be inclined to call “tacit.” Riding a bike, for instance, is something many of us can do, but we cannot say how. Mastering an art or craft is also said to involve tacit knowledge; to learn what the expert knows and develop a similar level of skill one typically nee ...
... language community, would normally be inclined to call “tacit.” Riding a bike, for instance, is something many of us can do, but we cannot say how. Mastering an art or craft is also said to involve tacit knowledge; to learn what the expert knows and develop a similar level of skill one typically nee ...
Professions as Science-Based Occupations
... another that satisfies most, if not all, attributes. Here is a more drastic example. In his book The Professional Thief, Edwin Sutherland (1937) demonstrates that organized crime, the mafia, achieves high values at most professional variables. They are self-reproducing, strive for occupational monop ...
... another that satisfies most, if not all, attributes. Here is a more drastic example. In his book The Professional Thief, Edwin Sutherland (1937) demonstrates that organized crime, the mafia, achieves high values at most professional variables. They are self-reproducing, strive for occupational monop ...
Discourse and creativity - Reading`s CentAUR
... creativity of everyday language are perhaps best represented by the work of Ron Carter who, in his 2004 book Language and Creativity: The Art of Everyday Talk and elsewhere (Carter , 1999; Carter and McCarthy, 2004) argues that features associated with literary texts like word play, rhyme, metaphor, ...
... creativity of everyday language are perhaps best represented by the work of Ron Carter who, in his 2004 book Language and Creativity: The Art of Everyday Talk and elsewhere (Carter , 1999; Carter and McCarthy, 2004) argues that features associated with literary texts like word play, rhyme, metaphor, ...
PSY 206 Chapter objectives
... Explain how locomotion develops Describe the component skills of walking and the milestones beyond walking Describe fine motor skills Explain how handedness develops Discuss the benefits of physical fitness Explain whether children benefit from participation in sports ...
... Explain how locomotion develops Describe the component skills of walking and the milestones beyond walking Describe fine motor skills Explain how handedness develops Discuss the benefits of physical fitness Explain whether children benefit from participation in sports ...
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... Explain how locomotion develops Describe the component skills of walking and the milestones beyond walking Describe fine motor skills Explain how handedness develops Discuss the benefits of physical fitness Explain whether children benefit from participation in sports ...
... Explain how locomotion develops Describe the component skills of walking and the milestones beyond walking Describe fine motor skills Explain how handedness develops Discuss the benefits of physical fitness Explain whether children benefit from participation in sports ...
1 Social status and cultural consumption
... of participation in high cultural activities; and that the nature and extent of their cultural consumption was often not regarded, either by themselves or by others, as playing any great part in the maintenance of their social superiority. Further, though, there were doubts as to whether in general ...
... of participation in high cultural activities; and that the nature and extent of their cultural consumption was often not regarded, either by themselves or by others, as playing any great part in the maintenance of their social superiority. Further, though, there were doubts as to whether in general ...
science - Human Nature Review
... speeds and outstanding work. By comparing these figures, each person can get put through to the typist who can complete their work most quickly. For the supervisor the control console shows how much work each typist has, how much the department as a whole is doing and (from an additional microproces ...
... speeds and outstanding work. By comparing these figures, each person can get put through to the typist who can complete their work most quickly. For the supervisor the control console shows how much work each typist has, how much the department as a whole is doing and (from an additional microproces ...
On Recent Trends in the Anthropology of Foragers: Kalahari
... criticisms by no means reduce the value of his study, which is amply demonstrated by the enormous body of work it has inspired. The general adequacy of forager diets and the low work effort required to obtain them are also important components of the prevailing model. Sahlins's (1972) well-known wor ...
... criticisms by no means reduce the value of his study, which is amply demonstrated by the enormous body of work it has inspired. The general adequacy of forager diets and the low work effort required to obtain them are also important components of the prevailing model. Sahlins's (1972) well-known wor ...
Analyzing Communication in the International Workplace
... wherever possible. This gets translated in the “Dale Carnegie” tradition of “winning friends and influencing people” into the rule that you should always focus on learning a person’s personal name and then use that name to address the person. Using the practices of just one cultural or social group ...
... wherever possible. This gets translated in the “Dale Carnegie” tradition of “winning friends and influencing people” into the rule that you should always focus on learning a person’s personal name and then use that name to address the person. Using the practices of just one cultural or social group ...
AP Psychology Curriculum
... 3. Compare algorithms and heuristics as problem-solving strategies, and explain how insight differs from both of them. 4. Contrast the confirmation bias and fixation, and explain how they can interfere with effective problem solving. 5. Contrast the representativeness and availability heuristics, an ...
... 3. Compare algorithms and heuristics as problem-solving strategies, and explain how insight differs from both of them. 4. Contrast the confirmation bias and fixation, and explain how they can interfere with effective problem solving. 5. Contrast the representativeness and availability heuristics, an ...
Sustainable Futures - Ympäristö ja kehitys ry
... sense as all patterns of human behaviour that include thought, expression, action, institutions and artefacts. A sustainable culture is understood as one that incorporates environmental sustainability and promotes human dignity for all. Using these two criteria for sustainable culture, three global ...
... sense as all patterns of human behaviour that include thought, expression, action, institutions and artefacts. A sustainable culture is understood as one that incorporates environmental sustainability and promotes human dignity for all. Using these two criteria for sustainable culture, three global ...
On the relation between`visual research methods` and contemporary
... The answer to this question is most clear in what the users of VRM argue are its special strengths. There are three of these. First, VRM are argued to be especially effective in generating evidence that other methods – especially interviews, not to mention surveys – cannot. Almost all VRM involve ta ...
... The answer to this question is most clear in what the users of VRM argue are its special strengths. There are three of these. First, VRM are argued to be especially effective in generating evidence that other methods – especially interviews, not to mention surveys – cannot. Almost all VRM involve ta ...
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... to explain a particularly tricky phenomenon or aspect of reality, such inventions are worthless if they cannot be conveyed to others by using language, which is an essential part of human reality. ...
... to explain a particularly tricky phenomenon or aspect of reality, such inventions are worthless if they cannot be conveyed to others by using language, which is an essential part of human reality. ...
music-based mentoring
... outcomes for children and young people, particularly those in challenging circumstances. There remains a need to address the lack of understanding, knowledge and skills in practising music-based mentoring and the lack of funding to do so. This module intends to improve the lives of children and youn ...
... outcomes for children and young people, particularly those in challenging circumstances. There remains a need to address the lack of understanding, knowledge and skills in practising music-based mentoring and the lack of funding to do so. This module intends to improve the lives of children and youn ...
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Chiasmus and the Ethnographic Journey
... Music is a cultural invention (it is pure artifice), but is given body (brought into existence) as nature (sensible reality). In other words music is not sound, it becomes sound. Conversely, nature (sensible reality) is a given for painting, whose task is to use cultural codes (style) to re-organise ...
... Music is a cultural invention (it is pure artifice), but is given body (brought into existence) as nature (sensible reality). In other words music is not sound, it becomes sound. Conversely, nature (sensible reality) is a given for painting, whose task is to use cultural codes (style) to re-organise ...
PRAGMATIC ANTHROPOLOGY
... various human interactions. As we will see at the end of the next section, Kant does see pragmatic anthropology as playing important roles in this sort of application of moral principles to human life. But this role is not the role of “moral anthropology” strictly speaking. Instead, “moral anthropol ...
... various human interactions. As we will see at the end of the next section, Kant does see pragmatic anthropology as playing important roles in this sort of application of moral principles to human life. But this role is not the role of “moral anthropology” strictly speaking. Instead, “moral anthropol ...
• “Letting the Genie Out of Its Bottle: Contemporary Population
... The subject of this paper is the innovation process and the problem of simultaneous transitional processes in organizations. According to my conceptual analysis of innovation research, the dynamics of the technology/product design and various organizational transitions has not been adequately unders ...
... The subject of this paper is the innovation process and the problem of simultaneous transitional processes in organizations. According to my conceptual analysis of innovation research, the dynamics of the technology/product design and various organizational transitions has not been adequately unders ...
Foucault`s Deconstruction of the Subject: A Feminist Epistemological
... subsequently, Foucault’s deconstruction of subject lacks a crucial aspect of understanding the power structures between communities within political discourse. In Habermas and Lyotard on Post-Modernity¸ Richard Rorty states that Foucault’s analysis contains: a dryness produced by a lack of identific ...
... subsequently, Foucault’s deconstruction of subject lacks a crucial aspect of understanding the power structures between communities within political discourse. In Habermas and Lyotard on Post-Modernity¸ Richard Rorty states that Foucault’s analysis contains: a dryness produced by a lack of identific ...
Törnberg, Petter - Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
... 3 This term is contested and describes a discipline with many – often contradictory – directions. As used in this essay, the term will specifically denote an important direction within the larger discipline centered around, and developing from, the Santa Fe Institute (see Galison, 1997), representin ...
... 3 This term is contested and describes a discipline with many – often contradictory – directions. As used in this essay, the term will specifically denote an important direction within the larger discipline centered around, and developing from, the Santa Fe Institute (see Galison, 1997), representin ...
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... thereby privileging a state-centric understanding of politics. Consistent with the other chapters in this volume, this chapter seeks to simultaneously elu cidate and complexify our understanding of globalflocal linkages. Yet it also offers a potentially more hopeful reading of the knowledge/power n ...
... thereby privileging a state-centric understanding of politics. Consistent with the other chapters in this volume, this chapter seeks to simultaneously elu cidate and complexify our understanding of globalflocal linkages. Yet it also offers a potentially more hopeful reading of the knowledge/power n ...