David Graeber Radical alterity is just another way of
... of “native” concepts, and consider the implications of treating them as a form of reality (but a reality that exists only for this one particular group of “natives”), or one can come to accept the general theoretical framework promulgated by proponents of the “ontological turn.” And indeed it is tru ...
... of “native” concepts, and consider the implications of treating them as a form of reality (but a reality that exists only for this one particular group of “natives”), or one can come to accept the general theoretical framework promulgated by proponents of the “ontological turn.” And indeed it is tru ...
Social anthropology in INCAP
... between Ladinos and Indians, and between residents of different barrios or neighborhoods. There was also an internal split between progovernment villagers, called “communists,” and the opposition, called “anticommunists” [12]. Finally, villagers clearly distinguished themselves from outsiders, espec ...
... between Ladinos and Indians, and between residents of different barrios or neighborhoods. There was also an internal split between progovernment villagers, called “communists,” and the opposition, called “anticommunists” [12]. Finally, villagers clearly distinguished themselves from outsiders, espec ...
Cultural and Social Studies - Creighton University Catalog
... An exploration of the ideas central to sociology and anthropology from the perspective of their historical and contemporary theories. Special attention is given to the implications of these ideas for understanding human social values. P: So. stdg. ANT 307. Demography: World Population Issues. 3 cred ...
... An exploration of the ideas central to sociology and anthropology from the perspective of their historical and contemporary theories. Special attention is given to the implications of these ideas for understanding human social values. P: So. stdg. ANT 307. Demography: World Population Issues. 3 cred ...
Levi Fox Page 1 04/23/01 Franz Boas and the Genesis of Cultural
... career attempting to develop a working alternative. In formulating this alternative Boas became “largely responsible for developing cultural relativism,”1 a doctrine which developed around the ideas that norms and values differed by culture and, most importantly, that because of these differences it ...
... career attempting to develop a working alternative. In formulating this alternative Boas became “largely responsible for developing cultural relativism,”1 a doctrine which developed around the ideas that norms and values differed by culture and, most importantly, that because of these differences it ...
Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction - Cultural-Studies
... “Cultures travel across geographical borders; they merge and separate; they cross and disrupt political and social divisions, and also, sometimes, strengthen them. Capital and fashions ebb and flow through different cultural forms. Some genres become specialized ‘extreme’, others sweep the world.” ...
... “Cultures travel across geographical borders; they merge and separate; they cross and disrupt political and social divisions, and also, sometimes, strengthen them. Capital and fashions ebb and flow through different cultural forms. Some genres become specialized ‘extreme’, others sweep the world.” ...
Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory
... groups in the Caribbean and Indian-Oceanic world. In Brazil, the Japanese immigrants retained a cohesive community despite foreign influence. It is valuable in that it provides valuable ethnographic perspective in processes of cultural change, and generational information that we often lack in the h ...
... groups in the Caribbean and Indian-Oceanic world. In Brazil, the Japanese immigrants retained a cohesive community despite foreign influence. It is valuable in that it provides valuable ethnographic perspective in processes of cultural change, and generational information that we often lack in the h ...
The Theoretical Legacies of Cultural
... materialism, as various critics have alleged (e.g., Lett 1990; Sperber 1996; O’Meara 1997), the definition of science that he propounded throughout his career was fundamentally sound. For Marvin Harris (1979:27), science was “an epistemology which seeks to restrict fields of inquiry to events, entit ...
... materialism, as various critics have alleged (e.g., Lett 1990; Sperber 1996; O’Meara 1997), the definition of science that he propounded throughout his career was fundamentally sound. For Marvin Harris (1979:27), science was “an epistemology which seeks to restrict fields of inquiry to events, entit ...
Functionalists Write, Too: Frazer/Malinowski and the
... (replace, substitute, differ from) what they are conventionally understood to ‘represent’. Moreover, any writing of ethnographic detail and ethnologi cal generalization in whatever style or format is constrained by sets of rules and values that at their fullest extent we call cultures. Fieldwork – ...
... (replace, substitute, differ from) what they are conventionally understood to ‘represent’. Moreover, any writing of ethnographic detail and ethnologi cal generalization in whatever style or format is constrained by sets of rules and values that at their fullest extent we call cultures. Fieldwork – ...
the combination of critical discourse analysis
... its will on the people, and instead draws our attention to much more localized and often contradictory operations of power’. In other words, the power of local/micro level practices and discourses is what intrigues the ethnographers in LPP study. 2.4 Ethnography of language policy Ethnography is wid ...
... its will on the people, and instead draws our attention to much more localized and often contradictory operations of power’. In other words, the power of local/micro level practices and discourses is what intrigues the ethnographers in LPP study. 2.4 Ethnography of language policy Ethnography is wid ...
Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality”
... of “native” concepts, and consider the implications of treating them as a form of reality (but a reality that exists only for this one particular group of “natives”), or one can come to accept the general theoretical framework promulgated by proponents of the “ontological turn.” And indeed it is tru ...
... of “native” concepts, and consider the implications of treating them as a form of reality (but a reality that exists only for this one particular group of “natives”), or one can come to accept the general theoretical framework promulgated by proponents of the “ontological turn.” And indeed it is tru ...
BIOSECuRITy
... the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. It is defined as the observation of other, first-order observations about the world. Nowhere does Luhmann suggest that ‘second-order observations’ are less pressed for time than ‘first-order observations’. In fact, their timing depends intrinsically on the timi ...
... the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. It is defined as the observation of other, first-order observations about the world. Nowhere does Luhmann suggest that ‘second-order observations’ are less pressed for time than ‘first-order observations’. In fact, their timing depends intrinsically on the timi ...
ANTH 301 - Wellesley College
... Course Goal and Objectives This course is a weekly seminar of intensive-reading on history and theory in socio-cultural anthropology, with the goal of presenting closely-reasoned critical analyses of theoretical ideas and their applications. The principal objectives of seminar participation include ...
... Course Goal and Objectives This course is a weekly seminar of intensive-reading on history and theory in socio-cultural anthropology, with the goal of presenting closely-reasoned critical analyses of theoretical ideas and their applications. The principal objectives of seminar participation include ...
The Yin Yang of Design and Anthropology
... People or societies in a liminal phase are a "kind of institutional capsule or pocket which contains the germ of future social developments, of societal change." - Victor Turner ...
... People or societies in a liminal phase are a "kind of institutional capsule or pocket which contains the germ of future social developments, of societal change." - Victor Turner ...
Margaret Mead: Taking Note - Christina Beard
... sort of thinking came as a result of enculturation – learning one’s own cultural system – to live effectively within that system. Ted and Lenora Schwartz later joined this work. Mead did not worry about getting a huge sample. Instead she got to know a few people very intimately. She studied a specif ...
... sort of thinking came as a result of enculturation – learning one’s own cultural system – to live effectively within that system. Ted and Lenora Schwartz later joined this work. Mead did not worry about getting a huge sample. Instead she got to know a few people very intimately. She studied a specif ...
A Historical Overview on Anthropology in China - Kamla
... This was the first monograph in China named officially as anthropology. In 1926, Mr. Cai Yuanpei (1868 - 1940) published his paper Talking about Ethnology in General magazine (No.12. Volume 1) and began to formally introduce ethnology. This was the first time the concept of ethnology was used in Chi ...
... This was the first monograph in China named officially as anthropology. In 1926, Mr. Cai Yuanpei (1868 - 1940) published his paper Talking about Ethnology in General magazine (No.12. Volume 1) and began to formally introduce ethnology. This was the first time the concept of ethnology was used in Chi ...
Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming
... Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (hereafter, following the standard local abbreviation, BiH), to highlight the utility of Deleuze’s suggestion that one should write for the benefit of a “missing people” (Deleuze 1997:4). Sarajevo is a city overflowing with “symptoms.” Years of trauma-oriented psychosoci ...
... Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (hereafter, following the standard local abbreviation, BiH), to highlight the utility of Deleuze’s suggestion that one should write for the benefit of a “missing people” (Deleuze 1997:4). Sarajevo is a city overflowing with “symptoms.” Years of trauma-oriented psychosoci ...
Spring 2013 - Tufts University
... Do you feel that science has “real-world” relevance? Do you think that science spawns social and cultural conflicts that are redefining your daily experience? This course is a team-taught, introductory freshman seminar where students reflect on these questions to discover a personal rationale to exp ...
... Do you feel that science has “real-world” relevance? Do you think that science spawns social and cultural conflicts that are redefining your daily experience? This course is a team-taught, introductory freshman seminar where students reflect on these questions to discover a personal rationale to exp ...
Undergraduate Courses (meet major area requirements) See Major
... The Anthropology of Globalization introduces the social and cultural aspects of global integration. While human communities have always been connected to one another in important ways, recent history has seen a quickening of transportation and communication, increasing the circulation of people, obj ...
... The Anthropology of Globalization introduces the social and cultural aspects of global integration. While human communities have always been connected to one another in important ways, recent history has seen a quickening of transportation and communication, increasing the circulation of people, obj ...
Journal of Forensic Anthropology
... techniques to resolve the issues related to medico legal significance. It usually focuses on the identification of human remains, especially pertaining to the evidences of foul play. Seeds of antecedents of forensic anthropology were sown in the field of skeletal analysis, where anatomists and physi ...
... techniques to resolve the issues related to medico legal significance. It usually focuses on the identification of human remains, especially pertaining to the evidences of foul play. Seeds of antecedents of forensic anthropology were sown in the field of skeletal analysis, where anatomists and physi ...
ANTHROPOLOGY - Transfer
... ASSIST.org is a student-transfer information system that shows how course credits earned at Santa Monica College can be applied when transferred to a University of California (UC) or California State University (CSU). ASSIST.org is the official repository of articulation for California’s public coll ...
... ASSIST.org is a student-transfer information system that shows how course credits earned at Santa Monica College can be applied when transferred to a University of California (UC) or California State University (CSU). ASSIST.org is the official repository of articulation for California’s public coll ...
Anthropology and Ethnology in Italy
... famous memorandum (Bonacini Seppilli et al. 1958), was a very critical attitude towards ethnology, ...
... famous memorandum (Bonacini Seppilli et al. 1958), was a very critical attitude towards ethnology, ...
Advocacy in Anthropology: Active engagement or passive
... is this second category which is the focus of this paper. Why advocate? There are a number of arguments used by those supporting advocacy. These range from pragmatism and effectiveness to more fundamental issues around morality and ethics. It can also be argued that from an epistemological perspecti ...
... is this second category which is the focus of this paper. Why advocate? There are a number of arguments used by those supporting advocacy. These range from pragmatism and effectiveness to more fundamental issues around morality and ethics. It can also be argued that from an epistemological perspecti ...
LEACH, EDMUND Early Life and Introduction to Anthropology
... seeking political and economic advantage employed these models strategically to justify their actions, and the accumulated weight of their decisions tilted polities this way or that, shifting the whole structure of local society over time. This was trailblazing work, far ahead of its time. By dissol ...
... seeking political and economic advantage employed these models strategically to justify their actions, and the accumulated weight of their decisions tilted polities this way or that, shifting the whole structure of local society over time. This was trailblazing work, far ahead of its time. By dissol ...
anthropologies of the south: their rise, their silencing - Ram-Wan
... All this has made commonplace a previously almost non-existent situation: anthropology practitioners coming from the cultures of the North meet in ‘their’ traditional places of study not only informants, but also native7 colleagues and students. At the same time, there is in the growing anthropologi ...
... All this has made commonplace a previously almost non-existent situation: anthropology practitioners coming from the cultures of the North meet in ‘their’ traditional places of study not only informants, but also native7 colleagues and students. At the same time, there is in the growing anthropologi ...
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ANTHROPOLOGY UNDERGRADUATE
... method and theory to the needs of society. Our department is particularly strong in the areas of cultural anthropology, archaeology, museum anthropology, and applied anthropology. However, there are courses available in other subfields and all majors are required to take an introductory-level course ...
... method and theory to the needs of society. Our department is particularly strong in the areas of cultural anthropology, archaeology, museum anthropology, and applied anthropology. However, there are courses available in other subfields and all majors are required to take an introductory-level course ...