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ANTH 310 – Classical Theory of Cultural
... The field of cultural anthropology is an inquiry into the conditions which render us human. This involves a scientific understanding of the concept of culture. We find ourselves at the same time different from and also similar to people living at other places in the world. In order to capture this h ...
... The field of cultural anthropology is an inquiry into the conditions which render us human. This involves a scientific understanding of the concept of culture. We find ourselves at the same time different from and also similar to people living at other places in the world. In order to capture this h ...
Lederman 541 syllabus (2007)
... Getting a fix on anthropology’s disciplinary presuppositions, anthropologically, might require crossing some borders: it might entail critical comparisons between anthropology and neighboring disciplines like sociology or social psychology. Comparing ethical controversies in close-by fields is parti ...
... Getting a fix on anthropology’s disciplinary presuppositions, anthropologically, might require crossing some borders: it might entail critical comparisons between anthropology and neighboring disciplines like sociology or social psychology. Comparing ethical controversies in close-by fields is parti ...
FRANZ BOAS AND BRONISLAW MALINOWSKY: A CONTRAST
... To understand the individual personalities and hence the individual accomplishments of Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski with regards to the field of anthropology, one must understand the schools of thought utilized in their approaches to conducting fieldwork and methodology. Through these basic u ...
... To understand the individual personalities and hence the individual accomplishments of Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski with regards to the field of anthropology, one must understand the schools of thought utilized in their approaches to conducting fieldwork and methodology. Through these basic u ...
Tuesday - Oregon State University
... relation to theory. This should also help you to begin to think about how you will use theoretical works in your master’s thesis. Two Essays on Theory through Contemporary Ethnography: During the second half of the course, we will be reading two recent ethnographies that are empirical but also solid ...
... relation to theory. This should also help you to begin to think about how you will use theoretical works in your master’s thesis. Two Essays on Theory through Contemporary Ethnography: During the second half of the course, we will be reading two recent ethnographies that are empirical but also solid ...
ByrneOMahonyARAN - ARAN Home
... together with the with familial and community effects of being written about in published accounts is our departure point. We explore the potential of collaborative research that is dialogical, aesthetic, community based and generates knowledge that fosters ‘empathetic insight’ (Kester 2004). Our ap ...
... together with the with familial and community effects of being written about in published accounts is our departure point. We explore the potential of collaborative research that is dialogical, aesthetic, community based and generates knowledge that fosters ‘empathetic insight’ (Kester 2004). Our ap ...
DLGT
... What is the difference between ethnography and ethnology, and how are they related? What is anthropological fieldwork and what methods does it involve? What is so paradoxical about the method of participant-observation? What do the following readings tell us about the personal challenges of ...
... What is the difference between ethnography and ethnology, and how are they related? What is anthropological fieldwork and what methods does it involve? What is so paradoxical about the method of participant-observation? What do the following readings tell us about the personal challenges of ...
Anthropology
... notions of good/normal/moral, etc. A method: to achieve understanding of another culture, we must apply its standards of good/normal/moral, not our own A theory: humans make judgments of good/normal/moral by reference to—relative to—some standard of judgment ...
... notions of good/normal/moral, etc. A method: to achieve understanding of another culture, we must apply its standards of good/normal/moral, not our own A theory: humans make judgments of good/normal/moral by reference to—relative to—some standard of judgment ...
Beyond Sontag as a reader of Lévi-Strauss: `anthropologist as hero
... Yet with this move, the ones who do end up as an essentialised group seem to be anthropologists themselves. The last sentence of Speed’s article drives home the idea that activist research contributes to the ‘ongoing struggle for greater social justice’ (ibid:75), which seems to be implicitly taken ...
... Yet with this move, the ones who do end up as an essentialised group seem to be anthropologists themselves. The last sentence of Speed’s article drives home the idea that activist research contributes to the ‘ongoing struggle for greater social justice’ (ibid:75), which seems to be implicitly taken ...
PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS
... This course is a seminar exploring fundamental theoretical and ethnographic currents in (late modern) twentieth-century cultural anthropology. We will roughly pick up from where ANTH2000 left off: from 1950s on, and with more emphasis on Anthropology in the United States than Europe. Would that I we ...
... This course is a seminar exploring fundamental theoretical and ethnographic currents in (late modern) twentieth-century cultural anthropology. We will roughly pick up from where ANTH2000 left off: from 1950s on, and with more emphasis on Anthropology in the United States than Europe. Would that I we ...
Call for Applications for the Kiyomi Kutsuzawa Scholarship
... Kiyomi Kutsuzawa was a graduate of CCSU Anthropology who received her PhD in 1998 from the University of Connecticut. Her dissertation was entitled, " GENDER, WORK, AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY: WORK COLLECTIVES AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM AMONG MIDDLE-CLASS HOUSEWIVES IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN.” Kiyomi was an ...
... Kiyomi Kutsuzawa was a graduate of CCSU Anthropology who received her PhD in 1998 from the University of Connecticut. Her dissertation was entitled, " GENDER, WORK, AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY: WORK COLLECTIVES AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM AMONG MIDDLE-CLASS HOUSEWIVES IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN.” Kiyomi was an ...
Sociology and Anthropology
... Knowledge Indicators - The competent sociology and anthropology teacher: 1A. understands the ways groups, societies, and cultures address human needs and concerns. 1B. understands how data and experiences may be interpreted by people from diverse cultural perspectives and frames of references. 1C. u ...
... Knowledge Indicators - The competent sociology and anthropology teacher: 1A. understands the ways groups, societies, and cultures address human needs and concerns. 1B. understands how data and experiences may be interpreted by people from diverse cultural perspectives and frames of references. 1C. u ...
Department of Anthropology
... Geertz. Turner was not interested in symbols as vehicles of "culture" as Geertz was but instead investigated symbols as "operators in the social process" (Ortner 1983:131) believing that "the symbolic expression of shared meanings, not the attraction of material interests, lie at the center of human ...
... Geertz. Turner was not interested in symbols as vehicles of "culture" as Geertz was but instead investigated symbols as "operators in the social process" (Ortner 1983:131) believing that "the symbolic expression of shared meanings, not the attraction of material interests, lie at the center of human ...
Chapter 4
... For researchers working in an academic environment or under the aegis of a funded project, consequentialism is not a realistic ethics theory to guide their decisions. There are typically some rules or regulations which must be followed, regardless of how beneficial the potential research outcome may ...
... For researchers working in an academic environment or under the aegis of a funded project, consequentialism is not a realistic ethics theory to guide their decisions. There are typically some rules or regulations which must be followed, regardless of how beneficial the potential research outcome may ...
Social studies of social science
... debates spanned disciplinary divides from the start, social studies of social science have been only been fitfully ecumenical. While there are lines of ‘cultural’ exchange across social scientific diasporas (Barth 1967), by and large researchers have not taken up or responded to the insights that ha ...
... debates spanned disciplinary divides from the start, social studies of social science have been only been fitfully ecumenical. While there are lines of ‘cultural’ exchange across social scientific diasporas (Barth 1967), by and large researchers have not taken up or responded to the insights that ha ...
cultural-domain-analysis
... Lipstick colors If this seems exotic to you, get a chart of 100 lipstick colors or house paint colors and ask people around the university to name the colors. ...
... Lipstick colors If this seems exotic to you, get a chart of 100 lipstick colors or house paint colors and ask people around the university to name the colors. ...
IF YOU`RE THINKING OF LIVING IN STS / A Guide
... Europe. Corridor talk of the interdiscipline suggests that many of them have scientific or technical backgrounds, and several passed through the British polytechnics rather than the elite Oxbridge system[h3]. I have heard that their apparent proclivity toward theory, programs, and acronyms was infl ...
... Europe. Corridor talk of the interdiscipline suggests that many of them have scientific or technical backgrounds, and several passed through the British polytechnics rather than the elite Oxbridge system[h3]. I have heard that their apparent proclivity toward theory, programs, and acronyms was infl ...
Hegemony and Culture in Historical Anthropology: A Review Essay
... hegemony rather than political economy. It is ironic that scholars with a strong Marxist background have written books that appear somewhat bereft of analysis of the political economy of the frontier, but I suspect that this occurred because the changing political economy was part of the taken-for-g ...
... hegemony rather than political economy. It is ironic that scholars with a strong Marxist background have written books that appear somewhat bereft of analysis of the political economy of the frontier, but I suspect that this occurred because the changing political economy was part of the taken-for-g ...
Distincitve Qualities of Anthropology Concept of Culture
... – usually refers to one who studies the behavior and social lives of chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, ...
... – usually refers to one who studies the behavior and social lives of chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, ...
Key words
... literature, ethnography, ethnology and anthropology and indicates the subject and problems of those studies. Folk literature was no longer the main object of interest; it was more often connected with a broader scope of folk culture, studied within the framework of ethnography. A concept of ethnolog ...
... literature, ethnography, ethnology and anthropology and indicates the subject and problems of those studies. Folk literature was no longer the main object of interest; it was more often connected with a broader scope of folk culture, studied within the framework of ethnography. A concept of ethnolog ...
1 Sociology 750 – Research Design and Practice in Sociology
... Additional note: Excerpts from your Reactions may be distributed to the class, with props to you. Stern paragraph about academic integrity and propriety (Your instructor recognizes that this paragraph is likely unnecessary, but, just in case, he wishes to be extremely clear about his policy.) Sectio ...
... Additional note: Excerpts from your Reactions may be distributed to the class, with props to you. Stern paragraph about academic integrity and propriety (Your instructor recognizes that this paragraph is likely unnecessary, but, just in case, he wishes to be extremely clear about his policy.) Sectio ...
The Importance of Anthropology
... Arabs and Jews, West Africans, North and South American native peoples, as well as African Americans. Because anthropologists are acquainted with human life in an enormous variety of geographic and historical settings, they are often able to correct mistaken beliefs about different groups of people. ...
... Arabs and Jews, West Africans, North and South American native peoples, as well as African Americans. Because anthropologists are acquainted with human life in an enormous variety of geographic and historical settings, they are often able to correct mistaken beliefs about different groups of people. ...
Thirty years of multiculturalism and anthropology
... ‘What’s culture?,’ though. This is a question that has animated all the history of modern anthropology since the 19th century. A fundamental definition was given by Taylor in 1871: ‘Culture, or civilisation, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole that includes knowledge, belie ...
... ‘What’s culture?,’ though. This is a question that has animated all the history of modern anthropology since the 19th century. A fundamental definition was given by Taylor in 1871: ‘Culture, or civilisation, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole that includes knowledge, belie ...
- LSE Research Online
... hiding place by the experimenter. Adults and children over the age of six normally say that the person will look for the object under the hat where the person saw it placed before they left the house, but where they therefore know it is not anymore. This is taken to mean that they understand that t ...
... hiding place by the experimenter. Adults and children over the age of six normally say that the person will look for the object under the hat where the person saw it placed before they left the house, but where they therefore know it is not anymore. This is taken to mean that they understand that t ...
Untitled - Cognella Titles Store
... hat is anthropology? Furthermore, why study it? These are familiar questions to many undergraduate students. Having been one myself, I am sympathetic to your plight. Few choose to take a cultural anthropology class for reasons other than “my advisor suggested it.” My question to you is why did your ...
... hat is anthropology? Furthermore, why study it? These are familiar questions to many undergraduate students. Having been one myself, I am sympathetic to your plight. Few choose to take a cultural anthropology class for reasons other than “my advisor suggested it.” My question to you is why did your ...