Anthropological Theory - School of Social Science | Institute for
... authority (clearly separating the two): I simply refer to the human belief in the possibility of telling right from wrong and in the necessity of acting in favour of the good and against the evil. Obviously it does not have much to do with the classical senses of morals given in André Lalande’s dict ...
... authority (clearly separating the two): I simply refer to the human belief in the possibility of telling right from wrong and in the necessity of acting in favour of the good and against the evil. Obviously it does not have much to do with the classical senses of morals given in André Lalande’s dict ...
Celtic Cultures- Spring 2011 - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... Postmodernism: Postmodernism is a perspective that exists across multiple disciplines and can be defined in a variety of ways. What is relevant in anthropology is an understanding of Postmodernism as a reaction to earlier positivist perspectives. Positivists believed that humans can be objective ob ...
... Postmodernism: Postmodernism is a perspective that exists across multiple disciplines and can be defined in a variety of ways. What is relevant in anthropology is an understanding of Postmodernism as a reaction to earlier positivist perspectives. Positivists believed that humans can be objective ob ...
Anthropology and Ethnology in Italy
... social science capable of buttressing policy making and social engineering. This was one of several factors that contributed to its success well beyond academic circles: by the mid-1970s, in common parlance antropologia was already assumed to refer to cultural rather than to physical anthropology. A ...
... social science capable of buttressing policy making and social engineering. This was one of several factors that contributed to its success well beyond academic circles: by the mid-1970s, in common parlance antropologia was already assumed to refer to cultural rather than to physical anthropology. A ...
Chapter II Roots of Ecocriticism The study of literature
... writers in their works. In this context two terms have become very important today – ‗ecology‘ and ‗ecocriticism‘. The two components of nature, organisms and their environment are not only much complex and dynamic but also interdependent, mutually reactive and interrelated. Ecology, relatively a ne ...
... writers in their works. In this context two terms have become very important today – ‗ecology‘ and ‗ecocriticism‘. The two components of nature, organisms and their environment are not only much complex and dynamic but also interdependent, mutually reactive and interrelated. Ecology, relatively a ne ...
Archaeometry and materiality: materials
... arose concerning the concept of materiality. What is meant by the term materiality and how does it differ from previous approaches? In essence, the notion of materiality encompasses the view that material or physical components of the environment and the social practices enacted in that environment ...
... arose concerning the concept of materiality. What is meant by the term materiality and how does it differ from previous approaches? In essence, the notion of materiality encompasses the view that material or physical components of the environment and the social practices enacted in that environment ...
Cultural Anthropology 102 - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... normally?” 3. List at least two key concept(s) in anthropology are useful in understanding “what it means to sleep normally?” ...
... normally?” 3. List at least two key concept(s) in anthropology are useful in understanding “what it means to sleep normally?” ...
FLAS Fellowship Intent Form
... If you intend to apply for a FLAS fellowship, please complete this form and return it to the Department by either email ([email protected]) or postal mail so that we know where to forward copies of your application materials. Please Note: 1. Applicants are solely responsible for obtainin ...
... If you intend to apply for a FLAS fellowship, please complete this form and return it to the Department by either email ([email protected]) or postal mail so that we know where to forward copies of your application materials. Please Note: 1. Applicants are solely responsible for obtainin ...
IN MEMORIAM George M. Foster Jr.
... medical anthropology, especially to publication of Hippocrates' Latin American Legacy: Humoral Medicine in the New World (1994). After a decade of serving in government agencies, Foster made the decision that, at age 39, he should return to a university position, or abandon any hope of becoming a p ...
... medical anthropology, especially to publication of Hippocrates' Latin American Legacy: Humoral Medicine in the New World (1994). After a decade of serving in government agencies, Foster made the decision that, at age 39, he should return to a university position, or abandon any hope of becoming a p ...
Pdf of unpublished English language version.
... unresolved problems – one being a tendency to dismiss economic explanations altogether (so that any argument about class, for example, can appear as ‘reductionist’ or simply out-dated); another being the inability to recognise or properly account for economic issues when they do arise. Such problems ...
... unresolved problems – one being a tendency to dismiss economic explanations altogether (so that any argument about class, for example, can appear as ‘reductionist’ or simply out-dated); another being the inability to recognise or properly account for economic issues when they do arise. Such problems ...
Where is anthropology? - DAN
... If today American anthropology dominates the international arena in quantity and quality, serving as an indicator and thermometer for anthropologists in other latitudes, this view of Fredrik Barth indicates that a dialogue with North American anthropologists, or more precisely, with the works and au ...
... If today American anthropology dominates the international arena in quantity and quality, serving as an indicator and thermometer for anthropologists in other latitudes, this view of Fredrik Barth indicates that a dialogue with North American anthropologists, or more precisely, with the works and au ...
Biography – culture – learning - Biographie - Krankheit
... was to look for the impression cultural factors had on the biographical processes in the medium of individual learning. Why do we not reverse this direction of ...
... was to look for the impression cultural factors had on the biographical processes in the medium of individual learning. Why do we not reverse this direction of ...
Bayan Nila: Pilipino Culture Nights and Student Performance at
... informs much research on ethnic minority music in the U.S.8 Scholars of Asian-American performance must re-situate both “invisible” and “visible” cultural practices and thereby question the nature of the divide. AsianAmerican performance accounts are written almost exclusively by those with an immed ...
... informs much research on ethnic minority music in the U.S.8 Scholars of Asian-American performance must re-situate both “invisible” and “visible” cultural practices and thereby question the nature of the divide. AsianAmerican performance accounts are written almost exclusively by those with an immed ...
CSGP 07/2 - Trent University
... is not unusual, the more fundamental question of what cultural systems are and how they can be studied remain problematic (Tilly, 2000). This paper attempts to map out the place of “culture” in a renewed systemic approach in light of contemporary debates in historical and cultural sociology, social ...
... is not unusual, the more fundamental question of what cultural systems are and how they can be studied remain problematic (Tilly, 2000). This paper attempts to map out the place of “culture” in a renewed systemic approach in light of contemporary debates in historical and cultural sociology, social ...
Print this article - Forum: Qualitative Social Research
... what I chose to report, were an expression of my own cultural code. So, from a socio-psychological perspective, by being the object of study I did not only learn about myself but also about my own society (STRATHERN 1987, p.17) and about its value system in which I had been enculturated. [4] Another ...
... what I chose to report, were an expression of my own cultural code. So, from a socio-psychological perspective, by being the object of study I did not only learn about myself but also about my own society (STRATHERN 1987, p.17) and about its value system in which I had been enculturated. [4] Another ...
society as hybrid between material and symbolic realms
... “colonized ”.] Parts of nature transformed by human beings for their own use in the process of producing their material conditions of existence:...tools and weapons made out of wood, stone, etc., constitute so many external organs extending the reach of the human body and adding their powers to its. ...
... “colonized ”.] Parts of nature transformed by human beings for their own use in the process of producing their material conditions of existence:...tools and weapons made out of wood, stone, etc., constitute so many external organs extending the reach of the human body and adding their powers to its. ...
The Power of Culture
... Why is the issue of the strong connection between culture and power important? And why is it not sufficient to leave the question of complicated power relations in society to the field of Political Science and Sociology? In the first place, culture is a topical subject in the speeches of politici ...
... Why is the issue of the strong connection between culture and power important? And why is it not sufficient to leave the question of complicated power relations in society to the field of Political Science and Sociology? In the first place, culture is a topical subject in the speeches of politici ...
Ontology is just another word for culture. Proposing the motion
... anthropologists on what constitutes culture the word has nevertheless become common fare outside the discipline. This has caused anthropologists some concern. A similar concern was raised about ‘society’ in the 1989 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory, which debated the motion ...
... anthropologists on what constitutes culture the word has nevertheless become common fare outside the discipline. This has caused anthropologists some concern. A similar concern was raised about ‘society’ in the 1989 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory, which debated the motion ...
Rethinking the culture-economy dialectic Brons, Lajos Ludovic
... took a further step by claiming that the passions not only control reason but that they should control it: 'Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them' (§ 2.3.3 / p. 462). Passion (or the passions) was (were) not t ...
... took a further step by claiming that the passions not only control reason but that they should control it: 'Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them' (§ 2.3.3 / p. 462). Passion (or the passions) was (were) not t ...
Advocacy in Anthropology: Active engagement or passive
... countries. It is in this complex, messy and uneven scenario that most anthropologists find themselves involved, usually at the micro-level with individuals and local communities. Should the anthropologist act to try to improve the circumstances of local people? Should the anthropologist act as inter ...
... countries. It is in this complex, messy and uneven scenario that most anthropologists find themselves involved, usually at the micro-level with individuals and local communities. Should the anthropologist act to try to improve the circumstances of local people? Should the anthropologist act as inter ...
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... analytical notion. It does not cause behavior, but summarizes an abstraction from it, and is thus neither normative nor predictive” (Baumann 1996: 11). Because many writers in intercultural communication do not heed this basic point, they end up using the term “culture” as if it were coterminous wit ...
... analytical notion. It does not cause behavior, but summarizes an abstraction from it, and is thus neither normative nor predictive” (Baumann 1996: 11). Because many writers in intercultural communication do not heed this basic point, they end up using the term “culture” as if it were coterminous wit ...
Cultural and Social Studies - Creighton University Catalog
... physical, social and cultural past and present by including all four fields of the discipline: Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, Linguistics, and Cultural Anthropology. While Archaeology and Physical anthropology focus on physical remains and our common biological makeup, Linguistics, and Cultural ...
... physical, social and cultural past and present by including all four fields of the discipline: Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, Linguistics, and Cultural Anthropology. While Archaeology and Physical anthropology focus on physical remains and our common biological makeup, Linguistics, and Cultural ...
Study Guide and Supplemental Readings for Cultural Anthropology
... In this course, you will discover the reasons for the similarities and differences among the various cultures in the world; you will learn why some cultures believe that a woman should have more than one husband, while others believe that a man should worship more than one god. Anthropology also stu ...
... In this course, you will discover the reasons for the similarities and differences among the various cultures in the world; you will learn why some cultures believe that a woman should have more than one husband, while others believe that a man should worship more than one god. Anthropology also stu ...
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... patterns of enduring conventional sets of meaning. • Anthropologists distinguish between material culture and symbolic culture, not only because each reflects different kinds of human activity, but also because they constitute different kinds of data and require different methodologies to study. ...
... patterns of enduring conventional sets of meaning. • Anthropologists distinguish between material culture and symbolic culture, not only because each reflects different kinds of human activity, but also because they constitute different kinds of data and require different methodologies to study. ...
Brian Howell, Whither and Whence the Anthropology of Christianity?
... a project to develop a more fully orbed “theologically-engaged theoretical framework for the field of the anthropology of religion.” While these serious efforts will push the project along, it will take a generation of scholars who can work in various frameworks of theology while navigating developi ...
... a project to develop a more fully orbed “theologically-engaged theoretical framework for the field of the anthropology of religion.” While these serious efforts will push the project along, it will take a generation of scholars who can work in various frameworks of theology while navigating developi ...
American anthropology
American anthropology has culture as its central and unifying concept. This most commonly refers to the universal human capacity to classify and encode human experiences symbolically, and to communicate symbolically encoded experiences socially. American anthropology is organized into four fields, each of which plays an important role in research on culture: biological anthropology linguistic anthropology cultural anthropology archaeologyResearch in these fields has influenced anthropologists working in other countries to different degrees.