Anthropologists in Films: Snappy Title
... to be aware that fictional anthropologists are both shaped by and active in shaping these popular understandings. So what should we do? Anthropologists have long found themselves represented within popular culture: Frazer’s Golden Bough made its way into both Yeats’ Sailing to Byzantium (2004 [1928 ...
... to be aware that fictional anthropologists are both shaped by and active in shaping these popular understandings. So what should we do? Anthropologists have long found themselves represented within popular culture: Frazer’s Golden Bough made its way into both Yeats’ Sailing to Byzantium (2004 [1928 ...
Structuralism
... In much the same way, American historian of science Thomas Kuhn addressed the structural formations of science in his seminal work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Though less concerned with "episteme", Kuhn nonetheless remarked at how coteries of scientists operated under and applied a sta ...
... In much the same way, American historian of science Thomas Kuhn addressed the structural formations of science in his seminal work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Though less concerned with "episteme", Kuhn nonetheless remarked at how coteries of scientists operated under and applied a sta ...
educational futures, culture change, and the community college
... Third, the administrative hierarchy in institutions of higher learning is generally quite complex, resulting in a considerable amount of “cultural lag.” New programs such as Top Quality Management and other attempts to reduce bureaucracy take a fair amount of time to implement, making new ideas stal ...
... Third, the administrative hierarchy in institutions of higher learning is generally quite complex, resulting in a considerable amount of “cultural lag.” New programs such as Top Quality Management and other attempts to reduce bureaucracy take a fair amount of time to implement, making new ideas stal ...
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... ANTH 011 Cultural Diversity and Human Nature 4 Credits A cross-cultural investigation of variation in human societies. Examines forms of social organization, kinship, religion, symbolism, and language through the consideration of specific cultural case studies in local and global contexts. Students ...
... ANTH 011 Cultural Diversity and Human Nature 4 Credits A cross-cultural investigation of variation in human societies. Examines forms of social organization, kinship, religion, symbolism, and language through the consideration of specific cultural case studies in local and global contexts. Students ...
LEACH, EDMUND Early Life and Introduction to Anthropology
... phoneme. So the smallest units of language could be identified only in contrast to others and were not freestanding but were fundamentally relational ...
... phoneme. So the smallest units of language could be identified only in contrast to others and were not freestanding but were fundamentally relational ...
On Culture, Thick and Thin - U
... 5. Thick culture is externally bounded and internally homogenous: Culture defines what is common in one group and what distinguishes it from others. In its strong form, it separates `we' from `they'. In a weaker, statistical sense it assumes that there is relatively little variation within a group ...
... 5. Thick culture is externally bounded and internally homogenous: Culture defines what is common in one group and what distinguishes it from others. In its strong form, it separates `we' from `they'. In a weaker, statistical sense it assumes that there is relatively little variation within a group ...
Chapter 3
... which human biology affects how we create culture. – Approach rooted in Charles Darwin and evolution; living organisms change over long periods of time based on natural selection. ...
... which human biology affects how we create culture. – Approach rooted in Charles Darwin and evolution; living organisms change over long periods of time based on natural selection. ...
DOC format - Experimental Collaborations
... Invoking the figure of the experiment acts as a provocation to investigate alternative epistemic practices in ethnography. Colleex intends to explore the infrastructures, spaces, forms of relationships, methods and techniques required to inject an experimental sensibility in fieldwork. Nevertheless, ...
... Invoking the figure of the experiment acts as a provocation to investigate alternative epistemic practices in ethnography. Colleex intends to explore the infrastructures, spaces, forms of relationships, methods and techniques required to inject an experimental sensibility in fieldwork. Nevertheless, ...
"Ethics in Anthropology: Dilemmas and
... in social scientists' “obsessive search for power in every nook and cranny of our society and history, and an equally strong postmodern urge to 'deconstruct' it" (2000). It is no accident that the first formal attention to ethics from American anthropology's professional association took place durin ...
... in social scientists' “obsessive search for power in every nook and cranny of our society and history, and an equally strong postmodern urge to 'deconstruct' it" (2000). It is no accident that the first formal attention to ethics from American anthropology's professional association took place durin ...
Beyond Sontag as a reader of Lévi-Strauss: `anthropologist as hero
... To a large extent, this may still be how the practice of anthropology is viewed from outside the discipline. Yet, as anthropologists increasingly study groups that are not necessarily ‘non-Western’ or located abroad, as they study elites or their own societies, or celebrate their intervention into s ...
... To a large extent, this may still be how the practice of anthropology is viewed from outside the discipline. Yet, as anthropologists increasingly study groups that are not necessarily ‘non-Western’ or located abroad, as they study elites or their own societies, or celebrate their intervention into s ...
ATH: Anthropology
... strong mother-child bonds. By observing primates in the wild, primatologists gain insight into our own past. They are able to identify how certain primate behaviors or physical traits may have evolved by documenting their adaptive value. Strong motherchild bonds, for example, help ensure that more o ...
... strong mother-child bonds. By observing primates in the wild, primatologists gain insight into our own past. They are able to identify how certain primate behaviors or physical traits may have evolved by documenting their adaptive value. Strong motherchild bonds, for example, help ensure that more o ...
Shamanic Energetic practices
... strong mother-child bonds. By observing primates in the wild, primatologists gain insight into our own past. They are able to identify how certain primate behaviors or physical traits may have evolved by documenting their adaptive value. Strong motherchild bonds, for example, help ensure that more o ...
... strong mother-child bonds. By observing primates in the wild, primatologists gain insight into our own past. They are able to identify how certain primate behaviors or physical traits may have evolved by documenting their adaptive value. Strong motherchild bonds, for example, help ensure that more o ...
Chapter 1. Introduction After culture: anthropology as radical
... television. Culture then is a way of articulating events and practices by invoking a particular set of presuppositions. The effect is to hierarchize or disarticulate other ways of appreciating what is going on, articulated using more or less different presuppositions. At this point there is a good c ...
... television. Culture then is a way of articulating events and practices by invoking a particular set of presuppositions. The effect is to hierarchize or disarticulate other ways of appreciating what is going on, articulated using more or less different presuppositions. At this point there is a good c ...
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
... draws on knowledge of the diversity of human societies, experiences, and histories to shed light on people’s understandings of the social world, including thinking about world problems, especially those that reflect, promote, hide, or reproduce violence (and not just cultural difference). It emphasi ...
... draws on knowledge of the diversity of human societies, experiences, and histories to shed light on people’s understandings of the social world, including thinking about world problems, especially those that reflect, promote, hide, or reproduce violence (and not just cultural difference). It emphasi ...
anthropologies of the south: their rise, their silencing - Ram-Wan
... Another example of this appraisal of the anthropologies of the South on which academics from the North and the South agree in fact, and which equally contributes to hide the existence of an anthropology of the South, is the seldom analyzed attraction which the academic centers of the North have for ...
... Another example of this appraisal of the anthropologies of the South on which academics from the North and the South agree in fact, and which equally contributes to hide the existence of an anthropology of the South, is the seldom analyzed attraction which the academic centers of the North have for ...
SCENT, SOUND AND SYNAESTHESIA
... The need for the shaman to control the sensory environment follows from the fact that each social group embodies a different modulation of the senses. A shaman would not want his patients to see red where they ought to be seeing yellow, or smell a pungent odour when they ought to smell a sweet one, ...
... The need for the shaman to control the sensory environment follows from the fact that each social group embodies a different modulation of the senses. A shaman would not want his patients to see red where they ought to be seeing yellow, or smell a pungent odour when they ought to smell a sweet one, ...
Epistemological Bias in the Physical and Social Sciences
... theoretical practice that relies on empirical results and is supported by a general critical approach is preferable. Western schools of thought confirmed that human beings are by nature worldly (secular) and place physical self-interest above any other consideration. This viewpoint emphasizes techno ...
... theoretical practice that relies on empirical results and is supported by a general critical approach is preferable. Western schools of thought confirmed that human beings are by nature worldly (secular) and place physical self-interest above any other consideration. This viewpoint emphasizes techno ...
Department of Sociology and
... the nature and development of prehistoric societies. Approaches to survey, excavation, analysis, and interpretation explored through lectures, case studies, and problem assignments. 3240 Ancient Civilizations. Three credits. Prerequisite: 3 hours of anthropology. Comparative study of archaeological ...
... the nature and development of prehistoric societies. Approaches to survey, excavation, analysis, and interpretation explored through lectures, case studies, and problem assignments. 3240 Ancient Civilizations. Three credits. Prerequisite: 3 hours of anthropology. Comparative study of archaeological ...
here - Centre for Research on Socio
... An obvious choice, perhaps, but there are still unspoken ways in which its hierarchical view of culture might frame contemporary debate and other key thinkers in cultural studies, for example, Raymond Williams. It might be useful to think in detail about the earlier thought on culture and community ...
... An obvious choice, perhaps, but there are still unspoken ways in which its hierarchical view of culture might frame contemporary debate and other key thinkers in cultural studies, for example, Raymond Williams. It might be useful to think in detail about the earlier thought on culture and community ...
ANTHROPOLOGY - Transfer
... the following electives: Economics 15 (same as History 15); History 11, 12, 13, 20, 46; Philosophy 51 (same as Philosophy 51), 52 (same as Philosophy 52); Political Science 5 (same as Economics 5 and Global Studies 5), 21; Psychology 1, 13; Urban Studies 8 (same as Geography 8) “Minimum” is the mini ...
... the following electives: Economics 15 (same as History 15); History 11, 12, 13, 20, 46; Philosophy 51 (same as Philosophy 51), 52 (same as Philosophy 52); Political Science 5 (same as Economics 5 and Global Studies 5), 21; Psychology 1, 13; Urban Studies 8 (same as Geography 8) “Minimum” is the mini ...
the cultural continuum: a theory of intersystems
... Bickerton’s persuasively simple argument that the most well-defended typologies fail ...
... Bickerton’s persuasively simple argument that the most well-defended typologies fail ...
excerpt - School for Advanced Research
... gender, class, ethnic origin, and so on, so have self-described “scientific” anthropologies worked to theorize commonalities among human experiences for a similar end. Both have intervened in Western modes of theorizing superiority, shifting them from the status of nature to the status of cultural a ...
... gender, class, ethnic origin, and so on, so have self-described “scientific” anthropologies worked to theorize commonalities among human experiences for a similar end. Both have intervened in Western modes of theorizing superiority, shifting them from the status of nature to the status of cultural a ...
Journal of Forensic Anthropology
... classical methods of forensic anthropology refer to the conventional ...
... classical methods of forensic anthropology refer to the conventional ...
Anthropology - Toronto Zoo
... continuity between human and nonhuman primates may be reflected in mental processes such as awareness and conscious action. The new primateology focuses on the relationship between social behaviour and the genetic contribution of primates to future generations. Primateologists observed the behaviour ...
... continuity between human and nonhuman primates may be reflected in mental processes such as awareness and conscious action. The new primateology focuses on the relationship between social behaviour and the genetic contribution of primates to future generations. Primateologists observed the behaviour ...
Full article - Culture Unbound
... aspect of borders, a rapidly growing amount of cultural research has been published on various levels of culture forms, as well as on sub-cultures, minority cultures, resistance and counter cultures, in and outside the territorial borderlands that construct, maintain, and deconstruct the dominating ...
... aspect of borders, a rapidly growing amount of cultural research has been published on various levels of culture forms, as well as on sub-cultures, minority cultures, resistance and counter cultures, in and outside the territorial borderlands that construct, maintain, and deconstruct the dominating ...
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.