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Cultural Identities and Global Political Economy from an
... essentialism regarding ethnic/racial discourse is still a basic element in the public arena. The United States census has created one of the most powerfully empiricized set of platonistic confusions anyone could imagine, racializing and "ethnocizing" everything from blood to geographical origin in a ...
... essentialism regarding ethnic/racial discourse is still a basic element in the public arena. The United States census has created one of the most powerfully empiricized set of platonistic confusions anyone could imagine, racializing and "ethnocizing" everything from blood to geographical origin in a ...
Undergraduate Courses (meet major area requirements) See Major
... We tend to think of stuff — the material world — as concrete, tangible, real. The meaning of something, meanwhile, seems abstract, subjective, somehow “in our heads.” And yet we can only grasp the material world through abstract concepts, and only relay those concepts through stuff: the social produ ...
... We tend to think of stuff — the material world — as concrete, tangible, real. The meaning of something, meanwhile, seems abstract, subjective, somehow “in our heads.” And yet we can only grasp the material world through abstract concepts, and only relay those concepts through stuff: the social produ ...
TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF DISCIPLINARITY (Critical Matrix 2004)
... the transcendence of disciplinarity. While I don't think that our desire for something like interdisciplinarity will be undermined when we take it apart concretely, I do think that we'll acquire a deeper understanding of the difficulties many have experienced in cross-disciplinary engagements. Ethno ...
... the transcendence of disciplinarity. While I don't think that our desire for something like interdisciplinarity will be undermined when we take it apart concretely, I do think that we'll acquire a deeper understanding of the difficulties many have experienced in cross-disciplinary engagements. Ethno ...
The Harmless Drudge Defining Ethnomusicology Bruno Nettl
... often more formal study of culture, broadly speaking, perhaps including graduate study of anthropology, or of a field of area studies such as South Asia, Africa, the Middle East. Some turn to ethnomusicology after a period of living in a non-Western culture as teachers of Western music. Many student ...
... often more formal study of culture, broadly speaking, perhaps including graduate study of anthropology, or of a field of area studies such as South Asia, Africa, the Middle East. Some turn to ethnomusicology after a period of living in a non-Western culture as teachers of Western music. Many student ...
Forging the Volksgeist: Herder in Hungary, then and now
... It seems we need to recognize the kind of confusion that is common enough in intellectual history. Herder’s ‘organic diversitarianism’ (Stocking 1982) did imply the kernel of what came to be called cultural relativism, but he did not name it as such; and it was to be more than a century before the w ...
... It seems we need to recognize the kind of confusion that is common enough in intellectual history. Herder’s ‘organic diversitarianism’ (Stocking 1982) did imply the kernel of what came to be called cultural relativism, but he did not name it as such; and it was to be more than a century before the w ...
What Is Anthropology? - ANT 152
... Syracuse University and LeMoyne College Holds a B.A. and M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, M.S. in Social Studies Secondary Education, and C.A.S. in Educational Leadership Taught in SCSD for 10 years and head of Social Studies for 6 years Loves Dachshunds (I have two of them) Professional Tarot ...
... Syracuse University and LeMoyne College Holds a B.A. and M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, M.S. in Social Studies Secondary Education, and C.A.S. in Educational Leadership Taught in SCSD for 10 years and head of Social Studies for 6 years Loves Dachshunds (I have two of them) Professional Tarot ...
The Unbalanced Reciprocity between Cultural Studies and
... within anthropology and across its boundaries in the preceding years regarding the critique of the discipline's core modes of representation and discourse. In the above-noted broad-based interdisciplinary trend of critique that swept the humanities and social sciences in the 1980s, Writing Culture r ...
... within anthropology and across its boundaries in the preceding years regarding the critique of the discipline's core modes of representation and discourse. In the above-noted broad-based interdisciplinary trend of critique that swept the humanities and social sciences in the 1980s, Writing Culture r ...
biomodelebola
... 2. desire to flee infected areas—individuals, villages, hospitals 3. special efforts to protect children during an epidemic 4. care for biological family members more than neighbors or unrelated people 5. ability to identify sick from healthy individuals An individual who became fearful and attenti ...
... 2. desire to flee infected areas—individuals, villages, hospitals 3. special efforts to protect children during an epidemic 4. care for biological family members more than neighbors or unrelated people 5. ability to identify sick from healthy individuals An individual who became fearful and attenti ...
Every man is an island, every culture is a continent, and the
... some help in translating the more incomprehensible trends of conversation because the Urubu-Kaapor spoke reasonable Portuguese and I myself had been practicing the Guajá language for a few months. My friend Txipatxiá knew we had to pass through his erstwhile enemies’ village, and trusted that no evi ...
... some help in translating the more incomprehensible trends of conversation because the Urubu-Kaapor spoke reasonable Portuguese and I myself had been practicing the Guajá language for a few months. My friend Txipatxiá knew we had to pass through his erstwhile enemies’ village, and trusted that no evi ...
The Americanization of German Culture? - John-F.-Kennedy
... masculinity in which the ideal of military discipline was replaced by a more relaxed conception that can even accommodate feminine aspects. 12 The recognition that cultural material is never simply absorbed as a model of behavior but is reappropriated in different contexts for different needs and pu ...
... masculinity in which the ideal of military discipline was replaced by a more relaxed conception that can even accommodate feminine aspects. 12 The recognition that cultural material is never simply absorbed as a model of behavior but is reappropriated in different contexts for different needs and pu ...
Key words
... Processes of globalisation have their centres and peripheries but they spread systematically without avoiding any area. They also reach the areas of the “fourth world”, i.e. regions inhabited by indigenous peoples pushed by colonial conditions and post-colonial politics to the margin of economic, so ...
... Processes of globalisation have their centres and peripheries but they spread systematically without avoiding any area. They also reach the areas of the “fourth world”, i.e. regions inhabited by indigenous peoples pushed by colonial conditions and post-colonial politics to the margin of economic, so ...
European Journal of Social Theory
... From within the major -isms that developed across the early social sciences – evolutionism, functionalism, Marxism, Freudianism – anthropology remained a foundational starting point for theoretical reflection. From the 1920s, as already indicated, the ‘joint enterprise’ of anthropology and social th ...
... From within the major -isms that developed across the early social sciences – evolutionism, functionalism, Marxism, Freudianism – anthropology remained a foundational starting point for theoretical reflection. From the 1920s, as already indicated, the ‘joint enterprise’ of anthropology and social th ...
THE NEW MIDDLE EASTERN ETHNOGRAPHY
... East as a cultural region, or to understand Middle Easterners as having a particular cultural heritage, or even, it seems, to imagine others as separate from ourselves, is an act of aggression, and that all forms of distinction should be refuted as a fundamental moral evil. Abu-Lughod's polemic, lik ...
... East as a cultural region, or to understand Middle Easterners as having a particular cultural heritage, or even, it seems, to imagine others as separate from ourselves, is an act of aggression, and that all forms of distinction should be refuted as a fundamental moral evil. Abu-Lughod's polemic, lik ...
Culture, Worldview and Contextualization
... key question for Christians who work cross-culturally is, “What is God’s view of culture? Is Jewish culture created by God and therefore to be imposed on everyone who follows God? Or is there some indication in scripture that God takes a different position?” I believe we have our answer in 1 Corinth ...
... key question for Christians who work cross-culturally is, “What is God’s view of culture? Is Jewish culture created by God and therefore to be imposed on everyone who follows God? Or is there some indication in scripture that God takes a different position?” I believe we have our answer in 1 Corinth ...
Cultural Evolutionary Processes
... evolutionary social science more generally, and is concerned with analyses that are oriented towards relatively fine grained understanding, rather than broad theoretical analyses. For this reason the evolutionary social science that will be the center of attention in what follows will be the interdi ...
... evolutionary social science more generally, and is concerned with analyses that are oriented towards relatively fine grained understanding, rather than broad theoretical analyses. For this reason the evolutionary social science that will be the center of attention in what follows will be the interdi ...
Ethnographic Cognition and Writing Culture1
... is to analyse the rhetorical devices that were used in major ethnographic writings. He then denounces the mystifying effects of these devices, such as unjustified attributions of authority. Finally, he proposes some new rhetorical tools for achieving the goal of ethnography, viz. polyphonic writing ...
... is to analyse the rhetorical devices that were used in major ethnographic writings. He then denounces the mystifying effects of these devices, such as unjustified attributions of authority. Finally, he proposes some new rhetorical tools for achieving the goal of ethnography, viz. polyphonic writing ...
Cultural Anthropology
... • Cultural anthropologists conduct research in libraries and museums but they rely most heavily on experiential fieldwork ...
... • Cultural anthropologists conduct research in libraries and museums but they rely most heavily on experiential fieldwork ...
Introduction
... he died. At first it was thought that he died from exhaustion in a fog or blizzard. However, later analysis revealed what may be an arrowhead in his left shoulder and cuts on his hands, wrists, and ribcage, as well as a blow to the head, so he may well have died a violent death. These observations a ...
... he died. At first it was thought that he died from exhaustion in a fog or blizzard. However, later analysis revealed what may be an arrowhead in his left shoulder and cuts on his hands, wrists, and ribcage, as well as a blow to the head, so he may well have died a violent death. These observations a ...
the Role of Anthropology in Development
... social and cultural implications inherent to planned change: “As fifty years of development experience has shown, development efforts that fit with their surroundings will work, whereas those that disregard salient aspects of context will usually fail, sooner or later.” (Nolan 2002:25) Nolan and man ...
... social and cultural implications inherent to planned change: “As fifty years of development experience has shown, development efforts that fit with their surroundings will work, whereas those that disregard salient aspects of context will usually fail, sooner or later.” (Nolan 2002:25) Nolan and man ...
Cultures of Learning or Learning of Cultures
... cultural determinism. The people Charlesworth interviewed all have and make choices, all make decisions, all function as agents. The point is that they do so from a habitus, i.e. within a sense of reality or a sense of limits, which for the most part is not experienced as “constraint”; and that thes ...
... cultural determinism. The people Charlesworth interviewed all have and make choices, all make decisions, all function as agents. The point is that they do so from a habitus, i.e. within a sense of reality or a sense of limits, which for the most part is not experienced as “constraint”; and that thes ...
notes on theoretical anthropology and genealogy as fields of
... In the contemporary historiography there is a variety in classifications of the anthropology. One of the popular models has been proposed by W. Haviland: cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, paleoanthropology and applied anthropology (Haviland et al. 2005). The field of appli ...
... In the contemporary historiography there is a variety in classifications of the anthropology. One of the popular models has been proposed by W. Haviland: cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, paleoanthropology and applied anthropology (Haviland et al. 2005). The field of appli ...
BOOK REVIEWS London: The University of Chicago Press 1992
... portrayed here in an intellectual biography. The author, Paul Stoller, is an anthropologist who has worked among the Songhay of West Africa, whose lives have also been the subject of numerous works by Rouch over many years. The relationship between these two ethnographers is just as fascinating as t ...
... portrayed here in an intellectual biography. The author, Paul Stoller, is an anthropologist who has worked among the Songhay of West Africa, whose lives have also been the subject of numerous works by Rouch over many years. The relationship between these two ethnographers is just as fascinating as t ...
Radical Archaeology as Dissent
... Human material culture, social organization and resource distribution has become so complicated in the last few centuries that scholars in any field of study would be hard pressed to make sense of the root causes or potential effects. But should this preclude the anthropologists/archaeologists who s ...
... Human material culture, social organization and resource distribution has become so complicated in the last few centuries that scholars in any field of study would be hard pressed to make sense of the root causes or potential effects. But should this preclude the anthropologists/archaeologists who s ...
In this brief introduction to this section on ethnography as method I
... others as card-carrying cognitive scientists - are mainly experimental psychologists (plus perhaps some brain scientists, artificial intelligence researchers and a few mathematicians) Those psychological fundamentalists, unlike most anthropologists, place their highest priority on the search for hig ...
... others as card-carrying cognitive scientists - are mainly experimental psychologists (plus perhaps some brain scientists, artificial intelligence researchers and a few mathematicians) Those psychological fundamentalists, unlike most anthropologists, place their highest priority on the search for hig ...
American anthropology
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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.