Human Organization
... third sector studies is the practice of ‘organizational ethnography’ in which organizations and their relationships are treated as units for research using participant observation. However, this type of work has become less common and the relationship between anthropologists and organizational theor ...
... third sector studies is the practice of ‘organizational ethnography’ in which organizations and their relationships are treated as units for research using participant observation. However, this type of work has become less common and the relationship between anthropologists and organizational theor ...
(CAETS) in the history of British social anthropology
... Victorians asked was how they were able to conquer the planet with so little effective resistance. They concluded that their culture was superior, being based on reason rather than superstition, and that this superiority was grounded in nature as racial difference. Their perspective on world society ...
... Victorians asked was how they were able to conquer the planet with so little effective resistance. They concluded that their culture was superior, being based on reason rather than superstition, and that this superiority was grounded in nature as racial difference. Their perspective on world society ...
Anthropology fa l l 2 0 1 5 ...
... In Primate Science: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation, we will use both evolutionary and ecological approaches to study the diversity in morphology, behaviors, and interactions of primates with their environment. The class will be divided into three main sections. The first part of the class will ...
... In Primate Science: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation, we will use both evolutionary and ecological approaches to study the diversity in morphology, behaviors, and interactions of primates with their environment. The class will be divided into three main sections. The first part of the class will ...
Scholarly Interest Report - Faculty Information System - Login
... G.E. Marcus "A Report on Two Initiatives in Experiments With Ethnography a Decade After the 'Writing Culture' Critique." Anthropological Journal on European Cultures, 7(1) (1998) : 9-24. G.E. Marcus "Book review of After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology, edited ...
... G.E. Marcus "A Report on Two Initiatives in Experiments With Ethnography a Decade After the 'Writing Culture' Critique." Anthropological Journal on European Cultures, 7(1) (1998) : 9-24. G.E. Marcus "Book review of After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology, edited ...
Study guide for the test 4 anth1000c
... A prominent interpretation offered by cultural anthropologists about games and sports sees them as a. meaningless and trivial activities unworthy of study. b. "microcosms" of society. c. best analyzed from a biological perspective. d. more important in non-state societies than in state-level societi ...
... A prominent interpretation offered by cultural anthropologists about games and sports sees them as a. meaningless and trivial activities unworthy of study. b. "microcosms" of society. c. best analyzed from a biological perspective. d. more important in non-state societies than in state-level societi ...
ii - Forskning
... engaging interaction with something outside your self, and experience, i.e. consciousness building through subjective processing of perceptions and impressions from the world. These concepts are not unique for our approach but the use and theoretical explanation of the concepts is quite problematic ...
... engaging interaction with something outside your self, and experience, i.e. consciousness building through subjective processing of perceptions and impressions from the world. These concepts are not unique for our approach but the use and theoretical explanation of the concepts is quite problematic ...
Kinship and Evolved Psychological Dispositions
... Kinship and Marriage (1971). The basis of their arguments was that marriage and kinship, as understood by social and cultural anthropologists, were not externally existing phenomena but merely glosses for loosely similar notions found in different cultures. As Needham put it, there was no such thing ...
... Kinship and Marriage (1971). The basis of their arguments was that marriage and kinship, as understood by social and cultural anthropologists, were not externally existing phenomena but merely glosses for loosely similar notions found in different cultures. As Needham put it, there was no such thing ...
Department of Anthropology. Graduate Student Comprehensive
... Whorf, BL. 1956. The relationship of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language in. Language, Thought and Reality. Cambridge. ...
... Whorf, BL. 1956. The relationship of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language in. Language, Thought and Reality. Cambridge. ...
Chapter 2 - Durham Research Online
... on ‘Archaeological and Anthropological Imaginations: past, present and future’, this may be set to change. Calls during this conference, by archaeologists and anthropologists, for an increasing anthropological sensitivity to archaeological thinking are clearly to be welcomed. Nonetheless, it is impo ...
... on ‘Archaeological and Anthropological Imaginations: past, present and future’, this may be set to change. Calls during this conference, by archaeologists and anthropologists, for an increasing anthropological sensitivity to archaeological thinking are clearly to be welcomed. Nonetheless, it is impo ...
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... It is almost a truism to say that there can be no description or documentation that is innocent of theory. But by the same token, no genuine transformation in ways of thinking and feeling is possible that is not grounded in close and attentive observation. Indeed my entire argument is set against t ...
... It is almost a truism to say that there can be no description or documentation that is innocent of theory. But by the same token, no genuine transformation in ways of thinking and feeling is possible that is not grounded in close and attentive observation. Indeed my entire argument is set against t ...
ANTHROPOLOGY Spring 2017
... gender identity. The consumption as well as the production and distribution of food is fraught with implications about what it means to be a responsible human being in an increasingly global society. This class is rooted in a relevant anthropology that asks where our food comes from, how it gets fro ...
... gender identity. The consumption as well as the production and distribution of food is fraught with implications about what it means to be a responsible human being in an increasingly global society. This class is rooted in a relevant anthropology that asks where our food comes from, how it gets fro ...
Mary Douglas and Anthropological Modernism
... But since Durkheim exempted modern Western culture from the social entanglements of thought and practice that he found in primitive cultures, he authorized cultural anthropology to focus on “exotic” and “primitive” non-Western societies, and not to turn the anthropological gaze upon ourselves. M ...
... But since Durkheim exempted modern Western culture from the social entanglements of thought and practice that he found in primitive cultures, he authorized cultural anthropology to focus on “exotic” and “primitive” non-Western societies, and not to turn the anthropological gaze upon ourselves. M ...
Social Experiences and the Concepts of Culture
... as the Human Relation Area Files. He used this system to identify and sort hundreds of distinctive cultural variations that could be used to compare different cultures. Later anthropologists came up with simpler categorizations of culture. A common practice is to divide all of culture into three bro ...
... as the Human Relation Area Files. He used this system to identify and sort hundreds of distinctive cultural variations that could be used to compare different cultures. Later anthropologists came up with simpler categorizations of culture. A common practice is to divide all of culture into three bro ...
On the Cultivation of Cross-culture Communication Competence of
... Abstract—The main significance of language lies in communication exchanges. English as a kind of language is a tool for people to communicate. At the same time, language is an important and prominent part of culture. The languages of different nations are not only restricted by the social cultures o ...
... Abstract—The main significance of language lies in communication exchanges. English as a kind of language is a tool for people to communicate. At the same time, language is an important and prominent part of culture. The languages of different nations are not only restricted by the social cultures o ...
- Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive
... words those interactions that are primarily structured around counter cultural practices and meanings, and "hedonist" networks, which are primarily structured around dominant practices and meanings, but make selective "imports" from the counter culture. In these latter contexts, what we have are, fo ...
... words those interactions that are primarily structured around counter cultural practices and meanings, and "hedonist" networks, which are primarily structured around dominant practices and meanings, but make selective "imports" from the counter culture. In these latter contexts, what we have are, fo ...
Anthropology 148: Ecological Anthropology
... just as strange and exotic as the lives of people inhabiting the Bongobongolands of Africa, Asia, or the Pacific. Our way of life is just one among innumerable ways human beings have created a life-world. In fact we, along with face-painted inhabitants from far away places, are living an immense soc ...
... just as strange and exotic as the lives of people inhabiting the Bongobongolands of Africa, Asia, or the Pacific. Our way of life is just one among innumerable ways human beings have created a life-world. In fact we, along with face-painted inhabitants from far away places, are living an immense soc ...
Design Anthropology Is Not, and Cannot Be, Ethnography
... open-ended, comparative, and yet critical inquiry into the conditions and potentials of human life in the one world we all inhabit. It is generous because it is founded in a willingness to both listen and respond to what others have to tell us. It is open-ended because its aim is not to arrive at fi ...
... open-ended, comparative, and yet critical inquiry into the conditions and potentials of human life in the one world we all inhabit. It is generous because it is founded in a willingness to both listen and respond to what others have to tell us. It is open-ended because its aim is not to arrive at fi ...
THE ETHNOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION - Sydney Open Journals online
... ideology of a predetermined order in this world, either immediate or ultimate: a charter for the sudden or eventual but finite and complete metamorphosis of society. The scientific-economic revolution, except where it has been specifically harnessed to the political revolution, has lacked such ideol ...
... ideology of a predetermined order in this world, either immediate or ultimate: a charter for the sudden or eventual but finite and complete metamorphosis of society. The scientific-economic revolution, except where it has been specifically harnessed to the political revolution, has lacked such ideol ...
Slide 1
... The independence and qualification of the members of the assessment team should be considered crucial for the success of the assessment The team should be staffed with sufficient diversity of experience and should include specialists in behavioural science, with knowledge of statistical methods of a ...
... The independence and qualification of the members of the assessment team should be considered crucial for the success of the assessment The team should be staffed with sufficient diversity of experience and should include specialists in behavioural science, with knowledge of statistical methods of a ...
What is Anthropology?
... What is Anthropology? § Anthropology concerns itself with humans as complex social beings with a capacity for language, thought, social interaction and culture. The study of anthropology is about understanding the origins and working of these aspects of human life among peoples throughout the wor ...
... What is Anthropology? § Anthropology concerns itself with humans as complex social beings with a capacity for language, thought, social interaction and culture. The study of anthropology is about understanding the origins and working of these aspects of human life among peoples throughout the wor ...
1. the harmless drudge : defining ethnomusicology
... such as South Asia, Africa, the Middle East. Some turn to ethnomusicology after a period of living in a non-Western culture as a teacher of Western music. Many students of ethnomusicology undertake very quickly a specialized allegiance to the music of a particular culture or area, and even a particu ...
... such as South Asia, Africa, the Middle East. Some turn to ethnomusicology after a period of living in a non-Western culture as a teacher of Western music. Many students of ethnomusicology undertake very quickly a specialized allegiance to the music of a particular culture or area, and even a particu ...
Cultural Relativism or Covert Universalism?
... misapplied. This is not to say that determining what is and is not a culture, or where a culture begins and ends, will be easy or unproblematic in every case—but that is exactly the point. Culture could mean "more than just nature," or "whatever goes on beyond biology." It can be local, regional, or ...
... misapplied. This is not to say that determining what is and is not a culture, or where a culture begins and ends, will be easy or unproblematic in every case—but that is exactly the point. Culture could mean "more than just nature," or "whatever goes on beyond biology." It can be local, regional, or ...
Behind the screen: anthropologists work with film
... differences and similarities during the screening. I only used hand held camera with wide -angle lens, and did all the takes as long or medium long shots. These choices were made, in order to capture the interaction between the actors. When it comes to cinematography and the subjective position of t ...
... differences and similarities during the screening. I only used hand held camera with wide -angle lens, and did all the takes as long or medium long shots. These choices were made, in order to capture the interaction between the actors. When it comes to cinematography and the subjective position of t ...
Spring 2013 - Tufts University
... and local issues. They also reflect the longstanding anthropological practice of combining a concern with “local voices” with the need to situate those voices socially, historically, and politically. Tufts is distinguished for its public anthropology initiative, in which faculty and students focus o ...
... and local issues. They also reflect the longstanding anthropological practice of combining a concern with “local voices” with the need to situate those voices socially, historically, and politically. Tufts is distinguished for its public anthropology initiative, in which faculty and students focus o ...
Anthropology - Front Range Community College
... Cultural Anthropology. This sub-discipline “. . . is the study of human society and culture, the subfield that describes, analyses, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences.” (Kottak 2008, 9) While working in this sub-discipline you may be interviewing people, keepin ...
... Cultural Anthropology. This sub-discipline “. . . is the study of human society and culture, the subfield that describes, analyses, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences.” (Kottak 2008, 9) While working in this sub-discipline you may be interviewing people, keepin ...
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.