Why do we have to study the history of
... possible, I have incorporated contemporary readings with classical pieces to demonstrate the continuities and ruptures in anthropological thought and practice. Clearly, there could be multiple other ways to organize this course, a fact I’d like you to recognize as we progress in the course. It is im ...
... possible, I have incorporated contemporary readings with classical pieces to demonstrate the continuities and ruptures in anthropological thought and practice. Clearly, there could be multiple other ways to organize this course, a fact I’d like you to recognize as we progress in the course. It is im ...
What Is Culture? The Conceptual Question
... coastal communities, called “outports,” engaged in fishing and logging since the early nineteenth century. In 1911, the geographer J. D. Rogers called Newfoundland’s entire social framework “fishy,” and in many respects it still is, even if Belle’s sons now spend most of their time logging or buildi ...
... coastal communities, called “outports,” engaged in fishing and logging since the early nineteenth century. In 1911, the geographer J. D. Rogers called Newfoundland’s entire social framework “fishy,” and in many respects it still is, even if Belle’s sons now spend most of their time logging or buildi ...
That third stream: Weber, Parsons, Geertz
... Leach's 1954 d.efinition of culture noted above with that implied by the title of his 1976 book: cutture and Communication, the Logic by Which Symbots are Connected. 13 This image of culture is similar to that of Weber, Parsons and Geertz, but with a difference. For the structuralist, culture is vie ...
... Leach's 1954 d.efinition of culture noted above with that implied by the title of his 1976 book: cutture and Communication, the Logic by Which Symbots are Connected. 13 This image of culture is similar to that of Weber, Parsons and Geertz, but with a difference. For the structuralist, culture is vie ...
BA_Anthropology_Mapping_revised
... Intellectual skills are developed through lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical classes, web-based resources and directed reading with a strong emphasis on primary materials in the final year. Independent learning is achieved through written coursework, directed self-education, and research proje ...
... Intellectual skills are developed through lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical classes, web-based resources and directed reading with a strong emphasis on primary materials in the final year. Independent learning is achieved through written coursework, directed self-education, and research proje ...
Metaphors
... just that in Euro-North American culture, we might be surprised if someone who lived in poverty also lived in a penthouse, had a high status, and was happy. I’m saying that in a general way, these metaphors reflect our societal values). The Coherence of Key Metaphors is Due to the Orientations of ou ...
... just that in Euro-North American culture, we might be surprised if someone who lived in poverty also lived in a penthouse, had a high status, and was happy. I’m saying that in a general way, these metaphors reflect our societal values). The Coherence of Key Metaphors is Due to the Orientations of ou ...
Moro-Myers-Lehman Text Supplement
... symbols and myths, and to discern the sociocultural structure from which they are derived, as well as the function of such myths. No single analytical approach can result in a definitive account of myth; rather, multiple analyses are necessary. Myth is often an allegory for the present-day socia ...
... symbols and myths, and to discern the sociocultural structure from which they are derived, as well as the function of such myths. No single analytical approach can result in a definitive account of myth; rather, multiple analyses are necessary. Myth is often an allegory for the present-day socia ...
Ethics in Anthropology or Anthropology of Morals?!
... “ideologically and emotionally found their cultural distinction between good and evil, and how social agents concretely work out this separation in their everyday life” (ibid.; Fassin & Stoczkowski 2008:331). The ideological point of view that a researcher takes is central regarding these topics. Ou ...
... “ideologically and emotionally found their cultural distinction between good and evil, and how social agents concretely work out this separation in their everyday life” (ibid.; Fassin & Stoczkowski 2008:331). The ideological point of view that a researcher takes is central regarding these topics. Ou ...
Beyond nature versus culture - Staff
... about as unlike us as anything in the natural world, cannot be understood without considering the role that the social plays in the life of the individual. For many decades, bacteria were considered the epitomes of non-social existence, a world ‘peopled only by individual cells reproducing ad infini ...
... about as unlike us as anything in the natural world, cannot be understood without considering the role that the social plays in the life of the individual. For many decades, bacteria were considered the epitomes of non-social existence, a world ‘peopled only by individual cells reproducing ad infini ...
Anthropology and the Study of Culture Miller Chapter 1
... Culture is symbolic / based on symbols Culture is integrated Culture is shared Cultures are dynamic and change ...
... Culture is symbolic / based on symbols Culture is integrated Culture is shared Cultures are dynamic and change ...
ISP DENAT project document
... appointed by the Research Council of Norway (RCN), this application proposes a strategic collaborative research project involving the formation of a strong scholarly network, the organization of a series of workshops and several major international dissemination events, and a high-profile publishing ...
... appointed by the Research Council of Norway (RCN), this application proposes a strategic collaborative research project involving the formation of a strong scholarly network, the organization of a series of workshops and several major international dissemination events, and a high-profile publishing ...
SOC1016A-Lecture
... What divides them is not matters of fact but the way in which we should understand cultural difference: 1. Substantial phenomenon (Sahlins) 2. Superficial phenomenon (Obeyesekere) Which takes us to where we started today: the nature of cultural difference, how to understand it and the moral / politi ...
... What divides them is not matters of fact but the way in which we should understand cultural difference: 1. Substantial phenomenon (Sahlins) 2. Superficial phenomenon (Obeyesekere) Which takes us to where we started today: the nature of cultural difference, how to understand it and the moral / politi ...
The Portfolio - Montgomery College
... of the four fields of Anthropology; then they have to answer specific questions about it or related to it. Some of the answers are in the article but others are at web sites that are suggested in the assignment or that they have to research themselves. It also requires that they cite both printed an ...
... of the four fields of Anthropology; then they have to answer specific questions about it or related to it. Some of the answers are in the article but others are at web sites that are suggested in the assignment or that they have to research themselves. It also requires that they cite both printed an ...
Field-note - Ebola Response Anthropology Platform
... The obligation of cremation has also produced other dangerous effects. Drastically wiping out the dead bodies from families and communities, it has fed an informal economy of death, extremely risky for disease-control. Families in Monrovia have started burying their own deceased in private lands and ...
... The obligation of cremation has also produced other dangerous effects. Drastically wiping out the dead bodies from families and communities, it has fed an informal economy of death, extremely risky for disease-control. Families in Monrovia have started burying their own deceased in private lands and ...
Anthropology of Tourism.
... Who is a tourist and what is s/he seeking? There is general agreement that a tourist can be defined as a person voluntarily using leisure time to travel away from home for the purpose of experiencing a change. In an early essay, Graburn (1977) argued that tourism is a form of secular ritual, a sacr ...
... Who is a tourist and what is s/he seeking? There is general agreement that a tourist can be defined as a person voluntarily using leisure time to travel away from home for the purpose of experiencing a change. In an early essay, Graburn (1977) argued that tourism is a form of secular ritual, a sacr ...
XML - M/C Journal
... What does sorrow taste like? Or anger? In 2012, the people at Hoxton Street Monster Supplies of London launched The Taste of Emotion, a unique range of seasoning salts collected from human tears. There are five varieties of salt available in the collection, which the company explains have been harve ...
... What does sorrow taste like? Or anger? In 2012, the people at Hoxton Street Monster Supplies of London launched The Taste of Emotion, a unique range of seasoning salts collected from human tears. There are five varieties of salt available in the collection, which the company explains have been harve ...
The ethnographic present revisited
... done through some form of ‘participant observation’ or by any other of the many qualitative methods that have since then been tried out, I believe that it is only useful to call a research ethnographic if the researcher is somehow personally involved in the field. Now, ever since the early 1980s the ...
... done through some form of ‘participant observation’ or by any other of the many qualitative methods that have since then been tried out, I believe that it is only useful to call a research ethnographic if the researcher is somehow personally involved in the field. Now, ever since the early 1980s the ...
Anthropological Filmmaking Carlo A. Cubero Tallinn Univeristy
... Abstract: The lecture will focus on how anthropologists have approached cinematic practises and highlight the different ways in which they have dealt with various methodological and epistemological issues pertaining to the use of audiovisuals as a means to produce and present anthropological knowled ...
... Abstract: The lecture will focus on how anthropologists have approached cinematic practises and highlight the different ways in which they have dealt with various methodological and epistemological issues pertaining to the use of audiovisuals as a means to produce and present anthropological knowled ...
corporate culture - Faculty Personal Homepage
... Individualism/Collectivism and Masculinity/Femininity), to which was added another dimension (Long-term/Short-term orientation) to account for the Eastern countries cultural attitude, too (Hofstede and Bond, 1988). Culture, in the broader sense, is termed as an amalgam of significant assumptions sh ...
... Individualism/Collectivism and Masculinity/Femininity), to which was added another dimension (Long-term/Short-term orientation) to account for the Eastern countries cultural attitude, too (Hofstede and Bond, 1988). Culture, in the broader sense, is termed as an amalgam of significant assumptions sh ...
Julian Steward and the Rise of Anthropological Theory
... It was not until the early thirties, when I turned attention to primitive bands and did field work in the Great Basin that cultural ecology became an inescapable concept. It took years to sell this, however, and I well remember a long evening with Linton attempting to explain it only to be answered ...
... It was not until the early thirties, when I turned attention to primitive bands and did field work in the Great Basin that cultural ecology became an inescapable concept. It took years to sell this, however, and I well remember a long evening with Linton attempting to explain it only to be answered ...
THE SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELD EXPERIENCE* George
... have conceptually abstracted and for which I have developed precise instruments of measurement?" (Rapoport 1963:18991900). Weiss contrasts this holistic approach with the "analytic" approach; he finds each suitable to special types of problems so that, taken together, they are complementary rather t ...
... have conceptually abstracted and for which I have developed precise instruments of measurement?" (Rapoport 1963:18991900). Weiss contrasts this holistic approach with the "analytic" approach; he finds each suitable to special types of problems so that, taken together, they are complementary rather t ...
What is Anthropology?
... • Generally, ethnographic fieldwork involves living in the community that is being studied for an extended period of time (e.g., 6 months to 2 years). • Ethnographic fieldwork tends to emphasize local behavior, beliefs, customs, social life, economic activities, politics, and religion, rather than d ...
... • Generally, ethnographic fieldwork involves living in the community that is being studied for an extended period of time (e.g., 6 months to 2 years). • Ethnographic fieldwork tends to emphasize local behavior, beliefs, customs, social life, economic activities, politics, and religion, rather than d ...
Is Cognitive Science
... Harvey Whitehouse have played a central role in these developments. They have done so by all rights, as anthropologists possess a very special kind of expertise (knowledge, including, again, facts, methods, concepts, and theories) in the cultural domains. Therefore, I contend, cognitive science very ...
... Harvey Whitehouse have played a central role in these developments. They have done so by all rights, as anthropologists possess a very special kind of expertise (knowledge, including, again, facts, methods, concepts, and theories) in the cultural domains. Therefore, I contend, cognitive science very ...
From Cyber to Digital Anthropology to an Anthropology of the
... understand sociotechnological processes and phenomena, for instance practices of internet utilization. Pfaffenberger (1988: 243) urges anthropology to concentrate on human social behaviour “in which people engage when they create or use a technology”. The anthropology of cyberculture has been follow ...
... understand sociotechnological processes and phenomena, for instance practices of internet utilization. Pfaffenberger (1988: 243) urges anthropology to concentrate on human social behaviour “in which people engage when they create or use a technology”. The anthropology of cyberculture has been follow ...
Download/View PDF (AY)
... anthropology's culture area requirement. Prerequisite: Anthropology 112. Four credit hours. [AY243] Globalization, Democracy, and Political Transformation in Bolivia Students will learn a range of perspectives on recent Bolivian history; gain the ability to analyze Bolivian politics, economy, and so ...
... anthropology's culture area requirement. Prerequisite: Anthropology 112. Four credit hours. [AY243] Globalization, Democracy, and Political Transformation in Bolivia Students will learn a range of perspectives on recent Bolivian history; gain the ability to analyze Bolivian politics, economy, and so ...
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... study human cultures that are no longer living. Culture: Any learned behavior that is shared with others. ...
... study human cultures that are no longer living. Culture: Any learned behavior that is shared with others. ...
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.