anthropology, mathematics, kinship
... shift from rough carpentry to cabinet-making. It provided anthropologists with a shared technical vocabulary that cleared away much of the confusion about “structure” in the social sciences. “Here in this new book,” Barnes said, “we have at last a comprehensive range of examples from graph theory be ...
... shift from rough carpentry to cabinet-making. It provided anthropologists with a shared technical vocabulary that cleared away much of the confusion about “structure” in the social sciences. “Here in this new book,” Barnes said, “we have at last a comprehensive range of examples from graph theory be ...
A Clarification of Terms: Canadian Multiculturalism
... For Kymlicka (2003), multiculturalism is a successful model with a bright future. Indeed, it is so successful that it has become a victim of its own success, having changed the way people think about society so deeply that the term ‘multiculturalism’ is no longer needed (p. 8). Chandra (2005) insist ...
... For Kymlicka (2003), multiculturalism is a successful model with a bright future. Indeed, it is so successful that it has become a victim of its own success, having changed the way people think about society so deeply that the term ‘multiculturalism’ is no longer needed (p. 8). Chandra (2005) insist ...
berghahn New and Recent Titles 2015
... and policy-makers downgrade as ‘context’ – history, ways of making meaning, political disputes – are often central to explaining development practice…[This book] not only implies the need for a classificatory rethink, which has been widely recognized for decades, but also gives us the ethnographic ma ...
... and policy-makers downgrade as ‘context’ – history, ways of making meaning, political disputes – are often central to explaining development practice…[This book] not only implies the need for a classificatory rethink, which has been widely recognized for decades, but also gives us the ethnographic ma ...
fallkinship
... Anthropology’s love affair with kinship has cooled in recent decades (: : :) This trend has been construed by some observers as a clear (if not relieving) sign that the study of kinship is dead or moribund. Although such views remind one of Mark Twain’s remark that reports of his death had been grea ...
... Anthropology’s love affair with kinship has cooled in recent decades (: : :) This trend has been construed by some observers as a clear (if not relieving) sign that the study of kinship is dead or moribund. Although such views remind one of Mark Twain’s remark that reports of his death had been grea ...
Global diffusion of interactive networks: The impact of culture
... as a variable in this analysis is valuable, the method used to demonstrate its impact was anecdotal and therefore not as effective as it could be. The exact relationship of specific cultural variables to particular aspects of the diffusion process were not described. This treatment of culture as an ...
... as a variable in this analysis is valuable, the method used to demonstrate its impact was anecdotal and therefore not as effective as it could be. The exact relationship of specific cultural variables to particular aspects of the diffusion process were not described. This treatment of culture as an ...
The Inventiveness of a Tradition: Structural Anthropology in the
... morally appropriate attitudes with respect to colonialism or racism, for example, but instead of facilitating the understanding of other cultures would rather make “cultural logics disappear” (ibid.: 406). Although European anthropology might have been slightly less in thrall to afterologies than el ...
... morally appropriate attitudes with respect to colonialism or racism, for example, but instead of facilitating the understanding of other cultures would rather make “cultural logics disappear” (ibid.: 406). Although European anthropology might have been slightly less in thrall to afterologies than el ...
Department of Anthropology - Ithaca College Catalog 2016-2017
... research, fieldwork, and practical training experiences that prepare them for careers in public and community service, education, international development, professional research, and anywhere intercultural skills are valued. For all students at Ithaca College, regardless of major, anthropology offe ...
... research, fieldwork, and practical training experiences that prepare them for careers in public and community service, education, international development, professional research, and anywhere intercultural skills are valued. For all students at Ithaca College, regardless of major, anthropology offe ...
Curating Post-Mexican Film And Media Arts - Works
... oriented forms of artistic practice that have characterized the “ethnographic turn” in contemporary art on the other. Leading a small seminar at the Escuela Adolfo Prieto in Monterrey, an industrial city in northern Mexico (129), Elhaik trained his students to see a nearby public park, Parque Fundid ...
... oriented forms of artistic practice that have characterized the “ethnographic turn” in contemporary art on the other. Leading a small seminar at the Escuela Adolfo Prieto in Monterrey, an industrial city in northern Mexico (129), Elhaik trained his students to see a nearby public park, Parque Fundid ...
kinship relation info - bakersfield college
... Many societies with unilineal or cognatic descent use these descent principles to form important groups such as lineages and clans. Lineages are kin groupings in which members are cognizant of the paths through which they trace common descent. Clans are kin groups in which the exact routes by which ...
... Many societies with unilineal or cognatic descent use these descent principles to form important groups such as lineages and clans. Lineages are kin groupings in which members are cognizant of the paths through which they trace common descent. Clans are kin groups in which the exact routes by which ...
Ernest Gellner`s Legacy
... always explicit, statement about anthropology as the most efficient way of grasping our visible and invisible social world. Although one cannot find it explicitly in his writing, Gellner defines humans as primarily knowledge-seeking beings (we might coin a Latin neologism of homo gnosticus). For Gel ...
... always explicit, statement about anthropology as the most efficient way of grasping our visible and invisible social world. Although one cannot find it explicitly in his writing, Gellner defines humans as primarily knowledge-seeking beings (we might coin a Latin neologism of homo gnosticus). For Gel ...
Anthropology`s Multiple Temporalities and its Future in
... A century has passed since James Frazer received an offer in 1907 from the University of Liverpool to take up the world’s first university chair in social anthropology (Ackerman 1987: 2078). Frazer was the archetypal ‘armchair anthropologist’: an erudite classical scholar whose knowledge of obscure ...
... A century has passed since James Frazer received an offer in 1907 from the University of Liverpool to take up the world’s first university chair in social anthropology (Ackerman 1987: 2078). Frazer was the archetypal ‘armchair anthropologist’: an erudite classical scholar whose knowledge of obscure ...
Michael Harkin, “Ethnohistory`s Ethnohistory: Creating a Discipline
... fee simple in English common law. However, that is not to say that a concept of rights to territory and resources was entirely absent, even if it was vested in a group, not an individual, and even if it at times allowed for sharing with other groups. Both of these problems were amenable to ethnohist ...
... fee simple in English common law. However, that is not to say that a concept of rights to territory and resources was entirely absent, even if it was vested in a group, not an individual, and even if it at times allowed for sharing with other groups. Both of these problems were amenable to ethnohist ...
Reclaiming Applied Anthropology: Its Past, Present, and Future
... to support academic departments and basic research. The British, in particular, made extensive use of anthropologists, most commonly as staff researchers. There is little evidence, however, that anthropologists served in positions with line authority or policy-making capacity. A pertinent illustrati ...
... to support academic departments and basic research. The British, in particular, made extensive use of anthropologists, most commonly as staff researchers. There is little evidence, however, that anthropologists served in positions with line authority or policy-making capacity. A pertinent illustrati ...
About This Book
... The aim of this book is to dissect forensic anthropology and forensic pathology in its various and valuable contributions to contemporary society. It gives answers and approaches key questions to this sciences' growing audience within different countries in the recent years. It aims to provide a pra ...
... The aim of this book is to dissect forensic anthropology and forensic pathology in its various and valuable contributions to contemporary society. It gives answers and approaches key questions to this sciences' growing audience within different countries in the recent years. It aims to provide a pra ...
WELCOME TO DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY
... is just one of the examples. A collate of stresses, ranging from low oxygen pressure to difficult terrain, from cold to the problems arising out of undernutrition / malnutrition, from the troubles of solar radiation to the difficulties of irrigation, scare the life of the people living at high altit ...
... is just one of the examples. A collate of stresses, ranging from low oxygen pressure to difficult terrain, from cold to the problems arising out of undernutrition / malnutrition, from the troubles of solar radiation to the difficulties of irrigation, scare the life of the people living at high altit ...
PDF of this page - University of North Dakota
... analytical tools they employ; and how they use data, models, and theory to explain culture change. Techniques, methods, and theoretical frameworks used in modern prehistoric archaeology are examined. Readings in the professional literature, case studies, and guest lecturers provide vivid examples of ...
... analytical tools they employ; and how they use data, models, and theory to explain culture change. Techniques, methods, and theoretical frameworks used in modern prehistoric archaeology are examined. Readings in the professional literature, case studies, and guest lecturers provide vivid examples of ...
Excerpt - School for Advanced Research
... anthropologists write about culture, to the point that many questioned ...
... anthropologists write about culture, to the point that many questioned ...
world anthropologies - Ram-Wan
... able to overcome it, on the allies, to learn how to cooperate with them, and on one’s own nation to learn how to use its own force (Goldman and Neiburg 2002: 198-199). The spurious relations between anthropological research and state interests had a more concrete example in the participation of seve ...
... able to overcome it, on the allies, to learn how to cooperate with them, and on one’s own nation to learn how to use its own force (Goldman and Neiburg 2002: 198-199). The spurious relations between anthropological research and state interests had a more concrete example in the participation of seve ...
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... explore how the colonial imaginations of Africa, from Tarzan to Tribe, have distorted our knowledge of the continent. How does this particular version of Orientalism work? How does it shape ideas of anth ...
... explore how the colonial imaginations of Africa, from Tarzan to Tribe, have distorted our knowledge of the continent. How does this particular version of Orientalism work? How does it shape ideas of anth ...
Three modes of experimentation with art and
... and spatially contingent sites, fieldwork – as a method – still retains its defining position at the centre of contemporary social and cultural anthropology, with contemporary fieldwork entailing a variety of multi-sited practices in a globalized world (Clifford 1997; Marcus 1995). I consider that f ...
... and spatially contingent sites, fieldwork – as a method – still retains its defining position at the centre of contemporary social and cultural anthropology, with contemporary fieldwork entailing a variety of multi-sited practices in a globalized world (Clifford 1997; Marcus 1995). I consider that f ...
Reading and Interpreting Ethnography
... Levi-Strauss’s analysis was foundationally structuralist. Structuralism is a broad approach to understanding human phenomena that has its origins in linguistics, and in particular the approach developed by Ferdinand Saussure. Saussure was concerned with semiotics – how language comes to carry meanin ...
... Levi-Strauss’s analysis was foundationally structuralist. Structuralism is a broad approach to understanding human phenomena that has its origins in linguistics, and in particular the approach developed by Ferdinand Saussure. Saussure was concerned with semiotics – how language comes to carry meanin ...
Anthropology of Magic - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... It is important for you to keep track of your grades over the semester. This allows you to monitor how well you are doing in the class. I will pass back all of your assignments and exams so that you can keep track of how you are doing. To calculate your grade you will need to determine how many poin ...
... It is important for you to keep track of your grades over the semester. This allows you to monitor how well you are doing in the class. I will pass back all of your assignments and exams so that you can keep track of how you are doing. To calculate your grade you will need to determine how many poin ...
Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives
... Human beings have always had culture, that is, learned and shared ways of living; even some non-humans can and must learn essential skills and habits. And human cultures have always been diverse: humans in disparate groups in disparate places and times have inevitably developed different – sometimes ...
... Human beings have always had culture, that is, learned and shared ways of living; even some non-humans can and must learn essential skills and habits. And human cultures have always been diverse: humans in disparate groups in disparate places and times have inevitably developed different – sometimes ...
nigerian dress culture in - Journal of ELT and Applied Linguistics
... In Sociology culture is the belief, behaviors, language and people’s entire way of life. Culture includes customs, ceremonies, works of arts, dress, inventions, technology and people’s traditions. Culture distinguishes human beings from other animals. Social anthropologists are interested in how cul ...
... In Sociology culture is the belief, behaviors, language and people’s entire way of life. Culture includes customs, ceremonies, works of arts, dress, inventions, technology and people’s traditions. Culture distinguishes human beings from other animals. Social anthropologists are interested in how cul ...
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.