Culture Notes – Chapter 3.1
... how people should act. -VALUES: ideas shared by the culture about what is good or important -NORMS: social rules about how people should act (values are the general ideas that support the norms) Example: picture on pg. 53. Our ancestors placed a high value on fertility (having kids) when you get mar ...
... how people should act. -VALUES: ideas shared by the culture about what is good or important -NORMS: social rules about how people should act (values are the general ideas that support the norms) Example: picture on pg. 53. Our ancestors placed a high value on fertility (having kids) when you get mar ...
Seeing Anthropology
... which that change is driven by forces of the global political economy and (2) the state of modernity, or how the newly emerging forms more closely resemble Western forms ("Western" meaning the European Community, North America, and perhaps Japan). In this sense, the term modernity is profoundly ethn ...
... which that change is driven by forces of the global political economy and (2) the state of modernity, or how the newly emerging forms more closely resemble Western forms ("Western" meaning the European Community, North America, and perhaps Japan). In this sense, the term modernity is profoundly ethn ...
05WHAT
... Kin types refer to the basic uncategorized relationships that anthropologists use to describe the actual contents of kinship categories. They are supposedly culture free, etic components. Kin terms are the labels for categories of kin that include one or more kin types. They are emic structures and ...
... Kin types refer to the basic uncategorized relationships that anthropologists use to describe the actual contents of kinship categories. They are supposedly culture free, etic components. Kin terms are the labels for categories of kin that include one or more kin types. They are emic structures and ...
Graduate Seminar in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
... and moving to contemporary theoretical debates. A close and critical reading of theory in cultural anthropology should give students the tools to construct their own research projects. Readings: All readings have been scanned and are available on WebCT (see below). Evaluation Your grade in this cour ...
... and moving to contemporary theoretical debates. A close and critical reading of theory in cultural anthropology should give students the tools to construct their own research projects. Readings: All readings have been scanned and are available on WebCT (see below). Evaluation Your grade in this cour ...
Anticipatory Anthropology
... Club of Rome; predicted that at current resource use levels would lead to scarcity and economic collapse Run out of resources in 100 years Logic of growth model Assumes that natural resources are infinite and that economic growth can continue indefinitely without long term harm to the environm ...
... Club of Rome; predicted that at current resource use levels would lead to scarcity and economic collapse Run out of resources in 100 years Logic of growth model Assumes that natural resources are infinite and that economic growth can continue indefinitely without long term harm to the environm ...
NATIVE NORTH AMERICANS ANT 3350 Fall 2005 INSTRUCTOR
... Self identified descendants of the pre-Columbian indigenous peoples of North America today make up less than 2% of the population of the United States, while legally recognized “Indians” (recorded on roles of officially recognized tribes) make up about .5% (1/2 of 1%). Curiosity about the earthworks ...
... Self identified descendants of the pre-Columbian indigenous peoples of North America today make up less than 2% of the population of the United States, while legally recognized “Indians” (recorded on roles of officially recognized tribes) make up about .5% (1/2 of 1%). Curiosity about the earthworks ...
COMM 3170: Introduction to Organizational Communication
... flows from bottom up Levels can affect each other ...
... flows from bottom up Levels can affect each other ...
Health Information Systems Project in Andhra Pradesh
... Psychological: Culture is a complex of ideas, or learned habits, that inhibit impulses and distinguish people from animals Structural: Culture consists of patterned and interrelated ideas, symbols, or behaviors Symbolic: Culture is based on arbitrarily assigned meanings that are shared by a society ...
... Psychological: Culture is a complex of ideas, or learned habits, that inhibit impulses and distinguish people from animals Structural: Culture consists of patterned and interrelated ideas, symbols, or behaviors Symbolic: Culture is based on arbitrarily assigned meanings that are shared by a society ...
the 3 social sciences / Uploaded File
... and how the institutions meet those needs Structuralism: Studies what makes cultures unique and different from one another. The goal of structural anthropology is to identify the hidden rules participants understand but are unable to articulate. Cultural Materialism: Technological and economic aspec ...
... and how the institutions meet those needs Structuralism: Studies what makes cultures unique and different from one another. The goal of structural anthropology is to identify the hidden rules participants understand but are unable to articulate. Cultural Materialism: Technological and economic aspec ...
As Others See Us - Center for Peripheral Studies
... The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of When it comes to examining their public image and that of their craft, most cultural anthropologists are at a double disadvantage. First, they tend to occupy themselves with exotic (read “exoticized”) people and places (whether of the traditional “far-away places wit ...
... The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of When it comes to examining their public image and that of their craft, most cultural anthropologists are at a double disadvantage. First, they tend to occupy themselves with exotic (read “exoticized”) people and places (whether of the traditional “far-away places wit ...
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... personality are sometimes more at home professionally with psychiatrists and social psychologists than with the archaeologists in their own university departments. Hence, many more than four fields are represented in the ongoing research of modern anthropology. The specialized nature of most anthrop ...
... personality are sometimes more at home professionally with psychiatrists and social psychologists than with the archaeologists in their own university departments. Hence, many more than four fields are represented in the ongoing research of modern anthropology. The specialized nature of most anthrop ...
Document
... very different areas of study and methodologies adopted by these two different branches, students are advised to choose one or the other early in their educational careers. Physical anthropology, as the name implies, studies material objects including bones, fossils, and other concrete traces left b ...
... very different areas of study and methodologies adopted by these two different branches, students are advised to choose one or the other early in their educational careers. Physical anthropology, as the name implies, studies material objects including bones, fossils, and other concrete traces left b ...
Anthropology 5 Magic, Science & Religion
... usually study a culture for an extended period of time, sometimes taking many years. Oftentimes, the anthropologist will live within the community and partake in daily life and activities. • Ethnography: A Cultural Anthropologist’s work usually culminates into something called an Ethnography, or a w ...
... usually study a culture for an extended period of time, sometimes taking many years. Oftentimes, the anthropologist will live within the community and partake in daily life and activities. • Ethnography: A Cultural Anthropologist’s work usually culminates into something called an Ethnography, or a w ...
Exploring Societal Culture and its Relevance to Social Capital
... outset, it will be important to be aware that societal culture is something that a society ‘is’ (as opposed to a mistaken belief held or implied by some that it is something a society ‘has’). In other words, culture is in the members of a society or put another way, we are culture. The individual is ...
... outset, it will be important to be aware that societal culture is something that a society ‘is’ (as opposed to a mistaken belief held or implied by some that it is something a society ‘has’). In other words, culture is in the members of a society or put another way, we are culture. The individual is ...
Powerpoint (large file 8Mb) - Anthropological Society of Western
... government institution and state organisation, as well as to all levels of urban and rural society’ Transformation of value system necessitated: ‘Modernisation thus entails changing those norms which are no longer functional, or which hinder change. Change should be comprehensive…This requires tha ...
... government institution and state organisation, as well as to all levels of urban and rural society’ Transformation of value system necessitated: ‘Modernisation thus entails changing those norms which are no longer functional, or which hinder change. Change should be comprehensive…This requires tha ...
Appendix 1 A History of Theories in Anthropology
... friendship with Ely Parker (see Chapter 1), an educated Iroquois man, Morgan was able to describe the social, political, religious, and economic principles of Iroquois life, including the history of their confederation. He laid out the structural principles on which Iroquois society was based. Morga ...
... friendship with Ely Parker (see Chapter 1), an educated Iroquois man, Morgan was able to describe the social, political, religious, and economic principles of Iroquois life, including the history of their confederation. He laid out the structural principles on which Iroquois society was based. Morga ...
Cultural Ecology
... individuals in later generations will come to share that feature. That feature is adaptive Selective advantage ...
... individuals in later generations will come to share that feature. That feature is adaptive Selective advantage ...
W S ?? HAT IS
... structural anthropology is to identify the hidden rules participants understand but are unable to articulate. Cultural Materialism: Technological and economic aspects play the primary role in shaping a society. Cultural materialism aims to understand the effects of technological, economic and demogr ...
... structural anthropology is to identify the hidden rules participants understand but are unable to articulate. Cultural Materialism: Technological and economic aspects play the primary role in shaping a society. Cultural materialism aims to understand the effects of technological, economic and demogr ...
An Introduction to Physical and Cultural Anthropology
... Biological Anthropology: how diseases and illnesses are genetically transmitted and how they are caused by environmental and social conditions. Primatology: the thinking and communication patterns of primates from our distant evolutionary past. Forensic Anthropology: the discovery of clues in physic ...
... Biological Anthropology: how diseases and illnesses are genetically transmitted and how they are caused by environmental and social conditions. Primatology: the thinking and communication patterns of primates from our distant evolutionary past. Forensic Anthropology: the discovery of clues in physic ...
as country of birth, geographic origin, language, religion, ancestral
... culture, culture shock, and intercultural communication are important concepts to understand. A. Culture shock is the psychological discomfort of adjusting to a new cultural situation. B. Intercultural communication refers to interactions that occur between people whose cultures are so different tha ...
... culture, culture shock, and intercultural communication are important concepts to understand. A. Culture shock is the psychological discomfort of adjusting to a new cultural situation. B. Intercultural communication refers to interactions that occur between people whose cultures are so different tha ...
medical anthropology
... Office hours T,W and Th 11-2 or by appointment Introduction to Medical Anthropology Medical anthropology is a bio-cultural field that includes several emerging specializations within anthropology. Physical anthropologists, epidemiologists and archaeologists whose main goal is tracking the evolution ...
... Office hours T,W and Th 11-2 or by appointment Introduction to Medical Anthropology Medical anthropology is a bio-cultural field that includes several emerging specializations within anthropology. Physical anthropologists, epidemiologists and archaeologists whose main goal is tracking the evolution ...
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... biological system of needs, such as those dictated by metabolism, reproduction, the physiological conditions of temperature." Bronislaw Malinowski “The imposition of meaning on life is the major end and primary condition of human existence." Clifford Geertz Sahlins probably had views such as these i ...
... biological system of needs, such as those dictated by metabolism, reproduction, the physiological conditions of temperature." Bronislaw Malinowski “The imposition of meaning on life is the major end and primary condition of human existence." Clifford Geertz Sahlins probably had views such as these i ...
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.