Department of Sociology and Anthropology Dr. Timothy J. Carter, Head Sociology Program Coordinator
... critical thinking, method and theory, gathering and interpreting data, intensive reading and writing, hands-on learning, and the research methods and techniques used by anthropologists to understand contemporary human problems. ...
... critical thinking, method and theory, gathering and interpreting data, intensive reading and writing, hands-on learning, and the research methods and techniques used by anthropologists to understand contemporary human problems. ...
The Historical Study of Ethnographic Fieldwork
... the fieldworker’s control (and the historian’s grasp) that it can appear as if “the field” were a cultural given. But in many ways the situations that anthropologists experience in the field are ones that they themselves have played a role in shaping. This is manifestly true with respect to such pra ...
... the fieldworker’s control (and the historian’s grasp) that it can appear as if “the field” were a cultural given. But in many ways the situations that anthropologists experience in the field are ones that they themselves have played a role in shaping. This is manifestly true with respect to such pra ...
Marvin Harris at Columbia in the 1970`s
... strong evolutionary orientation. Darwin was bedrock, for explaining how complex structures can evolve over time, through short-term efforts to cope with environmental realities. Malthus was there too. A natural tendency for populations to grow was seen as the motor of both prehistorical sociocultura ...
... strong evolutionary orientation. Darwin was bedrock, for explaining how complex structures can evolve over time, through short-term efforts to cope with environmental realities. Malthus was there too. A natural tendency for populations to grow was seen as the motor of both prehistorical sociocultura ...
deficience auditive
... cultural concepts of disability is also seen in the ways that individuals account for their disabilities. Several of the articles in this current volume note individual's reluctance to have their hearing tested. Pichora-Fuller and Kirson discovered that individuals were likely to mis-attribute heari ...
... cultural concepts of disability is also seen in the ways that individuals account for their disabilities. Several of the articles in this current volume note individual's reluctance to have their hearing tested. Pichora-Fuller and Kirson discovered that individuals were likely to mis-attribute heari ...
Cодержание 3/2015
... distributions of different features, development of models able to explain origins of modern pattern of human variability. Models most consistent with reality are the complex ones, combining population fissions, migrations, bottlenecks with constant gene flow between populations. Race is also widely ...
... distributions of different features, development of models able to explain origins of modern pattern of human variability. Models most consistent with reality are the complex ones, combining population fissions, migrations, bottlenecks with constant gene flow between populations. Race is also widely ...
"ethnographic film"?
... to a deeper appreciation of those who have sought to engage with, and represent through film, the complexity of ‘other people and other places’. ...
... to a deeper appreciation of those who have sought to engage with, and represent through film, the complexity of ‘other people and other places’. ...
Anthropology and the Study of Culture Miller Chapter 1
... ___________ says that whatever goes on in a particular culture must not be questioned or changed because it would be ethnocentric to question any behavior or idea anywhere. ...
... ___________ says that whatever goes on in a particular culture must not be questioned or changed because it would be ethnocentric to question any behavior or idea anywhere. ...
ANTHRONOTES - Anthropology
... culture within the written text, but also asking their consultants to take a more active role in the writing process itself. Called “collaborative ethnography,” the approach highlights the collaboration that has always been inherent in fieldwork practice and extends it more systematically into the w ...
... culture within the written text, but also asking their consultants to take a more active role in the writing process itself. Called “collaborative ethnography,” the approach highlights the collaboration that has always been inherent in fieldwork practice and extends it more systematically into the w ...
Change and Continuity in Anthropology
... with anthropologies of Islam and Buddhism, for example, which he sees as having greater disciplinary coherence). In considering why that might be, he argued that what he called ‘continuity thinking’ is in the ‘deep structure of anthropological theorizing’. He identified continuity thinking as consis ...
... with anthropologies of Islam and Buddhism, for example, which he sees as having greater disciplinary coherence). In considering why that might be, he argued that what he called ‘continuity thinking’ is in the ‘deep structure of anthropological theorizing’. He identified continuity thinking as consis ...
Translations on the Move
... As anthropologist B. Maurer puts it, one can characterize this analytical endeavor by its lateral move. Rather than resting on the hierarchical relation between the data and the theory, lateralization lays analytical language alongside the language of informants and constructs interconnections betwe ...
... As anthropologist B. Maurer puts it, one can characterize this analytical endeavor by its lateral move. Rather than resting on the hierarchical relation between the data and the theory, lateralization lays analytical language alongside the language of informants and constructs interconnections betwe ...
Anthropology Course Catalog
... evolution and non-human primates. Topics include aggression, communication, learning, maturation, sexuality, and the evolution of social systems. ANTH 20400 – Introduction to Biological Anthropology and Human Evolution: Credit Hours: 3.00. This course surveys biological anthropology through a review ...
... evolution and non-human primates. Topics include aggression, communication, learning, maturation, sexuality, and the evolution of social systems. ANTH 20400 – Introduction to Biological Anthropology and Human Evolution: Credit Hours: 3.00. This course surveys biological anthropology through a review ...
Economies and the Transformation of Landscapes
... historical overviews see Anscheutz et al. 2001; Ashmore and Knapp 1999; Hirsch 1995; A. Smith 2003; Tilley 1994). Prior to the 1980s, however, anthropologists tended to conceptualize landscapes in ecological terms as a suite of resources distributed through space to which human populations adapted ( ...
... historical overviews see Anscheutz et al. 2001; Ashmore and Knapp 1999; Hirsch 1995; A. Smith 2003; Tilley 1994). Prior to the 1980s, however, anthropologists tended to conceptualize landscapes in ecological terms as a suite of resources distributed through space to which human populations adapted ( ...
Conversions, Dreams, Defining Aims? Following Boas, Malinowski
... Anthropology’s founding figures were academic travelers, who brought skills that were honed in a variety of fields to their new enterprise. Two such figures were Franz Boas, born in Minden, Westphalia in 1858, and Bronislaw Malinowski, born in Kraków, Galicia, in 1884. Both were recognized for helpi ...
... Anthropology’s founding figures were academic travelers, who brought skills that were honed in a variety of fields to their new enterprise. Two such figures were Franz Boas, born in Minden, Westphalia in 1858, and Bronislaw Malinowski, born in Kraków, Galicia, in 1884. Both were recognized for helpi ...
revisiting theories of invented tradition
... invention of the neo-traditional notion of the “folk” in Nova Scotia or the process by which a class of nineteenth-century grape growers in France constructed a global reputation for Bordeaux wines, the concept has proven to be an analytic tool remarkable for its malleability and wideranging applica ...
... invention of the neo-traditional notion of the “folk” in Nova Scotia or the process by which a class of nineteenth-century grape growers in France constructed a global reputation for Bordeaux wines, the concept has proven to be an analytic tool remarkable for its malleability and wideranging applica ...
Chapter 1: What is anthropology
... FACES OF CULTURE I: The Nature of Culture Faces of Culture Film Synopsis: The Nature of Culture explores notions of ethnocentrism, enculturation, and the shared, learned, symbolic, and integrated aspects of culture. If you would like to lecture exclusively on the shared, learned, symbolic and integr ...
... FACES OF CULTURE I: The Nature of Culture Faces of Culture Film Synopsis: The Nature of Culture explores notions of ethnocentrism, enculturation, and the shared, learned, symbolic, and integrated aspects of culture. If you would like to lecture exclusively on the shared, learned, symbolic and integr ...
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... culture beyond the academy. It is probably unnecessary to rehearse all the things that were their weaknesses. But it seems to me that one of the interesting things now, at least from the perspective of a USAmerican, is that when you look back on the globalisation debates of the 1990s they look like ...
... culture beyond the academy. It is probably unnecessary to rehearse all the things that were their weaknesses. But it seems to me that one of the interesting things now, at least from the perspective of a USAmerican, is that when you look back on the globalisation debates of the 1990s they look like ...
Elements of Culturally Competent Counseling
... culture such as socioeconomic status, religion/spirituality, sexual orientation, and ability status. Given this reality, what are the elements of culture in counseling? What is the nature of culturally competent counseling in the 21st century? This digest is an attempt to summarize some significant ...
... culture such as socioeconomic status, religion/spirituality, sexual orientation, and ability status. Given this reality, what are the elements of culture in counseling? What is the nature of culturally competent counseling in the 21st century? This digest is an attempt to summarize some significant ...
Archaeologies of Amalgamation in Seventeenth
... The concept of acculturation has the longest and possibly most controversial history of the aforementioned terms (Cusick 1998:127–132). In its early anthropological use, acculturation was defined as “those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuo ...
... The concept of acculturation has the longest and possibly most controversial history of the aforementioned terms (Cusick 1998:127–132). In its early anthropological use, acculturation was defined as “those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuo ...
2. Parsing Hybridity - Scholars at Harvard
... The concept of acculturation has the longest and possibly most controversial history of the aforementioned terms (Cusick 1998:127–132). In its early anthropological use, acculturation was defined as “those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuo ...
... The concept of acculturation has the longest and possibly most controversial history of the aforementioned terms (Cusick 1998:127–132). In its early anthropological use, acculturation was defined as “those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuo ...
The Rise of Deaf Culture - University of Hawaii at Hilo
... themselves which characteristics were more “fit” than ...
... themselves which characteristics were more “fit” than ...
ch02 - Anthropology
... area, and a lower section where the foragers lived. We shook the hands of the forest foragers (derogatorily known as pygmies) as they greeted us enthusiastically and invited us to sit under a shaded area in the center of the village. An older woman disappeared into a nearby house and came out wiping ...
... area, and a lower section where the foragers lived. We shook the hands of the forest foragers (derogatorily known as pygmies) as they greeted us enthusiastically and invited us to sit under a shaded area in the center of the village. An older woman disappeared into a nearby house and came out wiping ...
From Biological Determinism to Cultural Relativism
... few years to include famed psychologist Robert Yerkes, Harvard’s head of anthropology Earnest Hooton, Johns Hopkins biologist Raymond Pearl, and England’s premier anatomists Sir Grafton Eliot Smith and Sir Arthur Keith. The distinguished and exclusive membership of the organization afforded it much ...
... few years to include famed psychologist Robert Yerkes, Harvard’s head of anthropology Earnest Hooton, Johns Hopkins biologist Raymond Pearl, and England’s premier anatomists Sir Grafton Eliot Smith and Sir Arthur Keith. The distinguished and exclusive membership of the organization afforded it much ...
Visions of Culture : an Introduction to Anthropological Theories and
... This is a shame since ethnographic research is anthropology’s most important addition to the social sciences, and our translations of other cultures’ experiences are anthropology’s most lasting contribution to intellectual life. Obviously, I could not write about every major anthropological figure, ...
... This is a shame since ethnographic research is anthropology’s most important addition to the social sciences, and our translations of other cultures’ experiences are anthropology’s most lasting contribution to intellectual life. Obviously, I could not write about every major anthropological figure, ...
`native informant` anthropologist as kaupapa Māori
... I was deliberate in positioning myself as the ‘insider’, because I wanted to utilise my upbringing in the area of land confiscation, my knowledge that came with the upbringing. Taking the ‘insider’s position in anthropology was a challenge. Having gone through the Tauranga Raupatu claims, where all ...
... I was deliberate in positioning myself as the ‘insider’, because I wanted to utilise my upbringing in the area of land confiscation, my knowledge that came with the upbringing. Taking the ‘insider’s position in anthropology was a challenge. Having gone through the Tauranga Raupatu claims, where all ...
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.