kottak14e_ppt_ch02
... • What is culture and why do we study it? • What is the relation between culture and the individual? • How does culture change? ...
... • What is culture and why do we study it? • What is the relation between culture and the individual? • How does culture change? ...
Human Beings and Being Human: An Overview of
... Chapter 1: Human Beings and Being Human: An Overview of Anthropology Unfortunately, the common sense answers are rarely right — chopsticks aren’t some archaic precursor to fork and knife, they’re just a different way of getting food into the mouth. Similarly, the ways in which people find marriage ...
... Chapter 1: Human Beings and Being Human: An Overview of Anthropology Unfortunately, the common sense answers are rarely right — chopsticks aren’t some archaic precursor to fork and knife, they’re just a different way of getting food into the mouth. Similarly, the ways in which people find marriage ...
What is Anthropology? What is Anthropology? Adaptation, Variation
... Ethnography produces an account (a book, an article, or a film) of a particular community, society, or culture based on information that is collected during fieldwork. Generally, ethnographic fieldwork involves living in the community that is being studied for an extended period of time (e.g. 6 mont ...
... Ethnography produces an account (a book, an article, or a film) of a particular community, society, or culture based on information that is collected during fieldwork. Generally, ethnographic fieldwork involves living in the community that is being studied for an extended period of time (e.g. 6 mont ...
The Anthropologist as a Primatologist
... in anthropology and set paradigmatic standards of the discipline. However, the conduct of ‘traditional’ fieldwork has rarely been scrutinized within primatology and biological anthropology. I at least, a seasoned fieldworker with a quarter of a century’s experience, operate without an explicit intel ...
... in anthropology and set paradigmatic standards of the discipline. However, the conduct of ‘traditional’ fieldwork has rarely been scrutinized within primatology and biological anthropology. I at least, a seasoned fieldworker with a quarter of a century’s experience, operate without an explicit intel ...
Full Text - Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
... pre-existing patterns of neural activity and they are thus constitutive of that experience (Han and Northoff, 2008). The constitutive character of cultural experience is particularly salient when considering preliminary evidence that cultural differences can be expressed in actual brain structural c ...
... pre-existing patterns of neural activity and they are thus constitutive of that experience (Han and Northoff, 2008). The constitutive character of cultural experience is particularly salient when considering preliminary evidence that cultural differences can be expressed in actual brain structural c ...
Culture and Anarchy
... capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society” (1871) - neutral - plural: „cultures” rather than „culture” - culture: a human universal - Nature vs. culture again - Every culture is an adequate response to its environement, working well - Culture: second nature of meanings, symbols ...
... capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society” (1871) - neutral - plural: „cultures” rather than „culture” - culture: a human universal - Nature vs. culture again - Every culture is an adequate response to its environement, working well - Culture: second nature of meanings, symbols ...
Evolution and Transmitted Culture
... to argue that transmitted culture is an adaptation and that babies are born biologically prepared to rapidly learn the beliefs and practices of their social group. A learning bias that adopts the most common behaviors of the ingroup may have been selected in the ecologically fluctuating ancestral en ...
... to argue that transmitted culture is an adaptation and that babies are born biologically prepared to rapidly learn the beliefs and practices of their social group. A learning bias that adopts the most common behaviors of the ingroup may have been selected in the ecologically fluctuating ancestral en ...
Think about it - Homework Market
... Though anthropology first developed in this Euro-American context and Western anthropologists studied "exotic" peoples in faraway places or traditional peoples whose ways of life were changing rapidly with modernity, anthropologists now come from all over the world. They bring their different perspe ...
... Though anthropology first developed in this Euro-American context and Western anthropologists studied "exotic" peoples in faraway places or traditional peoples whose ways of life were changing rapidly with modernity, anthropologists now come from all over the world. They bring their different perspe ...
Encounters on Education Encuentros sobre Educación Rencontres sur l’Éducation
... posed by this new multicultural situation be a rethinking of the very concepts of culture and cultural diversity, given that views too narrow and static can lead to the opposite effects of the ones intended, and reinforce the kind of exclusionary attitudes we were trying to avoid in the first place. ...
... posed by this new multicultural situation be a rethinking of the very concepts of culture and cultural diversity, given that views too narrow and static can lead to the opposite effects of the ones intended, and reinforce the kind of exclusionary attitudes we were trying to avoid in the first place. ...
The Anthropological Questions
... In their study about social change, anthropologists identify which factors are most significant at any particular time. ...
... In their study about social change, anthropologists identify which factors are most significant at any particular time. ...
UNCHOSEN GROUNDS: Cultivating Cross-Subfield Accents for a Public Voice (Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle, eds. Segal and Yanagisako 2005)
... practice-constituting its identity and sensibility-comparativism does not belong to sociocultural anthropology alone but informs all four subfields one way or another. Although it is a tacit condition of much anthropological work, comparativism becomes evident, at the least, as a means by which anth ...
... practice-constituting its identity and sensibility-comparativism does not belong to sociocultural anthropology alone but informs all four subfields one way or another. Although it is a tacit condition of much anthropological work, comparativism becomes evident, at the least, as a means by which anth ...
Heider Chapter 5
... • Apakah proses-proses tersebut berifat kultural atau alamiah? Masih banyak ...
... • Apakah proses-proses tersebut berifat kultural atau alamiah? Masih banyak ...
WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY AND WHY SHOULD I CARE?
... based simply on our own cultural understandings. To accurately reflect humanity, they also must be based on studies of human groups whose goals, values, views of reality, and environmental adaptations are very different from our own. We can achieve an accurate understanding of humanity only by reali ...
... based simply on our own cultural understandings. To accurately reflect humanity, they also must be based on studies of human groups whose goals, values, views of reality, and environmental adaptations are very different from our own. We can achieve an accurate understanding of humanity only by reali ...
Cultural variation in elite athletes - Department of Cognitive Science
... Oriental and Occidental: rhetorical comparison overly homogenizes and essentializes both extremes, treating differences as timeless and inherent in the groups; dichotomous thinking exaggerates opposition and focuses on contrasting areas, rather than more complicated forms of relation; and Orientalis ...
... Oriental and Occidental: rhetorical comparison overly homogenizes and essentializes both extremes, treating differences as timeless and inherent in the groups; dichotomous thinking exaggerates opposition and focuses on contrasting areas, rather than more complicated forms of relation; and Orientalis ...
Conversions, Dreams, Defining Aims? Following Boas, Malinowski
... But he described general differences between primitive and modern cultures in terms that I will relate to his self-understanding. In his 1911 classic The Mind of Primitive Man, Boas stated that reasoning becomes more logical with advancing civilization. This is not because the capacity of individual ...
... But he described general differences between primitive and modern cultures in terms that I will relate to his self-understanding. In his 1911 classic The Mind of Primitive Man, Boas stated that reasoning becomes more logical with advancing civilization. This is not because the capacity of individual ...
Hegemony and Culture in Historical Anthropology: A Review Essay
... the reader involves substantial methodological and empirical difficulties, of which the Comaroffs are well aware. One must examine implicit meanings, since as soon as they become explicit, they move into the domain of ideology. While still important, they then become openly subject to contestation a ...
... the reader involves substantial methodological and empirical difficulties, of which the Comaroffs are well aware. One must examine implicit meanings, since as soon as they become explicit, they move into the domain of ideology. While still important, they then become openly subject to contestation a ...
Cultural Studies (pptx, it, 133 KB, 12/4/13)
... • Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and sometimes counter-disciplinary field that operates in the tension between its tendencies to embrace both a broad, anthropological and more narrowly humanistic conception of culture. Unlike traditional anthropology, however, it has gr ...
... • Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and sometimes counter-disciplinary field that operates in the tension between its tendencies to embrace both a broad, anthropological and more narrowly humanistic conception of culture. Unlike traditional anthropology, however, it has gr ...
Talking Culture: New Boundaries, New Rhetorics of Exclusion in
... is shortageof work,intoleranceand aggressionare not directedagainstone's fellow citizens is neverraised. The meaning and nature of these rationalizationsof animositytowardimmigrantsand the need to curb extracommunitarianimmigrationhave been highlycontroversial.I will here analyze the rightistrhetori ...
... is shortageof work,intoleranceand aggressionare not directedagainstone's fellow citizens is neverraised. The meaning and nature of these rationalizationsof animositytowardimmigrantsand the need to curb extracommunitarianimmigrationhave been highlycontroversial.I will here analyze the rightistrhetori ...
The Ethics of Relativism and Absolutism
... Kugel, Y., Gruenberg, G.W., 1977. Criteria and guidelines for decision making: The special case of international payoffs. Columbia Journal of World Business 12 (3), 113-123. Mayo, M.A., Marks, L.J., Ryans, J.K., 1991. Perceptions of ethical problems in international ...
... Kugel, Y., Gruenberg, G.W., 1977. Criteria and guidelines for decision making: The special case of international payoffs. Columbia Journal of World Business 12 (3), 113-123. Mayo, M.A., Marks, L.J., Ryans, J.K., 1991. Perceptions of ethical problems in international ...
Ethics in Anthropology or Anthropology of Morals?!
... anthropology and structuralism, ethics was understood as a relationship between the ethnographer and his work. The researcher decided what was within the ethical framework. The audience of ethnography and the ethnographer were dominant in setting the stage. The object of research was viewed from out ...
... anthropology and structuralism, ethics was understood as a relationship between the ethnographer and his work. The researcher decided what was within the ethical framework. The audience of ethnography and the ethnographer were dominant in setting the stage. The object of research was viewed from out ...
Chapter 1: The Discipline of Anthropology
... An approach to research that combines participation and observation in various ways to optimize one’s understanding of the culture being studied ...
... An approach to research that combines participation and observation in various ways to optimize one’s understanding of the culture being studied ...
II. A Certain Inheritance: Nineteenth Century German
... had a tremendous influence on his contemporaries. It would also influence the development of anthropological and linguistic thinking (in hindsight marking the beginning of a modern philosophy of language). Although this essay already contained what would become one of Herder’s most original contribu ...
... had a tremendous influence on his contemporaries. It would also influence the development of anthropological and linguistic thinking (in hindsight marking the beginning of a modern philosophy of language). Although this essay already contained what would become one of Herder’s most original contribu ...
Ninth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies
... tends to privilege non-European, native perspectives as more adequate not only in their respective, cultural contexts but apparently also at the abstract level of his own discourse. But the question that emerges from this stance is: Are ecological relations (everywhere?) to be ...
... tends to privilege non-European, native perspectives as more adequate not only in their respective, cultural contexts but apparently also at the abstract level of his own discourse. But the question that emerges from this stance is: Are ecological relations (everywhere?) to be ...
CULTURE, FOR AND AGAINST: PATTERNS OF “CULTURESPEAK
... as “culture” so I am not inclined to quibble with the occasional looseness of his approach. It is better to include phenomena than to exclude them at this stage of analysis. “Culturespeak” works as a fruitful heuristic device for inspecting the field of New Zealand public discourse, because it focus ...
... as “culture” so I am not inclined to quibble with the occasional looseness of his approach. It is better to include phenomena than to exclude them at this stage of analysis. “Culturespeak” works as a fruitful heuristic device for inspecting the field of New Zealand public discourse, because it focus ...
Thick Description
... surroundings as well as the actions and utterances of the other members of their society The second major premise is that actions are guided by interpretation. ...
... surroundings as well as the actions and utterances of the other members of their society The second major premise is that actions are guided by interpretation. ...