The Four-Field Model
... the United States, they were of no consequence in the development of sociology, the sister field of sociocultural anthropology (Leslie 1963: 486)6. That is because anthropologists were concerned with the things people made in addition to their institutions; things people made were part of the learne ...
... the United States, they were of no consequence in the development of sociology, the sister field of sociocultural anthropology (Leslie 1963: 486)6. That is because anthropologists were concerned with the things people made in addition to their institutions; things people made were part of the learne ...
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... nils One thing that has changed, I think, in the last twenty years at least is that the concept of globalisation itself has become a political buzzword that is bandied around the scene by people well outside the academic arena. There seems to me to be a widespread academic resentment against the con ...
... nils One thing that has changed, I think, in the last twenty years at least is that the concept of globalisation itself has become a political buzzword that is bandied around the scene by people well outside the academic arena. There seems to me to be a widespread academic resentment against the con ...
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... ANTH 011 Cultural Diversity and Human Nature 4 Credits A cross-cultural investigation of variation in human societies. Examines forms of social organization, kinship, religion, symbolism, and language through the consideration of specific cultural case studies in local and global contexts. Students ...
... ANTH 011 Cultural Diversity and Human Nature 4 Credits A cross-cultural investigation of variation in human societies. Examines forms of social organization, kinship, religion, symbolism, and language through the consideration of specific cultural case studies in local and global contexts. Students ...
The Historical Study of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Margaret Mead and
... time. His travels took him on pathways and past battlegrounds that elicited from his Arapesh companions stories of great alliances, rivalries, and the politics of adultery that provoked men to war. There was nothing comparable in Mead's experience that testified to this precolonial Arapesh culture ...
... time. His travels took him on pathways and past battlegrounds that elicited from his Arapesh companions stories of great alliances, rivalries, and the politics of adultery that provoked men to war. There was nothing comparable in Mead's experience that testified to this precolonial Arapesh culture ...
Ontology is just another word for culture. Proposing the motion
... There is another issue. Notwithstanding the lack of consensus among anthropologists on what constitutes culture the word has nevertheless become common fare outside the discipline. This has caused anthropologists some concern. A similar concern was raised about ‘society’ in the 1989 meeting of the G ...
... There is another issue. Notwithstanding the lack of consensus among anthropologists on what constitutes culture the word has nevertheless become common fare outside the discipline. This has caused anthropologists some concern. A similar concern was raised about ‘society’ in the 1989 meeting of the G ...
Cultural Policy: Rejuvenate or Wither
... theatre promoted from the late 1940s and its results, particularly, high profile plays such as Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. There was also the availability in other comparable countries of film support mechanisms justified via the “arts” matrix and logics of market failure. But in an ...
... theatre promoted from the late 1940s and its results, particularly, high profile plays such as Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. There was also the availability in other comparable countries of film support mechanisms justified via the “arts” matrix and logics of market failure. But in an ...
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... disciplines. Why not just evaluation? Or why not anthropology? Her answer is, that evaluation anthropology is stronger than its parts (p. 18), as academics and practitioners from both disciplines come together to mutually share and learn from each other’s expertise. Qualitative and quantitative data ...
... disciplines. Why not just evaluation? Or why not anthropology? Her answer is, that evaluation anthropology is stronger than its parts (p. 18), as academics and practitioners from both disciplines come together to mutually share and learn from each other’s expertise. Qualitative and quantitative data ...
INSTRUCTORS GUIDE by - Anthropology
... questions, short answer questions, and definitions for several terms used in the chapter. The chapter summary highlights the main points of the article, while the questions help teachers motivate students to discuss, analyze, and debate issues raised by the chapter. At the end of the guide, the answ ...
... questions, short answer questions, and definitions for several terms used in the chapter. The chapter summary highlights the main points of the article, while the questions help teachers motivate students to discuss, analyze, and debate issues raised by the chapter. At the end of the guide, the answ ...
Cosmopolitanism and Pancultural Universals: Our Common
... through power, pressure, and manipulation. Presently, many Western ideas and practices have been adopted, transformed, altered, and modified within many societies through “glocalization,” as local regions adopt global culture. This process is sometimes viewed as “negotiated universals.” These negoti ...
... through power, pressure, and manipulation. Presently, many Western ideas and practices have been adopted, transformed, altered, and modified within many societies through “glocalization,” as local regions adopt global culture. This process is sometimes viewed as “negotiated universals.” These negoti ...
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... ANTH 450/550 Ethics and Research Design in Anthropology MW 2:00 - 3:15pm (SS 175) This course is intended to provide graduate students and advanced majors in anthropology with an introduction to basic practices related to anthropological research skills and ethics. The format will involve both lectu ...
... ANTH 450/550 Ethics and Research Design in Anthropology MW 2:00 - 3:15pm (SS 175) This course is intended to provide graduate students and advanced majors in anthropology with an introduction to basic practices related to anthropological research skills and ethics. The format will involve both lectu ...
Advocacy in Anthropology: Active engagement or passive
... Is advocacy incompatible with anthropology? Hastrup and Elsass articulate an opposing view, based on their involvement with an isolated indigenous group (Arhuacos) in the mountains of northern Colombia. This is an appropriate case to compare with Scheper-Hughes, as in both situations the local peopl ...
... Is advocacy incompatible with anthropology? Hastrup and Elsass articulate an opposing view, based on their involvement with an isolated indigenous group (Arhuacos) in the mountains of northern Colombia. This is an appropriate case to compare with Scheper-Hughes, as in both situations the local peopl ...
Visions of Culture : an Introduction to Anthropological Theories and
... Sahlins and historic Oceana—there is a recurrent dialectic that occurs in the context of research. In general discussions of theory, the empirical contexts of fieldwork are too often ignored. This is a shame since ethnographic research is anthropology’s most important addition to the social sciences ...
... Sahlins and historic Oceana—there is a recurrent dialectic that occurs in the context of research. In general discussions of theory, the empirical contexts of fieldwork are too often ignored. This is a shame since ethnographic research is anthropology’s most important addition to the social sciences ...
D i s a p p e a r i n g Worlds: Anthropology and Cultural Studies in
... a language, putting oneself in odd situations and trying to figure them out can be a good way to learn something new, simultaneously about oneself and about the places one visits” (91). Geertz’s review essay holds up an older paradigm of anthropological fieldwork (troubled but still devoted to susta ...
... a language, putting oneself in odd situations and trying to figure them out can be a good way to learn something new, simultaneously about oneself and about the places one visits” (91). Geertz’s review essay holds up an older paradigm of anthropological fieldwork (troubled but still devoted to susta ...
Disappearing Worlds: Anthropology and Cultural Studies in Hawai`i
... a language, putting oneself in odd situations and trying to figure them out can be a good way to learn something new, simultaneously about oneself and about the places one visits” (91). Geertz’s review essay holds up an older paradigm of anthropological fieldwork (troubled but still devoted to susta ...
... a language, putting oneself in odd situations and trying to figure them out can be a good way to learn something new, simultaneously about oneself and about the places one visits” (91). Geertz’s review essay holds up an older paradigm of anthropological fieldwork (troubled but still devoted to susta ...
The Power of Culture
... power on the one hand, and, on the other hand, noting that politicians and political scientists apparently are not very interested in the possible connections between the two domains one wonders whether in the social sciences, and anthropology in particular, much attenti ...
... power on the one hand, and, on the other hand, noting that politicians and political scientists apparently are not very interested in the possible connections between the two domains one wonders whether in the social sciences, and anthropology in particular, much attenti ...
anthro intro
... – Society—organized life in groups – Culture—traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs • Distinctly human feature • Transmitted through learning • Not biological, but ability to use culture rests in hominid biology ...
... – Society—organized life in groups – Culture—traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs • Distinctly human feature • Transmitted through learning • Not biological, but ability to use culture rests in hominid biology ...
The Historical Study of Ethnographic Fieldwork
... their fieldwork as a married couple working as partners (as did we), the portrayals of the culture they subsequently offered differ from one another in striking ways. In her best-selling book Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), Mead famously concluded that Mountain Arapesh cult ...
... their fieldwork as a married couple working as partners (as did we), the portrayals of the culture they subsequently offered differ from one another in striking ways. In her best-selling book Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), Mead famously concluded that Mountain Arapesh cult ...
Chapter 1. Introduction After culture: anthropology as radical
... and invidious ways of distinguishing humans, such as by religion or race,2 which have been turned so destructively in the course of history against other human beings. Culture by contrast is democratic: we all have it and, in principle at least, nobody’s is inherently superior to anyone else’s. Now, ...
... and invidious ways of distinguishing humans, such as by religion or race,2 which have been turned so destructively in the course of history against other human beings. Culture by contrast is democratic: we all have it and, in principle at least, nobody’s is inherently superior to anyone else’s. Now, ...
Vytis ČIUBRINSKAS - Social / cultural anthropology in Lithuania: the
... until the end of 1980s and some arrogant "pure" historians, working with written sources, considered ethnological studies merely "old wives' tales". Consequently, to be scientific, an ethnographer had to be a historian first not putting trust in the data collected using field research methods but ve ...
... until the end of 1980s and some arrogant "pure" historians, working with written sources, considered ethnological studies merely "old wives' tales". Consequently, to be scientific, an ethnographer had to be a historian first not putting trust in the data collected using field research methods but ve ...
ANTHRONOTES - Anthropology
... a collaborative ethnography by contemporary standards, since outside of Morgan’s brief acknowledgment, we do not know to what extent Parker actually helped shape the text. Nonetheless, it placed collaboration with informants at the heart of ethnographic practice where mere observation (by outside go ...
... a collaborative ethnography by contemporary standards, since outside of Morgan’s brief acknowledgment, we do not know to what extent Parker actually helped shape the text. Nonetheless, it placed collaboration with informants at the heart of ethnographic practice where mere observation (by outside go ...
Introduction to Post-Social Anthropology
... between humans and nonhumans. What the anthropology of science does is not dissolve the distinction between science and nonscience; rather it multiplies and differentiates this distinction in a cloud of practices with specific demands and obligations. Note that we are dealing with an anthropology of ...
... between humans and nonhumans. What the anthropology of science does is not dissolve the distinction between science and nonscience; rather it multiplies and differentiates this distinction in a cloud of practices with specific demands and obligations. Note that we are dealing with an anthropology of ...
ANTH - Webster University
... ANTH 3230 Cross-Cultural Masculinities (3) How can we know which aspects of men’s behavior are cultural or social, and which are from a biological template for being a man? If we claim that gender is a social and cultural construct, what exactly does that mean? Since the early 1980s, more and more e ...
... ANTH 3230 Cross-Cultural Masculinities (3) How can we know which aspects of men’s behavior are cultural or social, and which are from a biological template for being a man? If we claim that gender is a social and cultural construct, what exactly does that mean? Since the early 1980s, more and more e ...
Anthropology in Cameroon
... chiefdom of Nsei (Bamessing) in the Ndop Plain’ (Chilver 1988:1). Although Schmidt’s ethnography was published in 1955, her works have remained largely unknown even among contemporary Cameroonian and Cameroonist anthropologists. In this paper, I sketch in a very provisional way, the contours of anth ...
... chiefdom of Nsei (Bamessing) in the Ndop Plain’ (Chilver 1988:1). Although Schmidt’s ethnography was published in 1955, her works have remained largely unknown even among contemporary Cameroonian and Cameroonist anthropologists. In this paper, I sketch in a very provisional way, the contours of anth ...
"ethnographic film"?
... online to read on Google Books. Check out Chapter on Flaherty and Nanook of the North especially. Yet, also read the Introduction chapter for an excellent introduction to the idea of colonial histories and representation and the construct of ‘other’. Reference is made to ethnocentricism and the role ...
... online to read on Google Books. Check out Chapter on Flaherty and Nanook of the North especially. Yet, also read the Introduction chapter for an excellent introduction to the idea of colonial histories and representation and the construct of ‘other’. Reference is made to ethnocentricism and the role ...