Cultural History of Britain
... he preferred to say, ethnography) in terms of a single linear sequence from less to more complexity. Quote from Tylor’s Primitive Culture, 1873/1958: “Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and ...
... he preferred to say, ethnography) in terms of a single linear sequence from less to more complexity. Quote from Tylor’s Primitive Culture, 1873/1958: “Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and ...
Anthropology 500, History of Anthropological
... There are several things that you will find important to know before you begin the course. Some of these items are of the order of ‘rules of engagement,’ others are preferences, and some simply good ideas for you to consider. Laptops, cell phones, and any other form of electronic recording or commun ...
... There are several things that you will find important to know before you begin the course. Some of these items are of the order of ‘rules of engagement,’ others are preferences, and some simply good ideas for you to consider. Laptops, cell phones, and any other form of electronic recording or commun ...
Publication in Anthropology - UNC
... 4) Determining journal in which to publish in an increasingly multidisciplinary field. This is an issue because of increasing multidisciplinarity both within anthropology and between anthropology and other fields. Biological anthropologists are as likely to publish in biological journals, cultural a ...
... 4) Determining journal in which to publish in an increasingly multidisciplinary field. This is an issue because of increasing multidisciplinarity both within anthropology and between anthropology and other fields. Biological anthropologists are as likely to publish in biological journals, cultural a ...
Worlds of sense and sensing the world: a response to Sarah Pink
... It rather has to do, narrowly and exclusively, with the perusal of images (Elkins 2003: 7). Where there are no images to view, there is no vision. It is as though the eyes opened not upon the world itself, but upon a simulacrum of the world whose objects already bear witness to the experience of sig ...
... It rather has to do, narrowly and exclusively, with the perusal of images (Elkins 2003: 7). Where there are no images to view, there is no vision. It is as though the eyes opened not upon the world itself, but upon a simulacrum of the world whose objects already bear witness to the experience of sig ...
National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples
... The recognition that people are increasingly "moving targets" (Breckenridge and Appadurai 1989:i) of anthropological enquiry is associated with the placing of boundaries and borderlands at the center of our analytical frameworks, as opposed to relegating them to invisible peripheries or anomalous da ...
... The recognition that people are increasingly "moving targets" (Breckenridge and Appadurai 1989:i) of anthropological enquiry is associated with the placing of boundaries and borderlands at the center of our analytical frameworks, as opposed to relegating them to invisible peripheries or anomalous da ...
Kinship and Evolved Psychological Dispositions
... Kinship and Marriage (1971). The basis of their arguments was that marriage and kinship, as understood by social and cultural anthropologists, were not externally existing phenomena but merely glosses for loosely similar notions found in different cultures. As Needham put it, there was no such thing ...
... Kinship and Marriage (1971). The basis of their arguments was that marriage and kinship, as understood by social and cultural anthropologists, were not externally existing phenomena but merely glosses for loosely similar notions found in different cultures. As Needham put it, there was no such thing ...
the Role of Anthropology in Development
... of Capetown, developed in an effort to reduce conflict between the white and black populations, paved the way for an increased anthropological presence in the British colonial system (ibid:32). However, “the question of a practical role for anthropology provoked considerable controversy among anthro ...
... of Capetown, developed in an effort to reduce conflict between the white and black populations, paved the way for an increased anthropological presence in the British colonial system (ibid:32). However, “the question of a practical role for anthropology provoked considerable controversy among anthro ...
Print this article - Forum: Qualitative Social Research
... Memory recollection used a visual mode of response to past lived experiences which prompted an immediate sensory response in the form of a wordless succession of colourful vivid images from the different cultures with which I interacted. A chain of visual flashes came to fill my mind with faces, obj ...
... Memory recollection used a visual mode of response to past lived experiences which prompted an immediate sensory response in the form of a wordless succession of colourful vivid images from the different cultures with which I interacted. A chain of visual flashes came to fill my mind with faces, obj ...
Every man is an island, every culture is a continent, and the
... If we take it that culture is not merely a notion that represents shared behaviours amongst socially related individuals, but actually fixes a social identity for individuals, we may concede that cultures are entities in their own right that relate to one another. Consequently, there is cultural int ...
... If we take it that culture is not merely a notion that represents shared behaviours amongst socially related individuals, but actually fixes a social identity for individuals, we may concede that cultures are entities in their own right that relate to one another. Consequently, there is cultural int ...
Observation and ``Science`` in British anthropology
... of native social categories and beliefs, Malinowski returned triumphantly to the London School of Economics where he spent the next thirty years extolling the “secret” of social anthropological research (Kayberry, 1957; Leach, 1961). With the publication of the Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) ...
... of native social categories and beliefs, Malinowski returned triumphantly to the London School of Economics where he spent the next thirty years extolling the “secret” of social anthropological research (Kayberry, 1957; Leach, 1961). With the publication of the Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) ...
Ethnoprimatology: Toward Reconciliation of Biological and Cultural
... considered laboratory research in primatology to be of great importance, he stressed that the primary source of knowledge must come from studies on nonhuman primate in their natural habitats. Irven DeVore (1962), one of Washburn’s students, became the first anthropologist to produce a dissertation o ...
... considered laboratory research in primatology to be of great importance, he stressed that the primary source of knowledge must come from studies on nonhuman primate in their natural habitats. Irven DeVore (1962), one of Washburn’s students, became the first anthropologist to produce a dissertation o ...
Cultural industries and public policy
... a comprehensive definition in distinction to the cultural industries (or any other term). A best estimate is that there were two reasons for the adoption of the term. First, a direct political one. The new Labour administration sought to position itself as politically centrist, one that was very kee ...
... a comprehensive definition in distinction to the cultural industries (or any other term). A best estimate is that there were two reasons for the adoption of the term. First, a direct political one. The new Labour administration sought to position itself as politically centrist, one that was very kee ...
PDF 7.7MajorContributions
... but still continue to survive. It is their study that can illuminate our understanding of the past. Among the many examples that Tylor gave was one of clothing. The items of clothing that were functional earlier, in his time, he thought, were of decorative value; for instance, unused buttons behind ...
... but still continue to survive. It is their study that can illuminate our understanding of the past. Among the many examples that Tylor gave was one of clothing. The items of clothing that were functional earlier, in his time, he thought, were of decorative value; for instance, unused buttons behind ...
David Vine Associate Professor Department of Anthropology
... theoretical” is, if not an intellectual death, at best, an unsupported intellectual shortcut. While there is clearly work identified as “public” that lacks theoretical or other scholarly grounding, drawing superficial lines between the theoretical and academic and the public and engaged is, again, a ...
... theoretical” is, if not an intellectual death, at best, an unsupported intellectual shortcut. While there is clearly work identified as “public” that lacks theoretical or other scholarly grounding, drawing superficial lines between the theoretical and academic and the public and engaged is, again, a ...
Anthropologists in Films: Snappy Title
... Haunting at the Beacon), while others (like Alone in the Dark) were watched in their entirety only to turn out to be devoid of anthropologists. To make our list, a film had to contain at least one character, however minor, who was explicitly identified, by themselves or other characters, as an anthr ...
... Haunting at the Beacon), while others (like Alone in the Dark) were watched in their entirety only to turn out to be devoid of anthropologists. To make our list, a film had to contain at least one character, however minor, who was explicitly identified, by themselves or other characters, as an anthr ...
Document
... human origins • “a scholarly discipline that aims to describe in the broadest possible sense what it means to be human” – Lavenda and Schultz ...
... human origins • “a scholarly discipline that aims to describe in the broadest possible sense what it means to be human” – Lavenda and Schultz ...
"Ethics in Anthropology: Dilemmas and
... and history, and an equally strong postmodern urge to 'deconstruct' it" (2000). It is no accident that the first formal attention to ethics from American anthropology's professional association took place during this conflicted era. As Fluehr-Lobban puts it, just as the entire American society was " ...
... and history, and an equally strong postmodern urge to 'deconstruct' it" (2000). It is no accident that the first formal attention to ethics from American anthropology's professional association took place during this conflicted era. As Fluehr-Lobban puts it, just as the entire American society was " ...
Cognitive Anthropology - Penn Arts and Sciences
... “The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom; every one, having an inward veneration for the opinions and manners approved and received among his own people, cannot, without very great reluctance, depart from them, nor apply himself to them without applaus ...
... “The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom; every one, having an inward veneration for the opinions and manners approved and received among his own people, cannot, without very great reluctance, depart from them, nor apply himself to them without applaus ...
Dr. HS Gour Central University, Sagar
... importance. Art museum, Science Museum, Public Museum, Private Museum, National Museum. Difference between Museum and laboratory, museum and gallery. ...
... importance. Art museum, Science Museum, Public Museum, Private Museum, National Museum. Difference between Museum and laboratory, museum and gallery. ...
Anthropology and the Study of Culture Miller Chapter 1
... Anthropology has been called “the most humane of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities” Wide range of approaches that span: Science (hypothesis, observation, and testing) Humanities (more subjective, based on feeling) ...
... Anthropology has been called “the most humane of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities” Wide range of approaches that span: Science (hypothesis, observation, and testing) Humanities (more subjective, based on feeling) ...
Fall 2015 - University of Louisville
... Introduction to World Prehistory is a global survey of the first 2 million years of human existence for which there are few written records and most of our knowledge comes to us via archaeological investigations. We will trace the evolution of human culture through time, focusing on well-known archa ...
... Introduction to World Prehistory is a global survey of the first 2 million years of human existence for which there are few written records and most of our knowledge comes to us via archaeological investigations. We will trace the evolution of human culture through time, focusing on well-known archa ...
LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND THE GLOBALISATION OF
... religion and customs.”12 What might it mean to characterise one’s own culture by reference to these variables? Is such a broad concept useful? In another definition, “culture is any of the customs, worldview, language, kinship system, social organisation, and other taken-for-granted day-to-day pract ...
... religion and customs.”12 What might it mean to characterise one’s own culture by reference to these variables? Is such a broad concept useful? In another definition, “culture is any of the customs, worldview, language, kinship system, social organisation, and other taken-for-granted day-to-day pract ...
Anthropology and Development
... to the investigation of scientific problems for the reason that the value of social anthropology to the arts of politics and administration must depend on its theoretical advance” (1946:93) ”…an anthropologist who acts as adviser, or consultant, to an administration should be a full member of it. ...
... to the investigation of scientific problems for the reason that the value of social anthropology to the arts of politics and administration must depend on its theoretical advance” (1946:93) ”…an anthropologist who acts as adviser, or consultant, to an administration should be a full member of it. ...