undergraduate
... Summer Field Trip to Cambodia (1-12 June,2017) for major in anthropology, minor in anthropology, archaeology and cultural heritage studies undergraduate students This year, Professor Sharon Wong will lead a 12-day field trip to Cambodia. This will be the first credit-bearing summer course – ANTH3321 ...
... Summer Field Trip to Cambodia (1-12 June,2017) for major in anthropology, minor in anthropology, archaeology and cultural heritage studies undergraduate students This year, Professor Sharon Wong will lead a 12-day field trip to Cambodia. This will be the first credit-bearing summer course – ANTH3321 ...
What is Anthropology?
... Anthropologists contribute to social change by examining past and present cultures ...
... Anthropologists contribute to social change by examining past and present cultures ...
Anthropological Theories
... confirming evidence supports it. In the Social Sciences (e.g. cultural anthropology) theories explain human behavior, beliefs and customs. Due to the complexity of human behavior, social science theories may be difficult to test. Therefore, theories are accepted if they can reliably explain human be ...
... confirming evidence supports it. In the Social Sciences (e.g. cultural anthropology) theories explain human behavior, beliefs and customs. Due to the complexity of human behavior, social science theories may be difficult to test. Therefore, theories are accepted if they can reliably explain human be ...
Archaeology, Early Complex Societies, and
... concepts from economic history and comparative political economy are increasingly being used to illuminate ancient state dynamics. Economists, for example, have used the tools of their trade to model the operations of ancient economies, from the origins of agriculture in Egypt (Allen 1997) to the Ro ...
... concepts from economic history and comparative political economy are increasingly being used to illuminate ancient state dynamics. Economists, for example, have used the tools of their trade to model the operations of ancient economies, from the origins of agriculture in Egypt (Allen 1997) to the Ro ...
ANTHROPOLOGY
... The ways people organize their living in societies The study of cultural behavior in recent and contemporary cultures Ethnology-building theories to explain cultural practices based on comparative study of societies throughout the world Ethnography, a holistic intensive study of groups, through obse ...
... The ways people organize their living in societies The study of cultural behavior in recent and contemporary cultures Ethnology-building theories to explain cultural practices based on comparative study of societies throughout the world Ethnography, a holistic intensive study of groups, through obse ...
Cultural Anthropology’s big names
... Developed the cultural materialist approach with focus on how the technoeconomic aspects of culture determine the social and ideological spheres ...
... Developed the cultural materialist approach with focus on how the technoeconomic aspects of culture determine the social and ideological spheres ...
1 Theory, theories, postulates, and hypotheses: are there theories in
... Lewis Binford (1962) made famous Leslie White’s dictum that archaeology is anthropology or it is nothing. This grew out of the historical accident that North American archaeologists and anthropologists were all studying Native Americans, so we got placed in the same department in the university stru ...
... Lewis Binford (1962) made famous Leslie White’s dictum that archaeology is anthropology or it is nothing. This grew out of the historical accident that North American archaeologists and anthropologists were all studying Native Americans, so we got placed in the same department in the university stru ...
Introduction to Anthropology
... Archaeology Cultural Anthropology Physical or biological anthropology ...
... Archaeology Cultural Anthropology Physical or biological anthropology ...
TENTH EDITION Aaron Podolefsky Peter J. Brown Scott M. Lacy
... Robson Bonnichsen and Alan L. Schneider (The Sciences, 2000) How does one weigh the importance of new, and possibly revolutionary, knowledge about the prehistory of North America against the rights of some Native Americans to rebury the bones of those they believe to be their ancestors? The authors ...
... Robson Bonnichsen and Alan L. Schneider (The Sciences, 2000) How does one weigh the importance of new, and possibly revolutionary, knowledge about the prehistory of North America against the rights of some Native Americans to rebury the bones of those they believe to be their ancestors? The authors ...
Chapter 2 - Durham Research Online
... In the UK, by contrast, the functionalism of anthropologists such as Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski led to the increasing institutionalization of disciplinary difference in ways that mitigated against collaboration. In the wake of Radcliffe-Brown’s rejection of ‘conjectural history’, Gordon Childe ...
... In the UK, by contrast, the functionalism of anthropologists such as Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski led to the increasing institutionalization of disciplinary difference in ways that mitigated against collaboration. In the wake of Radcliffe-Brown’s rejection of ‘conjectural history’, Gordon Childe ...
Kein Folientitel - University of Oxford
... • One should compare societies that are culturally and ethnically related and uncover the general characteristics • understand peculiarities by comparison with better-known examples (Kuper 1996:51) • Ultimate goal: to formulate generalisations about common features in all human societies. These gene ...
... • One should compare societies that are culturally and ethnically related and uncover the general characteristics • understand peculiarities by comparison with better-known examples (Kuper 1996:51) • Ultimate goal: to formulate generalisations about common features in all human societies. These gene ...
Approaching material culture
... anthropology and archaeology? Ethnoarchaeology gave rise to both the processual and the post-processual paradigm in archaeology (Tilley 1989). In processual archaeology, “ethnoarchaeology” was intended to be a fresh solution to archaeology’s methodological crisis. Paradoxically, it was the variation ...
... anthropology and archaeology? Ethnoarchaeology gave rise to both the processual and the post-processual paradigm in archaeology (Tilley 1989). In processual archaeology, “ethnoarchaeology” was intended to be a fresh solution to archaeology’s methodological crisis. Paradoxically, it was the variation ...
Biological Anthropology
... You will have the chance to study, in detail, the place of humans in nature and the origin and pattern of human diversity, including: evolutionary history, ecology, adaptations, genetics, behaviour and human health and disease, not only in the past, but also among modern societies, with a particular ...
... You will have the chance to study, in detail, the place of humans in nature and the origin and pattern of human diversity, including: evolutionary history, ecology, adaptations, genetics, behaviour and human health and disease, not only in the past, but also among modern societies, with a particular ...
Cultural Anthropology`s big names
... Developed the structuralfunctional approach to look at how each aspect of society contributes to the maintenance of the whole ...
... Developed the structuralfunctional approach to look at how each aspect of society contributes to the maintenance of the whole ...
ANTH_148_Topics in Complex Societies
... development and collapse of complex political systems and analyze how archaeological inferences are established. It potentially covers such groups as the Aztec, Inca, Maya, Olmec, Zapotecs, Tibetans, Nepalese, or other Old or New World groups. The structure of the course may consist of an in depth a ...
... development and collapse of complex political systems and analyze how archaeological inferences are established. It potentially covers such groups as the Aztec, Inca, Maya, Olmec, Zapotecs, Tibetans, Nepalese, or other Old or New World groups. The structure of the course may consist of an in depth a ...
Lecture: Biological Anthropology
... These categories or subfields are: Physical, Cultural, Linguistic, Archaeology, and Applied ...
... These categories or subfields are: Physical, Cultural, Linguistic, Archaeology, and Applied ...
What is Anthropology? (continued)
... • Anthropology is the study of humans, past and present. To understand the full sweep and complexity of cultures across all of human history, anthropology draws and builds upon knowledge from the social and biological sciences as well as the humanities and physical sciences. A central concern of an ...
... • Anthropology is the study of humans, past and present. To understand the full sweep and complexity of cultures across all of human history, anthropology draws and builds upon knowledge from the social and biological sciences as well as the humanities and physical sciences. A central concern of an ...
CONTEXTUALIZING ARCHAEOLOGY
... Some authors consider some of these abbreviations case sensitive (e.g., “bp” indicates an uncalibrated date while “BP” represents a calibrated date) Archaeological dates are often reported in the Islamic world as BH (Before the Hejira) or AH (After the Hejira), referencing the Prophet Muhammad’s ...
... Some authors consider some of these abbreviations case sensitive (e.g., “bp” indicates an uncalibrated date while “BP” represents a calibrated date) Archaeological dates are often reported in the Islamic world as BH (Before the Hejira) or AH (After the Hejira), referencing the Prophet Muhammad’s ...
Studying History
... Word Wall Words history culture archaeology archaeologist anthropologist geography geographer anthropology ...
... Word Wall Words history culture archaeology archaeologist anthropologist geography geographer anthropology ...
Department of Anthropology. Graduate Student Comprehensive
... Anderson, Benedict. 1991.Imagined Communities:Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. Verso. Barth, Fredrik.1968 Ethnic Groups and Boundaries:The Social Organization of Cultural Difference. Bergen. Bateson, Gregory. 1958. Naven:A survey of the problems suggested by a composite picture ...
... Anderson, Benedict. 1991.Imagined Communities:Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. Verso. Barth, Fredrik.1968 Ethnic Groups and Boundaries:The Social Organization of Cultural Difference. Bergen. Bateson, Gregory. 1958. Naven:A survey of the problems suggested by a composite picture ...
Chapter 11 - Amazon Web Services
... ideas of Marx due to political pressures of the time. Some politically active anthropologists were investigated by the FBI; some lost their jobs. ...
... ideas of Marx due to political pressures of the time. Some politically active anthropologists were investigated by the FBI; some lost their jobs. ...
Introduction - Durham Research Online
... creativity of enemies or, more generally, of outsiders. The skilful handling of such extraneous things enables people to cure, kill or foresee the future, among other things. Archaeological artefacts are thus ‘alive’ in indigenous life-worlds. Even though conceived of as pertaining to an alien world ...
... creativity of enemies or, more generally, of outsiders. The skilful handling of such extraneous things enables people to cure, kill or foresee the future, among other things. Archaeological artefacts are thus ‘alive’ in indigenous life-worlds. Even though conceived of as pertaining to an alien world ...
Theory and paradigms of archaeology
... − so someone else would make the same observations − science is logical − arguments linking ideas together must be sound − science is explanatory − it seeks to show what happens under certain circumstances − and why it happens − science is self-critical and based on testing − conclusions are only sc ...
... − so someone else would make the same observations − science is logical − arguments linking ideas together must be sound − science is explanatory − it seeks to show what happens under certain circumstances − and why it happens − science is self-critical and based on testing − conclusions are only sc ...
Anthropolgoy
... sites of prehistoric and historic significance, evaluating their importance and making recommendations about total or partial ...
... sites of prehistoric and historic significance, evaluating their importance and making recommendations about total or partial ...