Anthropology is the study of human beings from
... focuses on human biological variation and its evolution. Students will learn about other ways of life and different systems of belief and knowledge; become familiar with the methods used by anthro ...
... focuses on human biological variation and its evolution. Students will learn about other ways of life and different systems of belief and knowledge; become familiar with the methods used by anthro ...
Bonvillain chapter 1
... to their environments, adjust to their neighbors, and develop unique cultural institutions. This comparative perspective can challenge common assumptions about human nature based solely on European or North American culture. For example, as you will learn in Chapter 9, marriage and family take many ...
... to their environments, adjust to their neighbors, and develop unique cultural institutions. This comparative perspective can challenge common assumptions about human nature based solely on European or North American culture. For example, as you will learn in Chapter 9, marriage and family take many ...
Early African America: Archaeological Studies of Significance and
... accounts of specific regions, locales, and individuals also provide information for comparative study. Together, the interpretation of past documentary evidence and oral histories can be tested against the archaeological record to provide points of contrast and correlation. Such interdisciplinary ap ...
... accounts of specific regions, locales, and individuals also provide information for comparative study. Together, the interpretation of past documentary evidence and oral histories can be tested against the archaeological record to provide points of contrast and correlation. Such interdisciplinary ap ...
People with history: An update on historical
... gaps in documented societies. There is no question that this function continues to be important. But archaeologists need not be content with providing details or "facts" that documentary historians may or may not find useful. Archaeology is not "handmaiden to history," as Ivor Norl Hume (1964) insis ...
... gaps in documented societies. There is no question that this function continues to be important. But archaeologists need not be content with providing details or "facts" that documentary historians may or may not find useful. Archaeology is not "handmaiden to history," as Ivor Norl Hume (1964) insis ...
TOC and sample chapter - University Press of Colorado
... from environmental/ecological determinism and toward issues of perception and cognition, the interpretive archaeology agenda has offered studies of ancient perceptions of the skies more solid theoretical underpinnings (Ruggles 2005a). These render obsolete (what to anthropologists always were) embar ...
... from environmental/ecological determinism and toward issues of perception and cognition, the interpretive archaeology agenda has offered studies of ancient perceptions of the skies more solid theoretical underpinnings (Ruggles 2005a). These render obsolete (what to anthropologists always were) embar ...
The Neoliberal Challenge
... biographical and autobiographical accounts. These methods also allow for a greater understanding of the role other socio-political phenomena have played in the way heritage management has developed in Mexico, for instance, the effects of colonialism, ethno-linguistic differences, and economic factor ...
... biographical and autobiographical accounts. These methods also allow for a greater understanding of the role other socio-political phenomena have played in the way heritage management has developed in Mexico, for instance, the effects of colonialism, ethno-linguistic differences, and economic factor ...
2. Parsing Hybridity - Scholars at Harvard
... The unique attribute of syncretism (in comparison with the other terms under consideration here) is its typical focus on religion, although it has also been widely employed in the field of ethnomusicology. While this concept seems to enjoy general acceptance among anthropologists and archaeologists ...
... The unique attribute of syncretism (in comparison with the other terms under consideration here) is its typical focus on religion, although it has also been widely employed in the field of ethnomusicology. While this concept seems to enjoy general acceptance among anthropologists and archaeologists ...
Archaeologies of Amalgamation in Seventeenth
... The unique attribute of syncretism (in comparison with the other terms under consideration here) is its typical focus on religion, although it has also been widely employed in the field of ethnomusicology. While this concept seems to enjoy general acceptance among anthropologists and archaeologists ...
... The unique attribute of syncretism (in comparison with the other terms under consideration here) is its typical focus on religion, although it has also been widely employed in the field of ethnomusicology. While this concept seems to enjoy general acceptance among anthropologists and archaeologists ...
LOCAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE LAND: TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE '------
... might involve questioning the aims rather than the methodology of development, is consistent with his views on development science. As he suggests, for example, while IK research "intimately and unavoidably involves political issues", anthropologists working in the area should merely "inform politic ...
... might involve questioning the aims rather than the methodology of development, is consistent with his views on development science. As he suggests, for example, while IK research "intimately and unavoidably involves political issues", anthropologists working in the area should merely "inform politic ...
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... interdependent because material culture practices serve to concretize and reproduce particular modes of space-time’ (p.4). So a ‘growing appreciation of archaeology in this ‘‘social’’ sense’ entails the recognition that humans produce for themselves their own world propped up by a substratum of real ...
... interdependent because material culture practices serve to concretize and reproduce particular modes of space-time’ (p.4). So a ‘growing appreciation of archaeology in this ‘‘social’’ sense’ entails the recognition that humans produce for themselves their own world propped up by a substratum of real ...
Archaeometry and materiality: materials
... world of objects that exists prior to its description by subjects, is viewed as inanimate and immutable. The world is also composed of subjects who, in contrast, are considered to be animate and are therefore invested with the ability to act and describe the inanimate world of objects. Fundamentally ...
... world of objects that exists prior to its description by subjects, is viewed as inanimate and immutable. The world is also composed of subjects who, in contrast, are considered to be animate and are therefore invested with the ability to act and describe the inanimate world of objects. Fundamentally ...
*Registration begins April 1, 2014* Course List ANTH 201
... An intensive examination of Afro-American life and culture in the U.S. drawn from historical, archaeological and socio-cultural literature. Attention is given to various systems of adaptation of people of African descent in America, including cultural traditions, urbanization and kinship. Cross-list ...
... An intensive examination of Afro-American life and culture in the U.S. drawn from historical, archaeological and socio-cultural literature. Attention is given to various systems of adaptation of people of African descent in America, including cultural traditions, urbanization and kinship. Cross-list ...
Archaeology, Annales, and ethnohistory
... history with sociology, geography, anthropology, ecopomics, and psychology, an alliance still intrinsic to lhe Annales (Forster 1978: 61 2; Simiand's essay was reprinted in Annales ¿'SC l5 [960] 83-l l9). The final member of a triad who exerted notable impact on the Annctle.r was Henri Berr, a philo ...
... history with sociology, geography, anthropology, ecopomics, and psychology, an alliance still intrinsic to lhe Annales (Forster 1978: 61 2; Simiand's essay was reprinted in Annales ¿'SC l5 [960] 83-l l9). The final member of a triad who exerted notable impact on the Annctle.r was Henri Berr, a philo ...
Archaeology Is Anthropology - CLAS Users
... rather than as the alternative, history, with "its ultimate purpose [being] the discovery of regularities that are in a sense spaceless and timeless" (Phillips 1955:247). He nevertheless recognized that anthropology was "a hybridization of science and history" (Phillips 1955:247), standing with one ...
... rather than as the alternative, history, with "its ultimate purpose [being] the discovery of regularities that are in a sense spaceless and timeless" (Phillips 1955:247). He nevertheless recognized that anthropology was "a hybridization of science and history" (Phillips 1955:247), standing with one ...
Monmouth Memories Monmouth Memories Oral History Project Date: November 23 2015
... minor in Archaeology, but in those years Anthropology majors were not allowed to minor in Archaeology. While attending Monmouth, she was a part of the History and Anthropology Club. The club didn’t do much, but a couple members did help her make chicha, a corn beer from the Andes, for an extra class ...
... minor in Archaeology, but in those years Anthropology majors were not allowed to minor in Archaeology. While attending Monmouth, she was a part of the History and Anthropology Club. The club didn’t do much, but a couple members did help her make chicha, a corn beer from the Andes, for an extra class ...
anthropology policy
... strengthen students' writing and research skills, as well as their fluency in anthropological analysis. These skills are intended to support success in all upper division courses, especially the senior capstone courses. It should be taken as soon as possible in either the sophomore or junior year. P ...
... strengthen students' writing and research skills, as well as their fluency in anthropological analysis. These skills are intended to support success in all upper division courses, especially the senior capstone courses. It should be taken as soon as possible in either the sophomore or junior year. P ...
ANTH - UNB
... builds on basic concepts introduced in ANTH 2504 with an emphasis on the contributions of medical anthropological theories and concepts towards an understanding of complex healthrelated behavior. This course examines why public health policies and interventions are more likely to be effective if the ...
... builds on basic concepts introduced in ANTH 2504 with an emphasis on the contributions of medical anthropological theories and concepts towards an understanding of complex healthrelated behavior. This course examines why public health policies and interventions are more likely to be effective if the ...
Key words
... anthropology as a science with the broadest scope, i.e. comprising the human being belonging to both the world of biology and culture was also known. Polish ethnological/anthropological research was pursued on the basis of the knowledge of the achievements of European science, mainly German and Fren ...
... anthropology as a science with the broadest scope, i.e. comprising the human being belonging to both the world of biology and culture was also known. Polish ethnological/anthropological research was pursued on the basis of the knowledge of the achievements of European science, mainly German and Fren ...
Anthropology and Archaeology
... correspondence reflect the professional development of American archaeology and the interdisciplinary basis of contemporary research. Michigan was instrumental in the establishment of American archaeology as a profession. Guthe worked extensively with the National Research Council to advance archae ...
... correspondence reflect the professional development of American archaeology and the interdisciplinary basis of contemporary research. Michigan was instrumental in the establishment of American archaeology as a profession. Guthe worked extensively with the National Research Council to advance archae ...
Change and Continuity in Anthropology
... useful for present purposes—to say that sociology, from around the eighteenth or early nineteenth century, depending on how you trace it, emerged as a recognisable discipline gaining some of its energies from anxieties about the force and inexorability of change in so-called modern or developed soc ...
... useful for present purposes—to say that sociology, from around the eighteenth or early nineteenth century, depending on how you trace it, emerged as a recognisable discipline gaining some of its energies from anxieties about the force and inexorability of change in so-called modern or developed soc ...
Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage
... editors should be congratulated on fostering contributors’ engagement with each other’s work. This is a very cohesive volume, and reading it as a whole thus has its benefits. Nevertheless, nearly all approach the term from a similar theoretical angle—that rhetoric willfully masks political power ove ...
... editors should be congratulated on fostering contributors’ engagement with each other’s work. This is a very cohesive volume, and reading it as a whole thus has its benefits. Nevertheless, nearly all approach the term from a similar theoretical angle—that rhetoric willfully masks political power ove ...
Opening Archaeology Repatriation`s Impact on Contemporary
... For many Native American groups in the United States and elsewhere, the subject of repatriation is closely related to issues of cultural survival, community revitalization, knowledge and language preservation, protection of sacred sites, and political sovereignty (White Deer 1997). Many Native Ameri ...
... For many Native American groups in the United States and elsewhere, the subject of repatriation is closely related to issues of cultural survival, community revitalization, knowledge and language preservation, protection of sacred sites, and political sovereignty (White Deer 1997). Many Native Ameri ...
POSTCOLONIAL THEORY IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND
... the way for anthropologists. It is only natural that possibly the most highly nuanced postcolonial thinking in anthropology has emerged in Africa, where there is a complex the thick legacy of colonialism and now, an extended postcolonial experience. Because this is so, many of our readings are drawn ...
... the way for anthropologists. It is only natural that possibly the most highly nuanced postcolonial thinking in anthropology has emerged in Africa, where there is a complex the thick legacy of colonialism and now, an extended postcolonial experience. Because this is so, many of our readings are drawn ...
Chapter 1. Is Archaeology Anthropology - CLAS Users
... or an 'earth-science' rather than a cultural science" (Steward 1942:339). Since that time, increasing specialization within all of the subfields of anthropology has become a serious threat to its cohesiveness and even to the unity of archaeology itself (e.g., Borofsky 2002:471-472; Schiffer 2000:2; ...
... or an 'earth-science' rather than a cultural science" (Steward 1942:339). Since that time, increasing specialization within all of the subfields of anthropology has become a serious threat to its cohesiveness and even to the unity of archaeology itself (e.g., Borofsky 2002:471-472; Schiffer 2000:2; ...
The World as Artefact: Material Culture Studies and Archaeology
... had a vital role in the early, post-processual writing. “Ethnoarchaeology” is a combination of two disciplines: archaeology, which is constituted by techniques for recovering and recording material remains of culture, and ethnography, which is the study of human behaviour and social organization in ...
... had a vital role in the early, post-processual writing. “Ethnoarchaeology” is a combination of two disciplines: archaeology, which is constituted by techniques for recovering and recording material remains of culture, and ethnography, which is the study of human behaviour and social organization in ...