Anthropology - Monash Arts
... by asking questions about the human experience such as what people do, why they do it, what they mean by it, what motivates them to do it and what people value in diverse societies and cultures. Why study Anthropology? Anthropologists play an increasingly important role in the world, they specialise ...
... by asking questions about the human experience such as what people do, why they do it, what they mean by it, what motivates them to do it and what people value in diverse societies and cultures. Why study Anthropology? Anthropologists play an increasingly important role in the world, they specialise ...
read paper - The Maintainers
... Spicer exhibit interrupts the logic of (settler colonial) recognition. This is in no small part because the version of Indigeniety that the Pascua Yaqui chose to put on display exceeds the essentialized parameters of the “Indian tribe” as understood in the popular imaginary and federal law. The exhi ...
... Spicer exhibit interrupts the logic of (settler colonial) recognition. This is in no small part because the version of Indigeniety that the Pascua Yaqui chose to put on display exceeds the essentialized parameters of the “Indian tribe” as understood in the popular imaginary and federal law. The exhi ...
Theory and paradigms of archaeology
... questions − that we cannot address by direct observation − because they involve people in the past − or using written sources − because the needed information was not recorded − So, what are anthropological questions? − First, what is anthropology? − the study of people and societies − a rather broa ...
... questions − that we cannot address by direct observation − because they involve people in the past − or using written sources − because the needed information was not recorded − So, what are anthropological questions? − First, what is anthropology? − the study of people and societies − a rather broa ...
Sonya Atalay University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of
... Meetings, Athens, Georgia, Session title: Examining Educational Attainment of Indigenous Peoples from Three Different Perspectives: Economics, Education and Anthropology, April 11. Session Organizer and Presenter, Light through the Red Curtains: Beyond Archaeological Window Dressing to Substantive C ...
... Meetings, Athens, Georgia, Session title: Examining Educational Attainment of Indigenous Peoples from Three Different Perspectives: Economics, Education and Anthropology, April 11. Session Organizer and Presenter, Light through the Red Curtains: Beyond Archaeological Window Dressing to Substantive C ...
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference of the
... to cremated individuals and their cultural context. The relationship between age and gender and ritual practices, deliberate culturally determined selection mechanisms - for example the quantitative selection of cremated bones in a funeral context - or other specific manipulations in dealing with cr ...
... to cremated individuals and their cultural context. The relationship between age and gender and ritual practices, deliberate culturally determined selection mechanisms - for example the quantitative selection of cremated bones in a funeral context - or other specific manipulations in dealing with cr ...
IN MEMORIAM Michael Clark Kearney
... Michael was one of the first anthropologists to explore the implications of conducting research with persons who lived in communities on both sides of the U.S.- Mexico border and who maintained strong emotional, cultural, and social ties with their natal communities. By the late 1980s, anthropologis ...
... Michael was one of the first anthropologists to explore the implications of conducting research with persons who lived in communities on both sides of the U.S.- Mexico border and who maintained strong emotional, cultural, and social ties with their natal communities. By the late 1980s, anthropologis ...
Indigeneity and autochthony: a couple of false twins
... all citizens, and lead to accusations of discriminatory discourses and practices (Kuper 2003: 395). Finally, some argue that defending traditional political structures can also lead to supporting unelected, corrupt and despotic leaders ruling by right of birth, and thus shoring up feudal dictatorshi ...
... all citizens, and lead to accusations of discriminatory discourses and practices (Kuper 2003: 395). Finally, some argue that defending traditional political structures can also lead to supporting unelected, corrupt and despotic leaders ruling by right of birth, and thus shoring up feudal dictatorshi ...
Indigenous Perspectives on Archaeology
... the possibility of Indigenous groups exerting ownership claims of intellectual property rights over archaeological material, thereby extending the notion that Indigeneity carries with it a modicum of special favor above and beyond that of the other “non-Indigenous” ones in the same situation or coun ...
... the possibility of Indigenous groups exerting ownership claims of intellectual property rights over archaeological material, thereby extending the notion that Indigeneity carries with it a modicum of special favor above and beyond that of the other “non-Indigenous” ones in the same situation or coun ...
Museum, Collecting, Agency Flyer
... to lively engagements within museum scholarship on the role of objects and colonialism. Advancing these discussions the symposium focuses on the question of agency and its implications for understanding ethnographic museum collections and collecting practices. Recent scholarship exploring the agency ...
... to lively engagements within museum scholarship on the role of objects and colonialism. Advancing these discussions the symposium focuses on the question of agency and its implications for understanding ethnographic museum collections and collecting practices. Recent scholarship exploring the agency ...
Anth 551: Strategies in Archaeology
... Strategies in Archaeology introduces students to the major theoretical frameworks shaping anthropological archaeology. The course emphasizes current issues and debates in the discipline rather than a comprehensive historical overview. However, the early weeks of the course will be devoted to a consi ...
... Strategies in Archaeology introduces students to the major theoretical frameworks shaping anthropological archaeology. The course emphasizes current issues and debates in the discipline rather than a comprehensive historical overview. However, the early weeks of the course will be devoted to a consi ...
Cultural Apprpriation
... ethnographic materials? • Can anthropological cultural representations be considered cultural appropriation? Why or why not? ...
... ethnographic materials? • Can anthropological cultural representations be considered cultural appropriation? Why or why not? ...
archaeology - Montgomery College
... Archaeologists Use All artifacts collected from a unit are placed in their own bag and carefully labeled so that interpretation and analysis of the site may be done following excavation. ...
... Archaeologists Use All artifacts collected from a unit are placed in their own bag and carefully labeled so that interpretation and analysis of the site may be done following excavation. ...
Department of Anthropology. Graduate Student Comprehensive
... Fox, R.G. and B.J. King eds. 2002. Anthropology Beyond Culture. Berg Publishing Goodman, A.H. and T.L. Leatherman 1999. Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political-economic Perspectives on Human Biology. Gould, S.J. 1996. The Mismeasure of Man. W.W. Norton & Company. Revised edition. Larson, Cla ...
... Fox, R.G. and B.J. King eds. 2002. Anthropology Beyond Culture. Berg Publishing Goodman, A.H. and T.L. Leatherman 1999. Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political-economic Perspectives on Human Biology. Gould, S.J. 1996. The Mismeasure of Man. W.W. Norton & Company. Revised edition. Larson, Cla ...
Cultural Apprpriation
... • 2. Wo benefits (financially) from appropriation?-power relations, economic, and other advantages • 3. Laws are inadequate to protect subordinate groups:--laws need to be changed to protect subordinate groups from cultural appropriation ...
... • 2. Wo benefits (financially) from appropriation?-power relations, economic, and other advantages • 3. Laws are inadequate to protect subordinate groups:--laws need to be changed to protect subordinate groups from cultural appropriation ...
Chapter 2 - HCC Learning Web
... Colonial Americans justify the taking of Native American lands in several ways, and one involved archaeology. Some mounds were constructed as early as 5,500 years ago, in the Southern Mississippi Valley, by 3,000 years ago the practice was widespread across the Eastern U.S. The moundbuilders m ...
... Colonial Americans justify the taking of Native American lands in several ways, and one involved archaeology. Some mounds were constructed as early as 5,500 years ago, in the Southern Mississippi Valley, by 3,000 years ago the practice was widespread across the Eastern U.S. The moundbuilders m ...
CONTEXTUALIZING ARCHAEOLOGY
... Archaeology as History: Archaeology does seek to understand the “history” of the human experience, but it does so largely without the benefit of a documentary record. 99% of the human experience has taken place before the development of writing and, therefore, “history” in its usual sense. Earliest ...
... Archaeology as History: Archaeology does seek to understand the “history” of the human experience, but it does so largely without the benefit of a documentary record. 99% of the human experience has taken place before the development of writing and, therefore, “history” in its usual sense. Earliest ...
aboriginalism and the problems of indigenous archaeology
... commercial fishing crews to archaeological projects, museum consultation committees, and land claims negotiation tables. The ideas presented in the following paper have largely sprung from the contrast between these individuals and the stereotypical view of the Aboriginal that is common in both the ...
... commercial fishing crews to archaeological projects, museum consultation committees, and land claims negotiation tables. The ideas presented in the following paper have largely sprung from the contrast between these individuals and the stereotypical view of the Aboriginal that is common in both the ...
Provocations and the Indigenous Category
... implications does it carry? And, what are the limitations of the term. For anthropology, how might such a conversation carry forward their engagement with the concept? In lively and contentious anthropological debates in 2003 and 2006, indigeneity’s power to assert a historically deep presence in pl ...
... implications does it carry? And, what are the limitations of the term. For anthropology, how might such a conversation carry forward their engagement with the concept? In lively and contentious anthropological debates in 2003 and 2006, indigeneity’s power to assert a historically deep presence in pl ...
Principles of Archaeology
... People have dug up old things for a long time, and thought about what they mean. What is the intellectual history of archaeology, its relation to broader trends, academic, political or social? People of many constituencies care about what archaeologists find. Who cares about the past, and why? H ...
... People have dug up old things for a long time, and thought about what they mean. What is the intellectual history of archaeology, its relation to broader trends, academic, political or social? People of many constituencies care about what archaeologists find. Who cares about the past, and why? H ...
Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
... Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the United States and the Arab Republic of Egypt that will be considered by CPAC at its upcoming public meeting on June 2, 2014. Our organizations represent the primary professional bodies for the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and Egyptology as well a ...
... Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the United States and the Arab Republic of Egypt that will be considered by CPAC at its upcoming public meeting on June 2, 2014. Our organizations represent the primary professional bodies for the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and Egyptology as well a ...
What is Archaeology?
... (or if you like, strong corroboration). archaeological research, What i s Archaeology? can be more accurately described as a few well directed kicks at the carcass of the New khaeology. When Courbin's volume Laws A major, if not the principal, stated objective of the was published in the original Fr ...
... (or if you like, strong corroboration). archaeological research, What i s Archaeology? can be more accurately described as a few well directed kicks at the carcass of the New khaeology. When Courbin's volume Laws A major, if not the principal, stated objective of the was published in the original Fr ...
Radical Archaeology as Dissent
... the same project will have in terms of wetlands destruction, habitat loss for native animal and plant species and the effects of the added pollution on the local environment. These groups will be opposed to the development. So whose interests/political agenda are the CRM archaeologists serving in a ...
... the same project will have in terms of wetlands destruction, habitat loss for native animal and plant species and the effects of the added pollution on the local environment. These groups will be opposed to the development. So whose interests/political agenda are the CRM archaeologists serving in a ...
Learning Through Building in Second Life: ECHS ANTH 1000 Archaeology Projects Abstract:
... special events that take place in the high schools. This is further compounded by the need to include more background information to which they have just not yet been exposed. In the best of time circumstances, the Archaeology segment of ANTH 1000 consists of two weeks of material that covers a defi ...
... special events that take place in the high schools. This is further compounded by the need to include more background information to which they have just not yet been exposed. In the best of time circumstances, the Archaeology segment of ANTH 1000 consists of two weeks of material that covers a defi ...