ANTHROPOLOGY Spring 2017
... Do the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica or the Middle East fascinate you? Have you ever tried to imagine what life must have been like living in a painted cave and hunting for a living? Have you ever wondered how writing was invented? Archaeology is the study of the life ways of past cultures ba ...
... Do the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica or the Middle East fascinate you? Have you ever tried to imagine what life must have been like living in a painted cave and hunting for a living? Have you ever wondered how writing was invented? Archaeology is the study of the life ways of past cultures ba ...
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... reported on the divorce rate of that society and compared it to the United States. tried to determine if the strains of adolescence are universal. found that Samoan youth are equally stressed as youth of the United States. found that Derek Freeman had not portrayed Samoan adolescents accurately. ...
... reported on the divorce rate of that society and compared it to the United States. tried to determine if the strains of adolescence are universal. found that Samoan youth are equally stressed as youth of the United States. found that Derek Freeman had not portrayed Samoan adolescents accurately. ...
Post-Processual Archaeology and After
... 1970s, many arising as a critique of the processual orthodoxy in Anglo-American archaeology, and of traditional culture historical archaeology. Included here are neo-Marxian anthropology, structuralism, various influences of literary and cultural theory, feminism, postpositivist social science, herm ...
... 1970s, many arising as a critique of the processual orthodoxy in Anglo-American archaeology, and of traditional culture historical archaeology. Included here are neo-Marxian anthropology, structuralism, various influences of literary and cultural theory, feminism, postpositivist social science, herm ...
Spring 2013 - Tufts University
... Prerequisite: ANTH 50 Prehistoric Archaeology, or permission of instructor This course is an introduction to the archaeology of the pre-Columbian cultures of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. The cultures of Mesoamerica have been studied since the Spanish arrived and this course will examine ...
... Prerequisite: ANTH 50 Prehistoric Archaeology, or permission of instructor This course is an introduction to the archaeology of the pre-Columbian cultures of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. The cultures of Mesoamerica have been studied since the Spanish arrived and this course will examine ...
book of mormon archaeology: the myths and the alternatives
... become a place fit to live in until "nation would no longer lift sword against nation, nor study the art of war anymore" (Micah 4:3). Israel learned this in the First Early Iron Age from her traders, including those who sailed the oceans with the merchant mariners of Hiram. But Israel was a late com ...
... become a place fit to live in until "nation would no longer lift sword against nation, nor study the art of war anymore" (Micah 4:3). Israel learned this in the First Early Iron Age from her traders, including those who sailed the oceans with the merchant mariners of Hiram. But Israel was a late com ...
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 ...
1 The archaeology of disasters: past and future trends
... cope with contemporary disaster events. From archaeological research we may establish the principal components of a disaster, reconstruct the physical event itself, assess the physical damage it caused, and identify the response strategies of the exposed culture. More importantly, since archaeology ...
... cope with contemporary disaster events. From archaeological research we may establish the principal components of a disaster, reconstruct the physical event itself, assess the physical damage it caused, and identify the response strategies of the exposed culture. More importantly, since archaeology ...
BIPEDAL ADAPTATIONS IN THE HOMINID PELVIS Source: Wanna
... footprints discovered by Paul Abell at Laetoli in 1978 confirm it unequivocally (White, 1980). Not until the appearance of Homo erectus, some 1.7 million years later, could hominids be considered on their way to being large-brained (Stanford, et al., 2006). While certain adaptations seen in the knee ...
... footprints discovered by Paul Abell at Laetoli in 1978 confirm it unequivocally (White, 1980). Not until the appearance of Homo erectus, some 1.7 million years later, could hominids be considered on their way to being large-brained (Stanford, et al., 2006). While certain adaptations seen in the knee ...
HCCKotreview12006
... 19. Colop’s 4 ethical failures of anthropology 20. Nordstrom’s “ethnography of war” ethics (2 issues) 21. “deromanticizing” the revolution 22. During a war both sides often commit atrocities 23. Why do anthropologists describe their perspective in the introduction to ...
... 19. Colop’s 4 ethical failures of anthropology 20. Nordstrom’s “ethnography of war” ethics (2 issues) 21. “deromanticizing” the revolution 22. During a war both sides often commit atrocities 23. Why do anthropologists describe their perspective in the introduction to ...
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution - synergy
... pp. 115 –117), there is ample evidence that culture plays a powerful causal role in determining human behaviour and cognition (Richerson & Boyd 2005; Tomasello 1999). Of course, biologically evolved features of cognition do affect cultural processes in important ways, as emphasised by gene-culture c ...
... pp. 115 –117), there is ample evidence that culture plays a powerful causal role in determining human behaviour and cognition (Richerson & Boyd 2005; Tomasello 1999). Of course, biologically evolved features of cognition do affect cultural processes in important ways, as emphasised by gene-culture c ...
Anthropology is the study of human beings from
... The Anthropology Department offers courses on a wide variety of topics, geographical areas, and methods reflecting the breadth of interest and fieldwork of its faculty. Courses lower than 1000 are ...
... The Anthropology Department offers courses on a wide variety of topics, geographical areas, and methods reflecting the breadth of interest and fieldwork of its faculty. Courses lower than 1000 are ...
Slajd 1 - University of Białystok
... and its love of racing other racs at high speeds necessitates that special areas be set aside for its use. The cost of smoothing the earth is too costly for any one individual to undertake, so it has become a community project and each tribesman must pay an annual tax to build new paths and maintain ...
... and its love of racing other racs at high speeds necessitates that special areas be set aside for its use. The cost of smoothing the earth is too costly for any one individual to undertake, so it has become a community project and each tribesman must pay an annual tax to build new paths and maintain ...
culture contact studies - redefining the relationship
... introduction of lethal epidemics were fundamentally different in their population levels, economic practices, and sociopolitical organizations than the remnant survivors who followed. As Dunnell (1991 :573) succinctly states, "[M]odem Indians, both biologically and culturally, are very much a phenom ...
... introduction of lethal epidemics were fundamentally different in their population levels, economic practices, and sociopolitical organizations than the remnant survivors who followed. As Dunnell (1991 :573) succinctly states, "[M]odem Indians, both biologically and culturally, are very much a phenom ...
ch02 - Anthropology
... The methods available to anthropologists is much larger than the one described in this chapter; it is a but small subset of anthropological methods (Bernard 2006). The selection of research methods was based upon the need to rapidly assess and provide answers to pressing questions from the national ...
... The methods available to anthropologists is much larger than the one described in this chapter; it is a but small subset of anthropological methods (Bernard 2006). The selection of research methods was based upon the need to rapidly assess and provide answers to pressing questions from the national ...
Ethnoprimatology: Toward Reconciliation of Biological and Cultural
... useful to remember that the very roots of anthropological primatology are situated in social theory of cultural anthropology. That being said, I would like to return to the idea of primatology in natural environments to pursue a more contemporary bridge between the two subfields. Since the 1960s, fo ...
... useful to remember that the very roots of anthropological primatology are situated in social theory of cultural anthropology. That being said, I would like to return to the idea of primatology in natural environments to pursue a more contemporary bridge between the two subfields. Since the 1960s, fo ...
Encounters on Education Encuentros sobre Educación Rencontres sur l’Éducation
... their perception of the world”.13 Characteristic of our times is how the media have turned into mediators, windows that show individuals a disjointed array of text and pictures, constructed bits and pieces of world that each individual must put together in some meaningful way. For that reason, inter ...
... their perception of the world”.13 Characteristic of our times is how the media have turned into mediators, windows that show individuals a disjointed array of text and pictures, constructed bits and pieces of world that each individual must put together in some meaningful way. For that reason, inter ...
CHAPTER 1
... How do paleoanthropologists’ concerns with adaptation to environment and human evolution influence our understanding of what it means to be human? ...
... How do paleoanthropologists’ concerns with adaptation to environment and human evolution influence our understanding of what it means to be human? ...
The World as Artefact: Material Culture Studies and Archaeology
... archaeologists and museum workers, who may not wish to cross boundaries and have to ascribe to yet another set of constraints and definitions” (Miller & Tilley 1996:7). The paradox is that while material-culture studies lack disciplinary foundation and have the advantage of being un-disciplined (ibi ...
... archaeologists and museum workers, who may not wish to cross boundaries and have to ascribe to yet another set of constraints and definitions” (Miller & Tilley 1996:7). The paradox is that while material-culture studies lack disciplinary foundation and have the advantage of being un-disciplined (ibi ...
WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY AND WHY SHOULD I CARE?
... was proper, should it be eaten (Conklin 1995)? And what about sex? Are boys naturally made into men through receipt of semen from older men, as the Sambia claim (Herdt 1987)? For anthropologists, these examples suggest that what is right or natural is not easily determined and that attempts to under ...
... was proper, should it be eaten (Conklin 1995)? And what about sex? Are boys naturally made into men through receipt of semen from older men, as the Sambia claim (Herdt 1987)? For anthropologists, these examples suggest that what is right or natural is not easily determined and that attempts to under ...
Levi Fox Page 1 04/23/01 Franz Boas and the Genesis of Cultural
... the West is being compared.11 Indeed, he argues that this form of anthropology starts with the premise that Western culture is the highest form of civilization (indeed, is the best of all possible cultures), and then proceeds to classify other cultures (and abstract their supposed level of inferiori ...
... the West is being compared.11 Indeed, he argues that this form of anthropology starts with the premise that Western culture is the highest form of civilization (indeed, is the best of all possible cultures), and then proceeds to classify other cultures (and abstract their supposed level of inferiori ...
Anthropology 104 Traditional Cultures of the World
... holistic its study includes all humans of all places and all times. • 2) Interrelatedness. Because anthropology is holistic any human group should be studied in its entirety, finding connections among economics, politics, religion, language, etc. ...
... holistic its study includes all humans of all places and all times. • 2) Interrelatedness. Because anthropology is holistic any human group should be studied in its entirety, finding connections among economics, politics, religion, language, etc. ...
Cultural Identities and Global Political Economy from an
... to "enumerate" the people for the redress of social grievance. Minority affairs administrators must divide the population into neat categories and then we collectively are surprised when these neat categories do not match individual cases or when their reality becomes something so real that groups a ...
... to "enumerate" the people for the redress of social grievance. Minority affairs administrators must divide the population into neat categories and then we collectively are surprised when these neat categories do not match individual cases or when their reality becomes something so real that groups a ...
Sample Chapter 1
... kind? What if our entire understanding of human behavior were based on analysis of questionnaires filled out by college students in Oregon? One culture, age group, or gender can’t tell us everything we need to know about what it means to be human. Often culture is “invisible,” and thus unexamined, u ...
... kind? What if our entire understanding of human behavior were based on analysis of questionnaires filled out by college students in Oregon? One culture, age group, or gender can’t tell us everything we need to know about what it means to be human. Often culture is “invisible,” and thus unexamined, u ...
Creating Prehistory: Druids, Ley Hunters and Archaeologists
... The past is not, and arguably will never be, fully understood, catalogued or categorised, and yet reading much of what has been said about British prehistory in recent years, one could easily come away with the belief that everything in the playground was well-maintained and ordered, all potential h ...
... The past is not, and arguably will never be, fully understood, catalogued or categorised, and yet reading much of what has been said about British prehistory in recent years, one could easily come away with the belief that everything in the playground was well-maintained and ordered, all potential h ...
Review Sheet for Test 1
... 19. Colop’s 4 ethical failures of anthropology 20. Nordstrom’s “ethnography of war” ethics (2 issues) 21. “deromanticizing” the revolution 22. During a war both sides often commit atrocities 23. Why do anthropologists describe their perspective in the introduction to some ethnographies? ________ ...
... 19. Colop’s 4 ethical failures of anthropology 20. Nordstrom’s “ethnography of war” ethics (2 issues) 21. “deromanticizing” the revolution 22. During a war both sides often commit atrocities 23. Why do anthropologists describe their perspective in the introduction to some ethnographies? ________ ...