Evolutionary Psychology as of September 15
... only a couple of general learning mechanisms. Their findings suggested instead that the mind incorporates a number of cognitive subsystems that are triggered only by a certain kind of input. While Marr (1982) was working on the neuroscience of vision, Chomsky (1975) famously criticized the behaviori ...
... only a couple of general learning mechanisms. Their findings suggested instead that the mind incorporates a number of cognitive subsystems that are triggered only by a certain kind of input. While Marr (1982) was working on the neuroscience of vision, Chomsky (1975) famously criticized the behaviori ...
ANTHROPOLOGY SPRING 2017 COURSE LISTING
... brought new attention to things by revisiting old theories of materialism and asking fresh questions about object-oriented ontologies. In this seminar we will rely on ethnographic, historical, and archaeological cases to explore recent developments in thing theory, materiality, and the social life a ...
... brought new attention to things by revisiting old theories of materialism and asking fresh questions about object-oriented ontologies. In this seminar we will rely on ethnographic, historical, and archaeological cases to explore recent developments in thing theory, materiality, and the social life a ...
The ascent of reason
... reach regions of the globe they had never visited before, such as parts of Africa and the East Indies. Reports were coming back, not only of strange and exotic tribes but also of creatures that, though hairy all over and sometimes even sporting tails, and though apparently lacking the gift of langua ...
... reach regions of the globe they had never visited before, such as parts of Africa and the East Indies. Reports were coming back, not only of strange and exotic tribes but also of creatures that, though hairy all over and sometimes even sporting tails, and though apparently lacking the gift of langua ...
What Is Anthropology?
... world focused attention on human differences. Europeans gradually came to recognize that despite all the differences, they might share a basic ...
... world focused attention on human differences. Europeans gradually came to recognize that despite all the differences, they might share a basic ...
Slide 1 The Rejection of Cultural Evolution (How Evolution Came to
... Constellation of features (technological, social, political, and religious) that are most closely related to subsistence activities and economic arrangements. Techno-economic variables accorded causal priority, while social and ideological tend to be dependent variables. Slide 21 Implications of Cul ...
... Constellation of features (technological, social, political, and religious) that are most closely related to subsistence activities and economic arrangements. Techno-economic variables accorded causal priority, while social and ideological tend to be dependent variables. Slide 21 Implications of Cul ...
Word document - CLAS Users
... fields of Biological Anthropology and Archaeological Anthropology. Lectures will provide background information and thematic context for key issues in these fields. Connie Mulligan will lead the first module in Biological Anthropology and James Davidson will lead the second module in Anthropological ...
... fields of Biological Anthropology and Archaeological Anthropology. Lectures will provide background information and thematic context for key issues in these fields. Connie Mulligan will lead the first module in Biological Anthropology and James Davidson will lead the second module in Anthropological ...
Differential infant mortality viewed from an evolutionary biological
... manifestation of a genotype within the context of a very particular development. In evolutionary history, there has been a permanent test, operated by natural selection, of which environmental characteristics contain useful information for successful individual development and which do not. Viewed i ...
... manifestation of a genotype within the context of a very particular development. In evolutionary history, there has been a permanent test, operated by natural selection, of which environmental characteristics contain useful information for successful individual development and which do not. Viewed i ...
Chapter 1 - Glenelg High School
... A society’s shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience and which generate behavior and are reflected in that behavior. ...
... A society’s shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience and which generate behavior and are reflected in that behavior. ...
Slides Lecture 1
... the world vary enormously in their social, cultural and political forms, and their individual members display an initially overwhelming diversity of ideas and behaviour. The study of these variations, and the common humanity which underlies them and renders them intelligible to sympathetic outsiders ...
... the world vary enormously in their social, cultural and political forms, and their individual members display an initially overwhelming diversity of ideas and behaviour. The study of these variations, and the common humanity which underlies them and renders them intelligible to sympathetic outsiders ...
Curriculum Vitae
... of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Columbia, MO. Applications of sex ratio reformulations within sexual selection theory. Paper presented at the Northwest Evolution, Ecology, And Human Behavior Symposium, Boise, ID. Violence against Women: A Mating-Market Approach. Paper presented at the 1 ...
... of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Columbia, MO. Applications of sex ratio reformulations within sexual selection theory. Paper presented at the Northwest Evolution, Ecology, And Human Behavior Symposium, Boise, ID. Violence against Women: A Mating-Market Approach. Paper presented at the 1 ...
BA in Anthropology
... Through the study of culture, anthropology offers students a set of tools and skills that help make sense of how human difference across both time and space is simultaneously preserved and threatened within an increasingly interconnected and globalized world. Archaeological anthropologists excavate ...
... Through the study of culture, anthropology offers students a set of tools and skills that help make sense of how human difference across both time and space is simultaneously preserved and threatened within an increasingly interconnected and globalized world. Archaeological anthropologists excavate ...
Cultural Anthropology An Applied Perspective, 5e
... Urban anthropology Medical anthropology Educational anthropology Psychological anthropology ...
... Urban anthropology Medical anthropology Educational anthropology Psychological anthropology ...
*Registration begins April 1, 2014* Course List ANTH 201
... Prerequisite: Graduate status. Food Security means that people can count on being able to eat adequate amounts of tasty, nutritious food every day. Why does fulfillment of this most basic need and human right elude so many? This course explores the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of hun ...
... Prerequisite: Graduate status. Food Security means that people can count on being able to eat adequate amounts of tasty, nutritious food every day. Why does fulfillment of this most basic need and human right elude so many? This course explores the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of hun ...
The Cultural Evolution of Technology and Science
... and science. Both technology and science are prime examples of cumulative cultural evolution. Technological and scientific knowledge is accumulated over successive generations, with each generation building upon achievements of prior generations. Both have had an inestimable impact on our species’ w ...
... and science. Both technology and science are prime examples of cumulative cultural evolution. Technological and scientific knowledge is accumulated over successive generations, with each generation building upon achievements of prior generations. Both have had an inestimable impact on our species’ w ...
Review of Course Numbers
... Human variation, physical and cultural, examined for its possible survival value under particular conditions from prehistoric times to present. How various ways of life and physical characteristics are adaptive or maladaptive. Implications for the future. examines the processes and stages of human e ...
... Human variation, physical and cultural, examined for its possible survival value under particular conditions from prehistoric times to present. How various ways of life and physical characteristics are adaptive or maladaptive. Implications for the future. examines the processes and stages of human e ...
War, space, and the evolution of Old World complex
... addressing questions about human history and cultural evolution. Undoubtedly, the rise and fall of individual states and empires will be complex, involving idiosyncratic and contingent events. Our analyses, however, also provide support for the idea that the story of the past is not just a case of “ ...
... addressing questions about human history and cultural evolution. Undoubtedly, the rise and fall of individual states and empires will be complex, involving idiosyncratic and contingent events. Our analyses, however, also provide support for the idea that the story of the past is not just a case of “ ...
Appendix 1 A History of Theories in Anthropology
... of traits and developed culture area classifications for Native North America (Wissler and Kroeber) and Africa (Herskovits). Historical particularism was based on the idea that each element of culture, such as the culture trait or trait complex, had its own distinctive history, and that social forms ...
... of traits and developed culture area classifications for Native North America (Wissler and Kroeber) and Africa (Herskovits). Historical particularism was based on the idea that each element of culture, such as the culture trait or trait complex, had its own distinctive history, and that social forms ...
Position paper - Vanderbilt University
... unambiguously affiliated with ayllus itself partakes of the problem of lo Andino, positing a timeless connection between an architectural form and a social institution because the two are observed alongside each other in accounts of Inka ancestor worship. In the ten years since the publication of Mu ...
... unambiguously affiliated with ayllus itself partakes of the problem of lo Andino, positing a timeless connection between an architectural form and a social institution because the two are observed alongside each other in accounts of Inka ancestor worship. In the ten years since the publication of Mu ...
Anthropologists of the central Andes have been accused of failing to
... unambiguously affiliated with ayllus itself partakes of the problem of lo Andino, positing a timeless connection between an architectural form and a social institution because the two are observed alongside each other in accounts of Inka ancestor worship. In the ten years since the publication of Mu ...
... unambiguously affiliated with ayllus itself partakes of the problem of lo Andino, positing a timeless connection between an architectural form and a social institution because the two are observed alongside each other in accounts of Inka ancestor worship. In the ten years since the publication of Mu ...
Understanding the Present and the Past: Perspectives on
... information and the most important innovation was River’s development of the ‘genealogical method’. Though he was not the first one to collect genealogical information, he was the pioneer in understanding the centrality of kinship to all other aspects of life. The knowledge of kinship allowed the in ...
... information and the most important innovation was River’s development of the ‘genealogical method’. Though he was not the first one to collect genealogical information, he was the pioneer in understanding the centrality of kinship to all other aspects of life. The knowledge of kinship allowed the in ...
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 ...
Power Point Chapter 1 Human Condition
... focused attention on human differences. Europeans gradually came to recognize that despite all the differences, they might share a basic humanity with people everywhere. ...
... focused attention on human differences. Europeans gradually came to recognize that despite all the differences, they might share a basic humanity with people everywhere. ...
What is Archaeology? - Georgia Council of Professional
... questions they ask about humankind and the unexpected answers they discover. They’re excited when they discover, not an artifact, but a new way of looking at human behavior. That intensity can happen whether they are investigating prehistoric political boundaries in the prehistoric Southeast or work ...
... questions they ask about humankind and the unexpected answers they discover. They’re excited when they discover, not an artifact, but a new way of looking at human behavior. That intensity can happen whether they are investigating prehistoric political boundaries in the prehistoric Southeast or work ...
What Is Anthropology?
... focused attention on human differences. Europeans gradually came to recognize that despite all the differences, they might share a basic humanity with people everywhere. ...
... focused attention on human differences. Europeans gradually came to recognize that despite all the differences, they might share a basic humanity with people everywhere. ...
Chapter 2 - Durham Research Online
... Wylie, 1985), the social evolutionism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century provided a theoretical context in which the study of past and present societies were seen to be inextricably linked. ...
... Wylie, 1985), the social evolutionism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century provided a theoretical context in which the study of past and present societies were seen to be inextricably linked. ...