What is Anthropology?
... Halting the spread of infectious diseases Universal primary education Preventing under-five mortality Water sanitation and access to water ...
... Halting the spread of infectious diseases Universal primary education Preventing under-five mortality Water sanitation and access to water ...
Who Should Govern the Welfare State 2.0? A Comment on... David Budtz Pedersen, Aarhus University
... guarantees, for example, that the daughter of rich and successful parents will not necessarily inherit the talents and abilities that created the conditions conducive to the parent’s success (Fukuyama 2002, 157). All of this could change under the impact of human bioengineering. The most clear and p ...
... guarantees, for example, that the daughter of rich and successful parents will not necessarily inherit the talents and abilities that created the conditions conducive to the parent’s success (Fukuyama 2002, 157). All of this could change under the impact of human bioengineering. The most clear and p ...
History and Human Nature: Cross-cultural Universals and Cultural
... relatively easy to obviate, others not at all so. Evolutionary psychology, first, aims and to a very large extent succeeds in establishing the principal differentiae, genetic, anatomical, physiological as well as psychological, that mark out the human species as such. But what by definition falls ou ...
... relatively easy to obviate, others not at all so. Evolutionary psychology, first, aims and to a very large extent succeeds in establishing the principal differentiae, genetic, anatomical, physiological as well as psychological, that mark out the human species as such. But what by definition falls ou ...
Cодержание 3/2015
... for more than 60 years, starting from the second decade of the XX century. Determination of an initial point of secular changes beginning, their rate as well as vectors for different complexes of morphophysiological characteristics in the investigated period of time in two examined ethic groups is o ...
... for more than 60 years, starting from the second decade of the XX century. Determination of an initial point of secular changes beginning, their rate as well as vectors for different complexes of morphophysiological characteristics in the investigated period of time in two examined ethic groups is o ...
CHAPTER 2 Cultural Diversity
... Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view one’s own culture and group as superior to all others. People in all societies are at times ethnocentric. When ethnocentrism is too extreme, cultural growth may stagnate. – Limiting the number of immigrants into a soci ...
... Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view one’s own culture and group as superior to all others. People in all societies are at times ethnocentric. When ethnocentrism is too extreme, cultural growth may stagnate. – Limiting the number of immigrants into a soci ...
Cultural Anthropology
... *It is a specific group’s learned and shared behaviors, knowledge and beliefs. Anthropology is the study of humanity and covers a broad range of topics that include the prehistoric origins of humans and contemporary cultural diversity. ...
... *It is a specific group’s learned and shared behaviors, knowledge and beliefs. Anthropology is the study of humanity and covers a broad range of topics that include the prehistoric origins of humans and contemporary cultural diversity. ...
Part I. Introduction Chapter 1. What is Human Ecology? Chapter 2
... given basic set of tools (technology), whatever their evolving cultural tradition has developed to that point. The details of the toolkit will vary adaptively in the context of the given type. For example, hunting societies that live in environments rich in aquatic resources will 1. Environment is d ...
... given basic set of tools (technology), whatever their evolving cultural tradition has developed to that point. The details of the toolkit will vary adaptively in the context of the given type. For example, hunting societies that live in environments rich in aquatic resources will 1. Environment is d ...
Sept21_07 - Salamander Genome Project
... “In each great region of the world the living mammals are closely related to the extinct species of the same region. It is , therefore, probable that Africa was formerly inhabited by extinct apes closely allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee; And as these two species are now man’s nearest allies, It ...
... “In each great region of the world the living mammals are closely related to the extinct species of the same region. It is , therefore, probable that Africa was formerly inhabited by extinct apes closely allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee; And as these two species are now man’s nearest allies, It ...
achievement values, cognitive style and social class
... fosters industrialization and economic development. This set of values is characterized by a high need for achievement, a willingness to forego kinship ties, and optimism about being able to affect the future by use of one's ability. This study investigated differences in these values between two so ...
... fosters industrialization and economic development. This set of values is characterized by a high need for achievement, a willingness to forego kinship ties, and optimism about being able to affect the future by use of one's ability. This study investigated differences in these values between two so ...
Do Our Genes Make Socialism Impossible?
... Published on The Socialist Party of Great Britain (http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb) entirely he could see that it couldn't be generally true. Dog breeders, for instance, knew that, even if you cut off dogs' tails generation after generation, dogs would still be born with tails. Some other elemen ...
... Published on The Socialist Party of Great Britain (http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb) entirely he could see that it couldn't be generally true. Dog breeders, for instance, knew that, even if you cut off dogs' tails generation after generation, dogs would still be born with tails. Some other elemen ...
Skeleton Keys: An Introduction to Human Skeletal Morphology
... Appendix B are too small and proper morphological detail is difficult to gauge as guides in the lab or field. Chapters Four through Six do not offer any photographs but only line drawings. Also, it may have been more helpful if some of the bones, especially on the CD, were labeled directly in the ph ...
... Appendix B are too small and proper morphological detail is difficult to gauge as guides in the lab or field. Chapters Four through Six do not offer any photographs but only line drawings. Also, it may have been more helpful if some of the bones, especially on the CD, were labeled directly in the ph ...
Anthropology, Eleventh Edition
... • 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. ...
Mythological criticism
... • A mythological critic uses hopes, fears, and expectations set by certain cultures to uncover universal ideas or themes in certain literature. • Carl Jung, a psychologist in the 1930’s, to explain that we all share a general subconscious and archetypes are universal • Sir James Frazer studied myth ...
... • A mythological critic uses hopes, fears, and expectations set by certain cultures to uncover universal ideas or themes in certain literature. • Carl Jung, a psychologist in the 1930’s, to explain that we all share a general subconscious and archetypes are universal • Sir James Frazer studied myth ...
The puzzle of ultrasociality
... aspects and regions with which individual authors were familiar. To make further progress we need to start testing theories, and that requires a much better empirical base than is currently available. We are fortunate to have such resources for cross-cultural comparative ethnography as the Ethnograp ...
... aspects and regions with which individual authors were familiar. To make further progress we need to start testing theories, and that requires a much better empirical base than is currently available. We are fortunate to have such resources for cross-cultural comparative ethnography as the Ethnograp ...
The Scientific Study of Societies
... Capitalism Vs. Socialism Democratic Vs. Totalitarian A tremendous diversity of marriage forms; sex roles, and on and on. ...
... Capitalism Vs. Socialism Democratic Vs. Totalitarian A tremendous diversity of marriage forms; sex roles, and on and on. ...
The Scientific Study of Societies
... Capitalism Vs. Socialism Democratic Vs. Totalitarian A tremendous diversity of marriage forms; sex roles, and on and on. ...
... Capitalism Vs. Socialism Democratic Vs. Totalitarian A tremendous diversity of marriage forms; sex roles, and on and on. ...
ANTHROPOLOGY : IT`S RELATIONSHIP WITH LIFE SCIENCES
... Hence a thorough knowledge of these changes is a matter of concern to pinpoint sites and settlements which formed the above of human groups, and their movements in search of animal and plant food. Such meaningful and objective assessment of the climatic conditions of the past mainly through geologic ...
... Hence a thorough knowledge of these changes is a matter of concern to pinpoint sites and settlements which formed the above of human groups, and their movements in search of animal and plant food. Such meaningful and objective assessment of the climatic conditions of the past mainly through geologic ...
"The Impact of Darwinism on Sociology" (chap. 1 of The New
... In an extremely important book, Crisis in Sociology: The Need for Darwin (1999), Lopreato and Crippen identify a major crisis in sociology, saying that this once promising science “is now awash in the flotsam of extreme cultural relativism and multiculturalism, postmodernism, political correctness, ...
... In an extremely important book, Crisis in Sociology: The Need for Darwin (1999), Lopreato and Crippen identify a major crisis in sociology, saying that this once promising science “is now awash in the flotsam of extreme cultural relativism and multiculturalism, postmodernism, political correctness, ...
The Interpretation of Cultures
... The reason the first of these requirements—that the proposed universals be substantial ones and not empty or near— empty categories—has not been met is that it cannot be. There is a logical conflict between asserting that, say, “religion,” “marriage,” or “property” are empirical universals and givin ...
... The reason the first of these requirements—that the proposed universals be substantial ones and not empty or near— empty categories—has not been met is that it cannot be. There is a logical conflict between asserting that, say, “religion,” “marriage,” or “property” are empirical universals and givin ...
Lecture skills A
... cell in the body; it carries genetic information in genes (= sections of the DNA) • genetic information controls the cell’s chemistry gives the body its characteristics & influences how the body works • genetic variation = differences between individuals that are inherited (e.g. eye colour is inheri ...
... cell in the body; it carries genetic information in genes (= sections of the DNA) • genetic information controls the cell’s chemistry gives the body its characteristics & influences how the body works • genetic variation = differences between individuals that are inherited (e.g. eye colour is inheri ...
Микро/контракт/Авдашева/Гребнев
... encourages entrepreneurs. What then are the implications for a foreign policy a fundament of which was the doctrine «These values of freedom are right and true for every person, in every society», a doctrine suffused with multiculturalism and with roots going back at least to Woodrow Wilson? The Bus ...
... encourages entrepreneurs. What then are the implications for a foreign policy a fundament of which was the doctrine «These values of freedom are right and true for every person, in every society», a doctrine suffused with multiculturalism and with roots going back at least to Woodrow Wilson? The Bus ...
Rites of Passage: a Stepping Stone towards Tolerance in an
... anthropology of the 19 and 20 century. The knowledge about other cultures was often reproduced in such an own perspective that it was literally soaked in the own or hegemonic worldviews. How many have learned in school that some African cultures represent how ‘we’ used to live in prehistoric times? ...
... anthropology of the 19 and 20 century. The knowledge about other cultures was often reproduced in such an own perspective that it was literally soaked in the own or hegemonic worldviews. How many have learned in school that some African cultures represent how ‘we’ used to live in prehistoric times? ...
Physical Anthropology - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... What Happened to the Dinosaurs? In the article “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs,” Stephen Jay Gould puts forth three explanations that have been given for the demise of the dinosaurs: sex, drugs, and disaster. We do know that the dinosaurs died off during a mass extinctio ...
... What Happened to the Dinosaurs? In the article “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs,” Stephen Jay Gould puts forth three explanations that have been given for the demise of the dinosaurs: sex, drugs, and disaster. We do know that the dinosaurs died off during a mass extinctio ...
Anthropology, Human Rights, and “Human Terrain”
... brutal war of occupation which has entailed massive casualties. By so doing, such work breaches relations of openness and trust with the people anthropologists work with around the world and, directly or indirectly, enables the occupation of one country by another. In addition, much of this work is ...
... brutal war of occupation which has entailed massive casualties. By so doing, such work breaches relations of openness and trust with the people anthropologists work with around the world and, directly or indirectly, enables the occupation of one country by another. In addition, much of this work is ...