Introduction
... Whether it admits it or not, anthropology aims to be a universal science. —Maurice Godelier, “‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall …’” ...
... Whether it admits it or not, anthropology aims to be a universal science. —Maurice Godelier, “‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall …’” ...
Foregone Conclusions?
... and unexamined. Second, this framework is not just simple, it is too simple. It is based on unrealistic assumptions about the character and differentiation of human populations. As the geneticist Alan Templeton (1998: 647) commented recently, “human evolution and population structure have been and a ...
... and unexamined. Second, this framework is not just simple, it is too simple. It is based on unrealistic assumptions about the character and differentiation of human populations. As the geneticist Alan Templeton (1998: 647) commented recently, “human evolution and population structure have been and a ...
How Do We Reconstruct Hunting Patterns in the Past?
... of identifying demographic patterns in prehistory that were not like what we see today. Is there any reason to believe, for example, that australopithecines some two to three million years ago were organized in bands with populations at or above 500 individuals? Few paleoanthropologists would seriou ...
... of identifying demographic patterns in prehistory that were not like what we see today. Is there any reason to believe, for example, that australopithecines some two to three million years ago were organized in bands with populations at or above 500 individuals? Few paleoanthropologists would seriou ...
Relationship of Prehistoric Archaeology with other branches of
... life ways and the customs of those early men, but also try to know the changing aspects of culture. In other words, one of the most challenging tasks for the modern Prehistoric Archeologists is to know how to interpret material culture in human terms. How were those pots used? Why are some dwellings ...
... life ways and the customs of those early men, but also try to know the changing aspects of culture. In other words, one of the most challenging tasks for the modern Prehistoric Archeologists is to know how to interpret material culture in human terms. How were those pots used? Why are some dwellings ...
Anthropology 104 Traditional Cultures of the World
... • 1) Comprehensiveness. Because anthropology is 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. ...
... • 1) Comprehensiveness. Because anthropology is 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. ...
Kinship and Evolved Psychological Dispositions
... as a natural science, the culturalist attack on structuralfunctionalism seemed to have destroyed any hope of generalization. We had been left with nothing but anecdotes about the infinity of specific situations in which human beings find themselves. The theoretical history we have just traced can be ...
... as a natural science, the culturalist attack on structuralfunctionalism seemed to have destroyed any hope of generalization. We had been left with nothing but anecdotes about the infinity of specific situations in which human beings find themselves. The theoretical history we have just traced can be ...
Natural and sexual selection in a monogamous historical human
... in which 7.7% of all born individuals obtained several partners through remarriages (26). The probability of remarrying was higher in males than in females (19% and 14%, respectively, among married individuals, logistic regression, χ21 = 13.6, P < 0.001) and similar for both social classes (χ21 = 0. ...
... in which 7.7% of all born individuals obtained several partners through remarriages (26). The probability of remarrying was higher in males than in females (19% and 14%, respectively, among married individuals, logistic regression, χ21 = 13.6, P < 0.001) and similar for both social classes (χ21 = 0. ...
Alan Vincent Forensic Anthropology This paper is an examination of
... identify the fragments of a metatarsal bone, toe phalanx, sesamoid and rib head as those belonging to a human female. This was much to the dismay of the defense who had contended that the bones were those of animals (Snow). In 2005 an example of forensic anthropology was used in identifying the Kurd ...
... identify the fragments of a metatarsal bone, toe phalanx, sesamoid and rib head as those belonging to a human female. This was much to the dismay of the defense who had contended that the bones were those of animals (Snow). In 2005 an example of forensic anthropology was used in identifying the Kurd ...
Internship Report: The Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State
... in the world with a willed body donation program that focuses on developing a diverse osteological collection and postmortem intervals. Unlike other research facilities, such as the ones at Western Carolina University and Sam Houston State University, FACTS aims to better understand the postmortem i ...
... in the world with a willed body donation program that focuses on developing a diverse osteological collection and postmortem intervals. Unlike other research facilities, such as the ones at Western Carolina University and Sam Houston State University, FACTS aims to better understand the postmortem i ...
Human Bio-sociocultural Diversity Expanded through Space
... Global North and South, wherein the rich populations grew richer as the poor became poorer. Human beings have gradually lost elements of cultural, linguistic, and biological diversity under the influence of globalization. In addition, they have been confronted with various other challenges related t ...
... Global North and South, wherein the rich populations grew richer as the poor became poorer. Human beings have gradually lost elements of cultural, linguistic, and biological diversity under the influence of globalization. In addition, they have been confronted with various other challenges related t ...
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
... assumptions, shared with anthropology and social theory more broadly, concerning the nature of representation. Furthermore, in attempting to address some of the difficulties these assumptions about representation create, they tend to arrive at reductionistic solutions that flatten important distinction ...
... assumptions, shared with anthropology and social theory more broadly, concerning the nature of representation. Furthermore, in attempting to address some of the difficulties these assumptions about representation create, they tend to arrive at reductionistic solutions that flatten important distinction ...
Cultural Anthropology An Applied Perspective, 5e
... How does anthropology differ from other social and behavioral sciences? What is the four- field approach to the discipline of anthropology? How can anthropology help solve social ...
... How does anthropology differ from other social and behavioral sciences? What is the four- field approach to the discipline of anthropology? How can anthropology help solve social ...
Disability Studies scholar Lennard Davis captured the persistent
... educational, legal, and economic restrictions imposed on people whose differences consequently come to be understood as disabilities. The social model does not deny that people differ from each other. Rather, it frames these differences (physical and otherwise) as “normal” human variation. It places ...
... educational, legal, and economic restrictions imposed on people whose differences consequently come to be understood as disabilities. The social model does not deny that people differ from each other. Rather, it frames these differences (physical and otherwise) as “normal” human variation. It places ...
The making of historical bodies: sex, race
... natural sciences. The human body (the bones) is measured, broken down and analyzed to obtain data related to diet, lifestyle, anthropometric characters, demographics, individual variation. The principles and interpretative models are based on the findings and methods taken from biology, bio-mechanic ...
... natural sciences. The human body (the bones) is measured, broken down and analyzed to obtain data related to diet, lifestyle, anthropometric characters, demographics, individual variation. The principles and interpretative models are based on the findings and methods taken from biology, bio-mechanic ...
Human Capital and Sustainability
... demands on our environment. The challenge now facing humanity is to find ways to harness all available forms of capital in a manner that promotes human welfare, well-being and sustainable development for all. Until recently the notion of capital was largely confined to financial assets utilizable fo ...
... demands on our environment. The challenge now facing humanity is to find ways to harness all available forms of capital in a manner that promotes human welfare, well-being and sustainable development for all. Until recently the notion of capital was largely confined to financial assets utilizable fo ...
Anthropological insights into the use of race/ethnicity to explore
... along with many of his fellow students, by declaring that ‘although race is still real, it is not biologically based; rather, it is social with biological consequences’. Goodman came to understand how the social nature of race meant one could change racial identity, depending on the social context. ...
... along with many of his fellow students, by declaring that ‘although race is still real, it is not biologically based; rather, it is social with biological consequences’. Goodman came to understand how the social nature of race meant one could change racial identity, depending on the social context. ...
Human Beings and Being Human: An Overview of
... cultures. Overall, these chapters give you the nuts and bolts of what cultural anthropologists have learned about living human cultures. Chapter 11 tells you just what culture for anthropologists really means (no, it’s not the opera or stuffy wine-and-cheese parties) and how critical it is for human ...
... cultures. Overall, these chapters give you the nuts and bolts of what cultural anthropologists have learned about living human cultures. Chapter 11 tells you just what culture for anthropologists really means (no, it’s not the opera or stuffy wine-and-cheese parties) and how critical it is for human ...
anthropology in action - Anthropology Emory
... the grandest of scales, such as planetary orbits, but are perfectly sound for such small and mundane things as predicting the trajectories of billiard balls, for example. Similarly, even though we understand human variation to be an immensely complex phenomenon, and that we recognize the impossibili ...
... the grandest of scales, such as planetary orbits, but are perfectly sound for such small and mundane things as predicting the trajectories of billiard balls, for example. Similarly, even though we understand human variation to be an immensely complex phenomenon, and that we recognize the impossibili ...
Video Information Cultural Anthropology: Our Diverse World Anthropology 102
... to culture, but what you are called is an important device for self‐definition, and it also allows individuals to take their place within their group’s culture. As children develop physically, they also develop emotionally and psychologically. One aspect of this maturation is the development of se ...
... to culture, but what you are called is an important device for self‐definition, and it also allows individuals to take their place within their group’s culture. As children develop physically, they also develop emotionally and psychologically. One aspect of this maturation is the development of se ...
Migration and colonization in human microevolution
... between two known habitats. One-way migrations, however, are more likely in uncertain or unpredictable environments (Dingle 1996:61). When the environment deteriorates with no indication of when it will improve again, it may be abandoned for a new range. In theory, it is possible to calculate the co ...
... between two known habitats. One-way migrations, however, are more likely in uncertain or unpredictable environments (Dingle 1996:61). When the environment deteriorates with no indication of when it will improve again, it may be abandoned for a new range. In theory, it is possible to calculate the co ...
society as hybrid between material and symbolic realms
... sway of mankind, but never ceases to affect it: the climate, the nature of the subsoil, etc. [The examples given by Godelier would nowadays need to be questioned.] Secondly, there is that part of nature which has been transformed by human intervention, but indirectly, without the latter’s agents hav ...
... sway of mankind, but never ceases to affect it: the climate, the nature of the subsoil, etc. [The examples given by Godelier would nowadays need to be questioned.] Secondly, there is that part of nature which has been transformed by human intervention, but indirectly, without the latter’s agents hav ...
Division of Labor, Economic Specialization and the Evolution of
... deployed by the two interacting individuals, as shown in Table 1. If both interacting individuals use the same strategy, each receives the baseline payoff, ω. However, when the interactants use different strategies, the individual using strategy H receives a payoff of ω + γG and the individual using ...
... deployed by the two interacting individuals, as shown in Table 1. If both interacting individuals use the same strategy, each receives the baseline payoff, ω. However, when the interactants use different strategies, the individual using strategy H receives a payoff of ω + γG and the individual using ...
New perspectives on organism-environment interactions in
... constellations of basic features—the cultural core—which have similar functional relationships resulting from local ecological adaptations and similar levels of sociocultural integration . . . . The concept of culture type is confronted by the apparent difficulty posed by the fact that forms, patter ...
... constellations of basic features—the cultural core—which have similar functional relationships resulting from local ecological adaptations and similar levels of sociocultural integration . . . . The concept of culture type is confronted by the apparent difficulty posed by the fact that forms, patter ...
The U.S. Military and Human Geography: Reflections on Our
... turn to human geography (see Crampton 2011). As NGA Director Letitia Long explained in her remarks to the 2012 GEOINT Symposium: We have also begun making major changes using human geography sources, including social media that delivers context . . . information to tip other sources and a comprehens ...
... turn to human geography (see Crampton 2011). As NGA Director Letitia Long explained in her remarks to the 2012 GEOINT Symposium: We have also begun making major changes using human geography sources, including social media that delivers context . . . information to tip other sources and a comprehens ...