Restudy and Reflexivity in Anthropology and Development
... approaches, trends, or even fads, there seems to be great potential and use for critical reassessment, both of these changing policies and of the development world itself; its practices, power and impacts. But what form and what application would such ‘reflexivity’ take? Any development or anthropol ...
... approaches, trends, or even fads, there seems to be great potential and use for critical reassessment, both of these changing policies and of the development world itself; its practices, power and impacts. But what form and what application would such ‘reflexivity’ take? Any development or anthropol ...
thesis –social darwinism - Ghent University Library
... Leatherdale (1983) argue when they state that writers do not entirely accept ranging theories, but rather adapt, and modify them to their own benefit: The doctrines of Darwin require readjusting largely; for instance the survival of the fittest in the struggle for life. There is an altruism and coal ...
... Leatherdale (1983) argue when they state that writers do not entirely accept ranging theories, but rather adapt, and modify them to their own benefit: The doctrines of Darwin require readjusting largely; for instance the survival of the fittest in the struggle for life. There is an altruism and coal ...
Anthropological perspectives on corruption
... silence, self-victimisation, condemnation of others, and very biased results. Consequently, the indirect anthropological field methods are particularly apt in getting information from this social field that is so difficult to access for the “non initiated” (Blundo & Olivier de Sardan 2000). ...
... silence, self-victimisation, condemnation of others, and very biased results. Consequently, the indirect anthropological field methods are particularly apt in getting information from this social field that is so difficult to access for the “non initiated” (Blundo & Olivier de Sardan 2000). ...
influencing behaviour through public policy
... to build our capacity and ensure that we have a sophisticated understanding of what does influence behaviour. This report is an important step in that direction because it shows how behavioural theory could help achieve better outcomes for citizens, either by complementing more established policy to ...
... to build our capacity and ensure that we have a sophisticated understanding of what does influence behaviour. This report is an important step in that direction because it shows how behavioural theory could help achieve better outcomes for citizens, either by complementing more established policy to ...
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... evolutionary theory. 1 It is neatly summarised in Dobzhansky’s discussion of the relation between directed (selection) and random (drift) processes in evolution. The theoretically desirable and rarely achieved aim of investigation is to quantify the respective contributions of the different factors ...
... evolutionary theory. 1 It is neatly summarised in Dobzhansky’s discussion of the relation between directed (selection) and random (drift) processes in evolution. The theoretically desirable and rarely achieved aim of investigation is to quantify the respective contributions of the different factors ...
Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection
... lower-level selection. Today, these assumptions are labeled naïve group selectionism. Naïve group selectionism is not dead. If you think that diseases evolve to avoid killing their hosts, that animals evolve to manage their population size, that ecosystems evolve to efficiently recycle nutrients, th ...
... lower-level selection. Today, these assumptions are labeled naïve group selectionism. Naïve group selectionism is not dead. If you think that diseases evolve to avoid killing their hosts, that animals evolve to manage their population size, that ecosystems evolve to efficiently recycle nutrients, th ...
The Trials of Life: Natural Selection and Random Drift*
... here. We then discuss natural selection. Despite the prevalence of dynamical talk about selection, the statistical interpretation makes more sense on its own terms. In addition, once it is conceded that drift is to be interpreted statistically, only the statistical conception of natural selection ca ...
... here. We then discuss natural selection. Despite the prevalence of dynamical talk about selection, the statistical interpretation makes more sense on its own terms. In addition, once it is conceded that drift is to be interpreted statistically, only the statistical conception of natural selection ca ...
Altruism and the evolution of resource generalism and specialism
... clearly have the potential to influence the evolution of resource utilization patterns. Furthermore, additional ecological attributes, in particular the role of environmental heterogeneity, are known to affect species coexistence (Armstrong and McGehee 1980) and coupled with diet allow alternative c ...
... clearly have the potential to influence the evolution of resource utilization patterns. Furthermore, additional ecological attributes, in particular the role of environmental heterogeneity, are known to affect species coexistence (Armstrong and McGehee 1980) and coupled with diet allow alternative c ...
Anthropological insights into the use of race/ethnicity to explore
... of difference] to be an adequate explanation’. In fact, as Livingstone explained, genetic traits can often be discordant and ‘if two genes vary discordantly, the races set up on the basis of one do not describe the variability in the other’. However, the social reality of race can make it difficult to ...
... of difference] to be an adequate explanation’. In fact, as Livingstone explained, genetic traits can often be discordant and ‘if two genes vary discordantly, the races set up on the basis of one do not describe the variability in the other’. However, the social reality of race can make it difficult to ...
Swarm Intelligence: Humans — Actual, Imagined and Implied
... acquired through individual experience. Upon evolution, individual’s adaptations - and their subsequent probability of survival and reproduction – depended jointly on their individual experience and on what they learned from society. Further tendency to learn more in one way or the other was also ge ...
... acquired through individual experience. Upon evolution, individual’s adaptations - and their subsequent probability of survival and reproduction – depended jointly on their individual experience and on what they learned from society. Further tendency to learn more in one way or the other was also ge ...
the Role of Anthropology in Development
... therefore inherently political (Gardner and Lewis 1996). Escobar applies this principle to development, claiming that the development discourse is merely a way for donor agencies in the West to impose and maintain power over developing nations. He goes as far as to say that development anthropologis ...
... therefore inherently political (Gardner and Lewis 1996). Escobar applies this principle to development, claiming that the development discourse is merely a way for donor agencies in the West to impose and maintain power over developing nations. He goes as far as to say that development anthropologis ...
Cultural Anthropology 102 - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... 3. List two specific aspects of culture that were different between the Tiv and the author’s culture that led to the different interpretations of Hamlet? 3 Tricking & Tripping: Author’s main idea or thesis for the article terms: demography, key respondent, sample 1. How did Sterk’s “status” (who she ...
... 3. List two specific aspects of culture that were different between the Tiv and the author’s culture that led to the different interpretations of Hamlet? 3 Tricking & Tripping: Author’s main idea or thesis for the article terms: demography, key respondent, sample 1. How did Sterk’s “status” (who she ...
Thorstein Veblen`s Economics and Darwinian Evolutionary Social
... the psychological mechanisms of the human mind as evolved adaptations to the ancestral environment (Barkow et al. 1992), show that theories of human behavior based on Darwinian evolutionary theory had already started to gain an increasing acceptance toward the end of the 20th century. “Gene-culture ...
... the psychological mechanisms of the human mind as evolved adaptations to the ancestral environment (Barkow et al. 1992), show that theories of human behavior based on Darwinian evolutionary theory had already started to gain an increasing acceptance toward the end of the 20th century. “Gene-culture ...
UNCHOSEN GROUNDS: Cultivating Cross-Subfield Accents for a Public Voice (Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle, eds. Segal and Yanagisako 2005)
... one key argument within this debate has centered on how-or whetherto demarcate "modern humans" from "Neandertals." For example, in a recent talk at Princeton, Milford Wolpoff distinguished what he called "populationist" from "essentialist" approaches to the species question. In his view, the essenti ...
... one key argument within this debate has centered on how-or whetherto demarcate "modern humans" from "Neandertals." For example, in a recent talk at Princeton, Milford Wolpoff distinguished what he called "populationist" from "essentialist" approaches to the species question. In his view, the essenti ...
David Graeber Radical alterity is just another way of
... is essentially a form of philosophical Idealism. In contrast, I put forward a case for combining ontological realism with theoretical relativism, and suggest that, far from trying to impose my own theoretical views on my Malagasy interlocutors “behind their backs,” this approach is far closer to the ...
... is essentially a form of philosophical Idealism. In contrast, I put forward a case for combining ontological realism with theoretical relativism, and suggest that, far from trying to impose my own theoretical views on my Malagasy interlocutors “behind their backs,” this approach is far closer to the ...
slowly switching between environments facilitates reverse evolution
... Data Archived: Dryad doi:10.5061/dryad.0s96k Natural populations must constantly adapt to ever-changing environmental conditions. A particularly interesting question is whether such adaptations can be reversed by returning the population to an ancestral environment. Such evolutionary reversals have ...
... Data Archived: Dryad doi:10.5061/dryad.0s96k Natural populations must constantly adapt to ever-changing environmental conditions. A particularly interesting question is whether such adaptations can be reversed by returning the population to an ancestral environment. Such evolutionary reversals have ...
B. Kapferer: In the event
... of the ethnographer was to enable reanalysis by other anthropologists in order to test the veracity of both the argument and the observation. For Gluckman and others to become associated with his group, no ethnographic fact or interpretation was independent of the individual bias of the ethnographer ...
... of the ethnographer was to enable reanalysis by other anthropologists in order to test the veracity of both the argument and the observation. For Gluckman and others to become associated with his group, no ethnographic fact or interpretation was independent of the individual bias of the ethnographer ...
Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality”
... is essentially a form of philosophical Idealism. In contrast, I put forward a case for combining ontological realism with theoretical relativism, and suggest that, far from trying to impose my own theoretical views on my Malagasy interlocutors “behind their backs,” this approach is far closer to the ...
... is essentially a form of philosophical Idealism. In contrast, I put forward a case for combining ontological realism with theoretical relativism, and suggest that, far from trying to impose my own theoretical views on my Malagasy interlocutors “behind their backs,” this approach is far closer to the ...
Agency between humanism and posthumanism
... A Latourian analysis does not deny human agency but examines how other things mediate that agency. These things can take many forms. A surfer or a white-water kayaker might say that she struggles to become “one with the water,” to sense through the surfboard or the kayak, the water’s every movement ...
... A Latourian analysis does not deny human agency but examines how other things mediate that agency. These things can take many forms. A surfer or a white-water kayaker might say that she struggles to become “one with the water,” to sense through the surfboard or the kayak, the water’s every movement ...
Brothers and Sisters in Kwahu, Ghana
... rather static one, as was the anthropological mode at that time. The authors attempted to sketch the “structural” character of the relationship, based on what people said and on what according to them ought to be rather than on what they observed. I do not, however, agree with the rather easy critiq ...
... rather static one, as was the anthropological mode at that time. The authors attempted to sketch the “structural” character of the relationship, based on what people said and on what according to them ought to be rather than on what they observed. I do not, however, agree with the rather easy critiq ...
Anthropology - Toronto Zoo
... continuity between human and nonhuman primates may be reflected in mental processes such as awareness and conscious action. The new primateology focuses on the relationship between social behaviour and the genetic contribution of primates to future generations. Primateologists observed the behaviour ...
... continuity between human and nonhuman primates may be reflected in mental processes such as awareness and conscious action. The new primateology focuses on the relationship between social behaviour and the genetic contribution of primates to future generations. Primateologists observed the behaviour ...
Answers
... What are the two fundamental principles upon which the functionalist approach is based? ANS: the notion of universal functions and the principle of functional unity PG: ...
... What are the two fundamental principles upon which the functionalist approach is based? ANS: the notion of universal functions and the principle of functional unity PG: ...
Edwin Ardener`s Prophetic Vision
... machine—a clever idea that was never translated into material action. To the contrary, it offers a template, to use another of his favoured terms, for a political critique of the rhetoric of “excellence” that Marilyn Strathern and others have attacked under the label of “audit culture” (Strathern, e ...
... machine—a clever idea that was never translated into material action. To the contrary, it offers a template, to use another of his favoured terms, for a political critique of the rhetoric of “excellence” that Marilyn Strathern and others have attacked under the label of “audit culture” (Strathern, e ...
Spring 2013 - Tufts University
... documentary films, and debates in the field of anthropology from the late 19th century to the present, we will try to understand how anthropological ways of thinking have involved over time. How do anthropological concerns relate to discussions in other academic fields and in broader public spheres? ...
... documentary films, and debates in the field of anthropology from the late 19th century to the present, we will try to understand how anthropological ways of thinking have involved over time. How do anthropological concerns relate to discussions in other academic fields and in broader public spheres? ...
Proceedings of the Pittsburgh Workshop in History - Philsci
... supposition of infinite population size. They do, however, permit a probability inference of almost unbeatable strength . . .” (italics in the original, Sober 1994, 111). Of course, when we move to more realistic models with finite population size, this probabilistic inference loses strength (how mu ...
... supposition of infinite population size. They do, however, permit a probability inference of almost unbeatable strength . . .” (italics in the original, Sober 1994, 111). Of course, when we move to more realistic models with finite population size, this probabilistic inference loses strength (how mu ...