intro to anthro
... … The Lancet …study is based on an analysis of actual and expected sex ratios. The researchers estimate 13.6 million to 13.8 million girls should've been born in India in 1997. But only 13.1 million were. The biggest number of missing females was in couples having their first child. And the gap was ...
... … The Lancet …study is based on an analysis of actual and expected sex ratios. The researchers estimate 13.6 million to 13.8 million girls should've been born in India in 1997. But only 13.1 million were. The biggest number of missing females was in couples having their first child. And the gap was ...
Seminar on Signification, Conceptual Structures and Human Existence
... Patiala, and later at J.N.U., much of the profound ideas he had learned from the great French philosophers of the day, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Louis Althusser, Claude LéviStrauss, Jacques Lacan, A.-J. Greimas, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault. He made the study of the structures o ...
... Patiala, and later at J.N.U., much of the profound ideas he had learned from the great French philosophers of the day, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Louis Althusser, Claude LéviStrauss, Jacques Lacan, A.-J. Greimas, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault. He made the study of the structures o ...
01 History of Anthropology
... Sphinx first excavated by Thutmose IV c. 1400 BCE, more than 1000 years after it was first built ...
... Sphinx first excavated by Thutmose IV c. 1400 BCE, more than 1000 years after it was first built ...
Chapter 4 - A Science of Human Nature?
... in their original form made more urgent by the memories of Nazi atrocities. As a result, socio-biology became something horrible for many cultural and social anthropologists, something against which they felt it was their moral and political duty to fight, even though they often had little idea what ...
... in their original form made more urgent by the memories of Nazi atrocities. As a result, socio-biology became something horrible for many cultural and social anthropologists, something against which they felt it was their moral and political duty to fight, even though they often had little idea what ...
ANTH 100 INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY
... Course Description and Objectives This course is an introductory survey of the sub-fields of anthropology: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. Two broad principles underlie our understanding of human complexity: First, all individuals and groups ...
... Course Description and Objectives This course is an introductory survey of the sub-fields of anthropology: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. Two broad principles underlie our understanding of human complexity: First, all individuals and groups ...
What is Anthropology? - Clarington Central Secondary School
... This theory states that humans tend to see things in terms of two forces that are binary opposites: night/day male/female rich/poor good/bad The goal of Structuralism is to discover universal principles of the human mind underlying cultural traits and customs. ...
... This theory states that humans tend to see things in terms of two forces that are binary opposites: night/day male/female rich/poor good/bad The goal of Structuralism is to discover universal principles of the human mind underlying cultural traits and customs. ...
Subfields of Anthropology
... is the branch of anthropology that studies and compares human languages (especially the nonwritten languages that are not formally studied by other disciplines), including the evolution of language, and the relation of language to universal or local patterns of thought and behavior. ...
... is the branch of anthropology that studies and compares human languages (especially the nonwritten languages that are not formally studied by other disciplines), including the evolution of language, and the relation of language to universal or local patterns of thought and behavior. ...
Deconstruction, Feminism and Discourse Theory
... Deconstruction has originated in France in the late 1960s, when structuralism and existentialism were still intellectually active. In a fundamental sense, deconstruction is associated with certain techniques for reading texts developed by Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man and some other thinkers. Another ...
... Deconstruction has originated in France in the late 1960s, when structuralism and existentialism were still intellectually active. In a fundamental sense, deconstruction is associated with certain techniques for reading texts developed by Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man and some other thinkers. Another ...
Anthropology Introduction
... Darnton, Robert, The Great Cat Massacre and other Episodes in French Cultural History (London, 1984), Chaps 1 and 2. [See the criticism of this book in Chartier]. Davis, Natalie Zemon, Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford 1975), Chapters 4-6. Dezan, Suzanne, ‘Crowds, community and ri ...
... Darnton, Robert, The Great Cat Massacre and other Episodes in French Cultural History (London, 1984), Chaps 1 and 2. [See the criticism of this book in Chartier]. Davis, Natalie Zemon, Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford 1975), Chapters 4-6. Dezan, Suzanne, ‘Crowds, community and ri ...
Scope of Social Anthropology - General Guide To Personal and
... George STOCKING wrote a good history of anthropology. Adam KUPER collected a lot of facts on the history, who did what when, but missed out on the accurate development of intellectual thought in A. Very good to read: LIENHARDT R G 1964 Social anthropology first and last chapter give an easy introduc ...
... George STOCKING wrote a good history of anthropology. Adam KUPER collected a lot of facts on the history, who did what when, but missed out on the accurate development of intellectual thought in A. Very good to read: LIENHARDT R G 1964 Social anthropology first and last chapter give an easy introduc ...
11 Explai ning religious concepts
... There is no word (missionaries from world religions often resorted to neologisms to designate what they were trying to impose in those places) and in general there is no concept either. For most people in such societies, there is simply no clear connection between the notion that dead people become ...
... There is no word (missionaries from world religions often resorted to neologisms to designate what they were trying to impose in those places) and in general there is no concept either. For most people in such societies, there is simply no clear connection between the notion that dead people become ...
Theories of Anthropology
... texts, or accounts of beliefs and behaviors in native’s own words Malinowski & Radcliffe-Brown held many of the same views as well ...
... texts, or accounts of beliefs and behaviors in native’s own words Malinowski & Radcliffe-Brown held many of the same views as well ...
7 - Antropolis
... the technological and environmental means of production in Guro society. Wants to extricate economics from kinship -> proposed “the domestic mode of production” Louis Althusser: Pour Marx - Lire Le Capital Marxism introduced a measure of flexibility in the infrastructure-superstructure relationshi ...
... the technological and environmental means of production in Guro society. Wants to extricate economics from kinship -> proposed “the domestic mode of production” Louis Althusser: Pour Marx - Lire Le Capital Marxism introduced a measure of flexibility in the infrastructure-superstructure relationshi ...
ANTH 310 – Classical Theory of Cultural
... The field of cultural anthropology is an inquiry into the conditions which render us human. This involves a scientific understanding of the concept of culture. We find ourselves at the same time different from and also similar to people living at other places in the world. In order to capture this h ...
... The field of cultural anthropology is an inquiry into the conditions which render us human. This involves a scientific understanding of the concept of culture. We find ourselves at the same time different from and also similar to people living at other places in the world. In order to capture this h ...
Myths are often stories of origins, how the world and everything in it
... law of human thought. In studying myth, Lévi-Strauss tries "to reduce apparently arbitrary data to some kind of order, and to attain a level at which a kind of necessity becomes apparent, underlying the illusions of liberty".[7] According to Lévi-Strauss, "mythical thought always progresses from the ...
... law of human thought. In studying myth, Lévi-Strauss tries "to reduce apparently arbitrary data to some kind of order, and to attain a level at which a kind of necessity becomes apparent, underlying the illusions of liberty".[7] According to Lévi-Strauss, "mythical thought always progresses from the ...
Syllabus
... students in other fields, and advanced undergraduates who have an interest in social theory and anthropology. (The course counts as the “cultural requirement” for anthropology graduate students.) We consider modern anthropological responses to two questions of intellectual and social importance: How ...
... students in other fields, and advanced undergraduates who have an interest in social theory and anthropology. (The course counts as the “cultural requirement” for anthropology graduate students.) We consider modern anthropological responses to two questions of intellectual and social importance: How ...
What Do I already know about Prehistoric Cultures?
... http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/ ...
... http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/ ...
Lévi-Strauss
... The Trobrianders’ complex ideas about the values of each sex are simplified by Malinowski in this way: “for the continuation and very existence of family, woman as well man is indispensable; therefore both sexes are regarded by the native of equal value and importance” ...
... The Trobrianders’ complex ideas about the values of each sex are simplified by Malinowski in this way: “for the continuation and very existence of family, woman as well man is indispensable; therefore both sexes are regarded by the native of equal value and importance” ...
What is linguistic anthropology,
... • Cultural relativity—acknowledging the legitimacy of different frames of reference • Ethnocentrism—refusing to acknowledge the legitimacy of any frame of reference other than your own • Cultural relativity is NOT moral relativism – Personal ethical framework plays a key role in linguistic anthropol ...
... • Cultural relativity—acknowledging the legitimacy of different frames of reference • Ethnocentrism—refusing to acknowledge the legitimacy of any frame of reference other than your own • Cultural relativity is NOT moral relativism – Personal ethical framework plays a key role in linguistic anthropol ...
Boasian anthropology
... . Cultural/Social anthropology . Linguistics Anthropology in West has generally taken a different path than in Europe. In the West, encountering multiple, distinct cultures, often with very different organization and language from those of Europe, has led to a continuing emphasis on cross-cultural c ...
... . Cultural/Social anthropology . Linguistics Anthropology in West has generally taken a different path than in Europe. In the West, encountering multiple, distinct cultures, often with very different organization and language from those of Europe, has led to a continuing emphasis on cross-cultural c ...
by Claude Levi
... impossible that they are 100% correlated o if 0% - human mind just a jumble of stuff o if 100% we'd be aware and no need for discussion Levi-Strauss believes there is some kind of correlation between certain things on certain levels, and our task is to determine what these things are and what these ...
... impossible that they are 100% correlated o if 0% - human mind just a jumble of stuff o if 100% we'd be aware and no need for discussion Levi-Strauss believes there is some kind of correlation between certain things on certain levels, and our task is to determine what these things are and what these ...