列印/存檔 - 慈濟大學
... anthropology has existed, many different theoretical approaches have been applied to the study of people and culture. Those approaches are usually products of their time. In other words, they relate to the wider cultural context of anthropology, including especially the current scientific context, b ...
... anthropology has existed, many different theoretical approaches have been applied to the study of people and culture. Those approaches are usually products of their time. In other words, they relate to the wider cultural context of anthropology, including especially the current scientific context, b ...
Introduction ANTHROPOLOGY A DISCIPLINE OF INFINITE CURIOSITY ABOUT HUMAN BEINGS
... • Why do we stand up on two fragile limbs when so many other animals sensibly move about on all four? • Why are we relatively hairless (and, thus, get sunburn)? • Why do we speak, form societies, fight wars? • Why do we think about our own impending deaths? • How long have human beings been around? ...
... • Why do we stand up on two fragile limbs when so many other animals sensibly move about on all four? • Why are we relatively hairless (and, thus, get sunburn)? • Why do we speak, form societies, fight wars? • Why do we think about our own impending deaths? • How long have human beings been around? ...
Anthropology
... Anthropological Schools of Thought 2. Structuralism • Structuralism assumes that cultural forms are based on common properties of the human mind • This theory states that humans tend to see things in terms of two forces that are opposite to each other eg. night and day • The goal of Structuralism i ...
... Anthropological Schools of Thought 2. Structuralism • Structuralism assumes that cultural forms are based on common properties of the human mind • This theory states that humans tend to see things in terms of two forces that are opposite to each other eg. night and day • The goal of Structuralism i ...
Structural Functionalism www.AssignmentPoint.com Structural
... shape society as a whole, and believes that society has evolved like organisms. This approach looks at both social structure and social functions. Functionalism addresses society as a whole in terms of the function of its constituent elements; namely norms, customs, traditions, and institutions. A c ...
... shape society as a whole, and believes that society has evolved like organisms. This approach looks at both social structure and social functions. Functionalism addresses society as a whole in terms of the function of its constituent elements; namely norms, customs, traditions, and institutions. A c ...
Claude Lévi
... taboo, one is facing an objective limit of what the human mind has so far accepted. One could hypothesize some biological imperative underlying it, but so far as social order is concerned, the taboo has the effect of an irreducible fact. The social scientist can only work with the structures of huma ...
... taboo, one is facing an objective limit of what the human mind has so far accepted. One could hypothesize some biological imperative underlying it, but so far as social order is concerned, the taboo has the effect of an irreducible fact. The social scientist can only work with the structures of huma ...
Foundations – Anthropology – Main Concepts and
... • The belief is that all society’s actions make up their culture and that they all serve a purpose. ...
... • The belief is that all society’s actions make up their culture and that they all serve a purpose. ...
Chapter 11: Theory in Cultural Anthropology
... Understanding how and why any particular society developed the way it did should be drawn out of an understanding of how behaviors, beliefs, and institutions serve (or served) to benefit people in basic material ways. ...
... Understanding how and why any particular society developed the way it did should be drawn out of an understanding of how behaviors, beliefs, and institutions serve (or served) to benefit people in basic material ways. ...
Ferdinand de Saussure
... Ferdinand de Saussure Structuralism Saussure’s work spread beyond linguistics to effect humanities and social sciences including anthropology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II8_p2RBRfs We’ve been looking at words as fundamental in spoken language. How does word meaning fit into the picture? ...
... Ferdinand de Saussure Structuralism Saussure’s work spread beyond linguistics to effect humanities and social sciences including anthropology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II8_p2RBRfs We’ve been looking at words as fundamental in spoken language. How does word meaning fit into the picture? ...
`BIOGE~TIC STRUCTURALISM` AND THE LOCATION OF
... speaksuch. The ultimate implication is that 'we can cease speak ing of m~ltiple m~ltiple adaptive mechanisms and refer to the entire human neocortex as the basis for man's primary and unique adaptation to his physical environment' (181). This may well have been a layman's starting assumption assump ...
... speaksuch. The ultimate implication is that 'we can cease speak ing of m~ltiple m~ltiple adaptive mechanisms and refer to the entire human neocortex as the basis for man's primary and unique adaptation to his physical environment' (181). This may well have been a layman's starting assumption assump ...
Edmund Leach talking to Frank Kermode 26th May 1982
... between Oxford and London; Evans-Pritchard later deviated from the RadcliffeBrown mode and reinstated interest in history and ideology 0:25:10 Levi-Strauss’s influenced by American anthropologists, particularly Robert Lowie; at the end of the war in New York and was closely associated with linguist, ...
... between Oxford and London; Evans-Pritchard later deviated from the RadcliffeBrown mode and reinstated interest in history and ideology 0:25:10 Levi-Strauss’s influenced by American anthropologists, particularly Robert Lowie; at the end of the war in New York and was closely associated with linguist, ...
Lévi-Strauss
... The evolutionist studies are superficial: they not teach us about the conscious and unconscious processes in concrete individual or collective experiences ...
... The evolutionist studies are superficial: they not teach us about the conscious and unconscious processes in concrete individual or collective experiences ...
Geertz and Schneider – USA
... identical symbols could mean different things to different people. -> Turner moved to the U.S. in ’61 where he developed his ideas of liminality into a general theory of performance. His influence continued to grow during ‘80s and the 90’s. 2) Mary Douglas (1912- ) : student of E.P. Wrote two hugely ...
... identical symbols could mean different things to different people. -> Turner moved to the U.S. in ’61 where he developed his ideas of liminality into a general theory of performance. His influence continued to grow during ‘80s and the 90’s. 2) Mary Douglas (1912- ) : student of E.P. Wrote two hugely ...
Anthropology
... The human communication process focusing on the importance of sociocultural influences; nonverbal communication; and the structure, function, and history of languages, dialects, pidgins, and creoles ...
... The human communication process focusing on the importance of sociocultural influences; nonverbal communication; and the structure, function, and history of languages, dialects, pidgins, and creoles ...
Review of Keith Thomas `Religion and the Decline
... disciplines grew apart, anthropologists rejecting 'conjectural history' and historians showing little interest in studies of 'simple' societies. In 1961 Evans-Pritchard gave an important lecture on 'Anthropology and History' which argued that they were almost identical disciplines. Among those most ...
... disciplines grew apart, anthropologists rejecting 'conjectural history' and historians showing little interest in studies of 'simple' societies. In 1961 Evans-Pritchard gave an important lecture on 'Anthropology and History' which argued that they were almost identical disciplines. Among those most ...
Chapter 4 - Cengage Learning
... Theories enable us to reduce reality to an abstract set of principles. Anthropological principles help us make sense of ethnographic information from different parts of the world. Theories can generate hypotheses to be tested in an empirical research investigation. ...
... Theories enable us to reduce reality to an abstract set of principles. Anthropological principles help us make sense of ethnographic information from different parts of the world. Theories can generate hypotheses to be tested in an empirical research investigation. ...
HSB 4M
... __ Institutions serve the best interest of the majority. __ Overlooks negative results of some practices. __ May try to fit the culture to the rules rather than vice-versa. __ Too much focus on logic and stability. __ Seeks to understand how the human mind forms binary opposites. __ Most economic in ...
... __ Institutions serve the best interest of the majority. __ Overlooks negative results of some practices. __ May try to fit the culture to the rules rather than vice-versa. __ Too much focus on logic and stability. __ Seeks to understand how the human mind forms binary opposites. __ Most economic in ...
Anthropology and Psychology
... functionnalism and structuralism) are successively presented, illustred and discussed. Each school of thought examined is also viewed like the occasion to examine the contributions to some great authors. For the psychological approach, we shall contrast the current findings concerning the mechanisms ...
... functionnalism and structuralism) are successively presented, illustred and discussed. Each school of thought examined is also viewed like the occasion to examine the contributions to some great authors. For the psychological approach, we shall contrast the current findings concerning the mechanisms ...
structuralism - U of L Class Index
... particular cultures are like so many projections of human thinking, from the study of which it should be possible to deduce the mechanisms which led to those projections… for Lévi-Strauss, the subject matter of anthropology is “Culture”, not “cultures (although the fact that there are cultures is ...
... particular cultures are like so many projections of human thinking, from the study of which it should be possible to deduce the mechanisms which led to those projections… for Lévi-Strauss, the subject matter of anthropology is “Culture”, not “cultures (although the fact that there are cultures is ...
Anthropology PPT
... primates by naming the animals she studied, instead of assigning them a number. The numbering was nearly a universal practice at the time and thought to be important in the removal of one’s self from the potential for emotional attachment to the subject being studied. ...
... primates by naming the animals she studied, instead of assigning them a number. The numbering was nearly a universal practice at the time and thought to be important in the removal of one’s self from the potential for emotional attachment to the subject being studied. ...
Structural Linguistics. General Principles
... Oedipus admits to killing the king after he knows that he is the king's son, whereas in the witness's account it's "three robbers" that kills the king, but not three "travellers." Seymour Chatman ("What Novels Can Do That Films Can't [and Vice Versa]") uses the distinction between the story time and ...
... Oedipus admits to killing the king after he knows that he is the king's son, whereas in the witness's account it's "three robbers" that kills the king, but not three "travellers." Seymour Chatman ("What Novels Can Do That Films Can't [and Vice Versa]") uses the distinction between the story time and ...
Anthropology – An Introduction
... Anthropology is not one, single method of looking at human behaviour. Instead it can be divided into three distinct schools of thought: Functionalism, Structuralism, Cultural Materialism Functionalism: to a functionalist cultures are organized in a manner meant to solve the universal problems that h ...
... Anthropology is not one, single method of looking at human behaviour. Instead it can be divided into three distinct schools of thought: Functionalism, Structuralism, Cultural Materialism Functionalism: to a functionalist cultures are organized in a manner meant to solve the universal problems that h ...
Cultural Anthropology`s big names
... A.R. Radcliff-Brown 1881-1955 Developed the structuralfunctional approach to look at how each aspect of society contributes to the maintenance of the whole ...
... A.R. Radcliff-Brown 1881-1955 Developed the structuralfunctional approach to look at how each aspect of society contributes to the maintenance of the whole ...
Kein Folientitel - University of Oxford
... • One should compare societies that are culturally and ethnically related and uncover the general characteristics • understand peculiarities by comparison with better-known examples (Kuper 1996:51) • Ultimate goal: to formulate generalisations about common features in all human societies. These gene ...
... • One should compare societies that are culturally and ethnically related and uncover the general characteristics • understand peculiarities by comparison with better-known examples (Kuper 1996:51) • Ultimate goal: to formulate generalisations about common features in all human societies. These gene ...