Paper Complexity, mobility, migration
... In a paper written over half a century ago, Goffman (1964) suggests that the act of speaking needs always be referred to the state of the talk that is gradually unfolding and that is sustained through particular turns at talking but also through particular processes of ratification, or lack thereof, ...
... In a paper written over half a century ago, Goffman (1964) suggests that the act of speaking needs always be referred to the state of the talk that is gradually unfolding and that is sustained through particular turns at talking but also through particular processes of ratification, or lack thereof, ...
SÉRIE ANTROPOLOGIA 375 POST-IMPERIALISM. A - DAN
... constructed. Spurr (1999: 4), in her work on the “rhetoric of empire”, considers that: “the process through which a culture subordinates another starts with the act of giving or not names.” The acritical acceptance of labels such as post-colonialism is problematic because it often implies categoriza ...
... constructed. Spurr (1999: 4), in her work on the “rhetoric of empire”, considers that: “the process through which a culture subordinates another starts with the act of giving or not names.” The acritical acceptance of labels such as post-colonialism is problematic because it often implies categoriza ...
1 Background Frameworks in Science and Technology Studies
... maintained for a body of theories as a whole that must approximate the totality of empirical laws or generalizations. For specific theories, theory choice criteria should include internal consistency and consistency with other theories. Furthermore, Duhem did allow for a degree of disconfirmation to ...
... maintained for a body of theories as a whole that must approximate the totality of empirical laws or generalizations. For specific theories, theory choice criteria should include internal consistency and consistency with other theories. Furthermore, Duhem did allow for a degree of disconfirmation to ...
Subject Benchmark Statement: Anthropology
... diversity and commonality among people throughout the world gives it a distinctive place in the field of learning. It is a subject that seeks to be holistic and comparative as well as critical and reflexive. Some of the most lively debates within the subject are the product of the diversity of posit ...
... diversity and commonality among people throughout the world gives it a distinctive place in the field of learning. It is a subject that seeks to be holistic and comparative as well as critical and reflexive. Some of the most lively debates within the subject are the product of the diversity of posit ...
CULTURAL THEORY AND HISTORY: THEORETICAL ISSUES
... generalize the problem of “mentality” itself. There are probably two main reasons for this. First, there is a kind of antipathy to any theory shared by many historians and not without a solid justification. This antipathy has been generally overcome during the debate on narrativism, when avoiding th ...
... generalize the problem of “mentality” itself. There are probably two main reasons for this. First, there is a kind of antipathy to any theory shared by many historians and not without a solid justification. This antipathy has been generally overcome during the debate on narrativism, when avoiding th ...
AC640--Public Sphere
... the five filters function as a means to the manufacture of “consent” -- that is, the public’s willing support of this narrow range of opinion and information the term “manufacturing consent” comes from the work of early 20th century conservative critic, Walter Lippmann, who first used the phrase in ...
... the five filters function as a means to the manufacture of “consent” -- that is, the public’s willing support of this narrow range of opinion and information the term “manufacturing consent” comes from the work of early 20th century conservative critic, Walter Lippmann, who first used the phrase in ...
*Registration begins April 1, 2014* Course List ANTH 201
... discuss, and better understand the seminal work in biology: On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin. We will review the historical and intellectual milieu of Darwin, appreciate his commitment for finding empirical support for his theory, and disentangle the Gordian knot of social controversy ass ...
... discuss, and better understand the seminal work in biology: On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin. We will review the historical and intellectual milieu of Darwin, appreciate his commitment for finding empirical support for his theory, and disentangle the Gordian knot of social controversy ass ...
Study Guide and Supplemental Readings for Cultural Anthropology
... cultures in the world; you will learn why some cultures believe that a woman should have more than one husband, while others believe that a man should worship more than one god. Anthropology also studies the familiar in addition to the exotic, however. In this course, you will be introduced to a uni ...
... cultures in the world; you will learn why some cultures believe that a woman should have more than one husband, while others believe that a man should worship more than one god. Anthropology also studies the familiar in addition to the exotic, however. In this course, you will be introduced to a uni ...
- Lorentz Center
... Divergence of origin? • Both Gellner and Quine/Davidson had different intentions. To them: - Using charity does not involve insensitivity to qualitative differences - Charity is not used to dominate others: it is just an essential part of the interpretation process. Other people(s) do the same! ...
... Divergence of origin? • Both Gellner and Quine/Davidson had different intentions. To them: - Using charity does not involve insensitivity to qualitative differences - Charity is not used to dominate others: it is just an essential part of the interpretation process. Other people(s) do the same! ...
On Culture, Thick and Thin - U
... of culture.' Thus, Almond and Verba (1963: 13), in their classic study The Civic Culture, explicitly abandon the holistic assumption of thick culture (which they call homogeneity), embracing instead an individualist conception of political culture as `the particular distribution of patterns of orie ...
... of culture.' Thus, Almond and Verba (1963: 13), in their classic study The Civic Culture, explicitly abandon the holistic assumption of thick culture (which they call homogeneity), embracing instead an individualist conception of political culture as `the particular distribution of patterns of orie ...
Ontology is just another word for culture. Proposing the motion
... (discussed earlier), we might further ask, what is the purpose of anthropology and how do the kinds of questions anthropology poses differ from other nonanthropologists’ question? Sykes in her presentation focuses on the importance of questions, i.e. on the interrogative project, rather than the rep ...
... (discussed earlier), we might further ask, what is the purpose of anthropology and how do the kinds of questions anthropology poses differ from other nonanthropologists’ question? Sykes in her presentation focuses on the importance of questions, i.e. on the interrogative project, rather than the rep ...
1 Evolutionary Theories of Cultural Change: An Empirical
... theory to the development of primitive human cultures was intellectually appealing, but also because a general Darwinian theory seems to fit the facts as they see them, at least broadly. There are similar dual interests among members of the interdisciplinary group of scholars exploring an “evolutio ...
... theory to the development of primitive human cultures was intellectually appealing, but also because a general Darwinian theory seems to fit the facts as they see them, at least broadly. There are similar dual interests among members of the interdisciplinary group of scholars exploring an “evolutio ...
StellaLuna
... and is finally reunited with her own mother who explains that her ways of doing things is appropriate for fruit bats. Stellaluna feels happy to find this out and learns the ways of bats. She returns to her adoptive family to show her stepbrothers and sisters what she has learned. She invites her fri ...
... and is finally reunited with her own mother who explains that her ways of doing things is appropriate for fruit bats. Stellaluna feels happy to find this out and learns the ways of bats. She returns to her adoptive family to show her stepbrothers and sisters what she has learned. She invites her fri ...
reading guide for visual anthropology
... 1. From the outset, the article seems to suggest that imperialist exhibitionary practices might be closely tied to the modern development of anthropology (but he does not actually mention anthropology by name in the opening paragraphs). Using the author's own words, who might one make the case for t ...
... 1. From the outset, the article seems to suggest that imperialist exhibitionary practices might be closely tied to the modern development of anthropology (but he does not actually mention anthropology by name in the opening paragraphs). Using the author's own words, who might one make the case for t ...
Ethnicity: Theoretical Approaches, Methodological
... into prehistory through continuity of material culture. Historical linguistics also provided an important source of evidence, as race, language, and culture were assumed to be closely interrelated and coeval with one another. On the basis of his settlement archaeology, Kossinna claimed that it was p ...
... into prehistory through continuity of material culture. Historical linguistics also provided an important source of evidence, as race, language, and culture were assumed to be closely interrelated and coeval with one another. On the basis of his settlement archaeology, Kossinna claimed that it was p ...
Downloadable Full Text
... my family in an attempt to convey the historical transformations that occurred in Southeast Chicago and many other formerly industrial regions. It includes the experiences of my white, middle-aged father, who grew up in a setting where being a steelworker was the accepted—often the only conceivable ...
... my family in an attempt to convey the historical transformations that occurred in Southeast Chicago and many other formerly industrial regions. It includes the experiences of my white, middle-aged father, who grew up in a setting where being a steelworker was the accepted—often the only conceivable ...
essays - Bruno Latour
... Fulbright scholarship to go to California and work in Roger Guillemin’s laboratory: ‘To apply ethnographic methods to scientific practice.’ I would like to go over the reasons this little phrase had such significant effects on my actual conception of an anthropological project. If we look back to th ...
... Fulbright scholarship to go to California and work in Roger Guillemin’s laboratory: ‘To apply ethnographic methods to scientific practice.’ I would like to go over the reasons this little phrase had such significant effects on my actual conception of an anthropological project. If we look back to th ...
Mosuo culture - St. Edwards University
... women have more power • Family Responsibilities—men have less responsibility • Children live in maternal household ...
... women have more power • Family Responsibilities—men have less responsibility • Children live in maternal household ...
Vytis ČIUBRINSKAS - Social / cultural anthropology in Lithuania: the
... ment of its object and from working out its methods not from the material that is randomly collected for it." (Greimas 1993:15). That is, contemporary Lithuanian ethnology has its roots in its material heritage: museum collections and documentary archives. This material heritage was inher4 ited by L ...
... ment of its object and from working out its methods not from the material that is randomly collected for it." (Greimas 1993:15). That is, contemporary Lithuanian ethnology has its roots in its material heritage: museum collections and documentary archives. This material heritage was inher4 ited by L ...
Field-note - Ebola Response Anthropology Platform
... talking about funerals, and that of Barry Hewlett who in his work Ebola, Culture and Politics clearly shows how funerals, as other cultural practices, can be modified if necessary for the containment of the epidemic, and how the population demonstrated agency in such dynamism. ...
... talking about funerals, and that of Barry Hewlett who in his work Ebola, Culture and Politics clearly shows how funerals, as other cultural practices, can be modified if necessary for the containment of the epidemic, and how the population demonstrated agency in such dynamism. ...
2nd 2014-2015 Semester Courses (2)
... SA 101 Survey of Sociological Theories MWF 11:30-12:30, CTC 206 This course is a study of theories of societies developed in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a discussion of the theorists within their historical milieu, as well as their contribution ...
... SA 101 Survey of Sociological Theories MWF 11:30-12:30, CTC 206 This course is a study of theories of societies developed in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a discussion of the theorists within their historical milieu, as well as their contribution ...
1 Netnography: Understanding Networked Communication Society
... Ethnography and Virtual Worlds, Horst and Miller’s (2012) Digital Anthropology or Underberg and Zorn’s (2013) Digital Ethnography “may offer theoretical overviews, general advice, examples and case studies, they tend to be focused on particular field sites (e.g., virtual worlds, such as Second Life) ...
... Ethnography and Virtual Worlds, Horst and Miller’s (2012) Digital Anthropology or Underberg and Zorn’s (2013) Digital Ethnography “may offer theoretical overviews, general advice, examples and case studies, they tend to be focused on particular field sites (e.g., virtual worlds, such as Second Life) ...
Third Edition
... – Application was a central concern of early anthropology in Great Britain (during colonialism) and in the U.S. (Native American policy) – Modern applied anthropology differs from earlier approaches • During World War II, a number of American anthropologists studied Japanese and German culture “at a ...
... – Application was a central concern of early anthropology in Great Britain (during colonialism) and in the U.S. (Native American policy) – Modern applied anthropology differs from earlier approaches • During World War II, a number of American anthropologists studied Japanese and German culture “at a ...
Chapter 1 What is Biological Anthropology
... 3. From the perspective of biological theory, humans are a. not like all other biological species b. unrelated to primates c. the product of the same long process of adaptation as all other biological species d. much like all other biological species, but did not result from evolutionary processes ( ...
... 3. From the perspective of biological theory, humans are a. not like all other biological species b. unrelated to primates c. the product of the same long process of adaptation as all other biological species d. much like all other biological species, but did not result from evolutionary processes ( ...