ANTH 210 - University of South Carolina
... medical anthropologists approach human diversity by attending simultaneously to global sociocultural patterns [i.e. the search for universals through engaging in cross-cultural comparisons] through detailed ethnographic studies of the particular [i.e. locally specific cultural beliefs and practices] ...
... medical anthropologists approach human diversity by attending simultaneously to global sociocultural patterns [i.e. the search for universals through engaging in cross-cultural comparisons] through detailed ethnographic studies of the particular [i.e. locally specific cultural beliefs and practices] ...
Six strategies for mixing methods and linking data in social science
... This approach tries to tackle the question of mixing or linking data head on, rather than to duck or avoid it as the first two approaches tend to do. Consequently, it is a great deal more challenging to put into practice, not least in terms of the range of researcher skills that are required. This a ...
... This approach tries to tackle the question of mixing or linking data head on, rather than to duck or avoid it as the first two approaches tend to do. Consequently, it is a great deal more challenging to put into practice, not least in terms of the range of researcher skills that are required. This a ...
From the Department Chair Anthropology Department Newsletter
... medical-imaging devices, such as CT scanners. This array of hardware and software presents SIU researchers with multiple options for data collection and analysis, allowing them to choose the methodological approach most appropriate for a given anthropological question. In some cases, simple linear d ...
... medical-imaging devices, such as CT scanners. This array of hardware and software presents SIU researchers with multiple options for data collection and analysis, allowing them to choose the methodological approach most appropriate for a given anthropological question. In some cases, simple linear d ...
Social science research and designs in Caribbean
... empirical studies conducted in Suriname that were based on the plural society concept, are illustrative for the way the respective research designs are linked with the structural functionalist approach. The studies that focused on Creoles (Van Renselaar, 1963), East Indians (Speckman, 1965) and Java ...
... empirical studies conducted in Suriname that were based on the plural society concept, are illustrative for the way the respective research designs are linked with the structural functionalist approach. The studies that focused on Creoles (Van Renselaar, 1963), East Indians (Speckman, 1965) and Java ...
Chapter 1 What is Biological Anthropology
... (Answer c; page 3) 4. A hominin is a. an ape-like primate that walks on two legs b. a non-human animal c. an example of a “paradigm” d. none of these (Answer a; page 3) ...
... (Answer c; page 3) 4. A hominin is a. an ape-like primate that walks on two legs b. a non-human animal c. an example of a “paradigm” d. none of these (Answer a; page 3) ...
Anthro-intro-1
... Meeting “The Other”, culture loss, fieldwork, informants, linguistic anthropology, participant observation, ethnology (systematic ...
... Meeting “The Other”, culture loss, fieldwork, informants, linguistic anthropology, participant observation, ethnology (systematic ...
1 what is anthropology? - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... wolves, and even ants. Culture, however, is distinctly human. Cultures are traditions and customs, transmitted through learning, that govern the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed to them. Children learn such a tradition by growing up in a particular society, through a process called encultu ...
... wolves, and even ants. Culture, however, is distinctly human. Cultures are traditions and customs, transmitted through learning, that govern the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed to them. Children learn such a tradition by growing up in a particular society, through a process called encultu ...
Open - Online.com.kh
... Thick description – lots of detail, lots of quotations Context sensitivity - emphasize many aspects of social, historical and physical context. Empathetic – trying to take a view of the other person and be non-judgmental. Not subjective in terms of my biases, not objective in terms of no bias, but t ...
... Thick description – lots of detail, lots of quotations Context sensitivity - emphasize many aspects of social, historical and physical context. Empathetic – trying to take a view of the other person and be non-judgmental. Not subjective in terms of my biases, not objective in terms of no bias, but t ...
Miller - Chapter 2
... How early cultural anthropologists conducted research by sitting and reading about other cultures Learning and theorizing about cultures through secondhand reports Edward Tylor ...
... How early cultural anthropologists conducted research by sitting and reading about other cultures Learning and theorizing about cultures through secondhand reports Edward Tylor ...
Media Anthropology: An Overview
... application of instruments (theories, concepts, research methods) from a field of science, cultural anthropology, onto an investigated object, in this case media (i.e. communication mediated by technologies and institutions, be it mass or group, “big” or “small” – Spitulnik, 2002:179-184). It exactl ...
... application of instruments (theories, concepts, research methods) from a field of science, cultural anthropology, onto an investigated object, in this case media (i.e. communication mediated by technologies and institutions, be it mass or group, “big” or “small” – Spitulnik, 2002:179-184). It exactl ...
Anthropology
... Sample Ethnography This is a sample ethnography I wrote for ANTH 195: Doing Anthropology with Professor Luis Vivanco. It received an A. Throughout the course of the semester I performed field research on campus to see how students engaged with reusable water bottles in order to fully understand the ...
... Sample Ethnography This is a sample ethnography I wrote for ANTH 195: Doing Anthropology with Professor Luis Vivanco. It received an A. Throughout the course of the semester I performed field research on campus to see how students engaged with reusable water bottles in order to fully understand the ...
Introduction to Post-Social Anthropology
... between humans and nonhumans. What the anthropology of science does is not dissolve the distinction between science and nonscience; rather it multiplies and differentiates this distinction in a cloud of practices with specific demands and obligations. Note that we are dealing with an anthropology of ...
... between humans and nonhumans. What the anthropology of science does is not dissolve the distinction between science and nonscience; rather it multiplies and differentiates this distinction in a cloud of practices with specific demands and obligations. Note that we are dealing with an anthropology of ...
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... Copyright © 2013, 2011, 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. ...
... Copyright © 2013, 2011, 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. ...
A short history of anthropology at the University of Kent. Without
... Corbin, Paul and Barbara Littlewood, Margaret Kenna and Michael Lineton) were ...
... Corbin, Paul and Barbara Littlewood, Margaret Kenna and Michael Lineton) were ...
Anthropology at Berkeley City College
... important information for citizenship in general and for understanding how biological evolution works. At the moment we have no tutors at the College for this need. VI. Human and Physical Resources: Our only contract instructor, Roger Newman, retired in December, 2008. Since then, we have had to rel ...
... important information for citizenship in general and for understanding how biological evolution works. At the moment we have no tutors at the College for this need. VI. Human and Physical Resources: Our only contract instructor, Roger Newman, retired in December, 2008. Since then, we have had to rel ...
Department of Sociology and
... ritual expression in indigenous and urban societies from an anthropological perspective including interpretations of myth, religious healing, cults, taboo, witchcraft, sorcery, and religious specialists and non-specialists. 3010 Ethnology. Three credits. Examines different approaches in anthropology ...
... ritual expression in indigenous and urban societies from an anthropological perspective including interpretations of myth, religious healing, cults, taboo, witchcraft, sorcery, and religious specialists and non-specialists. 3010 Ethnology. Three credits. Examines different approaches in anthropology ...
Finally, it is also worth reflecting on how, for both of us, the
... the interdisciplinary endeavour of critical ageing studies, and Tyler’s (2012) work draws on fieldwork in the Midlands area of England to contribute to ethnic and racial studies. Both these interdisciplinary fields of inquiry are dominated by sociological work and thought. In this sense, our respect ...
... the interdisciplinary endeavour of critical ageing studies, and Tyler’s (2012) work draws on fieldwork in the Midlands area of England to contribute to ethnic and racial studies. Both these interdisciplinary fields of inquiry are dominated by sociological work and thought. In this sense, our respect ...
nuance - Sites@UCI
... Nuance is part of a scholarly lexicon that anthropologists value and propagate in their research, signaling subtlety in communication and layers of meaning in thick description. Nuance in data collection and in model building are performed conceptually through reference to multiplicity, depth, compl ...
... Nuance is part of a scholarly lexicon that anthropologists value and propagate in their research, signaling subtlety in communication and layers of meaning in thick description. Nuance in data collection and in model building are performed conceptually through reference to multiplicity, depth, compl ...
If Simmel Were A Fieldworker: On Formal
... The sociocultural, as well as academic, climate within which the ethnographic tradition has developed has advocated a kind of research which is very different from that advocated by formal sociology. To begin with, ethnographers have traditionally studied cultures which have been in the process of d ...
... The sociocultural, as well as academic, climate within which the ethnographic tradition has developed has advocated a kind of research which is very different from that advocated by formal sociology. To begin with, ethnographers have traditionally studied cultures which have been in the process of d ...
Ethnoprimatology: Toward Reconciliation of Biological and Cultural
... inquiry (Rodman 1999). Rappaport (1994) contends that an adequate understanding of humanity must encompass both law and meaning. Matt Cartmill, in his luncheon address at the 1994 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, admitted that biological anthropologists do have someth ...
... inquiry (Rodman 1999). Rappaport (1994) contends that an adequate understanding of humanity must encompass both law and meaning. Matt Cartmill, in his luncheon address at the 1994 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, admitted that biological anthropologists do have someth ...
Statistics for Cross-Cultural Research
... important variables, and they can correlatee the new variables that they develop with those of others. For example, you would like to test cross-culturally a hypothesis regarding the influence of subsistence technologies on some socialization patterns. In this case you would only have to collect dat ...
... important variables, and they can correlatee the new variables that they develop with those of others. For example, you would like to test cross-culturally a hypothesis regarding the influence of subsistence technologies on some socialization patterns. In this case you would only have to collect dat ...
CONTEXTUALIZING CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
... which enables him to be the torchbearer of human selfenlightenment. From the critical anthropologist's point of view, anthropologists are, by definition, a major step ahead of all other scientists -- social or natural -- since the knowledge they produce is not neutral scientific knowledge about a se ...
... which enables him to be the torchbearer of human selfenlightenment. From the critical anthropologist's point of view, anthropologists are, by definition, a major step ahead of all other scientists -- social or natural -- since the knowledge they produce is not neutral scientific knowledge about a se ...
Stefan Jarolimek (University of Leipzig)
... BEING GOOD, DOING GOOD …and tell the public how good you are ...
... BEING GOOD, DOING GOOD …and tell the public how good you are ...
- Goldsmiths Research Online
... religion. In particular, Vasquez (2010) described how university courses often frustrate students for being based on a priori assumptions about belief, gods and ‘the sacred’, divorced from everyday religious practice and complex issues such as globalization, transnationalism and hybrid identities. W ...
... religion. In particular, Vasquez (2010) described how university courses often frustrate students for being based on a priori assumptions about belief, gods and ‘the sacred’, divorced from everyday religious practice and complex issues such as globalization, transnationalism and hybrid identities. W ...