International Benchmarking Review of UK Social Anthropology
... Anthropology in the UK, what is its international standing, and what particularly significant strengths, foci, and gaps are evident? What kinds of evidence are available, and how can such evidence most effectively be explored and used in providing an illuminating and useful assessment? How might the ...
... Anthropology in the UK, what is its international standing, and what particularly significant strengths, foci, and gaps are evident? What kinds of evidence are available, and how can such evidence most effectively be explored and used in providing an illuminating and useful assessment? How might the ...
Fall 2015 - University of Louisville
... Introduction to World Prehistory is a global survey of the first 2 million years of human existence for which there are few written records and most of our knowledge comes to us via archaeological investigations. We will trace the evolution of human culture through time, focusing on well-known archa ...
... Introduction to World Prehistory is a global survey of the first 2 million years of human existence for which there are few written records and most of our knowledge comes to us via archaeological investigations. We will trace the evolution of human culture through time, focusing on well-known archa ...
*Registration begins April 1, 2014* Course List ANTH 201
... This course will introduce students to the full range of archaeological research and activities underwater. In the first half of the semester we will study the development of underwater archaeology from ancient time to the present, the current techniques of reconnaissance and excavation, and the imp ...
... This course will introduce students to the full range of archaeological research and activities underwater. In the first half of the semester we will study the development of underwater archaeology from ancient time to the present, the current techniques of reconnaissance and excavation, and the imp ...
Similarities - Cambridge University Press
... in her preference for understanding the overall configuration. Such an orientation led Benedict to describe and label whole cultures with diagnostic terms derived from clinical and psychoanalytic psychology. Margaret Mead is also usually identified with the configurationalist approach. Her views on ...
... in her preference for understanding the overall configuration. Such an orientation led Benedict to describe and label whole cultures with diagnostic terms derived from clinical and psychoanalytic psychology. Margaret Mead is also usually identified with the configurationalist approach. Her views on ...
Subject benchmark statement: Anthropology
... that arise from ethnographic fieldwork that relies on developing social relationships in the field, and of what is at stake in the different forms of text and image in which its findings are presented. Increasingly anthropologists are reflecting on the collaborative forms in which anthropological kn ...
... that arise from ethnographic fieldwork that relies on developing social relationships in the field, and of what is at stake in the different forms of text and image in which its findings are presented. Increasingly anthropologists are reflecting on the collaborative forms in which anthropological kn ...
A Lost Period of Applied Anthropology
... limitless potentiality for the betterment of man. They also considered themselves to be able to view man dispassionately on a scientific basis as contrasted with the previous "metaphysical" view. They would admit no subject to be out of bounds to them, making a particular point that no philosophy or ...
... limitless potentiality for the betterment of man. They also considered themselves to be able to view man dispassionately on a scientific basis as contrasted with the previous "metaphysical" view. They would admit no subject to be out of bounds to them, making a particular point that no philosophy or ...
Exercise 2: Participant Observation
... by discovering patterns in their behavior. That pattern may be in what they tell you, or in what you observe. Sometimes, people don’t know what to tell you, and you have to puzzle it out entirely from observation. In this exercise you will look both at what the culture’s participants say and at the ...
... by discovering patterns in their behavior. That pattern may be in what they tell you, or in what you observe. Sometimes, people don’t know what to tell you, and you have to puzzle it out entirely from observation. In this exercise you will look both at what the culture’s participants say and at the ...
Researching Dance: Evolving Modes of Inquiry
... sense that it is commonly understood in the academic world: change within the clear boundaries of a disciplinary commitment, and that is important since so many contributions in the book lack this clarity. Berg's chapter is well-written, outlining the role of the dance historian so that readers unde ...
... sense that it is commonly understood in the academic world: change within the clear boundaries of a disciplinary commitment, and that is important since so many contributions in the book lack this clarity. Berg's chapter is well-written, outlining the role of the dance historian so that readers unde ...
ADVISING HANDBOOK Department of Anthropology and Sociology
... a lens into the complexity of the causes and consequences of human behavior. The sociological journey often begins with posing a question or a hypothesis that is then answered or tested using theoretical frameworks and scientific research methods. These methods include approaches such as statistical ...
... a lens into the complexity of the causes and consequences of human behavior. The sociological journey often begins with posing a question or a hypothesis that is then answered or tested using theoretical frameworks and scientific research methods. These methods include approaches such as statistical ...
Anthropology fa l l 2 0 1 5 ...
... Non-human primates occupy habitats as diverse as tropical forests to snow covered mountains, weigh from 0.15lbs to 400lbs, and range in groups from 2 to 250 individuals. In Primate Science: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation, we will use both evolutionary and ecological approaches to study the div ...
... Non-human primates occupy habitats as diverse as tropical forests to snow covered mountains, weigh from 0.15lbs to 400lbs, and range in groups from 2 to 250 individuals. In Primate Science: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation, we will use both evolutionary and ecological approaches to study the div ...
On Recent Trends in the Anthropology of Foragers: Kalahari
... was based to a sipficant degree on ethnographic work conducted among Kalahari foragers, although other cases contributed to the synthesis. Now widely recognized in anthropology, the model is based on the premisses that foragers enjoy a high standard of living with relatively little effort and that a ...
... was based to a sipficant degree on ethnographic work conducted among Kalahari foragers, although other cases contributed to the synthesis. Now widely recognized in anthropology, the model is based on the premisses that foragers enjoy a high standard of living with relatively little effort and that a ...
What Is Anthropology? - McGraw
... Figure 1-4 Look carefully at the photos above. What aspects of culture can you see? In what ways are people’s beliefs, behaviours, and attitudes evident? ...
... Figure 1-4 Look carefully at the photos above. What aspects of culture can you see? In what ways are people’s beliefs, behaviours, and attitudes evident? ...
Magic A Theory from the South by Ernesto De Martino
... To be honest, I had never heard of Ernesto de Martino prior to being asked to review Magic: A Theory from the South. I now not only feel that I had been missing out on some genuine intellectual delights, but also that my ignorance was inexcusable, such is the importance of this book in anticipating ...
... To be honest, I had never heard of Ernesto de Martino prior to being asked to review Magic: A Theory from the South. I now not only feel that I had been missing out on some genuine intellectual delights, but also that my ignorance was inexcusable, such is the importance of this book in anticipating ...
THE SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
... Today, applied anthropology is touched by the development of an ethics. It is usefull to underline the effect of post-modernist and interpretative anthropology on that framework. Agneta M. Johansen gives a new voice to ethnography (to hear people) and to the fact to induce grassroots needs and will ...
... Today, applied anthropology is touched by the development of an ethics. It is usefull to underline the effect of post-modernist and interpretative anthropology on that framework. Agneta M. Johansen gives a new voice to ethnography (to hear people) and to the fact to induce grassroots needs and will ...
Draft Material - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... such as axes and machetes, and vaccinating them against deadly diseases. His book Yanomamö: The Fierce People described the Yanomamö as an extremely violent society, where aggression and conflict between men was valued. Chagnon suggested that aggression in males was both culturally and biologically ...
... such as axes and machetes, and vaccinating them against deadly diseases. His book Yanomamö: The Fierce People described the Yanomamö as an extremely violent society, where aggression and conflict between men was valued. Chagnon suggested that aggression in males was both culturally and biologically ...
FULL-TEXT - Manchester eScholar
... If it is possible to rethink the political economy (as the exchange of things) in terms economic psychology (as the exchange of ideas) (620- 625), and thereby invigorate political economy so that it is just as appropriate for old England, New Guinea, or contemporary virtual societyiii, then there a ...
... If it is possible to rethink the political economy (as the exchange of things) in terms economic psychology (as the exchange of ideas) (620- 625), and thereby invigorate political economy so that it is just as appropriate for old England, New Guinea, or contemporary virtual societyiii, then there a ...
Cross-Cultural Research
... powerful than the California School’s. Indeed, Driver’s Indians of NorthAmerica (1961) remains a magnificent example of the utility of this technique for defining patterns of culture. Murdock’s method of ethnology, which McNett (1979, pp. 42-45) called the &dquo;Yale School,&dquo; is completely diff ...
... powerful than the California School’s. Indeed, Driver’s Indians of NorthAmerica (1961) remains a magnificent example of the utility of this technique for defining patterns of culture. Murdock’s method of ethnology, which McNett (1979, pp. 42-45) called the &dquo;Yale School,&dquo; is completely diff ...
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... was limited and which had denied a whole critical range of human phenomena. This anthropology furthermore was tied to a limited set of methodologies, and was profoundly unaware of its own complicity in various kinds of humanly destructive processes. The book produced this awareness by bringing toget ...
... was limited and which had denied a whole critical range of human phenomena. This anthropology furthermore was tied to a limited set of methodologies, and was profoundly unaware of its own complicity in various kinds of humanly destructive processes. The book produced this awareness by bringing toget ...
- LSE Research Online
... methodology and ‘worlded’ sociology from a discipline previously focussed on the small worlds of social life to the larger processes that, in today’s terminology, we might term transnational.3 Thomas was not an urbanist but he established the interest in organisation (and disorganisation), social in ...
... methodology and ‘worlded’ sociology from a discipline previously focussed on the small worlds of social life to the larger processes that, in today’s terminology, we might term transnational.3 Thomas was not an urbanist but he established the interest in organisation (and disorganisation), social in ...
Department of Anthropology and Tribal Development Guru
... Malinowski, culture is total way of life and it includes all the mental, social and physical means which make life run its course. In other words, culture may be defined as a system of derived needs and an organized system of purposeful activities. According to Malinowski, Bidney and Piddington, tw ...
... Malinowski, culture is total way of life and it includes all the mental, social and physical means which make life run its course. In other words, culture may be defined as a system of derived needs and an organized system of purposeful activities. According to Malinowski, Bidney and Piddington, tw ...
The scope of linguistic anthropology - Assets
... assumption that words matter and from the empirical finding that linguistic signs as representations of the world and connections to the world are never neutral; they are constantly used for the construction of cultural affinities and cultural differentiations. The great success of structuralism in li ...
... assumption that words matter and from the empirical finding that linguistic signs as representations of the world and connections to the world are never neutral; they are constantly used for the construction of cultural affinities and cultural differentiations. The great success of structuralism in li ...
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... 75. What is cultural relativism? Ethical relativism? What, if any, is the relationship between the two? How does each relate to the idea of universal human rights? 76. How do cultural anthropologists study culture? What are the roles of ethnography and ethnology in the study of human societies? 77. ...
... 75. What is cultural relativism? Ethical relativism? What, if any, is the relationship between the two? How does each relate to the idea of universal human rights? 76. How do cultural anthropologists study culture? What are the roles of ethnography and ethnology in the study of human societies? 77. ...
Ethnography of Nigeria - National Open University of Nigeria
... ethnographers make comparisons, at least with neighbouring peoples, the distinction between Ethnography and Ethnology is sometimes blurred. In fact, if the distinction is identified at all, it may be compared to that between Geography and Geology. The term Social Anthropology can also be distinguish ...
... ethnographers make comparisons, at least with neighbouring peoples, the distinction between Ethnography and Ethnology is sometimes blurred. In fact, if the distinction is identified at all, it may be compared to that between Geography and Geology. The term Social Anthropology can also be distinguish ...
Thick description in applied contexts
... and rhetorical theory alone. What is problematic about the positivist approach is not so much the quantitative and experimental methods of representation it incorporates, but rather its lack of regard for the fact that all bodies of knowledge are subject to the ‘contingencies of language, rhetoric, ...
... and rhetorical theory alone. What is problematic about the positivist approach is not so much the quantitative and experimental methods of representation it incorporates, but rather its lack of regard for the fact that all bodies of knowledge are subject to the ‘contingencies of language, rhetoric, ...
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... words, I was aware that what caught my attention, what stirred my emotion, and what I chose to report, were an expression of my own cultural code. So, from a socio-psychological perspective, by being the object of study I did not only learn about myself but also about my own society (STRATHERN 1987, ...
... words, I was aware that what caught my attention, what stirred my emotion, and what I chose to report, were an expression of my own cultural code. So, from a socio-psychological perspective, by being the object of study I did not only learn about myself but also about my own society (STRATHERN 1987, ...