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... dealing with the scientific description of individual cultures” Many ethnographers reside in the field a year or more, learning the local language, and participating in everyday life, while maintaining some objective detachment (participant observation). ...
... dealing with the scientific description of individual cultures” Many ethnographers reside in the field a year or more, learning the local language, and participating in everyday life, while maintaining some objective detachment (participant observation). ...
Chapt002 - In the Field
... members of the culture being studied that can provide the ethnographer with some of the most useful or complete information. Life histories are intimate and personal collections of a lifetime of experiences from certain members of the community being studied. ...
... members of the culture being studied that can provide the ethnographer with some of the most useful or complete information. Life histories are intimate and personal collections of a lifetime of experiences from certain members of the community being studied. ...
Cultural evidence in courts of law
... expert evidence which they hope will support the case that their client does indeed have a well-founded fear of persecution. After all, everyone knows that anthropologists are experts on culture ... The mantle of ‘culture expert’ sits uneasily upon the hapless anthropologist’s shoulders, however, fo ...
... expert evidence which they hope will support the case that their client does indeed have a well-founded fear of persecution. After all, everyone knows that anthropologists are experts on culture ... The mantle of ‘culture expert’ sits uneasily upon the hapless anthropologist’s shoulders, however, fo ...
cultural-anthropology-2nd-edition-nancy-bonvillain-test-bank
... 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. ...
Annotation 1 Bucholtz, M. (2002). Youth and Cultural Practice
... terms. While some coming-of-age rituals, like the Mexican American quinceanera (Watters 1988) and the U.S. high school prom (Best 2000), are shaped in part by youth themselves, most rites of passage that have been studied by anthropologists are in the hands of adult members of the community. The rol ...
... terms. While some coming-of-age rituals, like the Mexican American quinceanera (Watters 1988) and the U.S. high school prom (Best 2000), are shaped in part by youth themselves, most rites of passage that have been studied by anthropologists are in the hands of adult members of the community. The rol ...
Slajd 1 - University of Białystok
... 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 ...
The Portfolio - Montgomery College
... assignment is that the student can choose to read an article that concerns one of the four fields of Anthropology; then they have to answer specific questions about it or related to it. Some of the answers are in the article but others are at web sites that are suggested in the assignment or that t ...
... assignment is that the student can choose to read an article that concerns one of the four fields of Anthropology; then they have to answer specific questions about it or related to it. Some of the answers are in the article but others are at web sites that are suggested in the assignment or that t ...
`native informant` anthropologist as kaupapa Māori
... with the hapu. It does not travel away as it does with an ‘outsider’ who leaves the area. I also valued the place and role of the insider as an advocate with specific expertise and professional experience working for the hapu as Foucault’s ‘specific intellectual’ (1977). At the beginning of thesis w ...
... with the hapu. It does not travel away as it does with an ‘outsider’ who leaves the area. I also valued the place and role of the insider as an advocate with specific expertise and professional experience working for the hapu as Foucault’s ‘specific intellectual’ (1977). At the beginning of thesis w ...
Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in
... Anthropologists bring a holistic approach to understanding and explaining. To say anthropology is holistic means that it combines the study of human biology, history, and the learned and shared patterns of human behaviour and thought we call culture in order to analyze human groups. Holism separates ...
... Anthropologists bring a holistic approach to understanding and explaining. To say anthropology is holistic means that it combines the study of human biology, history, and the learned and shared patterns of human behaviour and thought we call culture in order to analyze human groups. Holism separates ...
Mariangela Veikou University of Peloponnese, Greece Images of
... particular visions of social differences to do with ...
... particular visions of social differences to do with ...
Fall Semester, 2004
... approaches, theories and methods of both anthropology and sociology. The course revolves around key topic areas that are shared by both disciplines. In the process, students should begin to gain a deeper and broader perspective on the social world we inhabit and the cultures we shape and which shape ...
... approaches, theories and methods of both anthropology and sociology. The course revolves around key topic areas that are shared by both disciplines. In the process, students should begin to gain a deeper and broader perspective on the social world we inhabit and the cultures we shape and which shape ...
the Role of Anthropology in Development
... carry preconceptions and biases. With this in mind, I must admit to being rather shocked by Nolan’s assertion that anthropologists carry ‘few preconceptions’ about the subjects of their research (2002). I find this remark at best highly optimistic, and would be more inclined to agree with Escobar: “ ...
... carry preconceptions and biases. With this in mind, I must admit to being rather shocked by Nolan’s assertion that anthropologists carry ‘few preconceptions’ about the subjects of their research (2002). I find this remark at best highly optimistic, and would be more inclined to agree with Escobar: “ ...
Submitted by (Name, affiliation, E-Mail)
... At the network meeting in Ljubljana 2008 we agreed that it would be helpful to know where Visual Anthropology is taught. The information should be available at the Website of VANEASA. The information should be very general. Actual information should be found at the respective homepages itself. For b ...
... At the network meeting in Ljubljana 2008 we agreed that it would be helpful to know where Visual Anthropology is taught. The information should be available at the Website of VANEASA. The information should be very general. Actual information should be found at the respective homepages itself. For b ...
Preface to the 2000 Frazer Lecture, “Time and difference in the
... setting—to something inward, or more to do with the analyst’s perspective than the features of the object under analysis, they pull back from challenging its most problematic feature: its presentist or atemporal character. For in every context, there is what reaches out of the context, into the past ...
... setting—to something inward, or more to do with the analyst’s perspective than the features of the object under analysis, they pull back from challenging its most problematic feature: its presentist or atemporal character. For in every context, there is what reaches out of the context, into the past ...
Anthropology in the middle - Anthropology Emory
... As debates grind down with age, however, they are easily reinvented in new guises even as – or more often because – they are forgotten. Amid great differences, to speak telescopically, resonances emerge among perspectives that emphasize the relative, subjective, and defamiliarizing moment of cultura ...
... As debates grind down with age, however, they are easily reinvented in new guises even as – or more often because – they are forgotten. Amid great differences, to speak telescopically, resonances emerge among perspectives that emphasize the relative, subjective, and defamiliarizing moment of cultura ...
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Volume 20 issue 2
... the three-pronged approach he proposes, forms of knowledge on which ‘nature impinges in a much more determinate way’ (: ) may require a type of analysis that does not focus so single-mindedly on the interplay between erratic innovation and the disciplined cultivation of sacred knowledge. Issue ...
... the three-pronged approach he proposes, forms of knowledge on which ‘nature impinges in a much more determinate way’ (: ) may require a type of analysis that does not focus so single-mindedly on the interplay between erratic innovation and the disciplined cultivation of sacred knowledge. Issue ...
Environment / Community / Ritual / Ethics
... struggle in the global arena.3 IB. Two ethical dilemmas Two significant ethical issues are raised by ethnographers (both anthropological and religio-historical) who study environmental movements, including those that deploy religious rituals. These issues have to do with two very different possibili ...
... struggle in the global arena.3 IB. Two ethical dilemmas Two significant ethical issues are raised by ethnographers (both anthropological and religio-historical) who study environmental movements, including those that deploy religious rituals. These issues have to do with two very different possibili ...
The Harmless Drudge Defining Ethnomusicology Bruno Nettl
... the others, espousing an anthropological approach, considered their opposite numbers to be naive, unable even to understand the musical artifact because they could not approach it as a product of culture, and unwilling to deal with musical concepts, attitudes, or forms of behavior other than the pie ...
... the others, espousing an anthropological approach, considered their opposite numbers to be naive, unable even to understand the musical artifact because they could not approach it as a product of culture, and unwilling to deal with musical concepts, attitudes, or forms of behavior other than the pie ...
2004 document - Farmington High School
... vi) Interviews and theory construction a) Interviews, along with participant observation, are often used to develop theories. b) The term “grounded theory” is used to describe this inductive process of theory construction. c) Researchers who use grounded theory collect and analyze data simultaneousl ...
... vi) Interviews and theory construction a) Interviews, along with participant observation, are often used to develop theories. b) The term “grounded theory” is used to describe this inductive process of theory construction. c) Researchers who use grounded theory collect and analyze data simultaneousl ...
The sources of this essay are a bias
... between synchrony and diachrony, paradigm and syntagm, myth and history, culture and praxis, and structure and process has been a mainstay of theoretical debate, the basic arguments regarding the much sought-after reconciliation have been in place since Durkheim and Mauss's essays on symbolic classi ...
... between synchrony and diachrony, paradigm and syntagm, myth and history, culture and praxis, and structure and process has been a mainstay of theoretical debate, the basic arguments regarding the much sought-after reconciliation have been in place since Durkheim and Mauss's essays on symbolic classi ...
Submitted by (Name, affiliation, E-Mail)
... Visual Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists 2015 Questionnaire on Teaching Visual Anthropology in Europe 2009 we collected information about where visual anthropology is taught in Europe. The result you can find here: http://www.easaonline.org/networks/vaneasa/t ...
... Visual Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists 2015 Questionnaire on Teaching Visual Anthropology in Europe 2009 we collected information about where visual anthropology is taught in Europe. The result you can find here: http://www.easaonline.org/networks/vaneasa/t ...
Courses • Accounting / Aerospace / Anthropology
... language and all other forms of human communication within the context of culture and society, human thought and behavior. Special attention is paid to the relationship between culture and language, the social uses of language, language as a model for interpreting culture, language and all other for ...
... language and all other forms of human communication within the context of culture and society, human thought and behavior. Special attention is paid to the relationship between culture and language, the social uses of language, language as a model for interpreting culture, language and all other for ...
Introduction to Anthropology
... We also look at what we think is special and distinctive about anthropology in general, and about each of its subfields in particular. The goal of this course is to promote active learning and critical thinking that will help students appreciate that they, along with other peoples of the world, are ...
... We also look at what we think is special and distinctive about anthropology in general, and about each of its subfields in particular. The goal of this course is to promote active learning and critical thinking that will help students appreciate that they, along with other peoples of the world, are ...
Cultural aspects of Traditional Sports and Games
... of sport. It encourages the researcher and student to consider the meanings, symbols, rituals and power relations at play within any particular cultural setting” (Jarvie, 2006, p. 5). Traditional sports and games as a specific part of the global sport system may engender the notion of old, exotic an ...
... of sport. It encourages the researcher and student to consider the meanings, symbols, rituals and power relations at play within any particular cultural setting” (Jarvie, 2006, p. 5). Traditional sports and games as a specific part of the global sport system may engender the notion of old, exotic an ...
anthropology policy
... and what pulls it apart? These are questions many ask as the Europe of old has been transformed by expanding borders and the influx of immigrants from other continents. This course will focus on issues of pressing interest to Europeans and to those American students who would like to understand just ...
... and what pulls it apart? These are questions many ask as the Europe of old has been transformed by expanding borders and the influx of immigrants from other continents. This course will focus on issues of pressing interest to Europeans and to those American students who would like to understand just ...