Claude Lévi
... He returned to France in 1939 to take part in the war effort, but after French capitulation to the Germans, Lévi-Strauss, a Jew, fled Paris. While there, Lévi-Strauss was offered a position in New York and granted admission to the United States, but still had to find a way to flee the increasingly p ...
... He returned to France in 1939 to take part in the war effort, but after French capitulation to the Germans, Lévi-Strauss, a Jew, fled Paris. While there, Lévi-Strauss was offered a position in New York and granted admission to the United States, but still had to find a way to flee the increasingly p ...
Not Knowing about Defecation
... These two studies are, however, exceptions. Overall, defecation is practically absent as a focal point of ethnographic interest in anthropological work. My first reaction to this is amazement: why did-and do-anthropologists hardly study defecation? One can think of many reasons why they should be in ...
... These two studies are, however, exceptions. Overall, defecation is practically absent as a focal point of ethnographic interest in anthropological work. My first reaction to this is amazement: why did-and do-anthropologists hardly study defecation? One can think of many reasons why they should be in ...
Sample Chapter 1
... become increasingly important. In this process, humans have devised diverse ways of coping with the range of environments they have occupied in time and space. The rate of cultural adaptation and change The Sherpas of Nepal, one of whom is shown here (on the right) with a female trekker, have adapte ...
... become increasingly important. In this process, humans have devised diverse ways of coping with the range of environments they have occupied in time and space. The rate of cultural adaptation and change The Sherpas of Nepal, one of whom is shown here (on the right) with a female trekker, have adapte ...
368 Courses • Aerospace / Anthropology
... discrimination and modern forms of racism. Other topics include assimilation, pluralism, contact hypothesis, antiracism, immigration, segregation and racial identity. Required for all ethnic studies minors. (Same as SOCI 2070.) 2100. World Cultures Through Film. 3 hours. Through the use of ethnograp ...
... discrimination and modern forms of racism. Other topics include assimilation, pluralism, contact hypothesis, antiracism, immigration, segregation and racial identity. Required for all ethnic studies minors. (Same as SOCI 2070.) 2100. World Cultures Through Film. 3 hours. Through the use of ethnograp ...
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... US. As it turns out, the reader learns more about American society, programs and policy-making, than about the applicability and usefulness of doing evaluation anthropology to assess government and civil programs anywhere. The strong focus on US evaluation anthropology alone leaves the reader wantin ...
... US. As it turns out, the reader learns more about American society, programs and policy-making, than about the applicability and usefulness of doing evaluation anthropology to assess government and civil programs anywhere. The strong focus on US evaluation anthropology alone leaves the reader wantin ...
WHOSE SIDE ARE WE ON? Theory, Practice
... others’ rules and realities, but to trust the force of our own understanding, and do the hard thinking required in the art of inquiry. To do ethnographic research in a prison, you need time, the equivalent of a mud hut (e.g. a portacabin, in one recent experience), paper and a pencil. You might intr ...
... others’ rules and realities, but to trust the force of our own understanding, and do the hard thinking required in the art of inquiry. To do ethnographic research in a prison, you need time, the equivalent of a mud hut (e.g. a portacabin, in one recent experience), paper and a pencil. You might intr ...
David Vine Associate Professor Department of Anthropology
... discouraging work of a public nature while privileging insular work primarily of interest to other anthropologists. While many connected to the GC program have demonstrated the fallacy of such binaries, I would like us to consider whether the Department has, in some ways, also perpetuated these bina ...
... discouraging work of a public nature while privileging insular work primarily of interest to other anthropologists. While many connected to the GC program have demonstrated the fallacy of such binaries, I would like us to consider whether the Department has, in some ways, also perpetuated these bina ...
What is Anthropology
... Anthropology at UTEP has two focuses. Archaeologists study the human past by excavating, documenting objects, surveying physical remains, and collaborating with communities to preserve their cultural heritage. An archaeologist might uncover a stone knife and carved bones, and so discover the tools p ...
... Anthropology at UTEP has two focuses. Archaeologists study the human past by excavating, documenting objects, surveying physical remains, and collaborating with communities to preserve their cultural heritage. An archaeologist might uncover a stone knife and carved bones, and so discover the tools p ...
Culture Shock and Multiculturalism
... vaguely accepting these ideas, are employing it to make money and others are neglecting it for reasons also underpinned by implicit religiosity. The plight of culture shock reflects the plight of anthropology, the discipline which gave birth to it, and the dominance, in that discipline, of various f ...
... vaguely accepting these ideas, are employing it to make money and others are neglecting it for reasons also underpinned by implicit religiosity. The plight of culture shock reflects the plight of anthropology, the discipline which gave birth to it, and the dominance, in that discipline, of various f ...
Understanding the Present and the Past: Perspectives on
... studied in anthropology is the social structure provided by kinship, these were self proclaimed social anthropologists. For others, the crucial factor is culture, which ranges between the material objects that people make and use, to their sets of beliefs and views of the world. Today, it is almost ...
... studied in anthropology is the social structure provided by kinship, these were self proclaimed social anthropologists. For others, the crucial factor is culture, which ranges between the material objects that people make and use, to their sets of beliefs and views of the world. Today, it is almost ...
Third Edition
... environmental forces and stresses – Human adaptation: interaction between culture and biology to satisfy individual goals – Four types of human adaptation ...
... environmental forces and stresses – Human adaptation: interaction between culture and biology to satisfy individual goals – Four types of human adaptation ...
ANTHROPOLOGY COURSES FOR FALL 2017
... Otarola-Castillo This course provides an introduction to statistical methods used within the 4-fields of Anthropology. The course motivates statistics through data analysis and visualization. It is designed for students focusing in anthropological disciplines and also useful to students of all inter ...
... Otarola-Castillo This course provides an introduction to statistical methods used within the 4-fields of Anthropology. The course motivates statistics through data analysis and visualization. It is designed for students focusing in anthropological disciplines and also useful to students of all inter ...
Attachment A - Proposal Anthropology Minor
... the historical and contemporary thought and practice that has produced today’s cultural anthropology. The various theories look at fundamental questions about human diversity, and introduce research methods designed to gain insight into the collective thoughts, behaviors, and material productions th ...
... the historical and contemporary thought and practice that has produced today’s cultural anthropology. The various theories look at fundamental questions about human diversity, and introduce research methods designed to gain insight into the collective thoughts, behaviors, and material productions th ...
Bonvillain chapter 1
... The juxtaposition of the Cinderella story and the Zuni narrative of “The Girl Who Took Care of the Turkeys” is a small example of anthropology’s comparative perspective at work. Comparing the two stories opens a window onto the contrasting values of Zuni and European cultures and increases our under ...
... The juxtaposition of the Cinderella story and the Zuni narrative of “The Girl Who Took Care of the Turkeys” is a small example of anthropology’s comparative perspective at work. Comparing the two stories opens a window onto the contrasting values of Zuni and European cultures and increases our under ...
Collaboration Occurred in the Past, and there is no professional bar
... conservatives in the AAA that its members assist allied efforts against Iraq provoked only minor opposition. Today most anthropologists are still loath to acknowledge, much less study, known connections between anthropology and the intelligence community. As with any controversial topic, it is not t ...
... conservatives in the AAA that its members assist allied efforts against Iraq provoked only minor opposition. Today most anthropologists are still loath to acknowledge, much less study, known connections between anthropology and the intelligence community. As with any controversial topic, it is not t ...
Anth 3707.10: Anthropology of the Middle East Fall 2015 Tu/Th 2:20
... can miss up to three sessions without penalty. If you are facing a situation that will cause you to miss more than three sessions over the semester, please arrange a meeting with me to discuss it. Participation: In order to foster critical learning on this topic, we will have small group exercises, ...
... can miss up to three sessions without penalty. If you are facing a situation that will cause you to miss more than three sessions over the semester, please arrange a meeting with me to discuss it. Participation: In order to foster critical learning on this topic, we will have small group exercises, ...
UNCHOSEN GROUNDS: Cultivating Cross-Subfield Accents for a Public Voice (Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle, eds. Segal and Yanagisako 2005)
... not belong to sociocultural anthropology alone but informs all four subfields one way or another. Although it is a tacit condition of much anthropological work, comparativism becomes evident, at the least, as a means by which anthropology is understood to make a complementary contribution relative t ...
... not belong to sociocultural anthropology alone but informs all four subfields one way or another. Although it is a tacit condition of much anthropological work, comparativism becomes evident, at the least, as a means by which anthropology is understood to make a complementary contribution relative t ...
Anthropology Career and Graduate School handout
... other cultures from their own internal perspective, anthropologists learn the importance of events and conditions that cause people to do things differently social agility, cultural competence, anthropologists know that they don’t know – and how to find out; anthropologists learn how to find pattern ...
... other cultures from their own internal perspective, anthropologists learn the importance of events and conditions that cause people to do things differently social agility, cultural competence, anthropologists know that they don’t know – and how to find out; anthropologists learn how to find pattern ...
New perspectives on organism-environment interactions in
... have found that political ecology cannot fully account for the remarkable ways people everywhere now mediate connections to contemporary environments, mixing and matching cultural objects and practices inherited from the past with cultural objects and practices imported from elsewhere. Part 2 showca ...
... have found that political ecology cannot fully account for the remarkable ways people everywhere now mediate connections to contemporary environments, mixing and matching cultural objects and practices inherited from the past with cultural objects and practices imported from elsewhere. Part 2 showca ...
Where did anthropology go?: or the need for `human nature`
... putting the matter at its most abstract, one can say that what the difusionists demonstrated is that the general characteristics of human beings, as such, cannot specify the unfolding of human history. This is a massive blow against the original ambition of a science which was going to explain what ...
... putting the matter at its most abstract, one can say that what the difusionists demonstrated is that the general characteristics of human beings, as such, cannot specify the unfolding of human history. This is a massive blow against the original ambition of a science which was going to explain what ...
alfred irving hallowell - National Academy of Sciences
... also for science as a whole. The early physicist Boas, trained in psychophysics to study how the observer's characteristics determine his perception of experimental phenomena, had generalized this Kantian view of epistemology to include a concern with the way in which the "genius of a people" determ ...
... also for science as a whole. The early physicist Boas, trained in psychophysics to study how the observer's characteristics determine his perception of experimental phenomena, had generalized this Kantian view of epistemology to include a concern with the way in which the "genius of a people" determ ...
FIELDWORK PROJECT METHODOLOGY
... kim.strozewski@gmail.com. We will then discuss these on March 30 prior to our field visit. Ethnography and ethnographic fieldwork are the basis of cultural anthropology. Ethnography is a written account produced with the specific goal of describing peoples and cultures to others. Ethnographic fieldw ...
... kim.strozewski@gmail.com. We will then discuss these on March 30 prior to our field visit. Ethnography and ethnographic fieldwork are the basis of cultural anthropology. Ethnography is a written account produced with the specific goal of describing peoples and cultures to others. Ethnographic fieldw ...
ANTHROPOLOGY Spring 2017
... overview of the region, followed by discussions of migration patterns and the formation of nation-states. The course will focus on specific topics such as colonialism, gender, and tourism. ...
... overview of the region, followed by discussions of migration patterns and the formation of nation-states. The course will focus on specific topics such as colonialism, gender, and tourism. ...
Three modes of experimentation with art and
... Despite radical reflexive moves (including rejection of traditional participant observation),7 and acknowledging the constructedness of ethnographic fields as historically and spatially contingent sites, fieldwork – as a method – still retains its defining position at the centre of contemporary soci ...
... Despite radical reflexive moves (including rejection of traditional participant observation),7 and acknowledging the constructedness of ethnographic fields as historically and spatially contingent sites, fieldwork – as a method – still retains its defining position at the centre of contemporary soci ...
This material is Copyright 1995 by Brett Dellinger
... economically" to go against their "best interests...." Therefore, in contrast with many Marxist or other critics who interpret the role of the media in modern societies deterministically, Van Dijk does not suggest that ideologies are "essentially 'false' forms of consciousness, as in the case of man ...
... economically" to go against their "best interests...." Therefore, in contrast with many Marxist or other critics who interpret the role of the media in modern societies deterministically, Van Dijk does not suggest that ideologies are "essentially 'false' forms of consciousness, as in the case of man ...