Frontier Encounters. Knowledge and Practice at the Russian
... 2. The Editor’s Comments This collective volume is the outcome of a project based at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (University of Cambridge). That project formed the foundation for a new and ongoing research project “The life of borders: where China and Russia meet” which commenced in Oct ...
... 2. The Editor’s Comments This collective volume is the outcome of a project based at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (University of Cambridge). That project formed the foundation for a new and ongoing research project “The life of borders: where China and Russia meet” which commenced in Oct ...
Chapter 1 - Cengage Learning
... Facts from which conclusions can be drawn; scientific information. Quantitatively In a manner involving measurements of quantity and including such properties as size, number, and capacity. ...
... Facts from which conclusions can be drawn; scientific information. Quantitatively In a manner involving measurements of quantity and including such properties as size, number, and capacity. ...
An excerpt from
... culture to build your theories of poverty? Can’t you see that our children go hungry? Do you want to study folk beliefs about water- witching? What about the new nuclear power plant that contaminates our drinking water with radioactive wastes? Do you want to study kinship terms to build ever more es ...
... culture to build your theories of poverty? Can’t you see that our children go hungry? Do you want to study folk beliefs about water- witching? What about the new nuclear power plant that contaminates our drinking water with radioactive wastes? Do you want to study kinship terms to build ever more es ...
Ronald Frankenberg
... Zadie Smith: “White Teeth”, a great book written by a woman who has lived in many cultures. Diaspora literature, exile writers are often great anthropologists Maric Glasby of Swansea was at Brunel. There was hostility towards anthropology in many ways: GIDDINES, see his lecture papers on sociology, ...
... Zadie Smith: “White Teeth”, a great book written by a woman who has lived in many cultures. Diaspora literature, exile writers are often great anthropologists Maric Glasby of Swansea was at Brunel. There was hostility towards anthropology in many ways: GIDDINES, see his lecture papers on sociology, ...
A Proposal for an Anthropology Major to be Offered by the
... To promote a deep and lasting appreciation of a range of social issues, examined through a historical and cross-cultural perspective, in order to prepare students to be more informed participants in contemporary society. To present the main intellectual trends and theoretical developments in ant ...
... To promote a deep and lasting appreciation of a range of social issues, examined through a historical and cross-cultural perspective, in order to prepare students to be more informed participants in contemporary society. To present the main intellectual trends and theoretical developments in ant ...
Chapter 9
... • The focus of R-B’s structural functionalism was to be a society’s social structure. This consisted of corporate groups, or entities which persist beyond the life of any one member; examples might be lineages, voluntary associations, tribes, etc. Secondly, social structure comprises the rules gover ...
... • The focus of R-B’s structural functionalism was to be a society’s social structure. This consisted of corporate groups, or entities which persist beyond the life of any one member; examples might be lineages, voluntary associations, tribes, etc. Secondly, social structure comprises the rules gover ...
Course Objectives
... Discuss the scientific world view and why it is often seen as in conflict with other world views, especially those that are religion-based. Explain the importance of cultural relativism in anthropology. Assess the significance of culture change in terms of both temporal and geographical dimensions. ...
... Discuss the scientific world view and why it is often seen as in conflict with other world views, especially those that are religion-based. Explain the importance of cultural relativism in anthropology. Assess the significance of culture change in terms of both temporal and geographical dimensions. ...
Chilam Balam Ah P`izté` Project in Memory and History
... accumulation of knowledge while erroneously using the language of methods and experimentation to signal the misguided fieldwork being conceptualized. From the perspective of “soft” humanist sciences, this construction of fieldwork is inhumanely and inhumanly objectifying — signalled by the scientifi ...
... accumulation of knowledge while erroneously using the language of methods and experimentation to signal the misguided fieldwork being conceptualized. From the perspective of “soft” humanist sciences, this construction of fieldwork is inhumanely and inhumanly objectifying — signalled by the scientifi ...
Kein Folientitel - University of Oxford
... • One should compare societies that are culturally and ethnically related and uncover the general characteristics • understand peculiarities by comparison with better-known examples (Kuper 1996:51) • Ultimate goal: to formulate generalisations about common features in all human societies. These gene ...
... • One should compare societies that are culturally and ethnically related and uncover the general characteristics • understand peculiarities by comparison with better-known examples (Kuper 1996:51) • Ultimate goal: to formulate generalisations about common features in all human societies. These gene ...
Emic, Etic, huh? Emic and Etic perspectives What is ethnog
... of her books, papers, pencils, and sat alone next to the vending machine in the east corner of the cafeteria. After three minutes of eating in silence, the entire cup of yogurt was gone, and Jill took a long sigh, closed her eyes, licked her lips and said “MMMMM” before she threw the cup in the recy ...
... of her books, papers, pencils, and sat alone next to the vending machine in the east corner of the cafeteria. After three minutes of eating in silence, the entire cup of yogurt was gone, and Jill took a long sigh, closed her eyes, licked her lips and said “MMMMM” before she threw the cup in the recy ...
02 Cultural Anthropology
... Presence in Community • How will you make an introduction to the group? • Can you speak the language? • How will you establish rapport with individuals within the society? ...
... Presence in Community • How will you make an introduction to the group? • Can you speak the language? • How will you establish rapport with individuals within the society? ...
Participant Observation in Fieldwork
... into music festival culture as similar to Powdermaker's (1966) experience. Her first attempt at participant observation offered challenges similar to mine. Powdermaker entered fieldwork experience in Lesu without much prior knowledge of the people she would be studying due to her destination changin ...
... into music festival culture as similar to Powdermaker's (1966) experience. Her first attempt at participant observation offered challenges similar to mine. Powdermaker entered fieldwork experience in Lesu without much prior knowledge of the people she would be studying due to her destination changin ...
"ethnographic film"?
... Focus: to understand behaviour in context through an appreciation of what is meaningful within that context. Geertz: ‘Thick description’ ...
... Focus: to understand behaviour in context through an appreciation of what is meaningful within that context. Geertz: ‘Thick description’ ...
Thin Description Review_Ryan Jobson
... the book aside in disgust. “But where is the ethnography,” he would beckon, “can’t Jackson simply get to the point?” Yet, this confusion bordering on anger is precisely what I believe Jackson hopes to evoke by approaching the African Hebrew Israelites not as an obscure community of zealouts, but as ...
... the book aside in disgust. “But where is the ethnography,” he would beckon, “can’t Jackson simply get to the point?” Yet, this confusion bordering on anger is precisely what I believe Jackson hopes to evoke by approaching the African Hebrew Israelites not as an obscure community of zealouts, but as ...
Multiple-choice
... C. These studies require the existence of few ethnographies. D. The findings from these studies can almost never be applied to other societies. E. They can only be used to test information from societies that have never been previously studied. ...
... C. These studies require the existence of few ethnographies. D. The findings from these studies can almost never be applied to other societies. E. They can only be used to test information from societies that have never been previously studied. ...
Page 41
... subdiscipline known as descriptive anthropology—in its broadest sense, the science devoted to describing ways of life of humankind. Ethnography, then, refers to a social scientific description of a people and the cultural basis of their peoplehood (Peacock, 1986). Both descriptive anthropology and e ...
... subdiscipline known as descriptive anthropology—in its broadest sense, the science devoted to describing ways of life of humankind. Ethnography, then, refers to a social scientific description of a people and the cultural basis of their peoplehood (Peacock, 1986). Both descriptive anthropology and e ...
intro to anthro
... were used to reveal their sex in a country where daughters are a liability…. And the more education a woman has, the less likely she is to give birth to a girl. ...
... were used to reveal their sex in a country where daughters are a liability…. And the more education a woman has, the less likely she is to give birth to a girl. ...
Back to the Roots - Fabian Segelström
... A related factor that has influenced anthropological practice is the chosen focus of the study. To tone down processes of change was explicit in Malinowski’s early theoretical outlook [14], and this was carried over into the standards he set for fieldwork. Paradoxically, to immerse oneself in one pa ...
... A related factor that has influenced anthropological practice is the chosen focus of the study. To tone down processes of change was explicit in Malinowski’s early theoretical outlook [14], and this was carried over into the standards he set for fieldwork. Paradoxically, to immerse oneself in one pa ...
Anth - UCSB Anthropology
... study and written description of a particular contemporary culture by means of fieldwork ...
... study and written description of a particular contemporary culture by means of fieldwork ...
The Rashomon Effect: When Ethnographers Disagree
... of falsehood. Ethnographies can contain information that is wrong, whether through deliberate falsification or otherwise. Although Raoul Naroll and other hologeistic anthropologists working with the Human Relations Area Files have not been primarily concerned with ethnographic disagreement, they do ...
... of falsehood. Ethnographies can contain information that is wrong, whether through deliberate falsification or otherwise. Although Raoul Naroll and other hologeistic anthropologists working with the Human Relations Area Files have not been primarily concerned with ethnographic disagreement, they do ...
Anthropology PPT
... Prehistory and early history of cultures around the world; major trends in cultural evolution; and techniques for finding, excavating, dating, and analyzing material remains of past societies. 4. Linguistic Anthropology: The human communication process focusing on the importance of socio-cultura ...
... Prehistory and early history of cultures around the world; major trends in cultural evolution; and techniques for finding, excavating, dating, and analyzing material remains of past societies. 4. Linguistic Anthropology: The human communication process focusing on the importance of socio-cultura ...
What Makes School Ethnography `Ethnographic`?
... 5 Ethnology contrasts with ethnography, and the two are interdependent in the researcher’s conduct of inquiry. “Ethnology” literally means the study of the meaning, or significance, of a human group’s organization and customs. The “meaning” to be elucidated by ethnology is not the meaning of a behav ...
... 5 Ethnology contrasts with ethnography, and the two are interdependent in the researcher’s conduct of inquiry. “Ethnology” literally means the study of the meaning, or significance, of a human group’s organization and customs. The “meaning” to be elucidated by ethnology is not the meaning of a behav ...
Robert J. Morais
... Victor Turner. “Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage” in The Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society, Symposium on New Approaches to the Study of Religion, pp. 4-20, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. ...
... Victor Turner. “Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage” in The Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society, Symposium on New Approaches to the Study of Religion, pp. 4-20, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. ...
Our Work is Guided by the Following
... ethnographic techniques and social sciences theory to industrial, software, and other types of product design” • Discussion on “remote methods” ...
... ethnographic techniques and social sciences theory to industrial, software, and other types of product design” • Discussion on “remote methods” ...
notes - ANT 152
... to test a hypothesis; preferred by cultural materialists – Emic: Seeks to understand what insiders say and understand about their culture, their categories of thinking; “inductive”; not hypothesis-driven; preferred by ...
... to test a hypothesis; preferred by cultural materialists – Emic: Seeks to understand what insiders say and understand about their culture, their categories of thinking; “inductive”; not hypothesis-driven; preferred by ...