• 2014. "The Anthropology of Money and Finance: Between Ethnography and World History. (unibo.it)
  • In particular, we discuss the inspiration for her forthcoming collaborative graphic ethnography on weather insurance and the challenges and possibilities of building a more accessible and engaged economic anthropology through the medium of comics. (google.com)
  • Family Kinship and descent Marriage Cultural anthropology Anthropology List of anthropologists Schwimmer, Brian. (wikipedia.org)
  • Descent, marital residence, and kinship structure will be related to the degree of leniency in child socialization (873). (yale.edu)
  • She is the author of Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits (NIAS Press, 2021). (berghahnbooks.com)
  • The aim is to show how kinship is not only influenced by the state but also shapes political structures. (cefres.cz)
  • Piketty, however, misses the opportunity to show how kinship, economy, and moral values work in tandem to produce persistent social and economic inequality. (mpg.de)
  • She has conducted long-term fieldwork in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea, and research on cultural diversity in German-speaking Europe. (unilu.ch)
  • Sylvia J. Yanagisako is Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. (mpg.de)
  • Bio Miray Cakiroglu is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University. (stanford.edu)
  • Renowned anthropologist's first lecture earns applause and praise" begins the Vancouver Sun's coverage of a recent appointment to UBC's department of anthropology. (ubc.ca)
  • Topics include diverse political and economic systems, kinship patterns, religion, forms of ethnic and gender identity, health and medicine, development and migration. (stfx.ca)
  • In 1934, Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture emerged as an elegant and exotic explication of cultural difference. (cabinetmagazine.org)
  • Indeed, Patterns of Culture is probably the most famous work of American anthropology, the one which both your grandmother and your nephew might have heard of, and might even have read. (cabinetmagazine.org)
  • And here comes Benedict again: not only is Patterns of Culture arguably the most famous work in American anthropology, her later The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (note the subtitle! (cabinetmagazine.org)
  • Two distinctive fields are Biological Anthropology, which studies man as an organism and his physical evolution, and Social and Cultural Anthropology, the comparative study of cultural variation through the myths, ritual, kinship patterns, political and economic systems in particular societies or social groups. (researchomatic.com)
  • In this study, we examine the long-term trajectory of violence in societies that inhabited the coast of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile using three lines of evidence: bioarchaeology, geoarchaeology and socio-cultural contexts (rock art, weapons, and settlement patterns). (bvsalud.org)
  • She is the author of Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India (NYU Press, 2016). (brown.edu)
  • In addition to gender and generation, Iroquois kinship also distinguishes 'same-sex' and 'cross-sex' parental siblings: the brothers of Ego's (the subject from whose perspective the kinship is based) father, and the sisters of Ego's mother, are referred to by the same parental kinship terms used for Ego's Father and Mother. (wikipedia.org)
  • This leads us to sessions exploring different notions of ownership and property, and gender, kinship and economy. (unibo.it)
  • Her research focuses on the cultural processes that have shaped relations between kinship, gender, capitalism, and work in Italy and the United States. (mpg.de)
  • Dr. Schuster's research interests include value, credit and debt, development policy and NGOs, finance and climate change, gender and kinship with a regional focus on Latin America. (google.com)
  • Her research is within Nordic intersectional and interdisciplinary queer and gender studies with special focus on critical whiteness studies, assisted reproduction technologies, queer kinship, affect, feminist theory. (lu.se)
  • In other words, the state's mental health governance has its kinship correlates (Ma 2020). (somatosphere.com)
  • This module introduces students to the empirical backbone of social and cultural anthropology: the practice of ethnographic fieldwork. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • Social anthropology benefits very functional, empirical procedures to investigate some quite philosophical-looking troubles about the nature of human life in society. (researchomatic.com)
  • Such collaboration between theoretical and empirical approaches will unveil universal features in anthropology. (datadryad.org)
  • An examination of global health and illness from an anthropological perspective, this course applies key anthropological concepts to topics such as the meaning of health and illness cross-culturally, cultural construction of the body, medical pluralism, cross-cultural psychiatry, critical medical anthropology and the health of Indigenous peoples in Canada and other parts of the world. (stfx.ca)
  • Students will also discover the excitement and dilemmas of designing and carrying out fieldwork by venturing off campus to practice doing interviews, conducting participant-observation research, and honing techniques of cross-cultural communication. (mit.edu)
  • She has carried out fieldwork in Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and eastern Germany on questions of property reform, care, kinship and the state. (cefres.cz)
  • Andrew's primary research is based in South India, where he co-directs fieldwork investigating the relationships between landscape history, cultural practices, and institutionalized forms of social inequalities and difference during the region's Neolithic, Iron Age, Early Historic, and Medieval periods. (stanford.edu)
  • Recently, she co-edited Reconnecting State and Kinship (University of Pennsylvania Press 2018) and Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State (Berghahn 2017). (cefres.cz)
  • The significance of foundational concepts for an understanding of current anthropology and key stages in its development is also a focus of the course. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The epistemic foundations and significance of boundary work between kinship and state formations increasingly form the focus of her research. (cefres.cz)
  • The Cultural Significance of Pop. (roger-scruton.com)
  • This course provides an introduction to cultural anthropology: in particular, the concept of culture and how it interpenetrates various domains of organization and activitiy - such as adaptation, subsistence, economy, politics, and kinship - in a wide variety of societies and groups. (uiu.edu)
  • What is the role of FESA practice in the preservation of tangible cultural heritage? (therai.org.uk)
  • Kinship norms (centripetal vs centrifugal) will be associated with form of inheritance (880). (yale.edu)
  • In the annual Goody Lecture at the MPI for Social Anthropology, Prof. Sylvia J. Yanagisako of Stanford University will consider how inheritance and kinship relations contribute to this concentration of capital. (mpg.de)
  • Yanagisako will look more closely at this connection through an examination of how inheritance in the United States and Italy is a culturally and legally structured process by which kinship relations reproduce the accumulation of wealth and perpetuate social inequality. (mpg.de)
  • In many societies with Iroquois kinship terminologies, the preferred marriage partners include not only first cousins (mother's brother's children and father's sister's children), but more remote relatives who are also classified as cross-cousins by the logic of the kinship system. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cultural anthropology began by focusing first on those societies that were deemed " primitive ," in an attempt to understand how human society developed. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Introduction to social-cultural anthropology, concentrating on the exploration of the infinite variety of human endeavors in all aspects of culture and all types of societies: religion, politics, law, kinship, and art. (plu.edu)
  • It uses a cross-cultural approach, with examples from literate and non-literate societies of the world. (ccp.edu)
  • This course explores the rich cultural diversity of human societies around the globe through an ethnographic lens. (stfx.ca)
  • The lecture by Prof. Sylvia J. Yanagisako builds on the work of British anthropologist Jack Goody (1919-2015), who studied the importance of kinship and property relations in pre-industrial societies. (mpg.de)
  • The second examines the idea that anthropologists and anthropology must invert the gaze and stop using Indigenous peoples as data and our societies as laboratories. (ubc.ca)
  • How many undergraduates still remember the grand distinction between Dionysian and Apollonian cultures (epitomized, for Benedict, by Kwakiutl Indian vs. Pueblo Indian societies) long after they have forgotten any of the other details purveyed in Anthropology 101? (cabinetmagazine.org)
  • In clan societies, people are categorised into several cultural groups, so-called clans, within which they believe to share common ancestors. (datadryad.org)
  • The societies themselves comprise multiple evolving families with parameters for cultural traits and mate preferences. (datadryad.org)
  • ISBN 0-534-27479-X The Nature of Kinship Schwimmer: Kinship and Social Organization: An Interactive Tutorial: Iroquois terminology Hammond-Tooke, W. D., 2004. (wikipedia.org)
  • Southern Bantu origins: light from kinship terminology. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aaron Podolefsky and Peter Brown and Scott Lacy Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader https://www.mheducation.com/cover-images/Jpeg_400-high/0078117038.jpeg 9 2013 July 30, 2012 9780078117039 The ninth edition of Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader is a collection of articles that provide compelling examples of applied research in cultural anthropology. (mheducation.com)
  • Despite their differences, cultural anthropology, social anthropology, and ethnology all share the similar core ideology that culture is the essence of "human nature," that all people have the capacity to classify experiences, encode classifications symbolically , and to teach abstractions to others. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Examination of the enormous cultural diversity within and between the world's peoples. (umflint.edu)
  • The diversity and complexity of contemporary cultural, political and legal Indigenous issues are explored using anthropological methods and theories. (stfx.ca)
  • Whereas the Rick Scotts of the world focus on anthropology's deficits (materially and figuratively), the new agers celebrate cultural diversity and their unique ability to translate this wonder of human diversity for the common man and woman. (ubc.ca)
  • This course is ideally suited to students of social anthropology, early- and mid-career practicing social anthropologists, especially those currently or planning to work in legal-administrative settings, as well as interested members of the public. (therai.org.uk)
  • It was this dimension of German cultural theory that Franz Boas inherited and transmitted to the founding generation of American anthropologists. (cabinetmagazine.org)
  • Anthropologists have revealed several kinship structures and their corresponding cultural characteristics, following such rules. (datadryad.org)
  • Some communities in South India use the kinship tradition described above. (wikipedia.org)
  • It draws on studies in the anthropology of inequality and economic anthropology, and uses examples from India and a broad range of social formations, from hunter-gatherer to modern market economies. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • There are similarities between cultural anthropology and its variants with sociology , such as the systematic study of groups of people and how they relate to the larger community . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • As cultural anthropology became more interested in the contemporary, urban society, the difference remains that, as a main tenet all anthropological studies seek to aid the complete understanding of humanity at all points in time, a broader approach than sociology. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • the course focuses mainly on the development of anthropology before circa 1980 during the MT, and after that date during the LT. The course starts with a mapping of the geneaologies of British, French and American Anthropology. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Social anthropology is a branch of anthropology which mainly focuses on society, traditions, popular parts of the world, schools , conflicts in parts of the world. (researchomatic.com)
  • Any and all of these factors make up important aspects of culture and behavior, and are some of the pieces of human history that cultural anthropology tries to put together into a larger, more comprehensive picture of the human experience. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Cultural anthropology is the branch of anthropology that deals with human culture . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Introduction to biological anthropology with a special focus on human evolution, the fossil evidence for human development, the role of culture in human evolution, and a comparison with the development and social life of the nonhuman primates. (plu.edu)
  • Cultural Anthropology examines the nature of culture from the perspective of anthropology. (ccp.edu)
  • Area 5 is where elements in a theology overlap with neither biblical truth nor a cultural context, as when a missionary unwittingly carries excessive Western individualism into a community-based, "collectivistic" culture. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • If we never read the Bible through alternate cultural lenses, we will assume that our own historical theology is comprehensive and flawless, without recognizing that it too has been contextualized within our own Western culture. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • Anthropology Online brings together a wide range of published ethnographies, seminal texts, memoirs, contemporary studies and archival material covering human culture and behavior around the world. (alexanderstreet.com)
  • Its mission is to encourage and facilitate the cross-cultural study of human culture, society and behavior in the past and present. (yale.edu)
  • Social structure, kinship, material culture, aesthetics, political formations: all these are enduring objects of anthropology, but none seemed to shape the golden age of American cultural anthropology as much as the role of emotion in the formation of personality, writ both small and large, individual and cultural. (cabinetmagazine.org)
  • This so-called "culture and personality" school of anthropology was thus profoundly psychological, if only fitfully psychoanalytic. (cabinetmagazine.org)
  • Anthropology is the study of humanity - our physical characteristics as animals, and our exclusive non-biological characteristics we call culture. (researchomatic.com)
  • We have furthermore developed some characteristic theoretical approaches inside social anthropology, numerous of which originated in answer to initial field enquiries in parts of the world scarcely in writing about before the early twentieth years (for demonstration, those by Malinowski, Marcel Mauss, Evans-Pritchard, Lévi-Strauss). (researchomatic.com)
  • Swedish Kinship -An Exploration into Cultural Processes of Beloning and Continuity , Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gotenburgensis. (lu.se)
  • tredje utgåvan), Gifts, Exchange and Reciprocity (kap 3, 23 sidor) ur An Introduction to Social Anthropology, London: Palgrave. (lu.se)
  • Ego (the subject from whose perspective the kinship is based) is encouraged to marry his cross-cousins but discouraged or prohibited from marrying his parallel cousins. (wikipedia.org)
  • This course is available on the MSc in Anthropology and Development, MSc in Anthropology and Development Management, MSc in China in Comparative Perspective, MSc in Law, Anthropology and Society and MSc in Social Anthropology (Religion in the Contemporary World). (lse.ac.uk)
  • and by studying this transmission in its psychological dimensions, key insights into the articulation of individual personality and cultural personality would emerge. (cabinetmagazine.org)
  • This close phylogenetic relationship has led scholars from a diverse set of disciplines (e.g., biological and social sciences, notably psychology and anthropology) and theoretical perspectives (e.g., kinship theory, multilevel selection, social interactions, cultural traditions, competition, cooperation, innovation) to examine a broad range of research topics and methodologies in primatology. (springer.com)
  • But working across cultural, economic, and political divides is not easy. (mit.edu)
  • Both economic and cultural globalization processes are examined. (ccp.edu)
  • and the 'elective affinities' between cultural predispositions and economic action. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The course introduces students to economic anthropology, offering a broad overview to a subdiscipline that challenges the very notion of a discreet economic realm separable from others such as religion, kinship or politics. (unibo.it)
  • It offers students critical insight into cross-cultural economic themes and allows them to improve their research and presentation skills. (unibo.it)
  • The course is designed to give a solid grounding in economic anthropology. (unibo.it)
  • Such mobility and cultural integration could have motivated by multiple factors, including economic and trade connections, or kinship relationships. (bvsalud.org)
  • Agrarian ethics of animal husbandry, land stewardship, and kinship are often conflated and constructed to accommodate unpredictable risks (e.g., weather, financial markets). (cdc.gov)
  • Figure 2 illustrates the interrelationship between biblical truth, theology, and cultural context. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • Area 1 is where biblical truth overlaps with one's theology but not the cultural context. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • Area 2 is where biblical truth overlaps with the cultural context without being addressed in one's theology, such as Heibert's observation of Western theology's "excluded middle. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • Area 3 is where one's theology and the cultural context overlap with biblical truth, as in a high view of the family. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • Area 4 is where elements in a theology overlap with a cultural context but not with biblical truth. (missionfrontiers.org)
  • Its purpose is, firstly, to provide student researchers with the theoretical and practical training they will need to design and successfully complete a master's level ethnographic research project within the anthropology of power rubric. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • Finally, statistical analysis based on the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, a global ethnographic database, empirically verify theoretical results. (datadryad.org)
  • Anthropology Online is a comprehensive resource for the study of social and cultural life throughout the 20th century. (alexanderstreet.com)
  • A secondary purpose of the study focus is to prepare students wishing to pursue a research career in anthropology or closely related fields with the minimal background needed to apply for admission to a doctoral program. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • In addition to the normal CeMIS requirements, students in the Anthropology of Power Study Focus must complete four compulsory modules, for a total of 24 credit units, and a master's thesis, for 30 credit units, with Dr. Roberts as their primary supervisor. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • Ranging from 19th century to the present day, Anthropology Online documents the history and development of the discipline itself, while also providing the most comprehensive tool for current trends and contemporary study. (alexanderstreet.com)