Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.Cultural anthropology is one of four or five fields of anthropology (the holistic study of humanity). It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a ...
In its textualist attempt to challenge then-conventional ways of ethnographic writing, Writing Culture could draw on a growing body of more experimental ethnographies. Of these texts, critically engaging with the hegemonic genre of ethnographic realism, Miner 1956 is one of the earliest; it performs...
(1952, reprinted 1985), is a compilation of diverse views on culture by two of its most eminent practitioners of the mid-20th century. Two different approaches to understanding the play of culture in everyday life are as strategy and tactics for the accumulation of power and privilege, in...
Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies Teaching and leadership are under-studied in connection with the opaque norms that underpin cooperation. The authors show that among egalitarian foragers, influential individuals often...
Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies Teaching and leadership are under-studied in connection with the opaque norms that underpin cooperation. The authors show that among egalitarian foragers, influential individuals often...
Culture and Personality Globalization Medical Anthropology Ruth Benedict Technological Organization Youth Culture Forthcoming Articles Expand or collapse the "forthcoming articles" section Race and Health Anthropology of Corruption Digital Nomads Find more forthcoming articles...Aging...
Pseudoscience is also not unique to Western discourses or even to Euro-American scientific models. It plays a role in political and social conflicts the world over. This means that an understanding of culture and belief systems, both ours and others, are integral to combating the desire to make...
Modern Culture instills a misguided perception of why charitable acts are performed. In Alfie Kohn’s article, “ The Wrong Way to Get People to Do the Right Thing,” the author uses research evidence, from newspaper articles, to explain his thesis that rewards and praise promotes charitable ...
identifying points of similarity and difference and seeking to record and analyze cultural practices, customs and beliefs. Specializing in this field will involve the study of ethnographies – works created by cultural anthropologists, based on field research, which aim to describe a specific culture....
They suggested that each culture was unique because each had its separate geography, history, creativity, and degree of contact with its neighbors. One of the first to reject evolutionism was a German-born U.S. anthropologist, Franz Boas. Boas emphasized the importance of fieldwork and ...