As I taught these two courses jointly, I was very pleased that the two sections (ANTH and FOLK) attracted equal numbers of students. Many the participants were major or minor students in both departments, thus they—like me—have a foot in both fields and an interest in their points of i...
The first archaeological discoveries indicating the very ancient origins of humankind were not made until the middle of the 19th century, and then many anthropologists ignored or disputed them. The first major breakthrough for anthropologists came in the natural sciences when in 1859 Charles Darwin ...
Little remained after the destruction of the Egyptian library in the temple of Ptah in Memphis. Similarly, 200,000 precious works disappeared when the library of Pergamum in Asia Minor was destroyed. When the Romans razed the city of Carthage to the ground, they destroyed 500,000 books, then ...
journey as his initiation in anthropological fieldwork.Tristes Tropiquesmade this people famous to a very large public and fixed another particular image of the Nambikwara. And then, in the seventies and eighties of the last century, the final assault took place by their being “before the bull...
The other major discoveries I covered this year were the capuchinmonkeys who made stone toolsand the possibility that living humans and extinct Neandertals share acommon pattern of brain development. An unrelatedimage from 2016that makes me laugh. ...
Baron's Arrival: A power-hungry baron and his strongmen arrive on the island, seeking to exploit its resources and impose their own values and power structures on the islanders. Islanders' Resistance: The islanders use cultural relativism to preserve their traditions and identity in the face of...
PALEOPATHOLOGY AND LIFE-STYLE: THE CHONOAN EXAMPLE The history of the aboriginal peoples of the southern tip of South America is characterized by the cultural development of two major groups: terrestrial hu... E Aspillaga,M Castro,M Rodriguez,... - 《Magallania》 被引量: 5发表: 2006年 ...
Linguistic Anthropology: Counsel from the Ancients: A Study of Badaga Proverbs, Prayers, Omens and Curses. Paul Hockings with Christiane Pilot‐Rai‐choorEmpirical distribution functionconcave majorantconvex minorantlimit theoremsspacingsBrownian bridge...
10. Do you know that the major sources of western tattoo history: Burchett’s “memoirs” and Parry, upon which most of the others confound, but also Ebensten, Hambly, Steward, and Scutt & Gotch, are all fatally flawed in various major and minor ways? Do you know that even some of...
(hermeneutic, existentialist, dialectical, or transcendental phenomenology, etc.) and those identified as its major thinkers (variously Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Scheler, Sartre, Levinas, Schutz, Arendt, Dilthey, Garfinkel, Derrida – some even include James and Dewey) adopted a wide...