Anthropology brings two major perspectives to the study of human sexual behavior: evolutionary anthropology and cultural anthropology. Evolutionary anthropology focuses on the role of sexual behavior in human survival. Its nineteenth-century form emphasized the survival of societies, claiming that Euro-...
Cultural anthropology focuses on the study of social features of present and past cultures. These features, like religion, language, and law, can then... Learn more about this topic: Ethnographic Fieldwork | Definition, Challenges & Controversies ...
Doing Anthropology In this short film, Stefan Helmreich, Erica James, and Heather Paxson, three members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Anthropology Department, talk about their current work and the process of doing fieldwork. Making the Strange Familiar and the Familiar Strange The ...
3. What are some of the contemporary ethnographic fieldwork techniques and perspectives and why are they important to anthropology? 4. What are some of the ethical considerations in doing anthropological fieldwork and why are they important? 5. How do anthropologists transform their fieldwork dat...
social anthropology anthropology- the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings garbology- the study of a society by analyzing its garbage mythology- the study of myths ritualism- the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies ...
2006, "My best Informant's Dress: the Erotic Equation in Fieldwork", in E. Lewin (ed) Feminist ... E Newton - 《Cultural Anthropology》 被引量: 114发表: 1993年 Inhabiting Ocular Ground: Kinshasa's Future in the Light of Congo's Spectral Urban Politics (2011). Inhabiting ocular ground...
B. (2010) `Towards an Anthropology of Cultural Mobilities', Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture 1(1): 53-68.b. "Towards an Anthropology of Cultural Mobilities." Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture 1(1): 53-68.Salazar, N.B. (2010) `Towards an Anthropology of Cultural ...
The privileged status of the dream experience thus encompasses an entire anthropology of imagination which necessitates a new way of finding out how the relationship between meaning and conceptual expression manifests itself within everyone (see Foucault, 2001, p. 133). According to Foucault (see ...
Traditional knowledge (TK) in Ladakh encapsulates a repository of experimental wisdom cultivated over millennia. Despite this cultural wealth, dwindling interest among the younger generations in the region’s age-old practices underscores the urgency to
(2003), Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa. American Anthropologist, 105: 461–462. doi: 10.1525/aa.2003.105.2.461 Author Information London School of Economics and Political Science Publication History Issue published online: 7 JAN ...