Anthropology - Cultural, Biological, Archaeology: The modern discourse of anthropology crystallized in the 1860s, fired by advances in biology, philology, and prehistoric archaeology. In The Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin affirmed that all form
Cultural anthropology is that major division of anthropology that explainsculturein its many aspects. It is anchored in the collection, analysis, and explanation (or interpretation) of the primary data of extendedethnographicfield research. Thisdiscipline, both inAmericaand in Europe, has long cast a...
Meanwhile, the impact of the Birmingham school of cultural studies and a reconstructed anthropology's search for new objects of research have spurred projects for cultural studies in India, notably studies of communities of reception for the popular film, popular cultures of photography, music, etc....
Eventually, I discarded my original research plan to focus instead on this disagreement within the community about who they were and were not. In anthropology, this type of conflict in beliefs is known as contested identity. Figure 2: Author Katie Nelson (center) with her Brazilian host family...
Anthropology is unique among academic disciplines for the diversity of approaches used to conduct research and for the broad range of orientations that fall under its umbrella. 因此,解释人类学包括他们解释的情境、他们自己的观点,以及重要的是,研究参与者如何看待自己以及他们赋予自己生活的意义。人类学家...
For this, I will examine the cultural and philosophical anthropology of Ortega y Gasset, which complements exceptionally well my ideas about this topic. I defend a double perspective: empirical and metaphysical. In the present essay, I offer the reader keys to understand serious aspects of human ...
This line of research has never been completely cut off, but it grew thinner and, in the 1980s and 1990s, stood under an ever larger shadow of cultural theory and anthropology, that is, of disciplines and approaches which fundamentally questioned the assumptions of macrosociological, Western-...
Certain Ideas Concerning the Subject Matter and Problems of American Cultural AnthropologyScientific informationKipriana Krastanova
Written by James L. Watson Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University. Editor ofGolden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. James L. Watson Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica ...
Ritual is the performance of ceremonial acts prescribed by tradition or by sacerdotal decree. Ritual is a specific, observable mode of behavior exhibited by all known societies. Scholars in religious studies, anthropology, sociology, and many other field