The entries give insights into anthropological thinking and definitions of specific terms. International and up-to-date - over 100 international contributors, all experts in their fields, write clearly yet provocatively. They provide a variety of perspectives on crucial debates in anthropology today. ...
The entries give insights into anthropological thinking and definitions of specific terms. International and up-to-date - over 100 international contributors, all experts in their fields, write clearly yet provocatively. They provide a variety of perspectives on crucial debates in anthropology today. ...
definitions or biographies. It contains a glossary with short explanations of more than 600 key terms and ideas. A biographical appendix details the lives and work of over 250 important figures in the history of anthropology. Unique interdisciplinary approach - this is the only encyclopedia of ...
Cultural anthropology is the study of how culture shapes human ideas and learned behaviour. Anthropologist of the early 20th century usually studied non-industrial, non-Western cultures. Their goal was to record the practices of these cultures before they were absorbed by colonists and industrial nati...
▶ TERMS • Dictionary with key terms and their definitions sorted out according to the 3 main anthropologie fields: cultural, biological and linguistic anthropology • Flashcards provided - an easier and smarter way of anthro-definitions to be organized and kept in mind ...
Ordinarily, students select a college major or minor by carefully considering their personal interests, particular subjects that pique their curiosity, and fields they feel would be a good basis for future professional careers. Technically, my decision to major in anthropology and later earn a master...
UNESCO ratified its convention concerning the protection of world cultural and natural heritage in 1972, and identified monuments, groups of buildings and sites that were considered to have universal value from the perspective of history, art, aesthetics, ethnology, anthropology or science to be ...
However, that simple affirmation assumes agreement about definitions of the "human" as well as what a human is entitled to under law, bringing us quickly to concepts such as freedom, property, and the inalienability of both. The assumption that we all mean the same things by these terms ...
This book provides a useful overview of theory development in an important area of LIS and may provide ideas for theory development. In the first chapter of Theories of Information Behavior, Bates (2005) distinguished the terms meta-theory, theory and models, pointing out differences which are ...
(1964, 1969, 1976, 1990), who developed cultural materialism, elaborated a proposal to make an ethical anthropology. In this way of thinking, anthropology should disregard the narratives of social actors in relation to their own attitudes, and it would be developed unically through the ...