An example of this last process is what the American cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz called “involution,” found in some agrarian societies when population growth is coupled with a decrease in per capita wealth. Yet another change may be a shift from one pole to the other of a ...
A biocultural anthropologist, like most anthropologists, conducts research and gathers data, the major difference between them and other anthropologists is the way they review the data, which would be under a biocultural perspective. What does biocultural mean in anthropology? Biocultural means the holis...
tattoos might provide a better immune response for the body led to the possibility that tattoos were adopted to inform others about the health and hardiness of an individual. This was accomplished by utilizing the biological and social sciences, exactly as a physical anthropologist would have done....
The concept of culture Various definitions of culture What has been termed the classic definition of culture was provided by the 19th-century English anthropologistEdward Burnett Tylorin the first paragraph of hisPrimitive Culture(1871): Culture . . . is that complex whole which includes knowledge,...
These methods can provide detailed and contextualized descriptions of their subjects. Example Study Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho involves an anthropologist who embeds herself with Wall Street firms to study the culture of Wall Street bankers and how this culture affects the ...
Ethnographic research originated in the field of anthropology, and it often involved an anthropologist living with an isolated tribal community for an extended period of time in order to understand their culture. This type of research could sometimes last for years. For example, Colin M. Turnbull ...
Dr. Jane Morris Goodall is an English anthropologist and primatologist who dedicated most of her life to studying social interactions between chimpanzees, ultimately gaining global recognition as one of the leading experts on the animal. Her non-profit organization, theJane Goodall Institute, aims to...
it changed its main product’s taste and image. With no consumer research backing the move, it backfired and resulted in little more than confusion among its customers. Burberry, on the other hand, went as far as tohire a cultural anthropologistto rediscover the company’s roots. It then hi...
Anarchistand activist anthropologist David Graeber offers a reason why majoritarian democratic government is so rare in the historical record. He suggests that majoritarianism democracy cannot exist unless two factors coincide: “1. a feeling that people should have equal say in making group decisions,...
The profession of the forensic anthropologist is a relatively recent outgrowth from the broader field offorensic sciencesin general. Forensic science is a field which has its roots at the end of the 19th century, but it didn't become a widely practiced professional endeavor until the 1950s. Ear...