Physical evidence encompasses any and all objects that can establish that a crime has or has not been committed or can provide a link between a crime and its victim or a crime and its perpetrator. Individual Characteristics Evidence that can be associated to a common source with an extremely ...
Why have anthropologists failed to engage with the topic of genocide? As Helen Fein notes in her chapter, the anthropological neglect of this topic was shared by other social sciences, which seemed to have pushed genocide into the realm of speciality studies. Within anthropology, there may have ...
Siehe: Benoit Massin, From Vir- chow to Fischer. Physical Anthropology and „Modern Race Theorie" in Wilhelmine Germany, in: George W. Stocking (Hg.), Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German An- thropological Tradition, Madison, Wisc. 1996, S. 79...
The common representation of anthropology as a qualitative, interpretive discipline is often used to excuse anthropologists from certain criteria of scientific validation. The measures employed in anthro- pology might be different from many of the physical or biological sciences, but in Gluckman's ...
(1914-2009) Applicationoftheory:culturaldifferencesbasedonobservation Anemphasisoninternationalsettings:culture=nationality Aninterdisciplinaryfocus:FSIscholarsfromlinguistics,anthropology,andpsychology2.Philosophicalworldviews Assumptionsabouthumannature,thephysicalandspiritualworld,andthewaysinwhichhumansshouldrelatetoone...
Despite the exemplary antiracist campaigning of some physical anthropologists who destroyed the scientific credibility of the concept of `race', it still took several decades for an expanded physical anthropology to regain popularity. By then its leading practitioners had renamed the subject `biological ...
I also go beyond the views expounded by structural anthropology, especially in the context of binary systems of oppositions and bricolage, to claim that one can gain an understanding of the language through the study of myth, religion and art within a specific cultural context. I do not, how...
cognitive or psychological anthropology. A number of studies have been done that support Whorf’s ideas. Linguist George Lakoff’s work looks at the pervasive existence of metaphors in everyday speech that can be said to predispose a speaker’s world view and attitudes on a ...
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Apart from anthropology Blumenbach's most influen- tial writings were on comparative anaromy and natural history. His textbook on comparative anatOmy (item S 16) was epoch-making. Blumenbach believed that he was the first, at least in Germany, to lecture on compara- tive anatomy, and that ...