1999 Eclipse Anthropology Project Coordinator: Dr.Thomas Crump The object of this project is to study, report and analyse, from the perspective of cultural anthropology, local reactions to the total eclipse of the sun which will occur on the 11th August, 1999. A total eclipse of the sun occurs when the sun, as observed from a point on the earth's surface, is totally hidden by the moon. This phenomenon can only occur during a period in which the diameter of the moon, as observed from the earth ...

Philosophical Anthropology The papers indexed below were given at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, in Boston, Massachusetts from August 10-15, 1998. Additional papers may be added to this section as electronic versions are aquired and formatted for the archive. These papers will be listed for a period of time at the What's New? page. Regarding browser support: The papers published in The Paideia Archive are optimized for browsers that support Cascading Style Sheet technology. This ...

Philosophical Anthropology Understanding Human Nature: Examples from Philosophy and the Arts María G. Amilburu St. Edmund's College, Cambridge University ib310974@public.ibercaja.es ABSTRACT: Ours is not the first time philosophers have looked to art for examples to illustrate their arguments. One example would be Kierkegaard, who turned to Mozart's operas in an attempt to expose what he called the aesthetic realm of existence. I hold that if Kierkegaard lived today, he would consider t ...

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AAA96 - 0-062 - Culture as Distributed Cognition Culture as Distributed Cognition American Anthropological Association Meetings 1996 Invited Session 0-062 -(Council for General Anthropology ) Continental Ballroom 6, Ballroom Level WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 20 Organizer/Chair: DAVID B KRONENFELD (UC-Riverside) Session Schedule [Session Schedule] Session Abstract Paper Abstracts Section 1: General Issues 4:00ALAN G FIX (UC-Riverside) On the Evolution of the Cap ...

Aesthetic Realism A New Perspective for Anthropology & Sociology Introduction Aesthetic Realism and Anthropology Classes Music Art Men's Issues Papua New Guinea Anti Racism Teaching Method Respect for Labor Evolution Rainbow Valley: Papua New Guinea Wepil of Divanap, translator Mountain Ok Settlement Images from Papua New Guinea. Photographs © by Arnold Perey. These sources are an introduction to the Aesthetic Realism understanding of anthropology: The Place of Aes ...

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Analyzing words in brief descriptions: Fathers and mothers describe their children Gery Ryan and Thomas Weisner Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1759 gryan@ucla.edu, tweisner@ucla.edu Introduction How much can we learn from a simple word analysis of qualitative data? Judging from the literature on content analysis (Krippendorff 1980, Weber 1990) and recent articles in CAM by Jehn & Doucet (1996) and Schnegg & Bernard (1996), ...

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TOWARDS THE NECESSITY OF A NEW "URGENT ANTHROPOLOGY": ARCTIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE "NEW" (BUT ANCIENT, BECAUSE TRADITIONAL) ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS By Franco Pelliccioni, Italian Geographical Society 1966 - 2006 FORTY YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC POPULARIZATION "In thinking about what we are doing to our world's oceans, I contemplate the wisdom of the ancients. They tell us that nothing can be manifest outside us that is not first manifest within us." We cannot create so ...

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Contents - Previous - Next Child nutrition and dietary diversity within the family: A view from the Caribbean Thomas J. Marchione Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Visiting Researcher, Institute for Nutrition Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway INTRODUCTION Describing the patterns and determinants of intrafamilial food sharing between adults and children is important to both anthropologists and nutritionists, though from differen ...

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FindArticles > Cross Currents > Winter, 1998 > Article > Print friendly Womanist theology, epistemology, and a new anthropological paradigm Linda E. Thomas Womanist theologians can bring the experience and knowledge of the marginalized to the center by standing aside to let the community speak for itself. Womanist theology is an emergent voice of African American Christian women in the United States. Employing Alice Walker's definition of womanism in her text In Search of Our Mothers' ...

Telling about Culture: Changing Traditions in Subarctic Anthropology1 Julie Cruikshank The Northern Review A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Arts and Social Sciences of the North Reprint Number 1 (Summer 1988): pp 27-39. Where do these people come from? Outside? You tell different stories from us people. You people talk from paper. Me, I want to talk from Grandpa. Mrs. Annie Ned, Takhini Crossing2 One of the liveliest areas of discussion in contempora ...

Friedrich Ratzel, Clark Wissler, and Carl Sauer: Culture Area Research and Mapping By Nina Brown Back to Classics InnovationA culture area is a region of the world in which people share similar cultural traits. Researchers may define a culture area by plotting the distribution of a single cultural trait, such as maize agriculture, and uniting all the communities that share this trait into a single cultural area. Alternatively, researchers sometimes choose to group communities into a ...

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Fakelore, Multiculturalism, and the Ethics of Children's Literature Eliot A. Singer Abstract So-called "multicultural folktale" picture books are a popular means for teaching about other cultures, especially in the primary grades. However, almost all these books are fakelore. Many are based on spurious legends, originally written for popular audiences following a romantic formula, that were never told in traditional communities. More are careless adaptations which completely assimilate genu ...

Family and Work Page Family and Work Page Balancing Work and Family - the study Balancing Work and Family - the literature Is there a Family Crisis? Bibliography Balancing Work and Family - the survey Family Crisis - the survey Other Cool Sites About me Welcome to my work and family page. I am an anthropology student working on my thesis about work and family. The purpose of this site is to let others know the results of my research and to collect more information on how people bal ...

Feature Story Ideas and Information for Tampa Bay journalists This page lists ideas for feature articles and reports. Anthropologists are great sources for stories, since they deal with people in-depth on a wide variety of topics. Story ideas are listed by the contact person, and include their title, areas of interest and brief overviews of potential story suggestions: Site is still under construction. Completion target date: March 15, 1998. Baber, Marlena, Graduate student Doctoral can ...

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The Cultural Dimensions of Environmental Decision-Making Dr Richard A. Griggs, Independent Projects Trust, Durban (Dr. Griggs is Research Director for Independent Projects Trust--a non-governmental organization in durban, South Africa. Griggs is also coordinator for the Center for World Indigenous Studies Fourth World Atlas Project.) © 1994-1999 Richard Griggs While many of us live in a socially constructed world of states that divide up the earth's air space, land, water, mineral ...

What Is Culture? The purpose of this learning topic Defining Culture A baseline definition of culture Some important definitions/discussions of culture Matthew Arnold, High Culture (1869) Raymond Williams, Ordinary Culture (1958) Clifford Geertz, Interpretation of Culture (1973) John H. Bodley, An Anthropological Perspective (1994) Discussion: Women, Culture, and Power Discussion: The Culture Debate in the U.S.: Whose Culture Is This, Anyway? Overview of the Evolution of ...

What Is Culture? The purpose of this learning topic Defining Culture A baseline definition of culture Some important definitions/discussions of culture Matthew Arnold, High Culture (1869) Raymond Williams, Ordinary Culture (1958) Clifford Geertz, Interpretation of Culture (1973) John H. Bodley, An Anthropological Perspective (1994) Discussion: Women, Culture, and Power Discussion: The Culture Debate in the U.S.: Whose Culture Is This, Anyway? Overview of the Evolution of ...

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This article originally appeared in Commission on Visual Anthropology Review, Spring, 1991. DR. RON BURNETT HOME ARCHIVES 1994-2005 I recently received a superb essay from a student of mine on the history and development of community radio in Canada. He argued for community radio as a tool of liberation, unfettered by the requirements of visual representation, not constrained by the centralised control of modern media monopolies. He talked about participation, about the opening up of a p ...

You are in the MOST Phase I website (1994-2003). The MOST Phase II website is available at: www.unesco.org/shs/most. ETHNO-NET AFRICA A network for comparative studies, monitoring and evaluation of ethnic conflicts and social transformation in Africa by Paul Nchoji Nkwi University of Yaounde I Cameroon Introduction Ethno-Net: its raison d'être Some activities Capacity Building Comparative Research Monitoring and Evaluation Conclusion References ...

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Applied Anthropology Ann M. Reed HISTORY THE FUTURE ORGANIZATIONS REFERENCES WEB LINKS Definitions The concept of "applied anthropology" dates back to at least 1906, when it was used to announce the establishment of a diploma program at Oxford, while the term "practical anthropology" was used as early as the 1860s by James Hunt, founder of the Anthropological Society of London (Eddy and Partridge 1987: 4). According to A Dictionary of the Social Sciences, Radcliffe-Brown was the fi ...

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This website has its background in the visual anthropology workshop and course "Transcultural Images and Visual Anthropology" organized by The Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University, Canberra, 3 to 28 August, 1998. The documents contained in this website are working papers from that workshop, available here for commentary. Each writer holds the copyright of her/his presentation, including images. None of these documents may be cited anywhere without ...

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Worlds in Collision: A Look at the Impact of Modern Legislation on the Ainu Culture of Japan THE PEOPLE: The Ainu of Japan are thought to be the descendents of Japan's first indigenous population--the Jomon. For the past 2,000 years, the Ainu have made their home in Japan's northern islands, most notably on Hokkaido. This archaic population traditionally sustained itself through fishing, hunting, and food gathering (Ohnuki-Tierney 1974). They speak the Ainu language which has no linguistic c ...

The Need for Cultural Studies: Resisting Intellectuals and Oppositional Public Spheres Henry Giroux, David Shumway, Paul Smith, and James Sosnoski Introduction In North American universities the study of culture [1] is so fragmented through specialization that concerted cultural critique is almost impossible. The historical development of insulated disciplines housed in segregated departments has produced a legitimating ideology that in effect suppresses critical thought. R ...

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Handling Ethnicities and/or Securing Cultural Diversities: Indigenous and Global Views on Maintaining Traditional Knowledge Erich Kasten Introduction The foreseen loss of most of the languages in the world in the near future- widely debated since the beginning of the 1990s (Hale 1992a,b; Krauss 1992)-is part of the even more far-reaching endangerment of traditional cultural knowledge, as, for example, among the native peoples in the North. More recently, the loss of cultural diversity has ...

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