Sentences with phrase «as an anthropologist guang»

Exactly how we get hooked on love no one quite knows, try as anthropologists like Helen Fisher might to unravel the mystery, one MRI on the lovesick at a time.

He founded the company, which advises retailers on how they can get more customers to buy, based on his training as an anthropologist and a nightclub owner.

But I will say this, the best ideas are solving interesting problems and needs for other people, whether it's a Chris Rock joke or Amazon product, so you need to be able to figure out those needs and problems as quickly and strategically as possible, and there are methods for accomplishing this — whether it's being able to identify needs as an anthropologist might, smallify big problems, or utilize constraints.

Just as anthropologists often go native, even the best biographers sometimes turn into defense attorneys.

He counters this hunch by extending it, in a strange thought - experiment, to Martian zombies sent to earth as anthropologists to study human behavior.

Commentators such as anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer have noted that our preoccupation with video violence is a manifestation of the «pornography of death.»

As an anthropologist, whose research focuses on ethnopediatrics I can tell you that many cultures have long traditions of women birthing alone.

I have only had the good fortune to meet two of the Founders in person, Edwina Froehlich and Marian Tompson, but the importance of all seven of these women to my life — both my career as an anthropologist and my experiences as a mother — can not be overstated.

Since she (herself a homebirth midwife as well as an anthropologist) is part of the subculture she is investigating, she does not question the meanings, the meaning - making or the relationship of such meaning - making to reality.

Margaret Mead, whose seminal book Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) informed the sexual revolution, observed in her field studies as an anthropologist that the most violent tribes were those that withheld touch in infancy.

I would like to draw attention, however, as an anthropologist and a parent, to the way that our society seems to be utterly hypocritical.

As anthropologist Margaret MacDonald explains in a recent piece in the Lancet, The cultural evolution of natural birth:

As anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy argues, babies come equipped with social brains because our ancestors needed friends and allies to survive (Hrdy 2009).

In Our Babies, Ourselves, Small writes not just as an anthropologist, wanting to observe and record human behavior and how it relates to our biological and evolutionary roots as mammals, but also from an ethnopediatrics perspective, which seeks to advise us as parents how to integrate babies» innate needs with our culture in an infant - appropriate way.

It's a wrinkled - nose stance that's hard to get excited about, especially when the imagined au naturel alternative is «a baby's bare bottom bouncing through the house,» as anthropologist Meredith Small fondly put it in a New York Times op - ed this week.

However, as anthropologist James McKenna has pointed out, there is no research to support the idea that falling asleep alone makes children more independent (McKenna and McDade 2005).

As a result, as anthropologist Katherine A. Dettwyler has shown in her book Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives (co-edited with Patricia Stuart - Macadam), it can be calculated that a young primate's weaning age in days is equal to 2.71 times their mother's body weight in grams to the 0.56 power.

As anthropologist Jean Liedloff observed in the jungles of South America, babies were carried in arms (or slings) and nursed in response to their body signals [v].

As an anthropologist, I was interested in the vast variety of traits within humans and across primates more broadly.

By the time he and his crew had slogged their way through, they were covered with mud, and before long, Leakey, who was just beginning an illustrious career as an anthropologist, was on hands and knees scouring the ground for newly exposed bones.

«It's funny, because as an anthropologist I'm used to getting weirded out a bit — I mean, you wouldn't believe the things people do.

«Going in as anthropologists we assumed that the norms would have a strong influence» on BMI, says Alexandra Brewis, executive director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Part of this has to do with interest in Iron Age societies in Africa, which is surging as anthropologists consider how technologies — especially those based on iron — spread.

As anthropologists use all the latest tools — genomics, computer analysis, and increasingly sophisticated imaging — to extract deep secrets from the latest fossil finds, they are replacing the «ascent of man» with a captivating new picture of the human family.

In a recent interview, Watkins gave MiSciNet an inside look at her research and career as an anthropologist.

The low humming beneath our words seems to be, as an anthropologist once put it, «an elaborate code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.»

He argues that if HIV in Africa is transmitted mainly through contaminated medical needles and transfusions — as anthropologist David Gisselquist claims — then it ought to spread in a fashion similar to that of another blood - borne virus, hepatitis C.

To research it, Latour spent 2 years at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, acting as an anthropologist observing scientists at work.

I was also coming to yoga with a background in psychology / counseling / social justice and training as an anthropologist: that led directly to seeking out the neuroscience of trauma, resilience, and recovery.

I have studied paganism and wiccan practices for years as an Anthropologist.

As anthropologist Jenell Williams Paris said in Christianity Today, «Christians can use online dating in ways that express discernment, modesty, and self - control, not only in sexual boundaries, but also in the very process of getting to know another person gradually.»

As anthropologist Henrietta Moore put it: All relations are with M (others).

Instead, and thankfully, we wound up with the casting of Tessa Thompson as the group's surveyor and Gina Rodriguez as its anthropologist.

The big secret is that they are in their way as detached and alien as cultural critics as Cronenberg is as an anthropologist.

Based on the author's experiences as a teacher and as an anthropologist, it discusses how both using and anxiously suppressing race labels (being what Pollock calls «colormute») affect everyday and policy discussions about achievement, discipline, curriculum, reform, and educational opportunity.

As an anthropologist, this has become a gold mine for Fong; she now has a deep catalog of information about this first generation.

This inspiring, charming book is filled with the real stories of groundbreaking, pioneering women working in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (also known as STEM) such as anthropologist and primatologist Jane Goodall and Greek mathematician, astronomer and philosopher Hypatia.

Our expert guide Frank nicknamed Super Frank whose training was as an anthropologist — provided an outstanding tour experience for both English and Spanish speaking attendees.

Even as anthropologists and archaeologists continue to puzzle over the eclipse of the Mayan empire, the Maya themselves are still here, with estimated 6.2 million living in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

He practiced as an anthropologist for 10 years, teaching at Queens College and doing field research on the native peoples of northern Canada, Mexico, and Arizona.

Hiller initially trained as an anthropologist, and Dedicated to the Unknown Artists displays an anthropologist's interest in collective psyche and imagination.

Since Hiller turned from her academic training as an anthropologist to become an artist in the 1970s, she has been based in Europe where she has established an international career working across a wide variety of media.

They resemble architectural forms or ritualized objects; given Nonas's early years as an anthropologist, they just might be inspired by them, too.

Following his education, Nonas worked as an anthropologist for 10 years, doing field - work on American Indians in Northern Ontario, Canada, and in Northern Mexico and Southern Arizona.

Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan - born artist who was trained as an anthropologist and a sculptor.

For the latter, Jamie «hung out sort of as an anthropologist» in the neighborhoods of his native southern California, says Ralph Rugoff, director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.

Functioning as an anthropologist or a conservationist almost as much as an artist, Asim conceives large - scale works and constructions that integrate high and low technology, blending materials like bamboo and urban waste with sensors or digital mapping techniques to illustrate the compatibility of traditional and modern technologies.

Trained as an anthropologist, Kiwanga performs this role in her artistic practice, using historical information to construct narratives about groups of people.

As anthropologists point out, every improvement in economic efficiency — including the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and the transition from agriculture to factory work — has been accompanied by a decrease in leisure.

About Blog Occasional posts on anthropologically interesting science fiction, anthropological futures and my own future as an anthropologist by Samuel Gerald Collins.