Sentences with phrase «as anthropologists point»

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.

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This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

Thus the philologist would ascertain the meaning of a passage of the Indian Atharva - Veda; the historian would assign it to a period in the cultural, political, and religious development of the Hindu; the psychologist would concentrate on its origin and significance as an expression of feeling and thought; and the anthropologist would deal with it from a folkloristic point of view.

As has recently been pointed by an anthropologist, the early Christian communities bear many features that are specific to millenarian movements, such as homogeneity, equality, anonymity and absence of propertAs has recently been pointed by an anthropologist, the early Christian communities bear many features that are specific to millenarian movements, such as homogeneity, equality, anonymity and absence of propertas homogeneity, equality, anonymity and absence of property.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

In truth, as Bennett points out, the idea of a short - term contractual marriage is not new; anthropologist Margaret Mead was talking about such an arrangement back in the 1970s.

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 an evolutionary anthropologist, I have to point out that there has been no previous communication revolution of this speed or intensity.

David Van Sickle, a medical anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who presented during the same session as Barnes, points out that the global prevalence estimates for asthma are based largely on asking people whether a physician has ever told them they have asthma.

The Neanderthal nose has been a matter of befuddlement for anthropologists, who point out that modern cold - adapted humans have narrow noses to moisten and warm air as it enters the lung, and reduce water and heat loss during exhalation.

The world of video games is changing and future anthropologists may point to this very podcast episode as a critical point in time.

The exhibition, featuring Agnes Calf, Dorota Gawęda & Egle Kulbokaite, Mikko Kuorinki, and Tabita Rezaire among others, takes French anthropologist Claude Lévi - Strauss» «The Savage Mind» text as a starting point, citing the term bricolage as an associative practice experienced by many non-western societies, wherein «solutions are invented following paths made of fortuitous, unstable and contingent discoveries».

Taking her own Danish - Filipino background as her point of departure, Cuenca displays a keenly honed sensitivity, almost like that of an anthropologist, to the narratives that exist in and between a place of birth and home country.

Last week, the New York Times published an Op - Ed by Peter Wynn Kirby, a social anthropologist at Oxford, alleging that the United Kingdom promoted the Hinkley Point C project as «a stealth initiative to bolster Britain's nuclear deterrent.»

A point that was brought up by Daniel Baril, anthropologist and journalist, and I think is important in the debate... «The wearing of religious symbols or clothing is not part of the freedom of religion as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which limits the freedom to the right to have a religion, to transmit / convey / communicate and to practice the rites (Article 18).»