Sentences with phrase «about anthropology»

Fully - referenced evidence - based articles about the anthropology, psychology, biology, and neuroscience of raising kids.

This blog is a place to write about anthropology and other items of interest.

Besides Potts and Stanley, there are many other excellent books for general readers about anthropology:

Now it's a dance - off between the sciences, including a tango based on robot collision avoidance, an acrobatic spectacle based on soil ecology, and, in one of the most meta Ph.D. dances ever, a hip - hop dance about the anthropology of hip - hop.

In addition to brain research she loves writing about anthropology and environmental science.

In this episode, Scientific American.com editorial director Kate Wong talks about the anthropology community's latest take on the remains of tiny humans from Flores; chemist Jennifer Mass discusses how she uses her science background artistically; and journalist Paul D. Thacker reveals how what appear to be environmental groups may be wolves in sheep's clothing.

To utilize information to educate families about the anthropology and biology of breastfeeding and sleep.

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When I did my MBA, I interviewed hundreds of women and spent a lot of time doing digital anthropology... going to chat rooms and getting people to talk to me about things they wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable talking about in person.

Fortune speaks with ReD's Christian Madsbjerg about flawed business thinking, the arrogance of Silicon Valley, and why he prefers to hire anthropology majors at his consulting firm.

Here is a show about a diverse group of students nay friends who make their way through Spanish and anthropology courses in terms of relying on each other as a study group.

At one level this is an abstruse argument about the finer points of theological anthropology.

The fact that Whitehead emphasized what is common to all actual occasions, human and not, was a major reason for skepticism about his contribution to anthropology.

So this professor of religion, this scholar (as she insists on calling me), must call on whatever anthropology, sociology and psychology — yes, most of all, psychology — have taught me about absolutism and conformity and fanaticism.

Further, if Heidegger's reputation for attention to the «big» issues of philosophical anthropology means anything at all, it would also seem to mean that Heidegger's «philosophy of being» can not be distinguished from considerations about how one ought to behave — and a fortiori how Heidegger behaved.

We learn from Manent that Pascal was right that Christianity knows man — or embodies in its theology an anthropology that tells the truth about who we are.

That, however, is to abandon theology for anthropology — admittedly an easier task, but not the one we are asking about.

He learns from physical and cultural anthropology about the variety of physical, mental and spiritual endowment and development of the different ethnic groups.

Nevertheless, in the religious anthropology proposed here — and contrary to that of secularization theory — there is nothing inevitable about the decline of the natural family and thus, by implication, religion too.»

It follows that there is a genuine purality of propositions to be made about man, and despite ultimate unity of a systematic doctrine of man (anthropology in that sense), there are in principle several sciences that can and must treat of man.

Here is a show about a diverse group of students nay friends who make their way through Spanish and anthropology courses in terms of relying on....

Within the context of special revelation, Niebuhr turned to two distinctive biblical teachings about man, man as creature and image of God, and used these two doctrines to clarify and substantiate his original assumption about man's paradoxical environment of nature and spirit, and to refute the competing anthropologies of modern culture.

However, since the book is so difficult to read, I only recommend it for those who like reading about psychology and cultural anthropology.

Hopewell had pursued his fascination with the congregation through a yearlong examination of a local United Methodist and a local Baptist congregation, and arrived in Indiana that fall with a presentation woven of insights about the two churches drawn from fields as diverse as history, economics, statistics and sociology, with particular emphasis on literary analysis, symbolic language, anthropology and mythology.

We have over 5000 manuscripts that we can compare against each other for accuracy, and we have archaelogy anthropology that will confirm that the ancient Hebrews were very meticulous about the accuracy of their holy scriptures.

One suspects that this is largely because they recognise, on some level, that the sexual anthropology of our culture collapses into incoherence as soon as a little analytical pressure is applied, and so they resist genuine intellectual engagement,short - circuiting the debate by retreating into insults, relativism and disingenuous blather about Catholics wanting a theocracy.

«all theology is really just anthropology» or «all talk about God is really just self - projection.»

Professor Celia Deane - Drummond's book, The Wisdom of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human Becoming, is an ambitious attempt to counter this trend by bringing questions about animals — as evolved and evolving — into a sustained dialogue with theological anthropology, seeking thereby to reshape the theological vision of the human person.

At all events, nothing can gainsay this reality, on which both the Bible and anthropology agree: that there is something definitive about the commitment of one body to another in sexual congress, and from that anthropological fact the Church's teachings on sexuality must be understood.

Though I was critical of James's and Niebuhr's understanding of Christianity — an account that Barth saw could not avoid turning Christian convictions into anthropology — I hoped it would be obvious that I regard James's Will to Believe to be crucial for helping us understand how Christian theology can make claims about the way things are.

Rites of passage analysis renders at least some claims about spiritual quests more empirically tractable, and reveals several ways in which process thought offers a corrective model for further work in anthropology of religion and ritual studies.

One wonders whether, in the future, when we shall know so much more about what literature says and how it hangs together than we now do, we shall come to see literary myth as a similarly constructive principle in the social or qualitative sciences, giving shape and coherence to psychology, anthropology, theology, history and political theory without losing in any one of them its own autonomy of hypothesis.»

In seeking to bring about this total vision, John Paul in the first part of the catechetical programme wants to establish an «adequate anthropology» which considers original man, historical man and eschatological man.

That being said, anthropology proves storms and predation existed before «paradise» was set up about 6000 years ago so a self sustain nature setup obviously existed long before the so called «paradise with Adam and Eve».

about Parenting Science provides information on child - rearing from the perspectives of anthropology, brain science, developmental psychology, and evolution (external site)

Katherine Dettwyler, an associate professor of anthropology and nutrition at Texas A&M University, conducted a study in the late 1990s on 1,280 children whose parents self - reported information about their breastfeeding practices.

«Other countries wouldn't even know there was a question to be asked about where should my baby sleep,» said James McKenna, a professor of anthropology and the director of a mother - baby behavioral sleep lab at the University of Notre Dame.

Mother - infant cosleeping, breastfeeding and sudden infant death syndrome: what biological anthropology has discovered about normal infant sleep and pediatric sleep medicine

About the Author: As an undergraduate, Aradia Wyndham studied anthropology, with a particular interest in infant care around the world and throughout history; focusing on infant transport strategies.

But after reading a few books about how best to care for your new baby we were left with one of two conclusions: either everything we had learned in anthropology, my specialty, was wrong, or all these western recommendations about how best to care for babies had nothing to do with babies at all.

At Oxford in the 50s she discovered that the social anthropology of that time was almost entirely about men.

McKenna JJ et al. (2007) Mother - infant cosleeping, breastfeeding and sudden infant death syndrome: what biological anthropology has discovered about normal infant sleep and paediatric sleep medicine.

A college graduate who majored in anthropology and Spanish, Claire thrives on the sense of connection she gets from visits with her birth family: «I love to talk about my open adoption.

[4] McKenna JJ, Ball HL, & Gettler LT. Mother - infant co-sleeping, breastfeeding and sudden infant death syndrome: What biological anthropology has discovered about normal infant sleep and pediatric sleep medicine.

McKenna JJ, Ball HL, Gettler LT. Mother - infant cosleeping, breastfeeding and sudden infant death syndrome: what biological anthropology has discovered about normal infant sleep and pediatric sleep medicine.

Yet there is a strong and deep academic literature, that draws on extensive interdisciplinary evidence from economics, political science, anthropology and history, which shows how simplistic and misguided such arguments about «resource wars» are, both when approached theoretically and through Asian or African case studies.

Ann Gibbons Contributing Correspondent Writes about paleoanthropology, anthropology, and biological sciences.

However i've been thinking about changing my degree to anthropology since what I want to do is forensic anthropology.

«What really made me focus more on forensic anthropology,» says Haglund, «was a serial murder case where about 50 young women were killed.

«What's fun about this job is that my portfolio is physical sciences, life sciences, behavioral / social sciences (including anthropology), economic sciences education, the environment and the international components, and the globalization of science,» Olsen says.

He adds: «Our findings are important for human genetics, archaeology and anthropology, and it will be interesting to see what similar approaches can tell us about the post glacial population dynamics in other parts of Europe and the rest of the world.»