Sentences with phrase «as an anthropologist»

Larson, who initially trained as an anthropologist, now heads the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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

My primary role as an anthropologist is not taking anything for granted.

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

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 wish to work as an anthropologist in a reputed university to provide research related solutions to the learners and also further develop my skills, expertise and my knowledge of human civilizations and behaviors.

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

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.

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.

He first wrote about his faith - filled protagonist as an anthropologist might, writing the subject from a safe distance.

Free from the compulsion to concentrate on racism and oppression, she could as an anthropologist delight in collecting black folklore — in Mules and Men — and as a novelist focus on a young woman's quest for identity and wholeness — in Their Eyes Were Watching God.

It goes without saying that the religious ideas and experiences of these generations were shaped in a more or less Christian way; but behind them lie, if mankind is really 6,000,000 years old as anthropologists have reason to assume, 180,000 generations whose religious consciousness has run through all the stages of animism and polytheism.

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.

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

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 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].

«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.

A further critical finding was the apparent communication and interbreeding between the local Neanderthals and the Manot Homo sapiens in the Levant — not in Europe, as some anthropologists previously hypothesized.

And as the anthropologist Adrian Peace wrote, «it appeared isolated and a threat to no one — and so all the more a candidate for conservation».

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.

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.

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.

This intricate thriller ignites in the very first chapter as anthropologist heroine Jane Doe employs the theories of Claude Levi - Strauss, quotes W. H. Auden, kills a drunken woman using advanced aikido techniques and rescues an abused child whom she raises as her own.

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.

As an anthropologist Guang Peng works to document the language and culture of his community in a rapidly changing world.

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.

Educated as an anthropologist, Nonas came to art in the late 1960s and early»70s with a less conventional background and different set of concerns than the bulk of his peers.

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.

My aim is to work for an archaeology organization as an anthropologist to render my services for the research and development purpose of the human race understanding.

So this article will both reflect my position as an anthropologist (questioning presumptions and norms) as well as that of being a mother (drawing on personal experience and using my «maternal» intuition).

If you were a real estate practitioner, how would you put your experiences as an anthropologist to work to help buyers?

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

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