Sentences with phrase «as an anthropologist for»

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.

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.

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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.

And some of us are troubled by the shallow reasoning that has dominated the political discussions surrounding this move, as though the threadbare idea of equality were enough to settle every question concerning the long - term destiny of mankind and as though the writings of the anthropologists (not to mention the poets, the philosophers, the theologians, the novelists, the sociologists) counted for nothing beside the slogans of Stonewall.

Some anthropologists do respect distinctly religious ideas such as holiness and life - after - death, but many still try to explain religion away as no more than a shared «language» for expressing social patterns, calming irrational fears or marking men as somehow different from animals.

These objections are likely to be reinforced in the minds of those who make them by the qualifications which Buber sets for the philosophical anthropologist: that he must be an individual to whom man's existence as man has become questionable, that he must have experienced the tension of solitude, and that he must discover the essence of man not as a scientific observer, removed in so far as possible from the object that he observes, but as a participant who only afterwards gains the distance from his subject matter which will enable him to formulate the insights he has attained.

MARY DOUGLAS AND A PRESCRIPTION FOR MODERN BRITAIN Dear Fr Editor Some of the more thoughtful parts of the secular media have recently acknowledged the passing of Mary Douglas, who Commonwealdescribes as «one of most influential Catholic intellectuals of the postwar era, and... perhaps the most influential social anthropologist from any background».

But, quite apart from the fact that many anthropologists — for instance, Jevons and Frazer — expressly oppose «religion» and «magic» to each other, it is certain that the whole system of thought which leads to magic, fetishism, and the lower superstitions may just as well be called primitive science as called primitive religion.

Dawkins has also come in for criticism from his secular materialist colleagues: the New York Times (21st November) reports the anthropologist MelvinKonner as having described Dawkins's approach as «simplistic and uninformed,» adding that «you generate more fear and hatred of science.

If the anthropologist identifies herself with the group under consideration when the word «men» is used, she soon finds that men's wives come in for discussion — that her sex is being talked «about» as the «other» rather than being included among those addressed directly.

3At present, for example, the well - entrenched neo-Darwinian hypothesis of «gradualism» (biological evolution occurs slowly, and more or less continuously as the constant interplay of random variations and natural selection over vast periods of time) is confronted with a somewhat more radical and neo-Lamarckian theory of «punctuated equilibrium» favored by Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Williamson, collaborated by fossil discoveries of paleontologist and cultural anthropologist Richard Leakey in Africa.

He devoted much time as well to the social sciences, participating, for example, in an interdisciplinary seminar called «The Birth of Civilization», under the direction of the great anthropologist Robert Redfield.

Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, for example, proposed that the study of religion is concerned with «the traditional acts and observances, regarded by the natives as sacred, carried out with reverence and awe, hedged around with prohibitions and special rules and behaviour.

Equally puzzling is the inclusion of Edmund Leach's essay «Fishing for Men on the Edge of the Wilderness,» which has little to recommend it but the author's eminence as perhaps the world's leading structural anthropologist — who here wishes to demonstrate that structuralism enables a style of biblical exegesis not unlike «the typological style of argument employed by the majority of early Christian writers.»

As Sherry Ortner has observed in a useful survey of the literature, anthropologists mainly understood Geertz as having argued for a stronger connection between culture and practice.5 They considered Geertz's critical contribution to be his departure from the Parsonian framework, especially his rejection of the Kluckhohns» emphasis on value - orientations, which Parsons himself had appropriateAs Sherry Ortner has observed in a useful survey of the literature, anthropologists mainly understood Geertz as having argued for a stronger connection between culture and practice.5 They considered Geertz's critical contribution to be his departure from the Parsonian framework, especially his rejection of the Kluckhohns» emphasis on value - orientations, which Parsons himself had appropriateas having argued for a stronger connection between culture and practice.5 They considered Geertz's critical contribution to be his departure from the Parsonian framework, especially his rejection of the Kluckhohns» emphasis on value - orientations, which Parsons himself had appropriated.

Intensive parenting, according to anthropologist Solveig Brown, author of All on One Plate: Cultural Expectations on American Mothers, «views children as innocent and priceless, and assumes that mothers will be the primary parent responsible for using child - rearing methods that are child - centered, expert - guided, emotionally absorbing, labor - intensive, and financially expensive.»

In addition to helping parents make the best and most appropriate decision for themselves, the information provided here should also be of use to educators, health professionals, public health officials, the media, sleep researchers, child protective services, coroners, forensic pathologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other social scientists, as well as researchers in a variety the developmental fields including human biology.

Nearly all human societies have the practice of assisting women as they give birth, and many anthropologists believe that the death rate in truly unassisted childbirth is too high for the human race to survive without it.

Her work as a social anthropologist has taken her round the globe and the knowledge, wisdom and engaging warmth of her books continues to be revelatory and indispensable for thousands of women.

That communication, or signaling, is what archaeologists and anthropologists call symbolic behavior, and it's why ochre use is often cited as a proxy for the cognitive ability of the people who used it.

The Harvard anthropologist, who has studied the strings for 25 years, introduces himself as «one of the two or three people in the world who actually spend their entire time fretting about the khipus... these devices that look like knotted mops.»

The human capacity for creativity and collaboration allows our species to make works of art as well as warfare, said anthropologist Agustín Fuentes during a lecture at AAAS» headquarters on 7 December.

An international team led by anthropologist Dr. Michaela Harbeck from the Bavarian State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy (SAPM) and population geneticist Professor Joachim Burger of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has now performed the first genomic analysis of populations that lived on the former territory of the Roman Empire in Bavaria, Germany, from around 500 AD and provided the first direct look at the complex population dynamics of what has popularly been known as the Migration Period, or «Völkerwanderung» in German.

As they gathered at their annual meeting, many physical anthropologists wore ribbons like this one to show support for encouraging diversity in their discipline.

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.

He could be seen as a typical European from earlier times and is precious for this reason alone,» explained the anthropologist Albert Zink from EURAC Research, the scientific leader of the congress.

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.

Islamic State (also known as ISIS) soldiers and Kurds who have fiercely battled them sacrifice themselves for sacred, nonnegotiable values, says a team led by anthropologist Scott Atran of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

For decades anthropologists have argued the «savanna hypothesis»: that bipedalism evolved on the savannas of Africa as spreading grasslands forced our ancestors to walk increasing distances across open territory.

«The controversy has been painful for lots of people; tribal members and scientists as well,» says Dennis O'Rourke, a biological anthropologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

For this reason, a few anthropologists, such as David Begun at the University of Toronto in Canada, have suggested that our ape ancestors spent a formative period in Europe — although they still agree that later hominin evolution, including that of the australopithecines and the origin of our own species, occurred solely in Africa.

However, forensic anthropologists need extra training for working with the police and the judicial system, as they can become expert witnesses in murder cases.

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.

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.

«As ambitious as our task was, we have only just scraped the surface in characterizing leadership across mammalian societies and some of the most exciting aspects of the project are still yet to come as biologists and anthropologists implement our novel scheme for additional taxa and societies,» Smith saiAs ambitious as our task was, we have only just scraped the surface in characterizing leadership across mammalian societies and some of the most exciting aspects of the project are still yet to come as biologists and anthropologists implement our novel scheme for additional taxa and societies,» Smith saias our task was, we have only just scraped the surface in characterizing leadership across mammalian societies and some of the most exciting aspects of the project are still yet to come as biologists and anthropologists implement our novel scheme for additional taxa and societies,» Smith saias biologists and anthropologists implement our novel scheme for additional taxa and societies,» Smith said.

Dame Jane Goodall DBE Ph.D., (born April 3, 1934) is an English primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist, probably best - known for conducting a forty - five year study of chimpanzee social and family life, as director of the Jane Goodall Institute in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.

As a medical anthropologist, she specializes in the study of multidisciplinary models for integrative medicine (healing circles) and the emergence of health coaches as novel agents in health behavior changAs a medical anthropologist, she specializes in the study of multidisciplinary models for integrative medicine (healing circles) and the emergence of health coaches as novel agents in health behavior changas novel agents in health behavior change.

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As a medical anthropologist, she specializes in the study of collaborative models for integrative medicine and the emergence of health coaches as novel agents in health behavior changAs a medical anthropologist, she specializes in the study of collaborative models for integrative medicine and the emergence of health coaches as novel agents in health behavior changas novel agents in health behavior change.

However, chia was no new discovery for humans: anthropologists and archeologists have found that chia seeds were a staple food in Southern Mexico since Aztec times, and it is suggested that they were as economically important as maize.

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

Helen Fisher, Biological Anthropologist and member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies at Rutgers University, has served as Chief Scientific Advisor to Match.com for several years.

Composed of field testimonies and hidden camera footage, the film also features interviews with Haiti's Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Raymond Joseph, the U.S. Department of States» Ambassador John Miller from the Office of Human Trafficking, renowned anthropologist and sugar historian Sidney Mintz, Carol Pier from Human Rights Watch, Public Interest Attorneys Bill Quigley as well as Greg Schell, and a number of activists from the field including human rights lawyer Noemi Mendez, Colette Lespinase of G.A.R.R. Haiti [Organization for Refugees and the Repatriated] and missionaries Pierre Ruquoy and Father Christopher Hartley.

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Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody has described herself as a «naked Margaret Mead,» a cultural anthropologist who for years studied the rites and rituals of the stripper tribe in lieu of the nine - to - five grind.

A little - seen 2005 movie directed by Régis Wargnier, Man to Man stars Joseph Fiennes, Kristen Scott Thomas and Hugh Bonneville as 19th century anthropologists who kidnap a couple of pygmies from Africa and take them back to Scotland for research, initially believing them to be the missing link.

The normally fine Bill Pullman is none - too - convincing as Dennis Alan, a Harvard anthropologist who's tasked by an American pharmaceutical company to travel to Haiti and learn the mystery behind a powder believed to cause zombification (the pharmaceutical conglomerate claims that it wants the formula for humanitarian reasons; ha!).

An anthropologist of 2116, for example, would look back to identify this as a not - so - subtle demonstration of power and authority.

He also served as the chair of the Human Development Program for 20 years, recruiting several generations of developmental psychologists and cultural anthropologists to Harvard whose work reshaped the face of child development and education across the country.