Sentences with phrase «as cultural anthropologists»

These seven artists serve as cultural anthropologists of our time, each creating a substantial body of work focusing on various segments of American youth.

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Passionate about the why's, how's of family and community she pursued a career as a cultural anthropologist receiving a Bachelor's Degree from NEIU.

As cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito put it, «You're seeing the shift in expertise in authority, so that kids may know a lot about certain things, but parents can also bring really important expertise to the table, and that's when you see a really productive shift in power dynamic around learning.»

Before Nonas began making objects, he worked for ten years as a cultural anthropologist, studying the way native cultures conceptualize space.

As musician and critic Greg Tate wrote recently, «What you see in [Lawson's] work is photographer as cultural anthropologist but also as cultural vivisectionist and forensic curator.

Born in New York in 1936, Nonas worked for 10 years as a cultural anthropologist, studying the way indigenous cultures in Mexico, Canada, and Arizona conceptualize space, before he began sculpting in the 1960s without any formal art education.

Myriah Cornwell is trained as a cultural anthropologist, focusing on the intersections between humans and nature around issues of environmental justice.

As a Cultural Anthropologist one of my greatest skills and passions is being able to communicate with people and learn from them on many different levels.

Not exact matches

Wirlu - murra elders have led a team of anthropologists and archaeologists on an expedition into the outback as part of a three - year cultural mapping initiative sponsored by Fortescue Metals Group.

Cultural anthropologists have discovered that homosexuality was probably not as much of an issue among Native Americans as it is among Europeans.

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.

the preoccupation of the psychologist with purely human behavior, its description, and development; the preoccupation of the sociologist and cultural anthropologist with the forms and development of society, make these mental health professionals unable to define the function of the churchman, though their professions may well be of immense importance in providing information when the clergyman thinks through his unique and necessary role as pastor to persons.

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.

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.

A corollary, promoted by some anthropologists, says that the pristine cultures of such remote people groups should remain undisturbed by modernity — and especially by missionaries, who are seen as meddling cultural imperialists.

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 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 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.

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.»

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

Anthropologists and ethnologists have uncovered much cultural evidence, from oral histories and illustrations, that ancient African artists often used ritual animal blood in their creations, generally as attempts to please or appease their deities.

He is a socio - cultural anthropologist and ethnographer, though I have also been trained in archaeology and have worked as a professional archaeologist and briefly as a museum director.

In certain respects it's almost as if cultural anthropologists descended on a foreign land, but, unfortunately, it's a withered part of this nation that is rarely visited.

First run through my head, A Mighty Heart strikes me as pointless and unsurprising; Winterbottom is of course a better anthropologist than he is a political philosopher: if he's trying to apply Donald Symons's models of cultural evolution to ethics instead of more immediately compatible pursuits (music, or literature), then what's emerged from the experiment is the revelation that ethics and morality appear to have nothing to do with the base nature of man — and, moreover, that Angelina Jolie will never be Nicole Kidman in her ability to be both herself and someone else.

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.

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

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.

And as they collaborate in a hyperconnected world, cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito says, kids «are becoming very fluent in online communication, the use of digital media, posting, linking, forwarding, remixing media.

As put by anthropologist Clifford Geertz, «The giving to art objects a cultural significance, is always a local matter».

Not only does it provide a wealth of highly readable information about the hilltribes that live in the mountainous area known as the «Golden Triangle» that spans the borders of five South - East Asian countries (see sidebar), but it also provides a study of two other cultural groups that are a mystery to most of us - missionaries and anthropologists!

As the quote from the American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead once said «A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

As Elizabeth Hallam and Brian Street put it in their book Cultural Encounters, Representing Otherness: «Anthropologists are always implicated in the social and cultural processes that they describe and analyseCultural Encounters, Representing Otherness: «Anthropologists are always implicated in the social and cultural processes that they describe and analysecultural processes that they describe and analyse.»

People tend to think of anthropology as being a very distinct practice from art or art history, but they are extraordinarily close: artists, curators, and anthropologists are all looking at cultural phenomena and particularly at objects and their use, and what that says about society at large.

Sheila Pree Bright (American, b. 1967), is an award - winning photographer based in Atlanta, GA and described as a «social cultural anthropologist.»

Biemann's practice has long included discussions with academics and other practitioners, she has worked with anthropologists, cultural theorists, NGO members, architects, as well as scholars of sonic culture.

Downey quickly established himself as an avant - garde pioneer of video and technology art and for the next two decades began to explore invisible forms of energy and communication, describing himself as a «cultural communicant» and an «activating anthropologist.»

But diverse sights such as these are nothing the well traveled documentarian and cultural anthropologist hasn't seen before.

In 1973, Ernest Becker, a cultural anthropologist cross-trained in philosophy, sociology, and psychiatry, invoked consciousness of self and the inevitability of death as the primary sources of human anxiety and repression.

Even though I am a cultural anthropologist with academic insights into human behaviour, psychology, and consciousness, I won't bore you with long academic speeches that are miles away from your hands - on reality - most of what you read on these pages will have a firm root in experience, typically my own as a mother.

They argued they were members of a wider society identified by anthropologists as the Western Desert Cultural Bloc16 and that they held native title over the area through their acknowledgement and observation of Western Desert traditional laws and customs.17 The judge accepted the society of the applicants was the Western Desert Cultural Bloc.