Sentences with phrase «by cultural anthropologist»

Thanks to Garry Wise's Wise Law Blog, I've been pointed to a nifty video about the web and text produced by cultural anthropologist, Michael Wesch, of Kansas State University.

Deranged Authority: The Force of Culture in Climate Change, worth four academic credits, is set to be taught in the Fall 2018 semester by cultural anthropologist Jennifer Carlson.

Four recent major studies of human problems support a measure of optimism in human affairs: Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History; Quincy Wright's Study of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World Crisis.

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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.

Among the cultural forms studied by the anthropologist are ones that explicitly embody spiritual meanings, including the beliefs, practices, and institutions of religion, some forms of which appear in every known culture.

Thus to say that a philosopher, even when he is Heidegger, all by himself sees what the New Testament says, is to appear to have no sense of historical context; certainly not the kind of contextual sensitivity which the cultural anthropologist has come to understand and value.

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.

And off they went, like D.C. commuters sent horribly astray by a GPS that mistakes Buffalo for Bethesda, or cultural anthropologists dropping in on a particularly primitive society.

Again, the publishers proclaim on the dust - jacket of another recent work (Edmund Perry, The Gospel in Dispute [see n. 34, below], the publishers are Doubleday): «Dr. Perry has used the skills of the cultural anthropologist in presenting a clear picture of the four leading non-Christian religions — a picture accepted enthusiastically by their exponents.»

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

1999 Reviewed for American Anthropologist, Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception by Sarah Franklin.

The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future By Gretchen Bakke Cultural anthropologist Bakke writes a biography of sorts about our antiquated and overburdened power grid and looks ahead to what may replace it.

«Biocultural anthropologists,» says Watkins, «are physical anthropologists that are committed to determining the facts of peoples» lives by integrating biological and cultural data.»

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

The series titled Denial of Deathis inspired by the writings of cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, in particular his Pulitzer Prize - winning book of the same name.

The series titled Denial of Death is inspired by the writings of cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, in particular his Pulitzer Prize - winning book of the same name.

In parallel, the gallery is presenting Refraction: New Photography of Africa and its Diaspora, curated by Steven Kasher Gallery Director Cassandra Johnson and Niama Safia Sandy, Independent Curator and Cultural Anthropologist.

A Cultural Anthropologist and STS scholar by training, she studies knowledge politics and other socio - cultural dynamics related to global environmental change, environmental sustainability and deveCultural Anthropologist and STS scholar by training, she studies knowledge politics and other socio - cultural dynamics related to global environmental change, environmental sustainability and devecultural dynamics related to global environmental change, environmental sustainability and development.

About Blog Cultural anthropologist, researcher, author, and teacher impassioned by understanding all things human.

Tweet Guest blog written by Iben Larsen, who is a cultural anthropologist and MA in Media Science, based in Copenhagen.

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.