Sentences with phrase «by social anthropologist»

Written by a social anthropologist who observed and studied the English for over 12 years, Watching the English takes a look at English attitudes and behaviors in pursuit of defining their national character.

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These intensive analyses of the human scene by historian, social scientist, political scientist, and anthropologist, do not cover up the brutal, tragic record.

In addition to confirmation by leading evolutionary biologists and anthropologists, the behavioral goal assumptions underpinning George's model are also surprisingly consistent with feminist social analysis.

Theological study focused on congregations is not just accidentally related to the things studied by sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and social psychologists; it inherently involves such matters.

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).

«Culture shock is precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse,» Kalervo Oberg, the Canadian anthropologist who first coined the term almost a half - century ago, once said in a talk.

The effect seems to also hold for other animals: In 2003, a research team led by anthropologist Joan Silk of the University of California, Los Angeles, reported that female baboons with close social ties to unrelated females produce infants that survive longer.

By studying the social forces that bind these ills together, «you can really push the boundaries of public health,» says Dale Stratford, a medical anthropologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

Social anthropologist Edvard Hviding is one of three University of Bergen researchers to receive five years of major funding from the prestigious Toppforsk programme, awarded by the Research Council of Norway, for his project Mare Nullius.

The study of singles in America was funded by Match.com and conducted by MarketTools in association with biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, social historian Stephanie Coontz, evolutionary biologist Justin Garcia and the Institute for Evolutionary Studies at Binghamton University (EvoS).

[N.B. «Social Objects» is a term I did not coin myself but was turned onto by the anthropologist and Jaiku founder, Jyri Engestrom.]

Taking its title from anthropologist Mary Douglas's analyses of how disturbances arise in the city's physical contours and social order, Matter Out of Place presents new work by New York — based artists who observe, represent, and activate public sites, generating alternative relationships to such strictly defined spaces as the housing project, park, and museum lobby.

Price's commission will explore the archives and collections of the Ashmolean Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum (which cares for Oxford's holdings of anthropology and world archaeology), looking particularly at photographs of artefacts and documents used historically by curators, anthropologists and archaeologists working in the field, while simultaneously engaging with the social and psychological implications of digital technologies.

Social research organisation Mass Observation was started by anthropologist Tom Harrisson, poet Charles Madge and filmmaker Humphrey Jennings.

Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art is edited by Reimar Schefold, professor emeritus of the anthropology and sociology of Indonesia at Leiden University, in collaboration with Steven G. Alpert, an author, consultant, and connoisseur of the arts of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim, with contributions by Steven G. Alpert; George Ellis, former President and Director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts; Nico de Jonge, Vice-Director of the University Museum of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Vernon Kedit, an authority on the weaving traditions of the Saribas region (Sarawak, Borneo); Reimar Schefold; Achim Sibeth, former curator of the Southeast Asian collection at the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt / Main; and Roxana Waterson, a social anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.

Peter — i'm talking about actual social networks as studied by anthropologists and sociologists, not the articulated kinds available on services like Orkut and Friendster.

Last week, the New York Times published an Op - Ed by Peter Wynn Kirby, a social anthropologist at Oxford, alleging that the United Kingdom promoted the Hinkley Point C project as «a stealth initiative to bolster Britain's nuclear deterrent.»

The various kinds of research undertaken by an anthropologist revolves around activities such as study of social, economic and behavior of human beings, understanding culture, customs, values, habits of human beings, research earlier biological evidence for better understanding of modern day living etc..

Portland About Blog Anthropologizing features a mixed - bag of posts on applied social research, business anthropology, design and user experience research, social observations, and other topics by Portland - based anthropologist and design researcher Amy L. Santee.