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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
An adviser to the excellent documentary series
With God on Our Side and a
cultural anthropologist at the University of California - Santa Cruz, Harding explores the rhetorical world of Falwell and his followers.
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.
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.
Dr. Cecilia Tomori,
anthropologist with postdoctoral training in public health, Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and author of Nighttime Breastfeeding: An American
Cultural Dilemma is an expert on breastsleeping.
He seemed to play
with his
cultural status,» says Hélène Mialet, an
anthropologist from the University of California, Berkeley, who courted controversy in 2012
with the publication of her book Hawking Incorporated.
Engle explores the debate among
anthropologists, ever since the AAAS submitted its Statement on Human Rights to the United Nations in 1947, over the tensions between the limits of tolerance and
cultural relativism
with the pursuit of more universal norms of social justice.
The company, who we ran a feature on this morning, have teamed up
with social and
cultural anthropologist Jean Smith from Flirtology to enlighten singles about the secrets of attraction and flirting.
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.
Cultural anthropologist Gretchen Bakke reimagines the US's electrical grid for contemporary values and
with new energy sources in mind.
Her previous publications include personal essays (Gravel, So to Speak, Palaver, Heartland Review West, and Role Reboot); interviews
with Geraldine Brooks and Alice Sebold (Weber: The Contemporary West); a
cultural analysis of
anthropologist Gladys Reichard's fieldwork
with -LSB-...]
Cultural anthropologist and independent curator Niama Safia Sandy co-curated Refraction
with Steven Kasher Gallery director Cassandra Johnson.
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.
Thursday, April 20, 7:00 p.m. -LCB- 56 Broadway -RCB- Dr. Renato Rosaldo, the second Black Mountain College Legacy Research Fellow at UNC Asheville,
anthropologist, and practitioner of antropoesía (anthro - poetry), will discuss
cultural citizenship and the possibilities for social healing
with UNC Asheville Professor of Political Science Dr. Ken Betsalel and Professor of Anthropology Dr. Heidi Kelley.
Dr Myanna Lahsen, a
cultural anthropologist at the University of Colorado, has specialised in understanding how professional scientists, some of them
with highly respected careers, turn climate sceptic.
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.
Anthropologists, social psychologists and historians including neural, genetic, biological, and
cultural experts, they investigated the cognitive, emotional, sexual and behavioral components of passionate love
with children, adolescents, and adults along
with unmarried and married couples (Cacioppo, Bianchi - Demicheli, Hatfield, & Rapson, 2012; Cacioppo & Hatfield, 2013; Hatfield & Rapson, 2008a; Hatfield, Rapson, & Aumer - Ryan, 2008; Hatfield, Rapson, & Martel, 2007).