Sentences with phrase «ethnographic records»

Wide variety Watts and his colleagues pruned the 400 or so known Austronesian cultures down to 96 with detailed ethnographic records, excluding any in which contact with Abrahamic religions might have had a distorting outside influence.

For example, sociologist Scott Coltrane has examined coded ethnographic records of a representative sample of close to a hundred preindustrial cultures.

That is the ethnographic record, the collected descriptions of all the ways people have actually lived written by observers on the scene.

In the worldwide ethnographic record, mothers accidentally suffocating their babies during the night is relatively unheard of, except among western industrialized nations, but here there are in the overwhelming number of cases, explanations of the deaths that require reference to dangerous circumstances and not to the act itself.

«They would be very strange hunters, if you look at the ethnographic record, to knock out 35 genera that quickly,» says Douglas Kennett, an archaeologist at the University of Oregon who conducted the research with 25 colleagues.

Hill's latest endeavor, the Kinship Project, is an African American ethnographic record of family photography & ephemera from 1839 to 2010.

It contains everything he's been listening to, from hardcore to ethnographic recordings to abstractions.

Not exact matches

De Andrade's most recent video, O peixe [The Fish](2016), borrows the style of ethnographic films that anthropologists make to record the cultures and traditions they study.

In determining her food types, the artist employed non-traditional research material, such as memory, observation, oral history and menus, in a process reminiscent of early ethnographic studies conducted by ship's artists who recorded the customs, clothing, and cuisine of cultures different from their own.

Fig. 3: 2.30 pm: Noah Angell Forgetting and negative space within the ethnographic field recording by Noah Angell is a lecture / performance which focuses upon lapses in historical memory, misremembering, archaic speech, and the absence of the historical subject as heard in field recordings.

For his exhibitions, Condon records on video these unscripted and often disorienting interactions, documenting them in an ethnographic style.