Sentences with phrase «for anthropological studies»

The distinctive impetus for anthropological study has been and continues to be the conviction that human differences are significant and worthy of investigation.

A former dancer and choreographer, Drid Williams is the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement, and has written numerous books on dance, the theory of human movement, and anthropology.

Not exact matches

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

In his essay on the eighteenth century, originally conceived as part of a comprehensive anthropological and psychological work which he never completed, Humboldt articulated methodological principles for studying that era as any other.

From an article by David L Schindler, Dean of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, Washington, DC on Life, entitled Family and Development: The Anthropological Unity of Caritas in Veritate, in the Bollettino di Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa V (2009) 93 - 97.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

'' [The authors] stitched together geological evidence, anthropological information as well as geophysical modeling to put together this story that is tantalizing for a geologist but it's frightening for people in Hawaii,» said Robert Witter, a geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage, Alaska who was not involved in the study.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

The study of human life can happen anywhere — there are opportunities for anthropological observation available all around us, all the time.

A proof - of - concept study finds that it is possible to identify an individual's ancestral background based on his or her fingerprint characteristics — a discovery with significant applications for law enforcement and anthropological research.

Robert Williams, the anthropological geneticist at Arizona State University, collided with the question in a study for the Strong Heart cardiovascular project.

Forthcoming in the Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, the study offers the earliest known archaeological evidence for human construction of large - scale levees and other flood - control systems in China.

It was also influenced by Pritzker's longstanding anthropological study of translation in Chinese medicine, which is detailed in her new book, «Living Translation: Language and the Search for Resonance in U.S. Chinese Medicine,» recently published by Berghahn Books.

Psychologist Thibaud Gruber of the University of Zurich's Anthropological Institute & Museum in Switzerland and his colleagues began studying Batu Mbelin's quarantined apes because political unrest made it unwise for the researchers to work in the field.

Although the original inception of the paleo diet had its roots in evolutionary biology as well as in anthropological ethnographic studies of contemporary hunter - gatherers and ancient foraging populations, the newfound rationale for adopting a paleo template lies in its emphasis on those foodstuffs delineated in the peer - reviewed literature to have the most nutritive value.

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Whether celestial occurrences or excerpts of Mayan mythological and political history, the stone carvings provide for unique archaeological and anthropological studies of this mysterious lost society.

This research has not been developed starting from a generic anthropological study, but from a rediscovery and deconstruction of their personal stories, which are themselves the result of a mixture between Catholic education, the 80s - 90s culture of fantasy fictions, the fascination for the mythological and the fairy - tale, the study of cosmological and theosophical theories.

For purposes of mediation, the State is willing to accept the first documented contact as the primary reference point from which an inference might then be made back to the time of sovereignty... It is also recognised that the data more pertinent to an anthropological inquiry can only be found in recorded studies undertaken well after the date of first contact.