Sentences with phrase «in as anthropologists»

«Going in as anthropologists we assumed that the norms would have a strong influence» on BMI, says Alexandra Brewis, executive director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Not exact matches

In fact, according to anthropologist Krystal D'Costa, the like button has become so influential as a tool that it can boost or shatter a person's ego.

Many anthropologists will label native religions as pagan, even if that religious tradition in Africa has nothing in common with one in the Philippines.

In Larsen's account of anthropology, we see, to the contrary, that generations of leading British anthropologists have never been able to ignore their slain God, Jesus Christ, but have recurrently and with varying results wrestled with the truth claims of Christianity, often engaging theology as a highly generative intellectual conversation partner.

The anthropologist Claude Lévi Strauss argued that symbolic structures within human societies, including their kinship systems and their mythologies, could be analyzed in the same way, as systems of differences structured according to binary oppositions (e.g., life / death; male / female; hunting / farming; outside / inside).

In addition their is a great book called the 7 Truths of the Bible that have nothing to do with proving religion but the historical facts as agreed upon by archaelogist / historians / anthropologists, many of whom are nonbelievers / skeptics / atheists

Imagine what such an Hegelian project could accomplish today, in the wake of Eliade, Freud, Jung, James, Durkheim, van der Leeuw, Wach, Weber, etc., as well as countless scholarly anthropologists reporting from the field!

These objections are likely to be reinforced in the minds of those who make them by the qualifications which Buber sets for the philosophical anthropologist: that he must be an individual to whom man's existence as man has become questionable, that he must have experienced the tension of solitude, and that he must discover the essence of man not as a scientific observer, removed in so far as possible from the object that he observes, but as a participant who only afterwards gains the distance from his subject matter which will enable him to formulate the insights he has attained.

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.

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 anthropologist from, say, one of Saturn's inhabited moons, on landing in America and managing to untangle our phonemes and morphemes, would soon discover that a word so prevalent as «men»...

Sexual attraction and union is - as every field anthropologist knows and as is in any case obvious - the very creation of community.

As regards the manner in which I shall have to administer this lectureship, I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist.

Dawkins has also come in for criticism from his secular materialist colleagues: the New York Times (21st November) reports the anthropologist MelvinKonner as having described Dawkins's approach as «simplistic and uninformed,» adding that «you generate more fear and hatred of science.

If the anthropologist identifies herself with the group under consideration when the word «men» is used, she soon finds that men's wives come in for discussion — that her sex is being talked «about» as the «other» rather than being included among those addressed directly.

He counters this hunch by extending it, in a strange thought - experiment, to Martian zombies sent to earth as anthropologists to study human behavior.

An anthropologist from, say, one of Saturn's inhabited moons, on landing in America and managing to untangle our phonemes and morphemes, would soon discover that a word so prevalent as «men» gives rise to conflicting assumptions about who is being discussed.

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.

He devoted much time as well to the social sciences, participating, for example, in an interdisciplinary seminar called «The Birth of Civilization», under the direction of the great anthropologist Robert Redfield.

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 inquiry.

As Sherry Ortner has observed in a useful survey of the literature, anthropologists mainly understood Geertz as having argued for a stronger connection between culture and practice.5 They considered Geertz's critical contribution to be his departure from the Parsonian framework, especially his rejection of the Kluckhohns» emphasis on value - orientations, which Parsons himself had appropriateAs Sherry Ortner has observed in a useful survey of the literature, anthropologists mainly understood Geertz as having argued for a stronger connection between culture and practice.5 They considered Geertz's critical contribution to be his departure from the Parsonian framework, especially his rejection of the Kluckhohns» emphasis on value - orientations, which Parsons himself had appropriateas having argued for a stronger connection between culture and practice.5 They considered Geertz's critical contribution to be his departure from the Parsonian framework, especially his rejection of the Kluckhohns» emphasis on value - orientations, which Parsons himself had appropriated.

The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

Delving into the emotional strife of three anthropologists battling their own demons as well as each others», King's historical novel set in 1930s New Guinea gave insight into a time and place that had been previously unknown - unthought of, even - by me.

It is where the tiny crinkled yellow - brown aborigines known as Bushmen have made their last stand against encroaching civilization, speaking in the clucking tongue of turkeys, eating lizards, hunting with bows and arrows and enduring the probing of fascinated anthropologists.

In truth, as Bennett points out, the idea of a short - term contractual marriage is not new; anthropologist Margaret Mead was talking about such an arrangement back in the 1970In truth, as Bennett points out, the idea of a short - term contractual marriage is not new; anthropologist Margaret Mead was talking about such an arrangement back in the 1970in the 1970s.

I have only had the good fortune to meet two of the Founders in person, Edwina Froehlich and Marian Tompson, but the importance of all seven of these women to my life — both my career as an anthropologist and my experiences as a mother — can not be overstated.

Margaret Mead, whose seminal book Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) informed the sexual revolution, observed in her field studies as an anthropologist that the most violent tribes were those that withheld touch in infancy.

As anthropologist Margaret MacDonald explains in a recent piece in the Lancet, The cultural evolution of natural birth:

In addition to helping parents make the best and most appropriate decision for themselves, the information provided here should also be of use to educators, health professionals, public health officials, the media, sleep researchers, child protective services, coroners, forensic pathologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other social scientists, as well as researchers in a variety the developmental fields including human biologIn addition to helping parents make the best and most appropriate decision for themselves, the information provided here should also be of use to educators, health professionals, public health officials, the media, sleep researchers, child protective services, coroners, forensic pathologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other social scientists, as well as researchers in a variety the developmental fields including human biologin a variety the developmental fields including human biology.

In Our Babies, Ourselves, Small writes not just as an anthropologist, wanting to observe and record human behavior and how it relates to our biological and evolutionary roots as mammals, but also from an ethnopediatrics perspective, which seeks to advise us as parents how to integrate babies» innate needs with our culture in an infant - appropriate waIn Our Babies, Ourselves, Small writes not just as an anthropologist, wanting to observe and record human behavior and how it relates to our biological and evolutionary roots as mammals, but also from an ethnopediatrics perspective, which seeks to advise us as parents how to integrate babies» innate needs with our culture in an infant - appropriate wain an infant - appropriate way.

It's a wrinkled - nose stance that's hard to get excited about, especially when the imagined au naturel alternative is «a baby's bare bottom bouncing through the house,» as anthropologist Meredith Small fondly put it in a New York Times op - ed this week.

«There is no such thing as infant sleep, there is no such thing as breastfeeding, there is only breastsleeping,» reads the title of a new peer - reviewed commentary piece by University of Notre Dame anthropologists James McKenna and Lee Gettler that appears in the prestigious European journal Acta Paediatrica.

Nearly all human societies have the practice of assisting women as they give birth, and many anthropologists believe that the death rate in truly unassisted childbirth is too high for the human race to survive without it.

As a result, as anthropologist Katherine A. Dettwyler has shown in her book Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives (co-edited with Patricia Stuart - Macadam), it can be calculated that a young primate's weaning age in days is equal to 2.71 times their mother's body weight in grams to the 0.56 poweAs a result, as anthropologist Katherine A. Dettwyler has shown in her book Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives (co-edited with Patricia Stuart - Macadam), it can be calculated that a young primate's weaning age in days is equal to 2.71 times their mother's body weight in grams to the 0.56 poweas anthropologist Katherine A. Dettwyler has shown in her book Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives (co-edited with Patricia Stuart - Macadam), it can be calculated that a young primate's weaning age in days is equal to 2.71 times their mother's body weight in grams to the 0.56 power.

In the journal, Acta Paediatrica, McKenna, along with fellow anthropologist Dr. Lee Gettler, argued that there is no such thing as infant sleep and there is no such thing as breastfeeding — there is only breastsleeping.

I was simply applying the same standards to parenting information that I used in my work as a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary anthropologist.

As anthropologist Jean Liedloff observed in the jungles of South America, babies were carried in arms (or slings) and nursed in response to their body signals [v].

The Harvard anthropologist, who has studied the strings for 25 years, introduces himself as «one of the two or three people in the world who actually spend their entire time fretting about the khipus... these devices that look like knotted mops.»

As an anthropologist, I was interested in the vast variety of traits within humans and across primates more broadly.

That's an «exciting» change that suggests self - domestication can occur as a result of natural selection, says Brian Hare, an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved in the work.

An international team led by anthropologist Dr. Michaela Harbeck from the Bavarian State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy (SAPM) and population geneticist Professor Joachim Burger of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has now performed the first genomic analysis of populations that lived on the former territory of the Roman Empire in Bavaria, Germany, from around 500 AD and provided the first direct look at the complex population dynamics of what has popularly been known as the Migration Period, or «Völkerwanderung» in German.

As they gathered at their annual meeting, many physical anthropologists wore ribbons like this one to show support for encouraging diversity in their discipline.

The difference between Paleoamerican and modern Native American facial features is likely a combination of additional waves of migration from Siberia, via Beringia, and genetic drift, a gradual change in appearance and other traits as populations divide, migrate and adapt, says Jim Chatters, a Seattle - area anthropologist who led the multinational study of Naia.

In addition to anthropologists from Mainz and Munich, the team also includes Dr. Krishna Veeramah, a population geneticist from Stony Brook University in the US, as well as colleagues from the United Kingdom and SwitzerlanIn addition to anthropologists from Mainz and Munich, the team also includes Dr. Krishna Veeramah, a population geneticist from Stony Brook University in the US, as well as colleagues from the United Kingdom and Switzerlanin the US, as well as colleagues from the United Kingdom and Switzerland.

Yet, in the 1990s, anthropologist Frank Salomon discovered that villagers in San Andrés de Tupicocha, a small rural community in the same province as Collata, had continued to make and interpret khipus into the early 20th century.

In 2010, a team of anthropologists claimed that cutmarks on a pair of 3.4 - million - year - old animal bones found in an area of the Afar region known as Dikika were made by ancient stone - tool butcherIn 2010, a team of anthropologists claimed that cutmarks on a pair of 3.4 - million - year - old animal bones found in an area of the Afar region known as Dikika were made by ancient stone - tool butcherin an area of the Afar region known as Dikika were made by ancient stone - tool butchery.

Alexandra Alvergne, an anthropologist at the University of Montpellier, France, and colleagues measured testosterone levels in polygynous and monogamous fathers as well unmarried men without children, all living in Senegalese villages.

«We hope that this research on dental calculus from the Norris Farms site acts as the first step toward future paleogenomic investigations of prehistoric North American remains in a respectful and non-destructive way that interests and benefits both descendent communities and anthropologists,» said Andrew Ozga, OU doctoral graduate, and currently postdoctoral candidate at Arizona State University.

«Jedek is not a language spoken by an unknown tribe in the jungle, as you would perhaps imagine, but in a village previously studied by anthropologists.

Once they landed in Mexico, they were all recorded as «chinos» — Chinese, says Moreno - Estrada, who will present the work this weekend at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) annual meeting here.