Sentences with phrase «modern anthropology»

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Goes back to Malinowski and «Kula» (The father of modern anthropology) circa World War One.

His search leads him to the origins of modern anthropology — and into the family history of Martiya's victim, a brilliant young missionary whose grandparents left Oklahoma to preach the Word in the 1920s and never went back.

Robert Towne's script (writing as P.H. Vazak) hews close to Burroughs» origin as found in Tarzan of the Apes by way of modern anthropology.

Yet since the rise of modern anthropology we know that tales of dying and rising gods are commonplace.

The protest of this newest of modern anthropologies has taken various forms.

Not exact matches

Probing the relationship of modern psychology to Christian anthropology, or of psychotherapeutic style to pastoral care and leadership, is scarcely a new enterprise, of course.

It is a grand and unique attempt to synthesise modern science with the history and philosophy of science of neo-scholastics such as Etienne Gilson, the metaphysics and theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, the mysticism of Eckhart, and Henri de Lubac's retrieval of the pre-Augustinian tripartite (body - soul - spirit) anthropology.

It thus indirectly reveals the historical reasons for modern society's «need» for anthropology.

And so the simple idea of secularization theory — that over time modern secularity replaces premodern religious credulity — is negated by an exact reverse in the case of leading scholars in the development of British anthropology.

I presume that it is this awareness that led Pannenburg and other theologians to affirm that anthropology is the primary language of modern theology.

The modern notion of the self, like the modern notion of rationality, also needs radical rethinking — especially in new theological anthropologies.

As with other fields of sociological research the question has been asked if there is good enough reason to treat socioreligious phenomena separately instead of handling them in the traditional disciplines (theology, philosophy, anthropology, etcetera).30 Yet, as against such doubts, the work done by modern scholarship has proved the right to an independent existence of «sociology of religion.»

An easy conscience is the unifying force among the competing anthropologies of modern culture, and they justify this by the most diverse and contradictory metaphysical theories.

Within the context of special revelation, Niebuhr turned to two distinctive biblical teachings about man, man as creature and image of God, and used these two doctrines to clarify and substantiate his original assumption about man's paradoxical environment of nature and spirit, and to refute the competing anthropologies of modern culture.

Of course we must not take this to imply that the New Testament presents us with an anthropology like that which modern science can give us.

Waldstein skillfully articulates, thirteenth - century France was ordered according to a different theology and anthropology, within which the temporal and the spiritual were dynamically and sacramentally interrelated, manifested in a social space known as «the peace» that bore little resemblance to modern states, confessional or otherwise.

Furthermore, Greek philosophical anthropology assumed an atomistic world view, paradigmatically expressed in Plato and given its modern version by Descartes.

Among these modern beliefs is the suspicious attitude in which symbolic expression is now held by philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, and theology.

-- to a sound anthropology: Postmodernity reacts against modern paradigms such as power and against the primacy long given to reason over the conscience and the heart, which has led to rationalism, a Western abuse.

Catherine Osborn, MA is a PhD student in medical anthropology at Case Western Reserve University whose research interests focus on historical and modern uses of technology to mediate childbirth and fertility.

Modern civilization may not have dulled humankind's bloodlust, but living in a large, organized society may increase the likelihood of surviving a war, a Florida State University anthropology professor said.

Yet the vast majority of studies in the human - related sciences are not based on field research, and the most field - oriented disciplines, such as sociology and cultural anthropology, have been least receptive to the modern evolutionary perspective.

«While all of the anatomical details in the Misliya fossil are fully consistent with modern humans, some features are also found in Neandertals and other human groups,» said Quam, associate professor of anthropology at Binghamton.

In digging for clues to how Fournier died the scientists applied techniques from archaeology and anthropology to a modern battlefield.

«Status has its obvious rewards in a modern, stratified society — if you were on the sinking Titanic in 1912 and you were high status, then it was more likely there was a place for you on one of the lifeboats,» said Michael Gurven, professor of anthropology at UCSB and senior author of the paper.

Our faculty pursues research in DNA analysis, GIS, disease diagnostics and other biomarkers, ecological anthropology, forensic anthropology, fossil excavation, modern Mayan cultures, Global and One Health, and both historic and prehistoric archaeology.

Research interests: Hominin evolution, human skeletal biology, dental anthropology, comparative morphology, dispersal and cultural adaptations of modern humans

On the surface, that may appear to be true, especially in modern man, but an expert in the field of «fear psychology» (or animal behavior, or anthropology, etc.) should know better.

The revelations in the film about modern cultural anthropology are indescribably delicious, speaking to pleasure in a way that Jonathan Rosenbaum once identified as including the sensations of fear and unbalance — as an experience, the picture is as exhilaratingly unnerving as only an illicit document can be.

The city has some good museums, to name but two, we recommend the Macay, museum of modern art, and the anthropology museum that gives a great introduction to Mayan culture.

With an approach that hovers between the fields of anthropology and art history, Francesco Pellizzi questions the status of the Modern «art» object, asking us to consider its links to the enigmatic products of Primitive peoples.

Pesanti holds masters degrees in cultural anthropology from the University of Oxford, England, and in modern / contemporary art history from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.

In 2013 Lopez completed dual Masters at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory, and Criticism and Arts Administration and Policy; her graduate thesis examined anthropology, museology, and performance in work by Guillermo Gómez - Peña and Coco Fusco.

He combines the disciplines of anthropology, biology, architecture, engineering, agriculture, and ecology to address modern challenges of providing for human needs while maintaining ecosystem health.