Sentences with phrase «of as an anthropologist»

For the latter, Jamie «hung out sort of as an anthropologist» in the neighborhoods of his native southern California, says Ralph Rugoff, director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.

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Wirlu - murra elders have led a team of anthropologists and archaeologists on an expedition into the outback as part of a three - year cultural mapping initiative sponsored by Fortescue Metals Group.

And some of us are troubled by the shallow reasoning that has dominated the political discussions surrounding this move, as though the threadbare idea of equality were enough to settle every question concerning the long - term destiny of mankind and as though the writings of the anthropologists (not to mention the poets, the philosophers, the theologians, the novelists, the sociologists) counted for nothing beside the slogans of Stonewall.

Anthropologists such as Geertz and Robert Redfield 3 make a distinction between the world view of a community and its ethos.

Cultural anthropologists have discovered that homosexuality was probably not as much of an issue among Native Americans as it is among Europeans.

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

Sullivan worked closely with anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, and with Fromm and Horney as they together challenged classical psychoanalytic theory because of its inadequate instinctual and biological presuppositions.

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).

If your belief is that our world is only 10,000 years old because God got bored and magically created all living things exactly as they are today over the course of a week, you are basically calling all the work and discoveries by archaeologists and anthropologists a bunch of baloney.

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»...

This public face of religion, to which social anthropologists who study religion give particular attention, is important, although committed believers may wish to distinguish themselves, perhaps as «born - again» Christians from so - called «nominal» Christians.

MARY DOUGLAS AND A PRESCRIPTION FOR MODERN BRITAIN Dear Fr Editor Some of the more thoughtful parts of the secular media have recently acknowledged the passing of Mary Douglas, who Commonwealdescribes as «one of most influential Catholic intellectuals of the postwar era, and... perhaps the most influential social anthropologist from any background».

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

We all came up out of the same deep, dark valley, and while some have climbed higher than others, it is true even now, as Franz Boas, the anthropologist, writes, that «if we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be represented.»

CNN: My Take: If you hear God speak audibly, you (usually) aren't crazy Tanya Marie («T.M.») Luhrmann, psychological anthropologist and the author of «When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God,» explains that hearing the voice of God isn't as unusual as many would believe.

But, quite apart from the fact that many anthropologists — for instance, Jevons and Frazer — expressly oppose «religion» and «magic» to each other, it is certain that the whole system of thought which leads to magic, fetishism, and the lower superstitions may just as well be called primitive science as called primitive religion.

Is war an ineradicable part of human nature, as some recent anthropologists maintain?

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.

But more profound investigation and more sympathetic understanding of the primitive groups, as well as a deeper penetration into the meaning of more sophisticated worship, have made it clear to the majority of anthropologists that there is a very real distinction between magic and worship.

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.

Nor can circumcision be regarded as natural or the eating of pork unnatural, despite what so many anthropologists from Ernest Renan to Mary Douglas have tried to establish.

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.

Commentators such as anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer have noted that our preoccupation with video violence is a manifestation of the «pornography of death.»

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.

As has recently been pointed by an anthropologist, the early Christian communities bear many features that are specific to millenarian movements, such as homogeneity, equality, anonymity and absence of propertAs has recently been pointed by an anthropologist, the early Christian communities bear many features that are specific to millenarian movements, such as homogeneity, equality, anonymity and absence of propertas homogeneity, equality, anonymity and absence of property.

A corollary, promoted by some anthropologists, says that the pristine cultures of such remote people groups should remain undisturbed by modernity — and especially by missionaries, who are seen as meddling cultural imperialists.

Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, for example, proposed that the study of religion is concerned with «the traditional acts and observances, regarded by the natives as sacred, carried out with reverence and awe, hedged around with prohibitions and special rules and behaviour.

Equally puzzling is the inclusion of Edmund Leach's essay «Fishing for Men on the Edge of the Wilderness,» which has little to recommend it but the author's eminence as perhaps the world's leading structural anthropologist — who here wishes to demonstrate that structuralism enables a style of biblical exegesis not unlike «the typological style of argument employed by the majority of early Christian writers.»

Thus they urge historians of religions to concentrate more on the historical, phenomenological, and institutional aspects of religions, depending heavily on the co-operation and assistance of anthropologists, sociologists, philologists, and universal as well as regional historians.

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.

As an anthropologist, whose research focuses on ethnopediatrics I can tell you that many cultures have long traditions of women birthing alone.

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 1970s.

As biological anthropologist and adviser to Match.com Helen Fisher says, «Men want a companion, and we are seeing the rise of women as intellectual partners, as sexual partners, as soul partners.&raquAs biological anthropologist and adviser to Match.com Helen Fisher says, «Men want a companion, and we are seeing the rise of women as intellectual partners, as sexual partners, as soul partners.&raquas intellectual partners, as sexual partners, as soul partners.&raquas sexual partners, as soul partners.&raquas soul partners.»

Passionate about the why's, how's of family and community she pursued a career as a cultural anthropologist receiving a Bachelor's Degree from NEIU.

Intensive parenting, according to anthropologist Solveig Brown, author of All on One Plate: Cultural Expectations on American Mothers, «views children as innocent and priceless, and assumes that mothers will be the primary parent responsible for using child - rearing methods that are child - centered, expert - guided, emotionally absorbing, labor - intensive, and financially expensive.»

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.

Since she (herself a homebirth midwife as well as an anthropologist) is part of the subculture she is investigating, she does not question the meanings, the meaning - making or the relationship of such meaning - making to reality.

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.

It as if an anthropologist writing on human sacrifice ascribed to the belief that the gods could be propitiated by throwing virgin girls into volcanoes, and having accepted that assumption, proceeded to describe the meaning and meaning - making of the ceremonies surrounding the sacrifices.