Sentences with phrase «of cultural anthropologist»

In support of its argument, Nite Moves relied on the expert testimony of cultural anthropologist who

The series titled Denial of Death is inspired by the writings of cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, in particular his Pulitzer Prize - winning book of the same name.

The series titled Denial of Deathis inspired by the writings of cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, in particular his Pulitzer Prize - winning book of the same name.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

Again, the publishers proclaim on the dust - jacket of another recent work (Edmund Perry, The Gospel in Dispute [see n. 34, below], the publishers are Doubleday): «Dr. Perry has used the skills of the cultural anthropologist in presenting a clear picture of the four leading non-Christian religions — a picture accepted enthusiastically by their exponents.»

This is the view of the cultural anthropologists, and it has had a significant impact on the thinking of modem man.

«Like the most diligent of cultural anthropologists, the editors of Flash Fiction International have sifted through centuries of micro art to record and then exhibit these enduring small stories, common in their humanity but culturally distinct in their presentations.

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That's part of what led Pappalardo to hire a cultural anthropologist to help the Hollywood - based team better understand what drives consumers.

American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead famously said, «never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.»

He's a cultural anthropologist, partner in a coworking facility, business professor at Texas State and the co-author of one of the first books on coworking - I'm Outta Here.

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.

You're not even looking at alternative translations or concordances, or even anything about the same - gender sexual practices of ancient Greece / Rome, let alone the epistemologists and cultural anthropologists.

Among the cultural forms studied by the anthropologist are ones that explicitly embody spiritual meanings, including the beliefs, practices, and institutions of religion, some forms of which appear in every known culture.

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.

Historians and anthropologists have made us aware of the historical and cultural conditioning of our thought.

Cultural anthropologists have long recognized how all human societies have similar basic norms of moral conduct.

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.

Thus to say that a philosopher, even when he is Heidegger, all by himself sees what the New Testament says, is to appear to have no sense of historical context; certainly not the kind of contextual sensitivity which the cultural anthropologist has come to understand and value.

Four recent major studies of human problems support a measure of optimism in human affairs: Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History; Quincy Wright's Study of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World Crisis.

Wind describes the contributions of anthropologists and enthnographers to understanding in depth the cultural complexity of congregations.

An adviser to the excellent documentary series With God on Our Side and a cultural anthropologist at the University of California - Santa Cruz, Harding explores the rhetorical world of Falwell and his followers.

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.

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.

The net weight of contradiction moved most anthropologists to discard their theories about cultural evolution.

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 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 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.

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.»

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

1999 Reviewed for American Anthropologist, Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception by Sarah Franklin.

Dr. Cecilia Tomori, anthropologist with postdoctoral training in public health, Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and author of Nighttime Breastfeeding: An American Cultural Dilemma is an expert on breastsleeping.

He seemed to play with his cultural status,» says Hélène Mialet, an anthropologist from the University of California, Berkeley, who courted controversy in 2012 with the publication of her book Hawking Incorporated.

Your brothers, guessed cultural anthropologist Shane Macfarlan of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Engle explores the debate among anthropologists, ever since the AAAS submitted its Statement on Human Rights to the United Nations in 1947, over the tensions between the limits of tolerance and cultural relativism with the pursuit of more universal norms of social justice.

The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future By Gretchen Bakke Cultural anthropologist Bakke writes a biography of sorts about our antiquated and overburdened power grid and looks ahead to what may replace it.

«Biocultural anthropologists,» says Watkins, «are physical anthropologists that are committed to determining the facts of peoples» lives by integrating biological and cultural data.»

The authors are anthropologists and practitioners of cultural studies of science, and what they offer their readers is a series of moments in the lives of scientists.

Cultural and physical anthropologists may work in museums, putting exhibits together and conducting important original background research that leads to the development of exhibits and publications in scholarly journals.The work of physical anthropologists may even be seen in clothing stores and automobile show rooms: The way clothing is sized and car seats are shaped is based on anthropological measurements.

Rachel Watkins (pictured above), an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C., is a biocultural anthropologist, which means she studies how people's physiological conditions — their health and disease states — reflect the social, cultural, economic, and political environment in which they lived.

That's a compelling conclusion, says human evolutionary anthropologist Joseph Henrich of Harvard University, but he urges skepticism in using language trees to interpret cultural practices.

One solution was to resolutely avoid cultural comparisons, thereby ushering in an era wherein an anthropologist could spend an entire career documenting the puberty rite of one clan of farmers in northeastern Cameroon.

The company, who we ran a feature on this morning, have teamed up with social and cultural anthropologist Jean Smith from Flirtology to enlighten singles about the secrets of attraction and flirting.

In certain respects it's almost as if cultural anthropologists descended on a foreign land, but, unfortunately, it's a withered part of this nation that is rarely visited.

First run through my head, A Mighty Heart strikes me as pointless and unsurprising; Winterbottom is of course a better anthropologist than he is a political philosopher: if he's trying to apply Donald Symons's models of cultural evolution to ethics instead of more immediately compatible pursuits (music, or literature), then what's emerged from the experiment is the revelation that ethics and morality appear to have nothing to do with the base nature of man — and, moreover, that Angelina Jolie will never be Nicole Kidman in her ability to be both herself and someone else.

Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody has described herself as a «naked Margaret Mead,» a cultural anthropologist who for years studied the rites and rituals of the stripper tribe in lieu of the nine - to - five grind.

There was Mizuko Ito, a cultural anthropologist of technology use from the University of California, Irvine, talking about breaking down «authoritarian forms of knowledge.»

He also served as the chair of the Human Development Program for 20 years, recruiting several generations of developmental psychologists and cultural anthropologists to Harvard whose work reshaped the face of child development and education across the country.

And as they collaborate in a hyperconnected world, cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito says, kids «are becoming very fluent in online communication, the use of digital media, posting, linking, forwarding, remixing media.

Margaret Mead (American cultural anthropologist, 1901 - 1978) «Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.