Sentences with phrase «one by anthropologist»

Getting off it gave him a sense of peace and focus that he hadn't felt in a long time, which he attributed partially to Dunbar's number, or the subconscious cognitive limit to relationships theorized by anthropologist Robin Dunbar.
The most fruitful basis for human classification devised by anthropologists is found in the idea of culture.
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.
This criticism has indeed been applied by anthropologists as well as by black and indigenous people.
It brings to bear on these phenomena methods that have been developed by anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, and historians.
However, it is also important to acknowledge the larger societal dimensions of our concern, for which we refer to the very different kind of work done by an anthropologist, C.D.F. Mosse in a study of a mixed Hindu - Christian village in Ramnad District of Tamilnadu.
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 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.
A group led by anthropologist Thomas Levy of the University of California - San Diego, suggests that they may have discovered King Solomon's copper mine.
That mystique has been unremittingly purveyed ever since by our communications media, commercial propaganda and educational institutions, by anthropologists, psycho - analysts and sociologists, and not least by the pulpiteers, educators and counselors in most American Christian churches.
It is solely through timidity that historians of religions have at times accepted an integration proposed by sociologists or by anthropologists.
Studies of paleolithic humans by anthropologist have indeed revealed that our ancestors had healthier bone structures with little to no evidence of bone loss or decay and very little joint -LSB-...]
However, research by an anthropologist at Texas A&M University argues that the natural weaning age for humans is somewhere between 2.5 and 6 years old.
Mother Nature, also by an anthropologist, shares experiences of motherhood as witnessed across the world and various cultures, across history and a variety of time periods, and even across species.
Topical lectures will include discussions on the responsibility of the scientific community to address sexual harassment by Meg Urry of Yale University; solutions to the opioid crisis by Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse; the future of science in Africa by Thomas Kariuki of the African Academy of Sciences; forensic science and the law by federal district judge Jed Rakoff; music for brain health by Nina Kraus of Northwestern University; the violence of migration by anthropologist Jason De León of the University of Michigan; and more.
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.
«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.
Islamic State (also known as ISIS) soldiers and Kurds who have fiercely battled them sacrifice themselves for sacred, nonnegotiable values, says a team led by anthropologist Scott Atran of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
The effect seems to also hold for other animals: In 2003, a research team led by anthropologist Joan Silk of the University of California, Los Angeles, reported that female baboons with close social ties to unrelated females produce infants that survive longer.
There has been yet another attempt to identify the unique traits of Einstein's brain, this one by anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee.
«There are many examples of erroneous assessments by anthropologists of the period.
For example, in a paper published in Royal Society Open Science in November 2014, scientists led by anthropologist Robert Walker of the University of Missouri, Columbia, used satellite images to survey isolated groups in Brazil.
A team led by anthropologist Joseph Henrich of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, tested this with members of groups including nomadic African herders, Colombian fishermen, and Missouri wage workers.
To learn more about the groups that manufactured these later styles, the authors of the new study analyzed the surface features of 100 projectile points from collections at several museums, including the Smithsonian collection, which is curated by anthropologist Dennis Stanford.
The skull was discovered in a Portuguese cave and is now used by the anthropologists to determine how hominins, Neanderthals in particular, evolved during the middle Pleistocene epoch in Europe.
First discovered by anthropologist Mary Leakey, the well - preserved cranium has a small brain cavity.
That's the shocking new hypothesis being raised by anthropologists in Spain, who wonder if our closest extinct relative was exterminated in the same way as 178 other large mammals, so - called megafauna, which are suspected of going at least partially by the hand of hungry human hunters.
As much as I love Price, he was a drive - by anthropologist.
Joined by an anthropologist, psychologist and surveyor, it's clear that the place has a very strange effect on anyone who enters it.
Although they did not coin the term (its origins are obscure), it was an ethnographic study by anthropologists Signithia Fordham and John Ogbu, published in the Urban Journal in 1986, that did the most to bring it to the attention of their fellow academics.
While reading articles for his Ph.D. in Harvard's sociology department, Jack says the story — whether it was written by an anthropologist, economist, or sociologist — was always the same.
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Longfellow Hall, Appian Way, Cambridge Keynote address by Anthropologist George De Vos: «Culture, Achievement, and Motivation.»
As put by anthropologist Clifford Geertz, «The giving to art objects a cultural significance, is always a local matter».
Chapters by anthropologists, sociologists, and law professors, using anthropological rather than legal methodologies, provide original analyses of particular legal developments.
[N.B. «Social Objects» is a term I did not coin myself but was turned onto by the anthropologist and Jaiku founder, Jyri Engestrom.]
He was deeply influenced by anthropologist Gregory Bateson, Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller, and the study of cybernetics.
With it she has cut up a lecture by anthropologist, Claude Lévi - Strauss and added it to a tape by Danish Musician, Dario Campeotto.
This commission would enable the artist to explore the archives and collections of the Ashmolean Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museums (which cares for Oxford's holdings of anthropology and world archaeology), in particular the photographs of artefacts and documents created by curators and by anthropologists and archaeologists working in the field.
Social research organisation Mass Observation was started by anthropologist Tom Harrisson, poet Charles Madge and filmmaker Humphrey Jennings.
«Counterpoints,» at El Museo, taking off from studies by anthropologist Fernando Ortiz on the impact of sugar and tobacco on Cuban culture, looks at the role of plantations and international trade.
One of the more popular projects at the Brooklyn Museum is called «Raw / Cooked,» which may call to mind the famous volume by anthropologist Claude Lévi - Strauss.
A pioneer in the acquisition of Indigenous art since 1939, the Gallery has a substantial number of Arnhem Land objects collected by anthropologist, Charles Mountford 1948 - 1952.
The volume includes an essay by Mario Diacono and a text by the anthropologist Giancarlo Scoditti who explores the notion of the mask as an expressive form which in many tribal cultures can be related to a mental image that reveals itself in a ritual context: a subtle game of cross-references to something other than what is visible.
The title takes inspiration from the homonymous book written right after World War II by anthropologist Ernesto de Martino.
The depiction of village life is mediated by attempts by the anthropologists to say what is not said and a simmering anger and impotence that fleetingly appears in a drunken scuffle that closes the film.
Peter — i'm talking about actual social networks as studied by anthropologists and sociologists, not the articulated kinds available on services like Orkut and Friendster.
Barton Paul Levenson (126)-- Here is a review of a book by anthropologist Brian Fagan which suggests a fairly global extent for MWP:
String theory was reformulated from hadronic string theory in the 70s, and global warming received its first major publicity in 1975 from a founding conference organized by anthropologist Margaret Mead and 1950s RAND Corporation nuclear weapons fallout prediction expert Dr William Kellogg.
Three great turning points in human history identified by anthropologists are all related to weather and climate control.
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