Sentences with phrase «says cultural anthropologist»

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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.»

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.

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 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).

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.

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

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.

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.

As the quote from the American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead once said «A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

People tend to think of anthropology as being a very distinct practice from art or art history, but they are extraordinarily close: artists, curators, and anthropologists are all looking at cultural phenomena and particularly at objects and their use, and what that says about society at large.

Roger Gastman is a curator, graffiti historian, urban anthropologist and collector who Forbes says «has made a career of being the cultural connector between street artists and the art world.»

Cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, author of the new book Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom (Knopf, 2010), says that your house is a reflection of your life.