Sentences with phrase «says social anthropologist»

I know of no similar example in any academy,» says social anthropologist Frances Henry, an emeritus professor of York University in Toronto, Canada, who co-authored this year's survey.

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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).

Stereotypes of older people are being dashed,» says biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, who helped facilitate the study, along with social historian Stephanie Coontz and evolutionary biologist Justin Garcia.

Anthropologist Hervey Peoples at the University of Cambridge, UK, says that there is good evidence that, even if MHGs do not drive political and social complexity, they can affect and stabilize it.

«With this research, I hope to establish that prisons, with appropriate policies and staff training, can address the mental health needs of prisoners with severe mental illness,» said Galanek, PhD, MPH a medical anthropologist and research associate at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences» Begun Center for Violence Education and Prevention Research at Case Western Reserve.

«Going in as anthropologists we assumed that the norms would have a strong influence» on BMI, says Alexandra Brewis, executive director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University in Tempe.

«Culture shock is precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse,» Kalervo Oberg, the Canadian anthropologist who first coined the term almost a half - century ago, once said in a talk.

By studying the social forces that bind these ills together, «you can really push the boundaries of public health,» says Dale Stratford, a medical anthropologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

Maro: «This also started as: «I have an idea, let's do it»; from night today, we were a bunch of social workers, psychologists, educators, monitors, anthropologists, musicians, designers... Suddenly, we looked around and we were one hundred and we were all super trained all we had some amazing ideas, and suddenly I looked and said «Okay, let's go all for the same, let's go for a future project, because we also do things our way, not the way it is established».»