Sentences with phrase «social anthropologist from»

Rosario Aguilar, a health promoter and social anthropologist from the town of Las Margaritas in Chiapas, Mexico.

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».

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Some anthropologists do respect distinctly religious ideas such as holiness and life - after - death, but many still try to explain religion away as no more than a shared «language» for expressing social patterns, calming irrational fears or marking men as somehow different from animals.

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.

From technobirth to cyborg babies Reflections on the Emergent Discourse of a Holistic Anthropologist Cyborg imagery can help express two crucial arguments... first, the production of universal, totalizing theory is a major mistake that misses most of reality, probably always, but certainly now; and second, taking responsibility for the social relations of science and technology means refusing an anti-science metaphysics, a demonology of technology, and so means embracing the skillful task of reconstructing the boundaries of -LSB-...]

Now, there's firm evidence for that from Durham University anthropologist Jamshid Tehrani and New University of Lisbon social scientist Sara Graça da Silva.

«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.

Social anthropologist Edvard Hviding is one of three University of Bergen researchers to receive five years of major funding from the prestigious Toppforsk programme, awarded by the Research Council of Norway, for his project Mare Nullius.

Lead author Andrea Migliano, an evolutionary anthropologist at University College London, explained that she and her team chose to focus on hunter - gatherers because they represent the closest examples of human lifestyles and social organizations from the past.

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.

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».»

[Bonus Link: For a more academic take on social objects, check out this post from Anthropologist, Jyri Engestrom.]

Taking its title from anthropologist Mary Douglas's analyses of how disturbances arise in the city's physical contours and social order, Matter Out of Place presents new work by New York — based artists who observe, represent, and activate public sites, generating alternative relationships to such strictly defined spaces as the housing project, park, and museum lobby.

It draws articles from social science researchers around the world and contains valuable material for Sociologists, Anthropologists, Family counselors and Social Psycholosocial science researchers around the world and contains valuable material for Sociologists, Anthropologists, Family counselors and Social PsycholoSocial Psychologists.

The movement received an important boost starting in the early 1950s through the work of anthropologist Gregory Bateson and colleagues — Jay Haley, Donald D. Jackson, John Weakland, William Fry, and later, Virginia Satir, Ivan Boszormenyi - Nagy, Paul Watzlawick and others — at Palo Alto in the United States, who introduced ideas from cybernetics and general systems theory into social psychology and psychotherapy, focusing in particular on the role of communication (see Bateson Project).