Sentences with phrase «term by anthropologists»

Not exact matches

Why this should be so — why the success of the Jewish minority should be so particularly resented by other peoples — is a complicated question which is rendered more complicated by the fact that anthropologists are now generally agreed that the Jews are not a race in any scientific sense of the term — no more of a race, for example, than the Germans.

And some of us are troubled by the shallow reasoning that has dominated the political discussions surrounding this move, as though the threadbare idea of equality were enough to settle every question concerning the long - term destiny of mankind and as though the writings of the anthropologists (not to mention the poets, the philosophers, the theologians, the novelists, the sociologists) counted for nothing beside the slogans of Stonewall.

The aim of the anthropologist is to understand cultures by sensitive and sympathetic participation in them on their own terms.

Rather than trying like the anthropologists to assess the significance of religion by unearthing the origins of religion, James sought to understand religion in terms of its fruit.

«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.

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.

[N.B. «Social Objects» is a term I did not coin myself but was turned onto by the anthropologist and Jaiku founder, Jyri Engestrom.]

The exhibition, featuring Agnes Calf, Dorota Gawęda & Egle Kulbokaite, Mikko Kuorinki, and Tabita Rezaire among others, takes French anthropologist Claude Lévi - Strauss» «The Savage Mind» text as a starting point, citing the term bricolage as an associative practice experienced by many non-western societies, wherein «solutions are invented following paths made of fortuitous, unstable and contingent discoveries».