Sentences with phrase «try as anthropologists»

Exactly how we get hooked on love no one quite knows, try as anthropologists like Helen Fisher might to unravel the mystery, one MRI on the lovesick at a time.

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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.

Nor can circumcision be regarded as natural or the eating of pork unnatural, despite what so many anthropologists from Ernest Renan to Mary Douglas have tried to establish.

First run through my head, A Mighty Heart strikes me as pointless and unsurprising; Winterbottom is of course a better anthropologist than he is a political philosopher: if he's trying to apply Donald Symons's models of cultural evolution to ethics instead of more immediately compatible pursuits (music, or literature), then what's emerged from the experiment is the revelation that ethics and morality appear to have nothing to do with the base nature of man — and, moreover, that Angelina Jolie will never be Nicole Kidman in her ability to be both herself and someone else.

Based on Jeff VanderMeer's book of the same name, Annihilation follows four female scientists (known by their areas of expertise; the biologist, the psychologist, the surveyor, and the anthropologist, respectively) as they try to uncover what happened to the biologist's husband (Oscar Isaac) and his team of researchers, who disappeared while studying Area X, a pristine ecosystem cut off from the rest of the developed world.

And so I suppose I'm like an anthropologist as I try to convey to you a major problem in the scientific culture and education.

As an anthropologist, I'm always trying to see the world through other people's eyes and according to their values.