Sentences with phrase «well as an anthropologist»

Since she (herself a homebirth midwife as well as an anthropologist) is part of the subculture she is investigating, she does not question the meanings, the meaning - making or the relationship of such meaning - making to reality.

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But I will say this, the best ideas are solving interesting problems and needs for other people, whether it's a Chris Rock joke or Amazon product, so you need to be able to figure out those needs and problems as quickly and strategically as possible, and there are methods for accomplishing this — whether it's being able to identify needs as an anthropologist might, smallify big problems, or utilize constraints.

Just as anthropologists often go native, even the best biographers sometimes turn into defense attorneys.

Imagine what such an Hegelian project could accomplish today, in the wake of Eliade, Freud, Jung, James, Durkheim, van der Leeuw, Wach, Weber, etc., as well as countless scholarly anthropologists reporting from the field!

the preoccupation of the psychologist with purely human behavior, its description, and development; the preoccupation of the sociologist and cultural anthropologist with the forms and development of society, make these mental health professionals unable to define the function of the churchman, though their professions may well be of immense importance in providing information when the clergyman thinks through his unique and necessary role as pastor to persons.

But, quite apart from the fact that many anthropologists — for instance, Jevons and Frazer — expressly oppose «religion» and «magic» to each other, it is certain that the whole system of thought which leads to magic, fetishism, and the lower superstitions may just as well be called primitive science as called primitive religion.

This criticism has indeed been applied by anthropologists as well as by black and indigenous people.

But more profound investigation and more sympathetic understanding of the primitive groups, as well as a deeper penetration into the meaning of more sophisticated worship, have made it clear to the majority of anthropologists that there is a very real distinction between magic and worship.

3At present, for example, the well - entrenched neo-Darwinian hypothesis of «gradualism» (biological evolution occurs slowly, and more or less continuously as the constant interplay of random variations and natural selection over vast periods of time) is confronted with a somewhat more radical and neo-Lamarckian theory of «punctuated equilibrium» favored by Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Williamson, collaborated by fossil discoveries of paleontologist and cultural anthropologist Richard Leakey in Africa.

He devoted much time as well to the social sciences, participating, for example, in an interdisciplinary seminar called «The Birth of Civilization», under the direction of the great anthropologist Robert Redfield.

Thus they urge historians of religions to concentrate more on the historical, phenomenological, and institutional aspects of religions, depending heavily on the co-operation and assistance of anthropologists, sociologists, philologists, and universal as well as regional historians.

Delving into the emotional strife of three anthropologists battling their own demons as well as each others», King's historical novel set in 1930s New Guinea gave insight into a time and place that had been previously unknown - unthought of, even - by me.

I have only had the good fortune to meet two of the Founders in person, Edwina Froehlich and Marian Tompson, but the importance of all seven of these women to my life — both my career as an anthropologist and my experiences as a mother — can not be overstated.

Melissa Cheyney is an anthropologist at Oregon State University as well as a home - birth advocate and midwife.

In addition to helping parents make the best and most appropriate decision for themselves, the information provided here should also be of use to educators, health professionals, public health officials, the media, sleep researchers, child protective services, coroners, forensic pathologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other social scientists, as well as researchers in a variety the developmental fields including human biology.

The human capacity for creativity and collaboration allows our species to make works of art as well as warfare, said anthropologist Agustín Fuentes during a lecture at AAAS» headquarters on 7 December.

In addition to anthropologists from Mainz and Munich, the team also includes Dr. Krishna Veeramah, a population geneticist from Stony Brook University in the US, as well as colleagues from the United Kingdom and Switzerland.

Dr Evans led an international team of anthropologists and developmental biologists from Finland, USA, UK and Germany, using a new extensive database on fossil hominins and modern humans collected over several decades, as well as high resolution 3D imaging to see inside the fossil teeth.

Alexandra Alvergne, an anthropologist at the University of Montpellier, France, and colleagues measured testosterone levels in polygynous and monogamous fathers as well unmarried men without children, all living in Senegalese villages.

Genetic studies such as this one may help anthropologists understand those migrations — and their timing — even better by giving them a genetic «clock» to use when studying today's humans, or potentially DNA extracted from ancient bones.

«The controversy has been painful for lots of people; tribal members and scientists as well,» says Dennis O'Rourke, a biological anthropologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Chris Stringer, an anthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, wonders whether modern humans could have had a genetic influence on the last Neandertals as well.

Biological anthropologist Leslie Aiello, dean of the graduate school at University College London, urges caution as well.

Dame Jane Goodall DBE Ph.D., (born April 3, 1934) is an English primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist, probably best - known for conducting a forty - five year study of chimpanzee social and family life, as director of the Jane Goodall Institute in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.

In the context of genocide and / or human rights violence, the work of forensic anthropologists can provide scientific evidence suggesting the cause of death, as well as biological information that may lead to personal identifications.

In the 1970's, one anthropologist went so far as to suggest that the reason humans evolved unpigmented palms — unlike other primates — is so their hand signals would show up better around the campfire at night.

Ahrendts even brought in an anthropologist to study the company culture she helped create, so as to better understand and preserve it.

Composed of field testimonies and hidden camera footage, the film also features interviews with Haiti's Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Raymond Joseph, the U.S. Department of States» Ambassador John Miller from the Office of Human Trafficking, renowned anthropologist and sugar historian Sidney Mintz, Carol Pier from Human Rights Watch, Public Interest Attorneys Bill Quigley as well as Greg Schell, and a number of activists from the field including human rights lawyer Noemi Mendez, Colette Lespinase of G.A.R.R. Haiti [Organization for Refugees and the Repatriated] and missionaries Pierre Ruquoy and Father Christopher Hartley.

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.

The best scenes involve Willem Dafoe as a scary anthropologist who interrogates Keitel by confronting him with buried childhood memories.

«Larry Summers says it's amazing how little power you actually have as president...» But Kim said he would focus his initial energy on being a «good anthropologist» and getting a sense of how Darmouth works and figuring out the people.

Named one of The New York Times» 10 Best Books of the Year, the story follows a fictionalized version of acclaimed anthropologist Margaret Mead, recast as Nell Stone, during her field work in 1933.

As a forensic anthropologist, New York Times best - selling mystery author Kathy Reichs knows a thing or two about the grizzly details of a crime scene, but she's also an accomplished home cook, to boot.

Anthropologists use for this purpose a scale of skin color and iris of the eyes, hair color and shape, the eyelid, nose and lips shape, as well as anthropometric instruments.

Bringing together the ideas behind this unique commission, this book features an illuminating conversation with Kwade about the work, as well as a detailed survey of her practice to date by curator Cameron Foote and new essays by curator Daniel F. Herrmann and anthropologist Debbora Battaglia.

Biemann's practice has long included discussions with academics and other practitioners, she has worked with anthropologists, cultural theorists, NGO members, architects, as well as scholars of sonic culture.

2001): An anthropologist as well as a painter and engraver, Orlando's full name was Felipe Orlando Garcia Murciano.

Her series Untitled (2008) used photographs belonging to a Vietnam War veteran as part of the installation I Become Death, as well as the documentary film Snake Society in collaboration with the anthropologist Julian Gastelo, both shown at Kunsthalle Basel in 2009.

As well as her sculpture, her film The Foxes reflects on the memories and archive of her father an anthropologist who lived with a rural community in PerAs well as her sculpture, her film The Foxes reflects on the memories and archive of her father an anthropologist who lived with a rural community in Peras her sculpture, her film The Foxes reflects on the memories and archive of her father an anthropologist who lived with a rural community in Peru.

But diverse sights such as these are nothing the well traveled documentarian and cultural anthropologist hasn't seen before.

What we need here for 22nd century social anthropologists is a complete list of everyone in 2013 agreeing with Goodman's notion of «equally good,» namely that Rossander's R2 of 99.992 % with seven extra parameters is just as good as an R2 of 99.997 % with no extra parameters.

From the results of remains analysis, forensic anthropologists can determine the gender, age, and stature of a subject, as well as its postmortem duration.

The various kinds of research undertaken by an anthropologist revolves around activities such as study of social, economic and behavior of human beings, understanding culture, customs, values, habits of human beings, research earlier biological evidence for better understanding of modern day living etc..

So this article will both reflect my position as an anthropologist (questioning presumptions and norms) as well as that of being a mother (drawing on personal experience and using my «maternal» intuition).