Sentences with phrase «work as an anthropologist»

Following his education, Nonas worked as an anthropologist for 10 years, doing field - work on American Indians in Northern Ontario, Canada, and in Northern Mexico and Southern Arizona.

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Sullivan worked closely with anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, and with Fromm and Horney as they together challenged classical psychoanalytic theory because of its inadequate instinctual and biological presuppositions.

If your belief is that our world is only 10,000 years old because God got bored and magically created all living things exactly as they are today over the course of a week, you are basically calling all the work and discoveries by archaeologists and anthropologists a bunch of baloney.

As several anthropologists have noted (among them C. Flora, 1976, and J. Hoffnagel, 1978), Pentecostalism places value not on producing or working more, but on consuming less.

I was simply applying the same standards to parenting information that I used in my work as a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary anthropologist.

Her work as a social anthropologist has taken her round the globe and the knowledge, wisdom and engaging warmth of her books continues to be revelatory and indispensable for thousands of women.

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.

That's an «exciting» change that suggests self - domestication can occur as a result of natural selection, says Brian Hare, an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved in the work.

Once they landed in Mexico, they were all recorded as «chinos» — Chinese, says Moreno - Estrada, who will present the work this weekend at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) annual meeting here.

She is, she says, continuing work pioneered by other African - American physical anthropologists such as William Montague Cobb and Caroline Bond Day.

However, forensic anthropologists need extra training for working with the police and the judicial system, as they can become expert witnesses in murder cases.

To research it, Latour spent 2 years at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, acting as an anthropologist observing scientists at work.

Part of that research will require returning to the Bajau and Saluan communities, and collecting more physiological measurements beyond spleen size — such as levels of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the blood, says Cynthia Beall, an evolutionary anthropologist at Case Western Reserve University who did not work on the study.

«I now regard chimpanzees as a very big mystery,» says anthropologist Vernon Reynolds, who works in Uganda's Budongo Forest.

«This is a great piece of work,» says Alexander Bentley, an anthropologist at Durham University in the U.K. Bentley adds that the new findings, including the signs of violence on the skeletons — such as multiple skull fractures — are consistent with other archaeological evidence from Central Europe that men raided outside communities and captured their women.

Anthropologist Craig Morris, of the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, hailed Haas and Creamer's work in The New York Times as «a very important beginning.»

He is a socio - cultural anthropologist and ethnographer, though I have also been trained in archaeology and have worked as a professional archaeologist and briefly as a museum director.

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.

«I hope that... the standards in the forensics space will be informed by innovations in the academic labs,» says Cris Hughes, a University of Illinois forensic anthropologist who also works as deputy forensic anthropologist at the Champaign County Coroner's Office.

As an applied medical anthropologist, Quandt works to correct health disparities experienced by rural and minority populations.

«Analyses such as this help provide empirical evidence about the trajectory of natural selection in our species and the time frames of those processes,» Cynthia Beall, an anthropologist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, who also did not participate in the work, writes in an email to The Scientist.

He also served as the chair of the Human Development Program for 20 years, recruiting several generations of developmental psychologists and cultural anthropologists to Harvard whose work reshaped the face of child development and education across the country.

«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.

An anthropologist born in Taiwan and raised in California, Fong began her research in 1997, working with 107 families in the coastal city of Dalian as a tutor.

In two separate interviews, Amitav Ghosh talks about how his background as an historian, journalist, and anthropologist informs his work; and about the challenges of writing Sea of Poppies, the first volume in a trilogy set aboard a ship in the Indian Ocean; its purpose, to fight in the vicious 19th century Opium Wars between Britain and China.

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.

This inspiring, charming book is filled with the real stories of groundbreaking, pioneering women working in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (also known as STEM) such as anthropologist and primatologist Jane Goodall and Greek mathematician, astronomer and philosopher Hypatia.

Today, she continues to work as a research anthropologist, archaeologist, author, and cartographer with First Nations communities in Canada's subarctic.

Before Nonas began making objects, he worked for ten years as a cultural anthropologist, studying the way native cultures conceptualize space.

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.

Developed in close collaboration with the artists, these publications aim to echo their works and feature interviews and input from philosophers, writers, and anthropologists such as Paul Virilio, Alberto Manguel, and Peter Sloterdijk.

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.

Since Hiller turned from her academic training as an anthropologist to become an artist in the 1970s, she has been based in Europe where she has established an international career working across a wide variety of media.

It was the kind of work that the anthropologist Alfred Gell described as possessing «the power that technical processes have of casting a spell over us so that we see the real world in enchanted form».2 Barlow has read Gell and feels at home with his «enchantment of technology».

These seven artists serve as cultural anthropologists of our time, each creating a substantial body of work focusing on various segments of American youth.

Drawing on anthropologist Mary Douglas's interpretations of sociologist Ludwik Fleck, the exhibition juxtaposes works that were produced in collective environments in the 1990s with new structures and films produced alone; as such the exhibition reflects on the contradictions that arise between the individual and the group in relation to the production of art.

Functioning as an anthropologist or a conservationist almost as much as an artist, Asim conceives large - scale works and constructions that integrate high and low technology, blending materials like bamboo and urban waste with sensors or digital mapping techniques to illustrate the compatibility of traditional and modern technologies.

As musician and critic Greg Tate wrote recently, «What you see in [Lawson's] work is photographer as cultural anthropologist but also as cultural vivisectionist and forensic curatoAs musician and critic Greg Tate wrote recently, «What you see in [Lawson's] work is photographer as cultural anthropologist but also as cultural vivisectionist and forensic curatoas cultural anthropologist but also as cultural vivisectionist and forensic curatoas cultural vivisectionist and forensic curator.

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.

Born in New York in 1936, Nonas worked for 10 years as a cultural anthropologist, studying the way indigenous cultures in Mexico, Canada, and Arizona conceptualize space, before he began sculpting in the 1960s without any formal art education.

As anthropologists point out, every improvement in economic efficiency — including the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and the transition from agriculture to factory work — has been accompanied by a decrease in leisure.

«I'm not an expert in the Yeti legend, I'm not an anthropologist, but as someone who works with genetics, I thought this is the kind of the work that could tell an interesting story.»

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Worked as primary physical anthropologist during skeletal recovery from The Hunley, a Civil War submarine.

An anthropologist can also perform ancillary activities such as conduct surveys, examine social behavior of specific groups, dig out archives of ancient civilization, research on rare works of arts in museum and so on.

only 20 % of consultant anthropologists surveyed saw native title work as enhancing a career in anthropology

I discuss other initiatives, such as the Australian Government's new Native Title Anthropologists Grants Program and the activities of the inter-governmental Joint Working Group on Indigenous Land Settlements, in Chapter 2.

If you were a real estate practitioner, how would you put your experiences as an anthropologist to work to help buyers?