Sentences with phrase «written by an anthropologist»

While reading articles for his Ph.D. in Harvard's sociology department, Jack says the story — whether it was written by an anthropologist, economist, or sociologist — was always the same.

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It is written by a Ceylonese anthropologist, Gananath Obeyesekere, and is one of the best explanations available of the relation between Buddhism and the customs of the country; it presents the Buddhism of the common people, not the Buddhism of the books: «The Great Tradition and the Little in the Perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism,» The Journal of Asian Studies, February 1963.

It as if an anthropologist writing on human sacrifice ascribed to the belief that the gods could be propitiated by throwing virgin girls into volcanoes, and having accepted that assumption, proceeded to describe the meaning and meaning - making of the ceremonies surrounding the sacrifices.

«Regardless of ecology,» write anthropologist Barry Hewlett and psychologist Michael Lamb in their book Hunter - gatherer Childhoods, «hunting and gathering groups are characterized by frequent and extended breastfeeding and extraordinarily high levels of parent - child physical contact and proximity.»

The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future By Gretchen Bakke Cultural anthropologist Bakke writes a biography of sorts about our antiquated and overburdened power grid and looks ahead to what may replace it.

The low humming beneath our words seems to be, as an anthropologist once put it, «an elaborate code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.»

The 15 - page document, «Considerations in the Translation of Chinese Medicine» was developed and written by a UCLA team that included a doctor, an anthropologist, a China scholar and a translator.

«The hypothesis advanced by the authors is indeed plausible,» says Rafael Núñez, an anthropologist at the University of California, San Diego, «but the absence of original Mangarevan written records constitutes a real challenge.»

A payroll mishap brings Maggie and aspiring novelist John (a «ficto - critical anthropologist» by trade) together, and her willingness to read his writing and offer some support, is all it takes to finish off John's slowly disintegrating marriage to Georgette (Ms. Moore dusting off the Euro accent she used in The Big Lebowski).

Written by a social anthropologist who observed and studied the English for over 12 years, Watching the English takes a look at English attitudes and behaviors in pursuit of defining their national character.

The pavilion draws its title, and its conceptual framework, from a text written by a mid-20th-century anthropologist; it explores how humans use ritual and magic to provide structure and relief to their lives during tumultuous, uncertain moments.

The title takes inspiration from the homonymous book written right after World War II by anthropologist Ernesto de Martino.

«The idea that the present is trapped in a tension between a lost past and an anticipated future,» writes Rawan Sharaf, «forms the conceptual frame for the group exhibition Chapter 31: An Odd Piece of Research on the Many Virtues of Oriental Imagination,» at P21 Gallery, London, which was curated by Sarha collective, an interdisciplinary platform by Nadia Jaglom, a visual anthropologist, and philosopher Mai Kanaaneh.

Anthropology resume objective is a career objective statement written by a person who has expertise in the field of anthropology and is applying for the job position of an anthropologist in a concerned organization.

Anthropod is written by Lorena Gibson, an anthropologist and musician based in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Tweet Guest blog written by Iben Larsen, who is a cultural anthropologist and MA in Media Science, based in Copenhagen.