To understand the reasoning behind my desire of pursuing a PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology‚ I will begin by stating the intersubjectivities that have been leading me throughout my academic life. Afterwards I would explain the academic-scientific logic behind my current research and future goals‚ since the both underlie in the passion for social justice that characterizes me‚ both professionally and personally. Since a young age‚ I was intrigued of why there are social asymmetries; due to my own
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1. Your textbook describes Weber’s famous secularization thesis in "The Protestant Ethic" (589-591). What does Weber think about the relationship between religion and political structures? America is presented as an exception to this thesis; why do you think the US does not show the same religious trends as those found in most other industrialized countries? 2. How does Gmelch define the term magic in the article “Baseball Magic” and why does he think people use it? 3. What parts of baseball are
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Exam 1 study guide PEOPLE * EB Tylor- the father of modern anthropology‚ supported evolutionism/uni-lineal evolution * Franz Boaz- the father of American anthropology‚ supported empiricism * Margaret Mead- Boaz’s student‚ wrote about the sexual revolution * Borshay Lee- studied the !Kung San from Africa * Zora Neal Hurston- one of Boaz’s students‚ an African-American folklorist * Bronislaw Malinowski- the father of fieldwork‚ said anthropologists need to learn the language
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AND VIOLENCE Politics and power can be thought of as intimate aspects of all subjects that anthropologists investigate‚ as processes of domination‚ resistance and social transformation are inevitably involved in the creation and representation of cultural practices and relationships. Power and violence are not the same. Power is psychological‚ a moral force that makes people want to obey. Violence enforces obedience through physical coercion. Those who use violence may manage to temporarily impose
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AND ANTHROPOLOGY ZPY 114-HR7A Handout No. 2 Anthrophology- coined from two Greek words anthropos which means “man” or “human being” and logos which means “knowledge”. Four Main Fields of Anthropology 1. Physical or biological anthropology-studies human beings through genetics‚ inherited traits‚ evolution and adaptation. It is called physical anthropology because the data it uses are mainly physical to gather information on the evolutionary development of man. 2. Cultural Anthropology-it examines
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Rites of Passage” Stacey M. Robertson ANT101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology July 29‚ 2013 We are all
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What is Anthropology and Why is Evolution a part of this class? ! Anthropology‚ in a whole‚ is the study of humans. It is the study of mankind itself and where we have evolved from as a species. Anthropology teaches how Evolution has always been apart of us as humans or as a species. Evolution needs to be taught in the classroom because evolution shows how and who we have evolved from over time. Without evolution and without genetic mutation‚ we may still have a tail where our tail bone is. We
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Anthropology Jan15th‚ 2008 Cultural Anthropology -Margaret Mead went to eastern Samoa in 1925 when she was 23‚ and spent nine months in the field studying childrearing patterns and adolescent behaviour -Renato Rosaldo the Ilongot Head-hunters -Clifford Geertz: the Balinese cockfight -Douglass Drozdow-St. Christian: what Samoans consider “good and proper body” and the meanings of making babies into “good and proper bodies” Anthropology 025 Introduction to Socio-cultural Anthropology
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THE PREVAILING CULTURAL VALUES I. Introduction Today we live in a world that is somehow smaller than it is used to be. New communication technology (e.g. email and the WWW) has made it easier to a certain extent to cross previous boundaries and communicate across time and space. However‚ the new technology does not necessarily make it easier to collaborate and communicate intercultural. To effectively collaborate and communicate we have to share meanings. This often requires that we
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Basseri ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Introduction The Basseri are a nomadic‚ pastoral tribe of the Fars region of present-day Iran. They have formerly been part of the so-called Khamseh confederation. The area that the Basseri migrate in is the steep mountains of South‚ East and North Shiraz. The "tent" is the basic unit of social organization among the Basseri. All tents have a recognized head that deals with the formal officers of the tribe‚ villagers‚ and
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