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Books on: anthropological application

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1.

Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction

Book by Joseph H. Greenberg; Random House, 1968

Subjects:

Anthropological Linguistics

Collections: Entire Library

...cultural area, along with a few pioneering applications of the methodology of comparative linguistics...to be considered in their specific application to a theory of linguistic description...reasonably clear-cut defining of the application of specific "meaningful" sound sequences...
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Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives

Book by Philippe Descola, Gisli Palsson; Routledge, 1996

Subjects:

Anthropology--Congresses, Ethnology--Congresses, Human Ecology--Congresses, Nature--Effect Of Human Beings On--Congresses

Collections: Entire Library

The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, and sociology of scienceand includes ethnographic case ...
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The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, and sociology of scienceand includes ethnographic case studies from:* Amazonia* the Solomon Islands* Malaysia* the Mollucan Islands* rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe* urban Greece* laboratories of molecular biology* high-energy physicsThe discussion is divided into three parts, emphasizing the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism, some misguided attempts to respond to these problems, and potential avenues out of the current dilemmas of ecological discourse.
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Education and Culture: Anthropological Approaches

Book by George D. Spindler; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963

Subjects:

Educational Anthropology

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...scope of emergent anthropological applications to analysis of...about. This application takes two general...forms: the use of anthropological concepts and...institutions; and the application of anthropological concepts and...
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Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action

Book by Robert M. Wulff, Shirley J. Fiske; Westview Press, 1987

Subjects:

Applied Anthropology--United States

Collections: Entire Library

...Foreword Anthropological Praxis: Translating...studies in the application of anthropology...successful application of anthropological knowledge...in actual applications are useful...students. The Anthropological Difference...
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An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance

Book by Mark Hobart; Routledge, 1993

Collections: Entire Library

An anthropological critique of development...achievement in its application to economic and social...technology through the application of scientific knowledge...transactionalist, the anthropological resuscitation of utilitarianism...

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Journal Articles on: anthropological application

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Levi-Strauss and the Political: The Elementary Structures of Kinship and the Resolution of Relations between Indigenous People and Settler states/Levi-Strauss et le Politique: Les Structures Elementaires De la Parente Dans la Resolution Des Relations Entre Peuples Indigenes et Nations Colonisatrices

Journal article by Michael Asch; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 11, 2005

Subjects:

Anthropological research, Kinship--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...Crown. Levi-Strauss and the application of the doctrine of terra...While there are strains in anthropological thought that give succour...premises that give rise to the application of that doctrine to indigenous...contributes to this conversation. Anthropological arguments against the applicability...
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'An Anthropological Concept of the Concept': Reversibility among the Siberian Yukaghirs./Un <<Concept Anthropologique Du Concept>>: De la Reversibilite Chez Les Yukaghirs De Siberie

Journal article by Alberto Corsin Jimenez, Rane Willerslev; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 13, 2007

Subjects:

Anthropological research, Concepts--Analysis, Indigenous peoples--Economic aspects, Indigenous peoples--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...The third section explores the possible contours of an anthropological epistemology founded on shadow movements and limit appearances...indigenous categories. Last, the article concludes with an application of our critique of visible epistemologies to contemporary...
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Investigating Cultures: A Critique of Cognitive Anthropology

Journal article by Julia Tanney; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 4, 1998

Subjects:

Anthropological research--Analysis, Cognition and culture--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...conditions for the application of the concepts is...to the idea that anthropological concepts are inherently...Sperber denies that anthropological terms express family...that govern their application will be constrained...the text, is that anthropological concepts, like many...
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Art and Politics: From Javanese Court Dance to Indonesian Art

Journal article by Felicia Hughes-Freeland; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 3, 1997

Subjects:

Aesthetics--Analysis, Art--Political aspects, Dancing--Anthropological aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Hughes-Freeland 1989). This application of adiluhung in conjunction...find a way forward. In anthropological approaches to art, the aesthetic...shown that the wholesale application of Western aesthetic presuppositions...instrumentality. In the framework of anthropological inquiry, then, aesthetics...
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Chronically Unstable Bodies: Reflections on Amazonian corporalities/Des Corps Chroniquement Instables: Reflexion Sur la Corporalite En Amazonie

Journal article by Aparecida Vilaca; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 11, 2005

Subjects:

Anthropological research, Body image--Case studies, Body, Human--Psychological aspects, Body, Human--Social aspects, Human body--Psychological aspects, Human body--Social aspects, Indigenous peoples--Psychological aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...surveys a wide range of anthropological approaches to this topic...nutrition, abstention, the application of medicines, body painting...the dialogue between the anthropological literature on the body...Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and Financiadora...

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Magazine Articles on: anthropological application

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Womanist Theology, Epistemology, and a New Anthropological Paradigm

Magazine article by Linda E. Thomas; Cross Currents, Vol. 48, Winter 1998

Subjects:

African American women--Religion, Feminist theology--Analysis, Marginality, Social--Religious aspects, Oppression (Psychology)--Religious aspects, Theology--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...arise out of specific contextual locations. Interpretive anthropological conceptual frameworks, therefore, guard against ahistorical...social and cultural locations. This process of theoretical application to primary data will enable the womanist religious scholar...
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Postmodernism and Universal Human Rights: Why Theory and Reality Don't Mix

Magazine article by Xiaorong Li; Free Inquiry, Vol. 18, Fall 1998

Subjects:

American Anthropological Association--Philosophy, China--Social policy, Ethical relativism--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ethics, Evolutionary--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Postmodernism--Political aspects

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...religious worship, and free assembly. Notes 1. American Anthropological Association, "Statement on Human Rights," American Anthropologist...and common good alike - demands an optimal provision and application of currently available knowledge and resources. Before...
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An "Imagination of Order": The Suspicion of Structure in Anthropology and Poetry

Magazine article by Kent Maynard; The Antioch Review, Vol. 60, Spring 2002

Subjects:

Anthropological research--Analysis, Authorship--Methods, Ethnology--Authorship, Poetry--Authorship, Poets--Authorship

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...began this essay by referring to the remarkable number of anthropological poets, but we have short-story writers and novelists as...variety of new formats and styles. As with our theories, anthropological writing has come to revel in the pastiche of experimentation...
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Inside the Light Cube

Magazine article by David Joselit; Artforum International, Vol. 42, March 2004

Collections: Entire Library

...and on the other, the procession of events staged as the celebration itself. Huyghe makes no effort to veil his pseudo-anthropological nature/culture distinctions: The first section of the tape opens with idyllic shots of landscape and forest animals and...
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Children, Witches, Demons, and Cultural Reality

Magazine article by Jr. Phillips Stevens; Free Inquiry, Vol. 17, Spring 1997

Subjects:

Children--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Sebald, Hans--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Witchcraft--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...apparently justified by his application of the label, "the Salem...consciousness in both. By ignoring anthropological contributions Sebalds analysis...in places, as, following anthropological convention, she reconstructs...wrote three more books on anthropological contributions to understanding...

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Newspaper Articles on: anthropological application

3 results

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Velocity Gives Art in the North a Blast

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), January 20, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...District. Matt has been selected for 2006 Becks Futures Exhibition. Artists practice Matt Stokes practice is marked by anthropological enquiry and an interest in events or informal movements that bind people together. He produces videos, installations and...
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Vietnam Unknown Will Be Exhumed

Newspaper article by Rowan Scarborough; The Washington Times, May 8, 1998

Subjects:

Blassie, Michael, Cohen, William S., Vietnam

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...skeletal remains as probably Lt. Blassies. But in 1979, after anthropological and blood tests didnt match the pilots size or blood type...everything to account for our missing, and this is one more application of that principle. But we always realize its going to be...
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Raising Animation Level in 'Atlantis'

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, June 15, 2001

Subjects:

Walt Disney Co.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the kind of position I wanted, which would have involved anthropological linguistics, would have demanded a wait of about five years...customers, he went to Los Angeles to supervise the first application of the service to an Academy Awards telecast. While waiting...

Encyclopedia Articles on: anthropological application

2 results

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Anthropology

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...language. Applied anthropology is the practical application of anthropological techniques to areas such as industrial relations...Anthropology (1960); M. Harris, The Rise of Anthropological Theory (1968); G. M. Foster, Applied Anthropology...
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Criticism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...theology and Marxist dialectic, were found to have valid application to works of literature. Freudian analysis became a tool...the collective unconscious also became a tool, along with anthropological methodology, for critics like T. S. Eliot (in The Sacred...

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