“The study of man contains a greater variety of intellectual styles than any other area of cultural endeavor. How different social scientists go about their work‚ and what they aim t accomplish by it‚ often do not seem to have a common denominator ... Let us admit the case of our critics from the humanities and from the experimental sciences: Social science as a whole is both intellectually and morally confused. And what is called sociology is very much in the middle of this confusion.” Wright
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Abu-Lughod‚ Lila (1990) ‘Can There be a Feminist Ethnography?’‚ Women and Performance 5(1): 7–27. Acker‚ J.‚ Barry‚ K. and Essveld‚ J. (1991) ‘Objectivity and Truth: Problems in Doing Feminist Research’‚ in M. Fonow and J. Cook (eds) Beyond Methodology: Feminist Scholarship As Lived Research‚ pp. 133–53. Bloomington‚ IN: Indiana University Press. Bell‚ Diane‚ Caplan‚ Pat and Karim‚ Wazir Jahan (eds) (1993) Gendered Fields: Women‚ Men and Ethnography. London: Routledge. Berik‚ Günseli (1996) ‘Understanding
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Richard Prices’ Rainforest Warriors is an ethnography that is incredibly interesting; its contents discuss the history‚ politics‚ and overall well being of the Saramaccan people of the South American nation of Suriname. Suriname‚ being first colonized by English and Dutch settlers‚ was a nation used for the establishment of sugar and timber plantations for direct export to Europe. The first three chapters are fascinating to say the least‚ as they detail the history of runaway African slaves who made
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Introduction‚ part I As with general sociological theory‚ one of the persistent issues in gender theory is a focus on the tension between human agency and social structure. While most theories of gender—including radical feminism‚ intersectionality approaches‚ postmodernism‚ and queer theory—address both agency and social structure‚ implicit in their theoretical assumptions are the sources of social praxis. Because of their differing analyses on the source of social praxis‚ they analyze structure
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and their mission is often defined as the direct transmission of the artist’s aesthetic understanding to the beholder through the picture or object. History museums treat artifacts or objects as social documents‚ and are especially interested in ethnography and social history. Other museums‚ such as science museums and botanical gardens‚ focus on gathering specimens for identification or establishing collections of the living. It is fundamental to have a plan when establishing a museum. A museum
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Analyzing Sociological Research The research method used in the article was interviews‚ which were tape-recorded. In the article‚ Messner stated that he “conducted interviews with 30 male former athletes” (p. 133). From the interviews‚ qualitative data was gathered. The strength of using interviews in the study was that it allowed Messner to receive the information he was after‚ which was about his interviewees’ involvement in sports when they were younger‚ straight from the source‚ and in greater
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kot16996_ch01_002-023.indd Page 2 What distinguishes anthropology from other fields that study human beings? How do anthropologists study human diversity in time and space? Why is anthropology both scientific and humanistic? Street scene with soccer in Istanbul‚ Turkey. Culture‚ including sports‚ helps shape our bodies‚ personalities‚ and personal health. 12/24/09 7:41:11 PM user-s173 /Users/Shared/K4/Layout kot16996_ch01_002-023.indd Page 3 12/25/09 4:08:41
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Cultural Anthropology Review Sheet. * On test I. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology A. Different kinds of Anthropology* 1. Biological/Physical Anthropology: the branch of anthropology dealing with the evolutionary changes in human body structure and the classification of modern races. 2. Archaeologist: Study of material culture 3. Linguistic Anthropology: Study of how language is used in various social context. Focuses mainly on interplay of language and culture. 4. Cul
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Inside the Computer This essay will be focusing on the discourse community of Comp. 1900. What is a discourse community? A discourse community is a group of people involved in and communicating about a particular topic‚ issue‚ or in a particular field (What Is a Discourse Community?). Comp 1900 is an introduction to computer science course. The reason why I have chosen to see this class as a discourse community is because I believe it fits into the six Swales rules for deciding if a community is
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style=ring%20pull&color=Brass TheBalmInGileadInc ’s channel Lift Every Voice and Sing The Black National Anthem Noemi Aguilo Anthropology 211 Professor Oscar Pedraza May 4th. 2014 Aguilo 2 For my ethnography report‚ I have chosen for analysis a song called “Lift Every Voice and Sing” written by James Weldon Johnson. This was originally written as a poem but was performed as a song by 500 children from a segregated school in Jacksonville Florida and
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