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The Ethics of Anthropology

2019
The early history of professional anthropology is characterized by chronic ambivalence between, on one hand, participation in colonial rule (providing insights into native social and political organization) and in postcolonial economic domination (helping to overcome perceived “cultural barriers to development”) and, on the other hand, the role of ...
Grotti, Vanessa, Brightman, Marc
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Keeping Biological Anthropology in Anthropology, and Anthropology in Biology

American Anthropologist, 2003
Considerable tension among the subfields has existed within the discipline of anthropology. As a result, some anthropology departments have splintered, and the hallmark "holistic approach" of anthropology has been considered more myth than reality. However, as promoted by the American Anthropological Association and the American Anthropologist for over
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Prevention and anthropology

Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 2014
Screening is an important issue in medicine and is used to early identify unrecognised diseases in persons who are apparently in good health. Screening strongly relies on the concept of "normal values". Normal values are defined as values that are frequently observed in a population and usually range within certain statistical limits.
Jopp, Eilin, Scheffler, Christiane (Dr. rer. nat.), Hermanussen, Michael (Prof. Dr.)   +2 more
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Theories in anthropology and ‘anthropological theory’

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2010
What makes a theory ‘anthropological’ beyond it being a theory that anthropologists use? Assuming a framework that understands anthropology in its broadest sense, this article invites us to remind ourselves what theories are actually supposed to do. Distinguishing theories in terms of the scale of presumption in their claims, it argues for a pyramid of
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For an Anthropology of Vulnerability

Psychopathology, 1997
The purpose of this paper is to revise the vulnerability model in the light of continental phenomenological psychopathology. Its main shortcomings, i.e. an insufficient assessment of basic phenomena and a blurred theory of subjectivity, are pointed out and improved by integrating the vulnerability model with the basic-symptom and intentionality ...
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Evolutionary Anthropology Society

Anthropology News, 2004
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Anthropology on the boundary and the boundary in anthropology

Human Studies, 1990
The following thoughts grew through a year of seminars with Dr. Michael Herzfeld (Indiana University). Readers of his forthcoming book entitled Anthropology through the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe (Cambridge 1987) may note some ideas strikingly similar to those expressed in these pages.
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Medical Anthropology as Cultural Anthropology

American Anthropologist, 1995
Book reviewed in this article: Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective. Byron J. Good. Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life. Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock, eds.
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Non-Anthropological Anthropology

The Antioch Review, 1962
Alan P. Merriam, C. M. Bowra
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The Anthropology of Police as Public Anthropology

American Anthropologist, 2015
Jennie Simpson, P. Mutsaers, Kevin G. Karpiak   +2 more
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