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Cultural Anthropology Background Reading [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Top 100 books on cultural ...
Hallqvist Albertson
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Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA): a dataset of 52 languages

open access: yesScientific Data, 2023
Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA) is a resource capturing two snapshots of the grammatical structure of a diverse range of languages separated in time, aimed at furthering research on historical linguistics, language evolution, and cultural change ...
Frederic Blum   +4 more
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Claude Lévi-Strauss as a humanist forerunner of cultural macroevolution studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Cross-cultural studies of humans using methods developed in evolutionary biology and comparative linguistics are flourishing. ‘Cultural macroevolution’ has great potential to address fundamental questions of cultural transformation and human history ...
Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R
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"Ontological Choreography" as an Ethnographic Tool

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2015
In this article the term "ontological choreography", coined by Charis Thompson, is used as a heuristic analytical device to grasp the different realities of reproductive technologies.
Willemijn de Jong   +3 more
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Can the science of Prosocial be a part of evolution education?

open access: yesEvolution: Education and Outreach, 2020
We provide a brief overview of Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups by Paul Atkins, David Sloan Wilson, and Steven Hayes.
Dustin Eirdosh, Susan Hanisch
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Michel de Montaigne’s Contributions to Cultural Anthropology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Modern cultural anthropology was not established until the 19th century. But some of the basic questions in cultural anthropology about man and culture were discussed by the precursors of the field.
LIU, Zao
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Inai Cultural Dialectics: Indigenous Knowledge of Natural Dyes among the Iban Dayak as a Response to the Phenomenon of Fast Fashion

open access: yesMudra: Jurnal Seni Budaya
Basic human needs, including clothing, have become commodities in the hands of industrial players, leading to a culture of consumption and negatively impacting the environment.
Diaz Restu Darmawan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity-aware social robots meet people: beyond context-aware embodied AI [PDF]

open access: yesAnthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society, 6-10 June 2022, 1-7, 2022
The article introduces the concept of "diversity-aware" robotics and discusses the need to develop computational models to embed robots with diversity-awareness: that is, robots capable of adapting and re-configuring their behavior to recognize, respect, and value the uniqueness of the person they interact with to promote inclusion regardless of their ...
arxiv  

Uncomfortable Antinomies: Going Beyond Methodological Nationalism in Social and Cultural Anthropology

open access: yes, 2012
This chapter considers some of the ways in which social and cultural anthropology has changed since its heyday in the immediate post-World War Two period.1 In particular, it focuses on the challenges to anthropological fi eldwork methodology, with its ...
David N. Gellner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Old Discipline, New Trajectories: Theories, Methods and Practices in Anthropology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Going under the title “Old Discipline, New Trajectories: Theories, Methods and Practices in Anthropology”, the conference seeks to provide a “home” for socio-cultural and linguistic anthropologists as well as archeologists and bio-evolutionary ...
de Munck, Victor C., Garalytė, Kristina
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