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Anthropological Linguistics (LING21, ANTH020N) Syllabus [PDF]
Anthropological Linguistics course description:Communication and culture mutually define one another across communities worldwide. Human linguistic diversity, language contact and language change, and face-to-face communication continue to be key areas ...
Harrison, K. David, Thomas, Jamie A.
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Measuring culture originated in cultural anthropology, but all social sciences contributed to comparative cultural studies. Tracing critical approaches towards a measurement of cultural values one is bound to strip the biases and stereotypes bare and to ...
Magala, S.J.
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PLEs from virtual ethnography of social web [PDF]
This article presents an exploratory research based on the virtual ethnography from an environment of research and learning including new technologies.
Monguet Fierro, José María +2 more
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Digital inequality research has shown considerable variation in individuals' ability to leverage the internet for personal benefit and well-being. However, the role of negative digital outcomes remains underexplored.
Daisy Indira Yasmine +3 more
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{Excerpt} Some needs are common to all people—at all times and in all places. They are the need to make a living, the need for social organization, the need for knowledge and learning, the need for normative and metaphysical expression, and the need for ...
Serrat, Olivier
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Anthropologies of Unemployment: New Perspectives on Work and Its Absence [PDF]
[Excerpt] Anthropologies of Unemployment offers accessible, theoretically innovative, and ethnographically rich examinations of unemployment in rural and urban regions across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Kwon, Jong Bum, (Ed.) +1 more
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Knowledge, education and social differentiation amongst the Betsileo of Fisakana, highland Madagascar [PDF]
This thesis is an ethnographic study of a village in Fisakana, an area of highland Madagascar where the institution of formal education has had great social, economic and cultural influence.
Freeman, Luke
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Cognitive Evolution and Religion: Cognition and Religious Evolution
This paper presents contemporary cognitive approaches to the evolution of religious beliefs. Arguments are put forward that different types of beliefs, or ‘modes of religiosity’, occur as a result of a number of evolutionary factors (biological, cultural,
Harvey Whitehouse
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Multiple modernities : the transnationalisation of cultures ; paper presented at the Conference Transcultural English Studies, annual conference of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL/GNEL) at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt May 19-23, 2004 [PDF]
During the past decade, processes associated with what is popularly though perhaps misleadingly known as globalization have come within the purview of anthropology.
Welz, Gisela (Prof. Dr.)
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Anthropological reflections on breastfeeding between care and culture [PDF]
Breastfeeding is a practice so far unobtrusively studied by cultural and medical anthropology, an act placed between nature and culture, between private and social women spheres and which, like birth and pregnancy.
DI GIOVANNI, E., Fantauzzi, A.
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