Cannibalizing the Campus
Until recently, we all saw the college years as an important time for intellectual, social and cultural growth. Those days seem to be over. Colleges and universities have…
Until recently, we all saw the college years as an important time for intellectual, social and cultural growth. Those days seem to be over. Colleges and universities have…
1. El concepto de estructura Lévi-Strauss cree que la antropología debe buscar las estructuras que hay tras los hechos socioculturales, los fundamentos inconscientes de la…
(Addition, 15 April in the morning: Oh the pleasure of getting it all wrong again. Just hours after I wrote this note, the supreme electoral council excluded Omar…
(Addition, 15 April in the morning: Oh the pleasure of getting it all wrong again. Just hours after I wrote this note, the supreme electoral council excluded Omar…
1. Materialismo cultural Para Marvin Harris la vida social está formada por dos tipos de fenómenos: por un lado, la conducta de la gente y, por otro, sus…
1. Antecedentes Margaret Mead y Reo Fortune en Pere, Admiralty Islands, 1918. Library of Congress Margaret Mead empezó a investigar las relaciones entre el temperamento, la cultu…
College professors are yet again being flayed in the media. This time, an opinion piece in the Washington Post follows a well-worn path, complaining that professors are vastly…
College professors are yet again being flayed in the media. This time, an opinion piece in the Washington Post follows a well-worn path, complaining that professors are vastly…
College professors are yet again being flayed in the media. This time, an opinion piece in the Washington Post follows a well-worn path, complaining that professors are vastly…
College professors are yet again being flayed in the media. This time, an opinion piece in the Washington Post follows a well-worn path, complaining that professors are vastly…
Washington Post follows a well-worn path, complaining that professors are vastly overpaid. Let me demonstrate why this is dangerously out of touch.]]>
College professors are yet again being flayed in the media. This time, an opinion piece in the Washington Post follows a well-worn path, complaining that professors are vastly…
College professors are yet again being flayed in the media. This time, an opinion piece in the Washington Post follows a well-worn path, complaining that professors are vastly…
“The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore… they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on…
En milepæl i den danske køns- og ligestillingsdebat. Så enkelt kan den nye rapport om mænds ligestilling fra tænketanken Viden om Mænd (VM) beskrives. Auto-…
Couple of years old now but well worth watching in full – Gillian Tett, Managing Editor of the FT in the US addresses the 2010 AAA on “Silence…
Set Them Free, They’ll Grow Wings I occasionally teach a course at the University of Alberta. It’s called Anthropology 207: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. The class…
1. El concepto de modelo cultural (pattern of culture) Ruth Benedict entre dos indígenas pies negros (1939)National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Ins. En su libro Patterns of Culture (1934),…
Southern Medicine for Southern People: Vietnamese Medicine in the Making (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012) gives me hope for the future of edited volumes. Not only is it a fascinating…
1. Función social En su artículo “El concepto de función en la ciencia social” (1935), Radcliffe-Brown expone su concepción de esta idea clave en su plantemiento teórico y,…
1. Función de la cultura La tesis central de Malinowski es que la cultura existe para satisfacer las necesidades biológicas, psicológicas y sociales del individuo. Grupo de hombres…
Religion defines spaces of good and evil, and helps us to deal with the absurdity of human pain and suffering. Is it any wonder that people devote so…
Religion defines spaces of good and evil, and helps us to deal with the absurdity of human pain and suffering. Is it any wonder that people devote so…