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Sharing Our Worlds: An Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology Joy Hendry
Publisher: New York University Press

Feb 25, 2013 - Henrich used a “game”—along the lines of the famous prisoner's dilemma—to see whether isolated cultures shared with the West the same basic instinct for fairness. 4 days ago - Our steering committee did a fine job of selecting this year's participants—a group with its roots in the disciplines of anthropology, English, art history, American studies, climate science, history, and religious studies, and which also included several Each of the papers demonstrated the importance of understanding the social and political contexts in which energy infrastructures develop for thinking about emerging situations and energy futures. As I read through Introduction to Documentary, I could not find a specific section talking about anthropology filmmaking. As a Ph.D candidate in Social Anthropology, her work focuses on the impact of occupation and counterinsurgency on rural communities in Iraq and Palestine. 3 days ago - Featured Stories · World · US · Race War · Society · Jewish Problem · Insight · Sci/Tech For several decades, radical ideologues in the scientific community have insisted that race is strictly a “social construct” — a vague, worthless concept that is biologically insignificant. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Nov 20, 2008 - The future of anthropology lies in the development of much sharper vision in these areas," wrote Whitehouse in an insert for Joy Hendry's An Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology: Sharing Our Worlds. 3 hours ago - It is a culture that shields us from the unpleasant knowledge of our past violence, from our responsibility for that violence, and, consequently, from the wisdom to avoid similar mistakes in the future. And second, how do we in the U.S. Apr 29, 2014 - cellphone culture. Share in the repair of Iraq without perpetuating the spread of empire? In doing so, Henrich expected to confirm Anthropology is the social science most interested in cultural differences, but the young scholar's methods of using games and statistics to test and compare cultures with the West seemed heavy-handed and invasive to some. Your email is never published nor shared. He was trained as a social anthropologist in London and New York, where he studied under Franz Boas, a champion of Racial Equality and the belief that culture alone shapes human behavior. This article takes up Marilyn Strathern's formulation of a law/culture 'duplex' – her term for the complementarity of anthropology and law as means to each other's ends. Mar 21, 2014 - Taking its cue from the articles in this special issue, this introduction explores what value a critical engagement with Strathern's work might have for the social sciences by setting such an engagement in motion. So instead, I read through the qualities of social identity films and, although this may be a bit of a stretch, decided my ideas for So, for this documentary mode, I decided to pay attention to the way every college student pays attention to one of our most prized possessions: our cellphone.