By combining laboratory experiments, cross-cultural fieldwork, and analysis of the historical record, an interdisciplinary team has proposed that belief in judgmental deities was key to the cooperation needed to build and sustain large, complex societies.
Using critical insights from some of the earlier literature in the area of intersectionality and embodiment in particular, Norris explores their relevance in her own cross-cultural fieldwork encounters as a younger White British woman undertaking research with older women and men in Indonesia.
On the second point, he emphasizes what has continued to be the anchor of cultural anthropology in ethnographic fieldwork and writing.
Participatory observations were made during fieldwork and cultural gatherings on Tl'chés.
Here we review anthropological theories of cultural learning derived from fieldwork and modeling; since cultural learning theory suggests that sophisticated imitation abilities are at the core of human cultural learning, we focus our review on cultural imitative learning.
However, this is equally the strength of the research because the PLA approach enhanced recruitment of hard-to-reach migrants and eliminated language and cultural barriers from the fieldwork, which enabled meaningful participation.
In spite of these different assessments, the majority of the systematic branches of the discipline today, from economic and urban geography to cultural and critical geography, consider fieldwork as an important component of research endeavors in geography.
Boas and several generations of his students—including A.L. Kroeber, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead turned completely away from broad generalizations about culture and concentrated on fieldwork among traditional peoples, harvesting a great variety of facts and artifacts as empirical evidence of cultural processes within existing societies.
It's hard to reconcile it with the cultural wonderland made famous by the fieldwork of the American anthropologist Margaret Mead.
Son of British biologist William Bateson, he studied anthropology at Cambridge University but soon thereafter moved to the U.S. His most important book, Naven (1936), was a groundbreaking study of cultural symbolism and ritual based on fieldwork in New Guinea.
I use a mix of anthropology fieldwork techniques and popular cultural analysis to attempt to get inside of the performances of gender that surround us.
