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

Here we come to understand that there is a certain synergy between our perception, personal history and experience within a shared cultural environment to give us a unique experience in this world. Feb 7, 2014 - It will detail my encounters with new technologies, media, communication tools and the web, focusing on how the human engagement with machines shapes our social, cultural and physical environments. Civilization or human culture is largely shaped by the means of communication — once writing, now an array of mechanized forms. Jul 4, 2012 - David Graeber has written a searching book that aims to place our current concerns within the widest possible framework of anthropology and world history. Pingback: Introduction to Anthropology - 2014 - Entangling the Biological. He starts from Writers from John Locke (1690) to Karl Marx (1867) identified the contemporary roots of inequality with money's social dominance, a feature that we now routinely call “capitalism”. May 28, 2010 - In our introduction to that book, we suggested that historical archaeology might represent one place in which anthropology could contribute to current interdisciplinary debates about material things. Nov 23, 2013 - Just hours after they handed in their field notebooks this past Tuesday, a friend and fellow anthropologist shared a link to an interesting and entertaining blog post which comments on the sartorial selections and symbolism of In roughly two-hundred brief interactions with members of our introduction to anthropology class, students recorded comments and observations about the clothing choices and the motivations and meanings their wearers ascribed to them. Would their explanations I argue, however, that by taking a biocultural approach and using visual anthropological methods of studying film, we can begin to understand how our visual experience is made real through culture. 19 hours ago - Parents, if our children are learning how to swipe a screen before they can turn a page, pause and consider that reading will do more to guarantee our child's future than introducing technology to infants. May 15, 2014 - To understand how visual understanding is perceived cross-culturally, the next step in this example could be to ask several individuals, of different backgrounds from different parts of the world, what they can recall in the clip. I'll share my work in studying the economics of families and households, as well as thoughts and opinions on relevant topics in the social sciences and the world around me. Jan 13, 2012 - For anthropologists studying humans in their cultural habitat, we are interested in not only the structure of their society, tribe or collective but of experiences as human beings living and working within that environment.