Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Study of Words Related to Nature and Natural Phenomena in Iranian Oykonyms: Their Use and Background

Introduction One of the most important tools for studying the history and culture of any nation or tribe is to recognize the language and linguistic materials of that nation. Linguistic data can be divided into written and unwritten or or...

Post-Fire Abundance Trajectories of Bird Species and Functional Groups Within an Atlantic–Mediterranean Ecotone

The Atlantic–Mediterranean ecotone of northwestern Iberia is one of the most fire-prone regions in Europe, yet post-fire avian dynamics there remain poorly documented. To characterise short- to mid-term post-fire avian trajectories in this ...

Hobbes and Kant: Materialism and Rhetoric

This article examines the subtle nuances of Hobbes’s and Kant’s perspectives on rhetoric and materialism, contextualising them within the broader framework of political philosophy. Despite both philosophers being critics of rhetoric, their ...

Anthropology Art and Aesthetics

Abstract This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time. In recent years a number of new galleries of non-Western art have been opened, many exhibitions ...

Anthropology's Mythology

Assessing Cultural Anthropology

Assessing Cultural Anthropology. Robert Borofsky. ed. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1994. xix. 566 pp., references, indexes....

Anthropological Theory

Anthropological theory has been much discussed in recent years, yet the crucial questions still remain--how can it be defined, how is it developed, how is it to be applied, and how can one confirm it? The editors of Anthropological Theory a...

World Anthropologies: Anthropological Cosmopolitanisms and Cosmopolitics

To present the world anthropologies project (WA), this article explores the existence of three kinds of anthropological cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitics: imperial, liberal, and radical. Imperial cosmopolitics reproduces the hegemony of th...

The Anthropology of Christianity

Abstract This article surveys the literature that constitutes the newly emergent anthropology of Christianity. Arguing that the development of this sub‐discipline was impeded until recently by anthropology's theoretical framing and empirica...

The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness

ion. [In this connection, see analogous arguments by Navarro (126) and Assennato & Navarro (7, pp. 224--30) on the social production of knowledge of occupational medicine, and Latour & Woolgar (102) on the social production of biomedical kn...

Anthropology and autobiography

Structural Anthropology

Representing the Colonized: Anthropology's Interlocutors

Anthropology and Voice

Voice is both a set of sonic, material, and literary practices shaped by culturally and historically specific moments and a category invoked in discourse about personal agency, communication and representation, and political power. This rev...

Is Anthropology Alive? Social Responsibility in Social Anthropology

The old formula fOT successful counterinsurgency used to be J0 troops for evtry guerrilla," one American specialist [in Thailand] remarked."Now the formula is ten anthropologists for each guerrilla" (Braeslrud 1967).I THE NOTION THAT contem...

WITTGENSTEIN AND ANTHROPOLOGY

▪ Abstract This essay explores the theme of Wittgenstein as a philosopher of culture. The primary text on which the essay is based is Philosophical Investigations; it treats Stanley Cavell's work as a major guide for the understanding and r...

An Introduction to Anthropology

The Anthropology of Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

1. Linguistic Anthropology. 2. Language and Culture. 3. The Sounds of Language. 4. Words and Sentences. 5. Language in Action. 6. Nonverbal Communication. 7. Writing and Literacy. 8. How and When is Language Possible? 9. Change and Choice. ...

The Anthropology of Online Communities

▪ Abstract Information and communication technologies based on the Internet have enabled the emergence of new sorts of communities and communicative practices—phenomena worthy of the attention of anthropological researchers. Despite early a...

The anthropology of tourism