Encyclopedia - List Of Anthropologists: Encyclopedia - List Of Anthropologists
See Anthropology. A list of notable anthropologists. Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z List of a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Forensic Anthropology: Encyclopedia Ii - Forensic Anthropology - The Discipline
Forensic anthropologists do not determine cause of death of victims but their opinions may be taken into consideration by the coroner wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropology: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropology - Politics Of Anthropology
Anthropology's traditional involvement with nonwestern cultures has involved it in politics in many different ways. Some political proble...   » Read the article

Article - Sacred Sites: Places Of Peace And Power
The research and study of the Sacred Geometry and Space of Sacred Sites have been the focus of Martin Gray for more than 20 years. Marti...   » Read the article

Article - Sacred Sites And Sacred Places: Pilgrimage And The Lure Of Sacred Sites
Since the dawn of human time people have described certain places as being holy or magical, as having a concentrated power or presence of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crow Kinship: Encyclopedia - Crow Kinship
Crow kinship is a kinship system used to define family. Identified by Louis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Af...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropology: Encyclopedia - Anthropology
Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθρωπος, "human" or "person") consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). It is holist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brent Berlin: Encyclopedia - Brent Berlin
Brent Berlin is an American anthropologist. He is most famous for his work with linguist Paul Kay on colour: Basic Color Terms: Their Uni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Martin Gray: Encyclopedia - Martin Gray
Martin Gray is an anthropologist and photographer. His work over twenty years specializing in the sacred sites and pilgrimage traditions ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropology Of Religion: Encyclopedia - Anthropology Of Religion
The anthropology of religion involves the study of religious institutions in relation to other social institutions, and the comparison of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Claude Lévi-strauss: Encyclopedia - Claude Lévi-strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss (pronounced |/klod levi stʁos/) (born November 28, 1908) is a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Double Bind: Encyclopedia - Double Bind
Double Bind is a communicative situation where a person receives different or contradictory messages. The term was coined by the anthropo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Claudio Naranjo: Encyclopedia - Claudio Naranjo
Claudio Naranjo is a Chilean-born anthropologist and psychiatrist who is noted for his inter-disciplinary work with mind-altering substan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Applied Anthropology: Encyclopedia - Applied Anthropology
Applied anthropology is a subdiscipline of cultural anthropology that tries to use the practices and theory of anthropology to solve imme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American Anthropological Association: Encyclopedia - American Anthropological Association
American Anthropological Association (AAA) was founded in 1902 and claims to be, "the world's largest professional organization of indivi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - An Instinct For Dragons: Encyclopedia - An Instinct For Dragons
An Instinct for Dragons is a book by University of Central Florida anthropologist David E. Jones, which seeks to explain the apparent uni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Family: Encyclopedia - Family
A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups, typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by comparable legal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tonantzin: Encyclopedia - Tonantzin
In Aztec mythology, Tonantzin was a lunar mother goddess. Like Tlaltecuhtli, she was sometimes depicted as a toad swallowing a stone knif...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daris Swindler: Encyclopedia - Daris Swindler
Daris Swindler is anthropologist. He is generally acknowledged as a leading primate expert; his An Atlas of Primate Gross Anatomy is a st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bronisław Malinowski: Encyclopedia - Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (April 7, 1884 – May 16, 1942) was a Polish anthropologist widely considered to be one of the most importa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural Relativism: Encyclopedia - Cultural Relativism
Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities make sense in terms of his or her own culture. Thi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Verstehen: Encyclopedia - Verstehen
Verstehen (also known as Interpretative Sociology, German for understanding, pronounced as though it rhymes with fair-stain) was used by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vine Deloria Jr.: Encyclopedia - Vine Deloria Jr.
Vine Deloria, Jr. (March 26, 1933—November 13, 2005) was a Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist. He is best know...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johann Jakob Bachofen: Encyclopedia - Johann Jakob Bachofen
The Swiss anthropologist and sociologist Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815 – 1887), is most often connected with his theory of matriarchy, or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Benjamín Urrutia: Encyclopedia - Benjamín Urrutia
Benjamín Urrutia or Benjamin Urrutia (born 1950), author and scholar, was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. According to the Mormon Literature...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Body Farm: Encyclopedia - Body Farm
The Body Farm, or the University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Facility, is located a few miles south of Knoxville, Tennessee, near ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ashley Montagu: Encyclopedia - Ashley Montagu
Ashley Montagu (June 28, 1905, London, England - November 26, 1999, Princeton, New Jersey), was an English anthropologist and humanist wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Volcanic Winter: Encyclopedia - Volcanic Winter
A volcanic winter is the reduction in temperature caused by volcanic ash and droplets of sulfuric acid obscuring the sun, usually after a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victor Turner: Encyclopedia - Victor Turner
Victor W. Turner (May 28, 1920 - 1983) was a renowned anthropologist. Turner was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He initially studied poetry a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Contextualization: Encyclopedia - Contextualization
Contextualization is a word first used by linguists involved in communicating the translation of the Bible into relevant cultural setting...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clifford Geertz: Encyclopedia - Clifford Geertz
Clifford James Geertz (born August 23, 1926 in San Francisco) is an American anthropologist serving as professor emeritus at the Institut...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alfred Radcliffe-brown: Encyclopedia - Alfred Radcliffe-brown
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (January 17, 1881–October 24, 1955) was a British social anthropologist who developed the theory of Str...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alfred Sauvy: Encyclopedia - Alfred Sauvy
Alfred Sauvy (1898-1990) was a demographer, anthropologist and historian of the French economy. Sauvy coined the term Third World (Tiers ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - Gerald Gardner
Gerald Brosseau Gardner (June 13, 1884 - February 13, 1964) was a British civil servant, amateur anthropologist, writer, and occultist wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropology: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropology - Politics Of Anthropology
Anthropology's traditional involvement with nonwestern cultures has involved it in politics in many different ways. Some political proble...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Forensic Anthropology: Encyclopedia Ii - Forensic Anthropology - Forensic Anthropology In The United States
Forensic anthropology is one of the divisions of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Two of the most important research collection...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American Ethnological Society: Encyclopedia Ii - American Ethnological Society - History Of The American Ethnological Society
Albert Gallatin and John Russell Bartlett founded the American Ethnological Society in New York City in 1842. Their goal was to promote r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropology: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropology - Historical And Institutional Context
The anthropologist Eric Wolf once characterized anthropology as the most scientific of the humanities, and the most humanistic of the sci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Tribalists: Encyclopedia Ii - New Tribalists - Criticism
New tribalists - From Indigenous Groups. Critics of this movement, including some indigenous peoples, may regard new tribalists as inte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crow Kinship: Encyclopedia Ii - Crow Kinship - Kinship System
The system is somewhat similar to the Iroquois system, but further distinguishes between the mother's side and the father's side. Relativ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Omaha Kinship: Encyclopedia Ii - Omaha Kinship - Kinship System
In function, the system is extremely similar to the Crow system. However, whereas Crow groups are matrilineal, Omaha descent groups are c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hawaiian Kinship: Encyclopedia Ii - Hawaiian Kinship - Kinship System
Within common typologies, the Hawaiian system is the simplest classificatory system of kinship. In it, differences are distinguished by g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hawaiian Kinship: Encyclopedia Ii - Hawaiian Kinship - Usage
The Hawaiian system is named for the pre-contact kinship system of peoples in the Hawaiian Islands. Use of the Hawaiian system is now mos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eskimo Kinship: Encyclopedia Ii - Eskimo Kinship - Occurrence
The Eskimo system is comparatively rare among the world's kinship systems and is at present used in most advanced Western societies (such...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eskimo Kinship: Encyclopedia Ii - Eskimo Kinship - Kinship System
The Eskimo system places no distinction between patrilineal and matrilineal relatives, instead focusing on differences in kinship distanc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropology: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropology - Anthropology In The U.s.
Anthropology in the United States was pioneered by staff of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Amer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fei Xiaotong: Encyclopedia Ii - Fei Xiaotong - Life
Fei Xiaotong - Fei’s Beginnings. Fei was a Chinese who was born in Wujiang County of Jiangsu Province in China on November 2, 1910. H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropology: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropology - Anthropology In Britain
Whereas Boas picked his opponents to pieces through attention to detail, in Britain modern anthropology was formed by rejecting historica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropology: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropology - Anthropology In France
Anthropology in France has a less clear genealogy than the British and American traditions. Most commentators consider Marcel Mauss to be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Filipino People: Encyclopedia Ii - Filipino People - History
American anthropologist H. Otley Beyer was the first to propose that Malays who came from Malaysia populated the Philippines in a handful...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropology: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropology - Anthropology After World War Two
Before WWII British 'social anthropology' and American 'cultural anthropology' were still distinct traditions. It was after the war that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fei Xiaotong: Encyclopedia Ii - Fei Xiaotong - Accomplishments
Fei Xiaotong - Fei’s Contributions to China. As a result of the influence by Malinowski and Tawney, Fei conducted in-depth studies on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iroquois Kinship: Encyclopedia Ii - Iroquois Kinship - Kinship System
The system has both classificatory and descriptive terms. In addition to gender and generation, Iroquois kinship also distinguishes betwe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fei Xiaotong: Encyclopedia Ii - Fei Xiaotong - Education
Fei received his sociological training at Yenching University and Tsinghua University, both in Beijing. He obtained his PhD from the Univ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iroquois Kinship: Encyclopedia Ii - Iroquois Kinship - Usage
The term Iroquois comes from the Iroquoian Indians of northeastern North America. However, multiple groups around the globe employ the "I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fei Xiaotong: Encyclopedia Ii - Fei Xiaotong - Politics
Fei also made significant contributions to the study and management of the development of China's rural economy. Before his death, Fei he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polyandry: Encyclopedia Ii - Polyandry - Controversy
Polyandry is a controversial subject among anthropologists. For instance, Pennsylvania anthropologist Stephen Beckerman points out that a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Filipino People: Encyclopedia Ii - Filipino People - History
American anthropologist H. Otley Beyer was the first to propose that Malays who came from Malaysia populated the Philippines in a handful...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural Anthropology: Encyclopedia Ii - Cultural Anthropology - Contemporary Theory And Methods
Today ethnography continues to dominate socio-cultural anthropology. Nevertheless, many contemporary socio-cultural anthropologists have ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bronisław Malinowski: Encyclopedia Ii - Bronisław Malinowski - Ideas And Achievements
Malinowski is often remembered as the first researcher to bring anthropology 'off the verandah'. Previous anthropologists had conducted f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Visual Anthropology: Encyclopedia Ii - Visual Anthropology - History
The origins of visual anthropology are located in the invention and application of photographic technologies to the study of human cultur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Social Stratification: Encyclopedia Ii - Social Stratification - Non-stratified Societies
Though often considered incredible, Anthropologists have confirmed that social stratification is not universal as once thought. Non-strat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ruth Benedict: Encyclopedia Ii - Ruth Benedict - The Chrysanthemum And The Sword
This book is an instance of Anthropology at a Distance. Study of a culture through its literature, through newspaper clippings, through f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bushmen: Encyclopedia Ii - Bushmen - San
The term "San" was historically applied to Bushmen by their ethnic relatives and historic rivals, the Khoikhoi. This term means outsider ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adolescence: Encyclopedia Ii - Adolescence - Legal Issues
A number of social scientists, including anthropologist Margaret Mead and sociologist Mike Males, have repeatedly noted the contradictory...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Family - Kinship Terminology
A kinship terminology is a specific system of familial relationships. The now rather dated anthropologist Louis Henry Morgan argued that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Relativism: Encyclopedia Ii - Relativism - Advocates Of Relativism
The concept of relativism has importance both for philosophers and for anthropologists, although in different ways. Philosophers explore ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Folksonomy: Encyclopedia Ii - Folksonomy - Folksonomy And Folk Taxonomy
Folksonomic categories are de novo categories that Internet users invent to express how they make sense of the online world. For this rea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tribalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Tribalism - New Tribalism
In the past 50 years, anthropologists have greatly revised our understanding of the tribe. Franz Boas removed the idea of unilineal cultu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural Relativism: Encyclopedia Ii - Cultural Relativism - Cultural Relativism And Post-colonial Politics
In the wake of the breakup of the British and French colonial empires, and in the wake of U.S. defeat in Vietnam, anthropologists became ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Franz Boas: Encyclopedia Ii - Franz Boas - Scientist As Activist
Many social scientists in other disciplines often agonize over the legitimacy of their work as "science," and consequently emphasize the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethnography: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethnography - Cultural Anthropology
Cultural anthropology grew up around the practice of ethnography. Its canonical texts are mostly ethnographies, e.g. Argonauts of the Wes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Civilization - Senses Of The Word
Civilization - 1: Literal and technical definitions. By the most minimal, literal definition, a civilization is a complex society. Tech...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethnography: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethnography - Other Related Fields
Sociology and cultural studies also produce ethnography. Urban sociology and the Chicago School in particular are associated with ethnogr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Badarian: Encyclopedia Ii - Badarian - Ancestral Origins
Debates over the ancestral origins of Ancient Egypt continue to this present day, despite numerous conclusive scientific studies which al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cargo Cult: Encyclopedia Ii - Cargo Cult - History
Discussions of cargo cults usually begin with a series of movements that occurred in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth cent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carib: Encyclopedia Ii - Carib - History
Carib people are believed to have left the Orinoco rainforests of Venezuela in South America to settle in the Caribbean. Over the century...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apa Tani: Encyclopedia Ii - Apa Tani - History
There are currently no known written records of the history of the Apatani tribe, although it is speculated that, throughout their histor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aleutian Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Aleutian Islands - History
Because of the location of the islands, stretching like a broken bridge from Asia to America, many anthropologists believe they were a ro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pasta: Encyclopedia Ii - Pasta - History
Pasta was developed independently in a number of places around the globe (though some anthropologists dispute this). In each of these pla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kon-tiki: Encyclopedia Ii - Kon-tiki - Anthropology
While this was an interesting experiment that demonstrated the seaworthiness of Heyerdahl's raft, his theory of the Polynesians' origins ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - North India: Encyclopedia Ii - North India - People
Anthropologists often associate regional affinities with racial differences. South Indian or "Dravidian" states usually have people with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gorals: Encyclopedia Ii - Gorals - Origin And Language
There are several hypotheses about their origin, but they are usually considered descendants of Vlachs, who settled this area of the Carp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Incest Taboo: Encyclopedia Ii - Incest Taboo - Explaining The Incest Taboo
Although anthropologists have observed and studied violations of incest taboos (in other words, cases of incest), all anthropological the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eugenie Scott: Encyclopedia Ii - Eugenie Scott - Biography
Scott studied at the University of Missouri - Columbia where she obtained a Ph.D. in anthropology. She served as president of the America...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Enga Province: Encyclopedia Ii - Enga Province - Culture
Like many other highland Papua New Guineans living west of the Daulo Pass (between Simbu Province and Eastern Highlands Province), the tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Economic Anthropology: Encyclopedia Ii - Economic Anthropology - Culturalism
For some anthropologists the substantivist position does not go far enough in its criticism of the universal application of Western econo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yanomami: Encyclopedia Ii - Yanomami - Character
There is tremendous debate among anthropologists over why the Yanomamö are so fierce, and over whether the Yanomamö are indeed so fierc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Imprinting Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Imprinting Psychology - Westermarck Effect
Reverse sexual imprinting is also seen: when two people live in close domestic proximity during the first few years in the life of either...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Civilization - Senses Of The Word
Civilization - 1: Literal and technical definitions. By the most minimal, literal definition, a civilization is a complex society. Tech...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kennewick Man: Encyclopedia Ii - Kennewick Man - Scientific Significance
The remains were initially given to forensic anthropologists, who studied them until it was determined that they were of a man who lived ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Civilization - Senses Of The Word
Civilization - 1: Literal and technical definitions. By the most minimal, literal definition, a civilization is a complex society. Tech...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mythography: Encyclopedia Ii - Mythography - Myth Criticism
Besides the anthropologist's reason — better understanding of a particular culture in its own terms, that is, for the purposes of cultu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bosnians: Encyclopedia Ii - Bosnians - Bosnians In Respect To Religion
Bosnians are a multi-religious as much as multi-ethnic society but this is not to say that its component religions and ethnicities are ho...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bce: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Bce
BCE Before Common or Christian Era: Dating system used by anthropologists and historians replacing the use of BC (before Christ) &n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Carlos Castaneda: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda Anthropologist, apprentice sorcerer, author of The Teachings of Don Juan; 1935-   (See also: Carlos Castaneda...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sacred Geometry: Natural Medicine Dictionary On Sacred Geometry
Sacred Geometry: Sacred Geometry is used by archaeologists, anthropologists, and geometricians to encompass the religious, philosophic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anthropologic Witchcraft: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Anthropologic Witchcraft
Anthropologic Witchcraft: Anything called “witchcraft” by an anthropologist, usually referring to (a) the practices of ind...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Witch Cult Of Western Europe: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Witch Cult Of Western Europe
Witch Cult of Western Europe: A European-wide cult of underground Pagans postulated, in a book of that name, by Margaret Murray as hav...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Harner Method Shamanic Counseling: Alternative Health Dictionary On Harner Method Shamanic Counseling
Harner Method Shamanic Counseling (HMSC): Admixture of classic shamanism and the work of anthropologist and author Michael Harner, Ph....   » Read the article