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Henry McHenry, professor of anthropology; UC Davis Prize; elected fellow, California Academy of Sciences; Zoila S. Mendoza, professor and chair of Native American studies [8] Jacob K. Olupona, professor of African and African American studies, later at Harvard University; Rhacel Parrenas, professor of sociology, later at Brown University
Cyborg anthropology uses traditional methods of anthropological research like ethnography and participant observation, accompanied by statistics, historical research, and interviews. By nature it is a multidisciplinary study; cyborg anthropology can include aspects of science and technology Studies, cybernetics, feminist theory, and more. It ...
Blacksmith at work, Nuremberg c. 1606 The anthropology of technology (AoT) is a unique, diverse, and growing field of study that bears much in common with kindred developments in the sociology and history of technology: first, a growing refusal to view the role of technology in human societies as the irreversible and predetermined consequence of a given technology's putative "inner logic"; and ...
Davis’ work has been influential in the field of Black feminist ethnography, medical anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), and women, gender, and sexuality studies. [10] A symposium at Barnard College and a special issue in The Scholar and Feminist Online features Davis' book Reproductive Injustice for a discussion on medical ...
Digital anthropology is the anthropological study of the relationship between humans and digital-era technology. The field is new, and thus has a variety of names with a variety of emphases. These include techno-anthropology, [1] digital ethnography, cyberanthropology, [2] and virtual anthropology. [3]
[6] [7] She was also awarded the American Sociological Association's Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology's Robert K. Merton award in 1992 for her work Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. [8] In 2017, Haraway was awarded the Wilbur Cross Medal, one of the highest honors for alumni of Yale University ...
Money magazine ranked UC Davis 10th in the country out of 739 schools evaluated for its 2020 "Best Colleges for Your Money" edition [115] and 4th in its list of the 50 best public schools in the U.S. [116] Forbes in 2022 ranked UC Davis 23rd overall out of 650 colleges and universities in the U.S., 22nd among research universities, 4th among ...
Cross-cultural studies, sometimes called holocultural studies or comparative studies, is a specialization in anthropology and sister sciences such as sociology, psychology, economics, political science that uses field data from many societies through comparative research to examine the scope of human behavior and test hypotheses about human behavior and culture.