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Harald Prins was born in the Netherlands and is a University Distinguished Professor of anthropology at Kansas State University.. Academically trained at various universities in the Netherlands, where he studied prehistoric archaeology, history, and cultural anthropology, among others under Anton Weiler, Albert Trouwborst, Anton Blok, and Ton Lemaire, he completed his doctoraal at the Radboud ...
FBA, FRSE. Occupation (s) Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Janet Carsten FBA FRSE is an anthropologist and professor currently employed at the University of Edinburgh. [1] Carsten studies social and cultural anthropology. [1] She is the daughter of the British historian Francis Ludwig Carsten.
ISBN. 0-465-09719-7. The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays is a 1973 book by the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz. The book is a foundational text in cultural anthropology and represents Geertz ’s vision of how culture should be studied and understood. The essays collectively argue for a new approach to anthropology, one that ...
e. Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant. The term sociocultural anthropology includes both cultural and social anthropology traditions.
Anthropology is the study of humanity. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Described as "the most humanistic of sciences and the most scientific of the humanities", [ 4 ] it is considered to bridge the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, [ 5 ] and draws upon a wide range of related fields.
Marshall David Sahlins (/ ˈsɑːlɪnz / SAH-linz; December 27, 1930 – April 5, 2021) [1][2] was an American cultural anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work in the Pacific and for his contributions to anthropological theory. He was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences ...
Social and cultural anthropology. v. t. e. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor FRAI (2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917) was an English anthropologist, and professor of anthropology. [1] Tylor's ideas typify 19th-century cultural evolutionism. In his works Primitive Culture (1871) and Anthropology (1881), he defined the context of the scientific study of ...
Sherry Ortner was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" grant in 1990. [4] In 1992, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [5] She has been awarded the Retzius Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. Ortner was previously married to Robert Paul, a cultural anthropologist now at Emory University; and ...