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http://encyclozine.com/Science/Branches/ There are several ways of broadly categorizing the sciences, e.g. Pure science is systematic study of natural or physical phenomena by observation and experiment , critical testing and review, and ordering by general principles.... More »
http://www.educationoasis.com/curriculum/Science/ff/branchessci.htm Note: Not all branches are included. Aerodynamics: the study of the motion of gas on objects and the forces created Anatomy: the study of the structure and organization of living things Anthropology: the study... More »
Tom: "On that statement, with which I agree, every “understanding,” including that to which you refer in your first sentence, is a method, a way of being and seeing. Isn't the non-Buddhist “attempt to understand”... More »
During President Obama’s recent trip to Mexico ( April 16, 2009 )… Barack Obama was received at Mexico ’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist who died the following... More »
Nicole and Tom - This is such an interesting topic. A lot of research in anthropology is going on in this area, but I haven't had the time to keep myself updated. I have a... More »
e: “How long would it take to get enough qualitative data to prove his theory? How long would it take to “prove” that Amber follows Red? How many cultures would he need to study and... More »
e: "How long would it take to get enough qualitative data to prove his theory? How long would it take to “prove” that Amber follows Red? How many cultures would he need to study and... More »
David: " Rick : Qualitative data on really anything, but on vMemes especially . I'm sure more data would help, but I don't think we can dismiss the work of Clare Graves, Don Beck, Carol... More »
Great questions, David. "What is it that he doesn't have qualitative data for?" Qualitative data on really anything, but on vMemes especially. You can see and measure political complexity, organizational complexity, an increase in inequality,... More »
e: " Pray tell, how do you discern the difference? In which quadrant is reality situated? " That is the rub, isn't it. If you can't tell, then what's the point? But your not really... More »
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We have a great mix of discussion participants , which you can glean from comments posted here . Let's begin! - ~ - Thank you to Albert and Balder , who shared the Interview with David... More »
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INTRODUCTION The culture of a group, whether based on national, ethnic, or corporate identity, can be described by the definition of: A pattern of shared basic assumptions and beliefs that a group learned as... More »
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Wade Davis, a premier anthropologist with National Geographic, talks about the need to preserve the diversity of our 'ethnosphere' - the variety of cultures, many not like our own - upon the earth, in order to... More »
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Hello Gaia! Jessica here. It's my pleasure to introduce our winners for the 2008 Gaia Community Scholarship! This announcement was posted in the 2008 Scholarship Group, but I wanted to let the whole community know... More »
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There are primitives living on every block, Not just Borneo and the great Brazilian jungle. Primitives pray that they might eat, And curse their neighbor's mongrel. They watch baseball and football - boxing and... More »
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Gypsies in America are hidden. With estimates between fifty thousand and more than a million, the Gypsy population is as mysterious as their ways, and misinformation keeps them outside the mainstream. With unprecedented vividness, Lola's... More »
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In a modernism and photography course I took last July in my Masters program, I learned a great deal about the Flaneur described thus: "The term flâneur comes from the French masculine noun flâneur —which... More »
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Introduction: Masks of God Spirituality has to do with the core of our lives, with how our minds and hearts experience meaning, create values and open themselves to expansive states of consciousness. Throughout human history... More »
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How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more Malinowski the more compelling the book. No Malinowski, and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.
Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have evolved in every respect except our ability to protect ourselves against human intelligence. Our knowledge is vast but does not embrace the workings of peace. . . . We study history, philosophy, religions, languages, literature, art, architecture, political science . . . anthropology, biology, medicine, psychology, sanitation . . . chemistry, physics, engineering, mathematics. But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.
Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.
Thinking that you know something will get you nowhere.
Any grading system is meaningless. Every attempt to compare cultures with the intention of determining which is the most developed will never be anything other than one more bullshit projection of Western culture's hatred of its own shadows. There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.
A place for anthropology, archaeology, physical/forensic anthropology and general social science 'bric-a-brac' discussion. The great thing about... More »
Where did religion truly start? Did it start with the Neanderthals, or did it start much later? ... More »
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