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Cultural Heritage Presentation and Interpretation
John H. Jameson
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Cultural Heritage Presentation and InterpretationIntroductionWith conceptual roots going back to the first half of the 20th century, the public interp...
Cultural Materialism
Frank Elwell, Brian Andrews
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Cultural MaterialismIntroductionMarvin Harris (1927–2001), an American Anthropologist, synthesized the paradigm of cultural materialism in 1968, and b...
Cultural Relativism
Mayanthi Fernando
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Cultural Relativism Introduction In a 1580 essay called “On the Cannibals,” early Enlightenment thinker Michel de Montaigne posited that men a...
Cultural Resource Management
Patrick H. Garrow
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Cultural Resource Management Introduction Cultural resource management, normally referred to as “CRM,” may be defined as cultural heritage man...
Culture
Hai Ren
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Culture Introduction Culture is a term that describes and characterizes various ways in which human differences and similarities are recognized...
Culture and Personality
Robert A. LeVine
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Culture and PersonalityIntroduction“Culture and personality” (also known as “personality and culture” and “culture-and-personality studies”) was an in...
Culture, Popular
Elizabeth ErkenBrack, Rebecca Pardo, John L. Jackson
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Popular Culture Introduction An ambiguous concept by most accounts, “popular culture” first became a widely used term in the mid-19th century i...
Curatorship
Steven Lubar, Allyson LaForge
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
CuratorshipIntroductionThe traditional work of curators—collecting, caring for, researching, and exhibiting artifacts in museums—has expanded in many ...
Cyber-Archaeology
Maurizio Forte, Nevio Danelon
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Cyber-ArchaeologyIntroductionCyber-archaeology is a branch of archaeological research concerned with the digital simulation of the past. In this conte...
Dalit Studies
Surinder S. Jodhka, Ujithra Ponniah
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Dalit StudiesIntroductionThe term Dalit has come to be used in relation to the cluster of communities located at the lower end of the hierarchy in the...
Dance Ethnography
Helena Wulff
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Dance Ethnography Introduction An understanding of dance ethnography is twofold. First, it refers to the systematic face-to-face research of d...
de Heusch, Luc
Patrick Laviolette, Pierre de Maret
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Luc De Heusch Introduction A polymath in the true sense of the term, the Belgian Luc de Heusch (b. 1927–d. 2012) was a distinguished social an...
Deaccessioning
Michele Piazzai, Marilena Vecco
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2020-06-24
DeaccessioningIntroductionDeaccessioning is the technical term referring to the expulsion of objects from museum collections. This would be considered...
Design
Elizabeth Chin
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
DesignIntroductionIf anthropology is about anything humans have ever done from the emergence of primates until now, design covers a territory that is ...
Design, Anthropology and
Todd E. Nicewonger
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Anthropology and Design Introduction While anthropological studies of design expertise are not new, recent publications, conferences, and onli...
Diaspora
Jemima Pierre
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Diaspora Introduction Diaspora is a term used to describe the mass, often involuntary, dispersal of a population from a center (or homeland) t...
Digital Anthropology
Tom Boellstorff, Ethiraj Dattatreyan
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Digital Anthropology Introduction Digital anthropology is an emerging field focused on the Internet-related transformations that make possible...
Disability and Deaf Studies and Anthropology
Leila Monaghan
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Disability and Deaf Studies and AnthropologyIntroductionThis article presents works on Deaf culture and language and disability topics of interest to ...
Douglas, Mary
Perri 6, Paul Richards
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Mary DouglasIntroductionMary Douglas b. 1921–d. 2007 was an anthropologist and social theorist working in the Durkheimian tradition. Most anthropologi...
Drake, St. Clair
Aimee Meredith Cox
Subject: Anthropology »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
St. Clair Drake Introduction John Gibbs St. Clair Drake’s groundbreaking scholarship continues to be highly influential in the theoretical fram...
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