: Cultural Anthropology . Nirmal Kumar Bose.

Human subjects protection and cultural anthropology.

c) Professor C and his students are frustrated. They are eager to begin their classroom project of ethnographically interviewing exotic dancers at the local nightclub, who are also students, on gender roles and sexuality. The results of the project will be term papers used for the students’ grades. But the IRB chair has advised them against presenting the project for approval. The chair said th...

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nessed the collection of measurements with significantly greater spectral breadth and resolution. It has been motivated by a desire to extract increasingly detailed information about the material properties of pixels in a scene for both civilian and military applications. While multispectral sensing has largely succeeded at classifying whole pixels, further analysis of the constituent substance...

Anthropology and Business: Reflections on the Business Applications of Cultural Anthropology

Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology

Decision-making, Cultural Transmission and Adaptation in Economic Anthropology

This paper argues that economic anthropologists need to reduce their reliance on cost-benefit decisionmaking, and incorporate a cognitively informed understanding of social learning, cultural transmission and information processing. Human behavioral patterns are unlikely to be primarily a product of cost-benefit decision-making because: 1) Laboratory data show that human information processing ...