Diamond Jenness and 'Useful Anthropology' in Canada 1930-1950

faculty of psychology and social sciences group of anthropology master thesis in major of anthropology

چکیده پایان نامه (شامل خلاصه، اهداف، روش های اجرا و نتایج به دست آمده): کار جمع آوری گو یش های محلی در سال های اخیر شتاب امیدوار کننده ای به خود گرفته است. شاید از بارزترین اهداف جمع آوری گویش های مختلف، ثبت و ضبط آن، جلوگیری از نابودی و مهمتر از همه حل مشکلات دستوری زبان رسمی باشد. دقت در فرآیند های زبانی گویش های محلی نوع ارتباط مردم نواحی مختلف با پیرامون نشان را به ما نشان خواهد داد. از س...

Alcohol consumption and alcohol-related mortality in Canada, 1950-2000.

OBJECTIVE To describe trends in overall alcohol consumption and alcohol-related mortality in Canada, and to test regional associations between per capita alcohol consumption and alcohol-related mortality. METHOD Alcohol sales for 1950-2000 were used to measure total alcohol consumption; alcohol-related mortality consisted of nine different alcohol-related causes of death for 1950-1998. Alcoho...

Keeping Biological Anthropology in Anthropology, and Anthropology in Biology

Considerable tension among the subfields has existed within the discipline of anthropology. As a result, some anthropology departments have splintered, and the hallmark "holistic approach" of anthropology has been considered more myth than reality. However, as promoted by the American Anthropological Association and the American Anthropologist for over one hundred years, enhancing the holistic ...

Liberal Education On The Great Plains American Experiments, Canadian Flirtations, 1930-1950

Steroids in arms: science, government, industry, and the hormones of the adrenal cortex in the United States, 1930-1950.

Experimental life science in the twentieth century is aptly characterized as a quest for "master molecules", biochemical entities presumed to govern all basic vital processes and phenomena. Today many commentators critique the reigning "genetic essentialism"-the notion that everything about the life of human beings (and other living things) is predetermined in their DNA, today's master molecule...