Sensorial thought: cinema, perspective and Anthropology

Medical anthropology and development: a theoretical perspective.

The author argues that social and cultural anthropologists interested in medical systems should analyze the social processes involved in terms of development and capitalist penetration; the making social of disease; and their own views of anthropology. The effect of development on indigenous medical practice involves submersion of indigenous medical systems, commoditisation of medical material...

Digital Cinema Technologies from the Archive’s Perspective

Christian Philosophical Anthropology . a Reformation Perspective

No question seems more intensely bound up with the search for the ultimate meaning and significance of existence than the question of man. In the rush of daily life people are inclined to by-pass the question — until illness or accident befalls them or the suffering of others becomes inescapable fact. It is not without reason that the question of man, of who he is, arises in situations where, i...

An Historical Perspective on Contemporary Linguistic Anthropology

Introduction A recent review of a several popular textbooks in cultural anthropology has confirmed my suspicion that there is a significant gap between what linguistic anthropology means to me and what it means to my colleagues in cultural anthropology (and probably in other sub-fields as well). One easy explanation of this gap would be to say that the authors of these textbooks are simply unin...

Research on Gift Alienability from Anthropology Perspective

Economics is usually elaborate economic phenomena from an objective point of view. While Anthropologist is more related with the social and culture field, to describe the sequential change of the particular economic action and bring it to a particular social structure. As a social behavior, the characteristics of economic activity have notable humanism particularity. The economic study includes...