This article examines city bus drivers’ behaviour, culture, and daily life in their work environment – particularly mutual communication, relationships between drivers passengers, issues faced, feelings experienced by when performing job. I present data through autoethnographic testimony depicting my personal experience as an anthropologist-bus driver Prague. The terrain showed that autoethnogr...

Farmers within irrigation systems, such as those in Bali, solve complex coordination problems to allocate water and control pests. Lansing and Kremer’s [Lansing, J.S., Kremer, J.N., 1993. Emergent properties of Balinese water temples. American Anthropologist 95(1), 97–114] study of Balinese water temples showed that this coordination problem can be solved by assuming simple local rules for how ...

Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) has often been regarded as outdated, frozen in the past. For example, the anthropologist Paul Nadasdy (2004) found such attitudes in the Yukon, where government biologists, often with little field experience, dismissed and belittled local indigenous knowledge. They assumed it to be static and anecdotal, and often based on spiritual rather than empirical fo...

It was oniy m our last volume ^1910, page 359; mat we gave a review of Dr. Beddoe's life as gathered from his own Memories of Eighty Years (Arrowsmith). He is no longer able to write his own biography, but who could write this better than himself in the life-story he has given us ? It becomes our duty to record our appreciation of the work he has done during his eighty-four years, and to expres...

The paper explores, within the framework of philosophy of psychoanalysis, a question about the epistemology and methodology of participant experience in anthropology: whether the emotional experience of the fieldworker can provide a ‘legitimate means for knowing’. There is a recognised parallel here with the situation of the psychoanalyst vis à vis her patient; both analyst and anthropologist m...

Abstract Franz Boas was not only a pioneering anthropologist, becoming known as the "Father of American Anthropology," but also concerned citizen, seeking to use his knowledge and prominence improve society in which he lived. He deeply with education thought about ways it. believed that well-rounded included arts sciences, is why proposed plan for New York City's science establishments, make th...

Prehistoric archaeologist and cultural anthropologist Marija Gimbutas was born exactly a century ago. Although she left us over quarter of ago (she passed away in 1994), her person still controversial ideas continue to attract considerable interest, reflected both by the acclaim harsh critique that work theories have received receive. In light recent archaeogenetic findings their interpretation...

The apparent restriction of the Diego blood factor to the Mongoloid peoples (Leyrisse and Arends, ’56) has provided the anthropologist with a tool of great potential usefulness in the evaluation of populations of mixed origin. In order to use this system to its full advantage, it is necessary to have considerable information on groups whose origin can with considerable certainty be labelled “mo...