social-cultural anthropology today one is usually referring to communication and culture. This is to say, when anthropologists use the term ‘media’, they tend to remain within a largely popular semantics, taking ‘media’ to mean communicational media and, more specifically, communicational media practices, technologies and institutions, especially print (Peterson 2001; Hannerz 2004), film (Ginsb...

Although anthropology is often associated with studies of small-scale societies, traditional cultures or arcane customs, this article argues that anthropology is first and foremost a way of thinking that can be applied to any aspect of human life. As such, it is complementary to and a useful supplement to other human sciences such as psychology and economics. Anthropology distinguishes itself b...

An investigation of the career of one of the "founding mothers" of the social sciences in Rio de Janeiro, Marina de Vasconcellos, successor of Arthur Ramos, is one way of understanding how anthropology was established in Rio de Janeiro. Conflicts and alliances, continuities and discontinuities, lie behind the pioneering Brazilian Society of Anthropology and Ethnology and the Institute of Social...

Psychological anthropology has a long history of integrative, crossdisciplinary research within the social sciences. This holistic tradition has substantially contributed to understanding the relationships between individuals and their cultural environment and to developing more sophisticated models of human variation within and between cultures. Whereas these contributions have generally arise...

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...

The paper attempts to contribute to the largely neglected social and anthropological discussion of technology development on the one hand, and to redirecting the emphasis in anthropology from primitive and exotic societies to problems of high relevance in contemporary era and how technology is used in everyday life. It draws upon multidimensional models of intelligence and ideal type formation....

This is a brief guide, for anthropologists with some quantitative experience, to our paper Dynamical Structure of a Traditional Amazonian Social Network [1], an article by me (Simon), Paul Hooper (an anthropologist at Emory), Ann Caldwell Hooper (Anthropology, Emory), Michael Gurven (Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara) and Hilly Kaplan (Anthropology, University of New Mexico), featuring real-world ...

1) British Academy Centenary Research Project, School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Crown St, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK 2) new address: Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK 3) Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig D-0...

Anthropology is a branch of science that studies human behavior, biology, cultures, communities, and linguistics in the present past, including past species. Cultural anthropology explores cultural meaning, norms values, while social patterns behavior. Linguistic study how language affects Biological or physical humans' biological development. Archaeological anthropology, also known as 'past an...