Bu çalışmada mizahın antropolojik çalışmalarda ciddiye alınması gerektiği iddiasından yola çıkılarak günlük yaşamın kültürel bir öğesi olması ötesinde toplumsal cinsiyet, sosyal ilişkiler, otorite ve statü gibi daha genel konuları anlamada kilit görev üstlendiği gösterilmeye çalışılmıştır. Antropolojik mizah çalışmalarının temelini oluşturan teorileri incelenmiş bu teorilerden faydalanarak ama ...

Medical anthropologists are involved in the control of several infectious and parasitic diseases throughout the world, but only recently have anthropologists (or any social scientists for that matter) conducted field studies on high mortality emerging diseases such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF). HEWLETT and AMOLA (5) provided the first systematic medical anthropological field study of Ebola ...

In this article I am illustrating the linguistic diversity of African Pygmy populations in order to better address their anthropological diversity and history. I am also introducing a new method, based on the analysis of specialized vocabulary, to reconstruct the substratum of some languages they speak. I show that Pygmy identity is not based on their languages, which have often been borrowed f...

The article analyzes the features of targeted social assistance to elderly citizens and disabled. Targeted as a special type state is scientific practical interest. In modern conditions, basis for receiving support an important but insufficient element weakly reflects principle targeting. authors use description method that relevance, purpose, philosophy basic principle. criteria effectiveness ...

An understanding of the variability of snake venom composition is of high relevance for adequate treatment of snakebites. Clinical observations of bite victims are considered as a first step in the study of venom variability. The present paper suggests the study of local clinical observations made by healers as an anthropological contribution to the interdisciplinary research of venom variabili...

This paper is a critical assessment of Wittgenstein’s anthropological perspective and Quine’s naturalistic perspective as solutions to the problem of semantic indeterminacy. The three stages of my argument try to establish the following points: (1) that Wittgenstein and Quine offer two substantially different philosophical models of language learning and cognitive development; (2) that unlikeQu...