Cultural Anthropology

Human subjects protection and cultural anthropology.

c) Professor C and his students are frustrated. They are eager to begin their classroom project of ethnographically interviewing exotic dancers at the local nightclub, who are also students, on gender roles and sexuality. The results of the project will be term papers used for the students’ grades. But the IRB chair has advised them against presenting the project for approval. The chair said th...

Anthropology and Business: Reflections on the Business Applications of Cultural Anthropology

Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology

Decision-making, Cultural Transmission and Adaptation in Economic Anthropology

This paper argues that economic anthropologists need to reduce their reliance on cost-benefit decisionmaking, and incorporate a cognitively informed understanding of social learning, cultural transmission and information processing. Human behavioral patterns are unlikely to be primarily a product of cost-benefit decision-making because: 1) Laboratory data show that human information processing ...

Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Applying Syndemics and Chronicity: Interpretations from Studies of Poverty, Depression, and Diabetes Lesley Jo Weaver a & Emily Mendenhall b a Department of Anthropology , Emory University , Atlanta , Georgia , USA b Science, Technology, and International Affairs Program, Walsh School of Foreign Service , Georgetown University , Washington , DC , USA Accepted author version posted online: 10 Ju...