: Pattern in Cultural Anthropology . Melville Jacobs.

Melville / Shakespeare

That Melville's Moby Dick contains nearly measureless references to the reading of Shakespeare is an old story featuring the whaling epic's persistent Shakespearean verbal echoes, the composition and sequencing of scenes, and the construction of Ahab as a tragic hero-villain, his shipmen as "knights and squires" and heroic commoners all caught in a tragic drama of the excesses and shortcomings ...

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...

difficulties related to cultural anthropology managing in organizational behavior

it is tried, in this article to introduce the field of cultural anthropology, which is a decipline of social science and its contribution behavioral science, through: comparative studies of values and behaviors, mutual interactions of cultures in organizations, organizational culture and environment, and its application in managing organizational behavior. the difficulties of determination and ...

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 ...