This analytical study is dedicated to notable Russian philosopher in exile and theoretical pedagogue of culture Sergei Iosifovich Gessen (1887-1950), who a somewhat forgotten personality Czech pedagogy today. It aims elaborate on those Hessen's ideas which are at the heart his concept university as an institution, can provide important frame reference for criticism today’s instrumental approach...

This essay traces some of the major epistemological shifts in humanities over last century, particular anthropology, which have informed and profoundly altered language- literary disciplines Western academia, especially those relating to subjectivity observer (the anthropological ‘gaze ’), complex interconnectedness language surrounding socio-cultural network, ephemeral nature itself, issue tex...

Jewish philosophy has always had its own way of making it´s answers to the different questions that have been appearing in history thought. This indeed happen with question about language, involve thought not only from philosophical point view, but also religious one. Thereby, a current arises, which can be called “ nominalism ” proposes new think directly confronting main intellectual traditio...

The authors present examples of how anthropologists are presently using computers to advance ethnographic research in new directions while building on what has come before. All the methods, protocols and tools created by the authors are free, open source, and available on the internet. The contributions are the authors’ attempts to address greater complexity through greater ‘control’ over the d...

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This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Anthropology at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Ecological Anthropology by an authorized editor of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Joseph, Suzanne. "Hierarchy Theory: A Vision, Vocabulary, and Epistemology." Journal of Ecological...

The study of cranial variation has a long, and somewhat difficult, history within anthropology. Much of this difficulty is rooted in the historical use of craniometric data to justify essentialist typological racial classification schemes. In the post-war era of the "New Physical Anthropology" (sensu Washburn, 1951), anthropologists began to analyse human variation in an explicitly populationis...

Medical anthropology is the study of human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation. The discipline draws upon the four fields of anthropology to analyse and compare the health of regional populations and of ethnic and cultural enclaves, both prehistoric and contemporary. Collaboration among paleopathologists, human biologists, ethnologists, and linguists has created ...

The article begins with a short introduction to phenomenology with an emphasis on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, whose ideas have had a great impact on cultural anthropology since the 1980s, especially through notions like ‘embodiment’ and ‘radical empiricism’. The article will proceed to outline main trends in phenomenological anthropology as well as its precursors. It then dedicates itsel...