In the framework of completing the aim of the project supporting health, which is entitled “Intervention programme for optimal mobility and its influence on health” in June 1998 we carried out a physical diagnosis of University students of the 3rd age at the Faculty of Physical Culture. The test group finished the 2nd year with a specialisation “Journey to health, organism regeneration by movem...

This paper is first taking a brief look back on the “anthropology of cyberculture”, formulated as anthropological research area, concept and issue by Arturo Escobar in 1994. Inspired by science and technology studies, he painted a very vivid picture how anthropology and ethnography could contribute to the understanding of new bio and communication technologies as society's transforming driving ...

SWISS GENESIS OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY BY JAN CZEKANOWSKI (1882-1965) STANISŁAW PONIATOWSKI (1884-1945) The history of Polish science still has many gaps. This is the case Jan Czekanowski and Stanisław Poniatowski. They both studied physical anthropology at University Zurich. article explains reason for their ethnographic ethnological research, which they successfully conducted in these di...

since an adequate synthesis of the scientific information available includes at least the fields of architecture and interior design, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and geography. Although reaching consensus across such a diversity of theoretical orientations and approaches is difficult, several useful points can be defended within this broad review. Evidence suggests that even our memori...

MERICAN anthropology as an organized science is only one hundred years A old. The American Ethnological Society of New York, founded in 1842, was the first organization of its kind on the continent. I n 1851 “the first scientific account of an Indian tribe” appeared-Lewis H. Morgan’s League of the Iroquois. I n 1866 the Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology was founded in Cambridg...

INTRODUCTION 1. Purposes and Scope of the Paper The anthropology of law is perhaps as old as anthropology itself, tracing its origins back to Malinowski’s fieldwork in the Trobriands and, earlier, the evolutionary speculation of Sir Henry Maine. For much of its existence, legal anthropology has remained a subject without a stable center, attracting an “enormous diversity in the range of issues ...