An anthropological premise consistent with Theory Y is at the center of Albert Bandura’s work, the most-frequently cited living psychologist. His Social Cognitive Theory emphasizes the human ...

This course discusses important aspects of anthropological theory in relation to ethnographic research. It covers the development of anthropological thought from the second half of the 19th century to ...

History of anthropological theory; music and poetics; exchange and patrimony; Muslim-Jewish relations; language ideology; comparative colonialism; North Africa and the Middle East Harvey, Megan ...

This book argues that it represents not just a new subfield within anthropology but a conceptual renewal of the discipline as a whole, enabling it to take account of a major dimension of human conduct ...

"Capuchin monkeys stick their fingers in their friends' eyes as sign of affection, why have humans developed kissing?" ...

The central argument of the book is that the search for an anthropological difference - that is, for a marker of human uniqueness determined by way of a sharp human/animal distinction - should be set ...

An anthropology thesis can investigate virtually anything. A good thesis can begin with a student’s interest in either a topic or a theory. Sometimes it begins in a class. Sometimes it begins with a ...

University of Akron assistant professor Sanaullah Khan muses on how COVID has changed higher education and how that could ...

At SLU, we offer programs in anthropology, sociology, forensic science and geographic information systems. These four specialties unite empirical research techniques and theories to broaden our ...

Early in the 11th century, a Benedictine Abbot established All Souls' Day as a day to pray for the souls of deceased family ...

Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...