Anthropologists

An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and values of societies. Linguistic anthropology studies how language affects social life, while economic anthropology studies human economic behavior. Biological (physical), forensic and medical anthropology study the biological development of humans, the application of biological anthropology in a legal setting and the study of diseases and their impacts on humans over time, respectively.

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Fate remains central to many cultural outlooks, and in our age of conflict, climate change, and pandemic, it features conspicuously in debates about the future. A careful examination of this …

power to control things. Belief systems that anthropologists describe as “totemic” con - nect humans to


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 29 March 2024 English

This first-of-its-kind collection shares stories not only of entrepreneurial excellence and persistence but of savvy leadership, innovation, and reciprocity, providing hope to Indigenous business leaders, youth, and elected officials working …

from those of Europeans. Most economists, anthropologists, and Indigenous Elders describe traditional


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 27 January 2024 English

Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future. Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a …

Missionaries, explorers, adventurers and anthropologists have been consistently mystified and disappointed


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 28 November 2023 English

Corporatization in the university context involves providing businesses with the means to socialize the risks and cost of research while privatizing the benefits, and to accrue advantages through the transfer …

own organizations to enlist biochemists, or anthropologists, or mechanical engineers in their work. Universities


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 13 October 2023 English

A new tool for preserving Indigenous cultural heritages Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) refers to community-based practices, traditions, and customs that are inherited and passed down through generations. In Stored in …

and assimilation, state representatives, anthropologists, and missionaries stole or bought8 stored


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2023 English

Anti-blackness has until recently been a taboo topic within Arab society. This began to change when Nader Kadhem, a prominent Arab and Muslim thinker, published the first in-depth investigation of …

Bernal calls “fabrication,” and that some anthropologists refer to as “symbolic formation” of the past


Newfoundland & Labrador Department of Health and Community Services · 7 September 2023 English

Federal Government Provincial Health Authority Federal support for public health is provided through the Public Health Agency of Canada The provincial health authority, Newfoundland and (PHAC) which was established in …

private sector, community, historians, to have anthropologists, etc.) and multiple sectors (e.g. environment


School of Public Policy, University of Calgary · 5 September 2023 English

The Canadian Northern Corridor Research Program at The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, is the leading platform for information and analysis on the feasibility, desirability, and acceptability of …

intimately connected remain key for many linguistic anthropologists who continue to remind us that the world does


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 September 2023 English

Mennonites are often associated with food, both by outsiders and by Mennonites themselves. Eating in abundance, eating together, preserving food, and preparing so-called traditional foods are just some of the …

earnest in the 1980s, building on work by anthropologists in the mid-twentieth century. Scholars from


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2023 English

Forensic genetic technologies are popularly conceptualized and revered as important tools of justice. The research and development of these technologies, however, has been accomplished through the capture of various Indigenous …

retain property rights. Although biological anthropologists’ and population geneticists’ uses and claims


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