http://anthropology.frequentlyasked.info Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:24:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Of the three, human nature is the most general, for it is, in its content, universal. It may be asserted that all (normal) men and women have the same human nature (although it is not proved or universally admitted that this is the case). But it cannot be asserted ... http://anthropology.frequentlyasked.info/2007/09/21/human-nature-personality-and-culture/ The very differences between the humanities and the social sciences show us the areas of interest where those differences cease to be. We recognize that the humanities are more specially and emphatically concerned with the products of creative imagination, particularly as produced by individuals conscious of their effort, than ... http://anthropology.frequentlyasked.info/2007/09/20/what-is-this-humanity/ What shall they find to talk about? What have they in common? The answer is simple. They have humanity in common. Humanity is the common subject matter of those who look at men as they are represented in books or in works of art and of those who look ... http://anthropology.frequentlyasked.info/2007/09/19/humanity-in-common/ The social sciences occupy uneasy seats at the American feast of learning between the physical and biological sciences on their right and the humanities on their left. Sociology and political science hold the center and do not often make formal connection with either group of neighbors. On the right, ... http://anthropology.frequentlyasked.info/2007/09/18/social-science-among-the-humanities/ In these lectures I propose to talk about the nature of social science. I am reporting something of what I have learned about social science in the twenty years or more during which I have had something to do with it. Into the report will go experience in teaching, ... http://anthropology.frequentlyasked.info/2007/09/17/functions-of-social-science/ In these lectures I propose to talk about the nature of social science. I am reporting something of what I have learned about social science in the twenty years or more during which I have had something to do with it. Into the report will go experience in teaching, ... http://anthropology.frequentlyasked.info/2007/09/14/logic-and-the-functions-of-social-science/ If there is any anthropological generalization that is generally accepted by anthropologists, it is the one about the importance of diffusion in the culture process. What is true of culture in general is no less true of scientific method. Anthropology, as a body of methods and of intellectual interests, ... http://anthropology.frequentlyasked.info/2007/09/12/social-organization-of-north-american-indigenous-people/ In 1934 Redfield became dean of the comparatively new Division of the Social Sciences established under Robert Hutchins. He was thus concerned that the students in the various disciplines should come to understand one another better. "Anthropology: Unity and Diversity" is a more succinct and formal version of a ... http://anthropology.frequentlyasked.info/2007/09/11/anthropology-unity-and-diversity/ ...was Robert Redfield's first published scientific paper. In the six years after receiving his bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago (1920), he married, completed the work for a law degree, was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of law. He soon gave up law, however, and returned ... http://anthropology.frequentlyasked.info/2007/09/10/anthropology-a-natural-science/