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Anthropological Contributions (anthropological + contribution)

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Humanities and Social Sciences85%

Selected Abstracts

Sowing the Seeds: Anthropological Contributions to Agrobiodiversity Studies

CULTURE, AGRICULTURE, FOOD & ENVIRONMENT, Issue 2 2009
James R. Veteto
Abstract Agrobiodiversity studies have been a longstanding and current research focus of anthropological inquiry. This article gives an overview of important ongoing anthropological topics of agrobiodiversity research including conservation, cultural memory, farmer decision making, and homegarden studies. It also points to future directions in agrobiodiversity research that have been understudied to date including agrobiodiversity and its relationship to climate change and migration, the potential marriage of agrobiodiversity and food studies, agrobiodiversity in the Global North, and the incorporation of agrobiodiversity into emergent sustainable/alternative agriculture systems. Agricultural anthropology is suggested as a potential holistic subdiscipline for incorporating anthropological studies of agrobiodiversity, which are currently not unified by any theoretical framework. [source]

Bringing Humanity Back into International Migration: Anthropological Contributions

CITY & SOCIETY, Issue 1 2007
TAKEYUKI TSUDA
First page of article [source]

The social mind-body: Anthropological contributions to the study of the self

NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES, Issue 1 2005
Denize Saint Arnault phd
Self is formed because of the interaction between the body and the society. Culture defines the range of options for being a human within a certain time, place and group. The self is developed within the sociocultural context, which tells us what we should be, how we should interact with society, what we should feel and what those feelings mean, as well as how our body should look, be used and be cared for. This multidimensional model of culture allows us to define the dimensions of the self, and explain how the culturally derived self understands, reacts to and acts upon the individual body within a social context. The view of the self posited here allows us to research the experiential connection between the mind, the body and the society. [source]

Introduction to "In Focus: Global Change and Adaptation in Local Places"

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2009
Donald R. Nelson
ABSTRACT In recognition of unavoidable changes that human actions are producing in our environment, the term adaptation has become ubiquitous in the environmental and climate-change literature. Human adaptation is a field with a significant history in anthropology, yet anthropological contributions to the burgeoning field of climate change remain limited. This "In Focus" section presents studies of local adaptations to climate variation and change. Each is concerned with current environmental challenges and future environmental change, and each study is placed within a wider context that includes processes of globalization and integration into market economies, formal and informal institutions, and disasters. These studies highlight the challenges involved in understanding complex adaptations under conditions of stress. They also illustrate how anthropologists engage the larger climate-change and human-adaptation discussions and enhance our ability to respond to the challenges of a changing environment. [source]

DEALING WITH THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS IN LOCAL SETTINGS: NONINTENSIVE AGRICULTURE IN LESOTHO, SOUTHERN AFRICA

ANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2009
Nancy Romero-Daza
This article seeks to contribute to efforts toward the identification and critical analysis of sustainable community-based initiatives that could help to ameliorate the impact of the global food crisis in developing countries. To do so, we present a discussion of a sustainable agriculture program in Lesotho, in sub-Saharan Africa. We contextualize the discussion in the framework of both the food crisis and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, both of which are taking a major toll in Lesotho. We then present a brief discussion of some of our anthropological contributions to the work of an NGO that is implementing sustainable agriculture initiatives in periurban areas of Lesotho where households are at high risk for food insecurity. [source]

LIFE IN THE 813: ONE DAY A MIGRANT STUDENT, THE NEXT A GANGSTER

ANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2009
Alayne Unterberger
In this article, I summarize, through the use of two case studies, the anthropological contributions when working with farmworker,migrant youth who have become "gang-involved." The Florida Institute for Community Studies (FICS) worked with a total of 65 youth and their families in a federal antigang initiative, with one session being held in a Presbyterian-based farmworker mission and another at a middle school. Both groups of youth live in rural Hillsborough County, Florida, with a lack of afterschool or other prosocial opportunities outside of school. I share my personal experiences and reflections on how I got involved in working with gangs, which had not been a priority for me in the past. One area of concern was our finding that youth were recruited into gangs and risky behaviors through friendship and familial networks. The school-based youth did not fare as well as the mission-based group, principally because of labeling by the school and the lack of autonomy of youth in a school setting to take ownership of the program. I provide recommendations for anthropologists working with youth who live "la vida loca" or the crazy life. [source]

Front and Back Covers, Volume 21, Number 3.

ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, Issue 3 2005
June 200
Front and back cover caption, volume 21 issue 3 ENERGY AND VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE The photo on the front and back cover illustrates the article by Annette Henning in this issue. A solar collector is hoisted onto the roof of a Swedish house. In Sweden, the most common solar heating systems are those that supply hot water for both heating and general domestic hot water purposes. Contrary to popular belief, solar collectors are not dependent on a high air temperature, but produce heat throughout the year, whenever there is a clear sky. In her article, Annette Henning examines the actual and potential role of anthropology in energy studies. She reflects on her own experience of the trials of working as an anthropologist in the energy sector, where economists and technical expertise reign, and where production- and distribution-oriented approaches prevail. There is a great deal of resistance to anthropological contributions, in part because anthropologists have made so little effort to be heard in the public domain on this issue. In his editorial, Hal Wilhite makes the case for "energy anthropology". He argues that anthropologists have paid insufficient attention to one of the most urgent problems facing the world, namely our patterns of energy consumption and their economic and environmental consequences. Increasing consumerism in developing countries makes anthropological approaches indispensable, particularly in finding ways to moderate energy consumption and to help implement small-scale renewable energy initiatives. In his review of three of the latest books on vernacular architecture, Marcel Vellinga identifies architecture as a prominent cultural category and a major consumer of energy and resources, and thus a significant contributor to current environmental problems. Vellinga argues that anthropology should pay more attention to vernacular architecture as a locus of indigenous knowledge, to help the global community address the challenges of creating a sustainable built environment for all. ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY brings these contributions to your attention in the hope of stimulating discussion and promoting wider ethnographic research in areas of public concern. [source]