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A Mouthful of Birds

The play's perspective on mental illness and sexuality is strongly influenced by the work of Michel Foucault, who also wrote a monograph on the life of Herculine Barbin, as well as David Lan's own anthropological work on possession and non-Western religions.

Acceptera

The authors question how the contradictory anthropological theories of family proffered by Lewis Henry Morgan, Edvard Westermarck, and Robert Briffault could have all been acknowledged as true at different times and in different societies.

Antje von Graevenitz

In her research she is mainly focused on ephemeral art (performances and Fluxus) and interdisciplinary and anthropological topics (art in relation to rites of passage, philosophy, music, theatre or dance).

Arthur G. Miller

The following year he completed his Master's degree at the École du Louvre in Paris, a leading French Grande école (graduate school) dedicated to anthropological and art history research fields.

Arthur Maurice Hocart

Their ethnographic work on 'Eddystone Island' (today known by its local name of Simbo) and in nearby Roviana, stands as one of the first modern anthropological field projects, and was the inspiration behind sections of Pat Barker's novel The Ghost Road.

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait, led by Alfred Cort Haddon, recorded songs and speech from Mer / Murray Island, Mabuiag / Jervis Island, Saibai Island, Tudu Island and Iama / Yam Island.

Caroline Furness Jayne

Her brother, William Henry Furness III, received his M.D. from the same university and was an "extensive traveler" and a fellow of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain.

City of Illusions

In terms of its place in the development of the canon of science fiction, it has been noted that City of Illusions combines the sensibility of traditional British Science Fiction, images from American genre Science Fiction and anthropological ideas.

Cladh Hallan

According to recent anthropological and DNA-analysis the skeletons of a female and a male were compiled from body parts of at least 6 different human individuals.

Clinical ethnography

Clinical ethnography has strong similarities to person-centered ethnography, a term used by Robert I. Levy, a psychoanalytically trained psychiatrist, to describe his anthropological fieldwork in Tahiti and Nepal in the 1960s-1980s and used by many of his students and interlocutors.

Criticism of atheism

Talal Asad, in an anthropological study on modernity, quotes an Arab atheist named Adonis who has said, "The sacred for atheism is the human being himself, the human being of reason, and there is nothing greater than this human being. It replaces revelation by reason and God with humanity."

Danpusan Kofun

Many of these artifacts are currently preserved at the Anthropological Museum of Nanzan University.

Denisse Wolf

She has also directed documentaries for the cultural channel Channel 22, The Anthropological Institute, the American rock band Aerosmith, European Broadcasting Union and Discovery Networks.

Devadasi

Gough Kathleen, "Female Initiation Rites on the Malabar Coast", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, No. 85, 1952.

Facing Mount Kenya

Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is an anthropological study of the people of the Kikuyu ethnicity of central Kenya.

Guillermo Pineda

In recent work Pineda has sought to develop an anthropological approach to city-building and Saskia Sassen's global cities.

Hell Town, Ohio

Anthropological investigations in the late 19th century found that the site of the village was a high mound composed primarily of sandstone rocks, held in place with packed earth.

Indianola, Mississippi

From 1932 until 1934, Hortense Powdermaker conducted an anthropological study of the African-American community in Indianola, which served as the basis for her book, After Freedom: A Cultural Study In the Deep South and mentioned in her book "Stranger and Friend. The Way of an Anthropologist".

Jacking In to the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation

It was published by Continuum Press in 2004 and edited by Matthew Kapell (later publishing as Matthew Wilhelm Kapell), anthropological historian, and William G. Doty, professor emeritus of religious studies and religion at the University of Alabama.

Johannes Hahn

According to Hahn, the focus is initially to be placed on projects from the “big museums”, such as the anthropological collection in the Vienna Natural History Museum, a study on copper corrosion in manuscripts by the Austrian National Library, or the expropriation of motor vehicles under the Nazi regime by the Vienna Technical Museum.

Joseph Birdsell

Norman B. Tindale and Joseph B. Birdsell, "Results of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, 1938-1939: Tasmanoid Tribes in North Queensland", Records of the South Australian Museum, 7 (1), 1941-3, pp 1–9

Julian A. Pitt-Rivers

He received his doctorate in 1953, which was derived from his fieldwork in Andalusia, Spain, that led to his publication of the classic anthropological text The People of the Sierra in 1954.

Karl von den Steinen

Karl von den Steinen (born March 7, 1855 in Mülheim, died November 4, 1929 in Kronberg im Taunus) was a German physician (with emphasis in psychiatry), ethnologist, explorer, and author of important anthropological work, which is particularly to the study of Indian cultures of Central Brazil, and the art of the Marquesas.

L. P. Vidyarthi

He was the President of IUAES (1973–1978) and presided over the World Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences held in December 1978 at New Delhi.

Les Accords de Bella

Les Accords de Bella is a 2007 anthropological documentary film directed by David Constantin.

Levi L. Conant Prize

The award is named after Levi L. Conant (1857–1916), a professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, known as the author of anthropological mathematics book "The number concept" (1896).

Mameria

Between 1984 and 1989 the American explorer Gregory Deyermenjian made five expeditions to Mameria—for three of which he was accompanied by Peruvian explorer Paulino Mamani H.--conducting anthropological as well as archaeological research concerning the area's Machiguenga inhabitants and ancient archaeological remains.

Manicaria

To learn about the current state of the population and local use of Manicaria saccifera in more detail, an applied Anthropological study of this palm was conducted at the southernmost tip of the Barra del Colorado Wildlife Refuge in Costa Rica by a Laurentian University Anthropology field course, in conjunction with Caño Palma Biological Station.

Munger

Kumar Suresh Singh, Director-General of Anthropological Survey of India and Zamindari family of Nayangaon.

Norman Tindale

At the University of Adelaide he had a 50-year collaboration with Joseph Birdsell of Harvard University and performed an anthropological survey in 1938-39 and 1952-54 on Aboriginal missions across Australia.

Onka's Big Moka

The title is a reference to a 1976 anthropological documentary Ongka's Big Moka: The Kawelka of Papua New Guinea.

Organizational patterns

Organizational patterns also have roots in Kroeber's classic anthropological texts on the patterns that underlie culture and society.

Origin of the Serbs

Howorth, Henry Hoyle, The Spread of the Slaves, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol.

Pirahã people

Anthropological linguist Daniel Everett, who wrote the first Pirahã grammar, claims that there are related pairs of curiosities in their language and culture.

Richard Guy Condon

His anthropological research included the people of Holman (Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Victoria Island, Canada), northern Alaska, and Baffin Island.

Richard Rigby

Though other members of the family continued to bear the Rigby name and arms, the bulk of Richard Rigby's wealth fell to his sister who married General Hale, and ultimately to the Pitt-Rivers family, whose members endowed the museum of that name, a treasurehouse of anthropological exotica, at Oxford University.

Ron Brunton

Encompass Research Pty Ltd is an organisation engaged in anthropological and socio-economic research, concentrating on native title, indigenous heritage, immigration and environmental issues.

Siegfried Frederick Nadel

During a brief fieldbreak in Al-Ubayyid Nadel wrote Black Byzantium on the Nupe (which would not be published until 1942) and The Nuba: An Anthropological Study of the Hill Tribes in Kordofan (which would not appear in print until 1947).

Simon Beckett

The books and protagonist were inspired when Beckett visited the "Body Farm" (by its official name: the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, founded by forensic anthropology pioneer Dr Bill Bass) in 2002, doing research for an article for the Daily Telegraph.

Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance

Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance: A Journey into Human Selfhood in an African Village is an anthropological study of the ngulu cult among the Lungu people of Zambia authored by the anthropologist Roy Willis.

Tarok people

The people have been described to some extent in anthropological and ethnographical works by Fitzpatrick (1910), Roger Blench, Lamle (1995), Famwang and Longtau (1997).

The Amatory Experiences of a Surgeon

Iwan Bloch, "Anthropological Studies on the Strange Sexual Practices of All Races and All Ages", Minerva Group, 2001, ISBN 0-89875-471-2, p.171

Theories about Stonehenge

Modern anthropological evidence has been used by Mike Parker Pearson and the Malagasy archaeologist Ramilisonina to suggest that timber was associated with the living and stone with the ancestral dead amongst prehistoric peoples.

Thought Moments

Thought Moments (2004) is an anthropological short film in the style of cinéma vérité by Michael Simon Toon.

Varshney

In the 2012 anthropological thriller The Krishna Key, the origin of the Varshney group is linked to the Yadavas.

Vidyadhar Johrapurkar

#BHATTARAKA SAMPRADAYA (Research work on historical and anthropological grounds, based on Digambara Jain Bhattarakas published by Jain Sanskriti Sanrakshak Sangh, Solapur in 1958)

Visual marketing

One of the people inspiring this almost anthropological approach is Marc Augé, who in his book “Le temps en ruines” (Time in ruins) notes that: “the world where image is omnipresent requires the reality to be reflected in its image...”.

Woman's Evolution

So she relies on the earliest anthropological records, drawing particularly on a review of such work by Robert Briffault published in 1927 (page xv).


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