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unusual facts about cultural anthropology



Birds and People

Established by the leading naturalist and author Mark Cocker in collaboration with the eminent wildlife photographer David Tipling and the Natural history specialist, Jonathan Elphick, the Birds and People project is a new experiment in natural history and cultural anthropology.

Festering Season

At the same time, Paul Whythe, a cultural anthropology professor at New York University is asked to consult with the NYPD’s Cult Related Task Force on dead body unearthed in Brooklyn Heights.

Murder–suicide

The cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, whose theories on the human notion of death is strongly influenced by Freud, views the fear of death as a universal phenomenon, a fear repressed in the unconscious and of which people are largely unaware.

Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club

Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994) is a book-length study in the field of cultural anthropology of contemporary Japan by Anne Allison.

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology Through Film

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology Through Film by Karl G. Heider introduces cultural anthropology with the use of both text and audiovisual media.

Watching the English: the hidden rules of English behaviour

Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour was written by Kate Fox, a social anthropologist.


see also

Aleida Assmann

Since the 1990s her focus has been on cultural anthropology, especially Cultural and Communicative Memory, terms she and Jan Assmann coined and developed.

Axel Michaels

During the years 2004 to 2011, he was Speaker of the German Research Foundation Council “Cultural Anthropology, Religious Studies, Non-European Cultures”.

Johan Grimonprez

After studying cultural anthropology, he went on to complete his studies in photography and mixed media at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent.

Melvin Ember

Ember is widely known as the co-author of two major textbooks, Anthropology (with Carol R. Ember and Peter N. Peregrine, Prentice-Hall), and Cultural Anthropology (with Carol R. Ember, Prentice-Hall), first published in 1973 and now in their 13th edition (2011).

Nightwork

Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club, a book-length study in the field of cultural anthropology of contemporary Japan by Anne Allison