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Full-Text Articles in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Natural Medicine: Personal Responsibility And Self-Empowerment, Kimber Lopez
Natural Medicine: Personal Responsibility And Self-Empowerment, Kimber Lopez
Pomona Senior Theses
Although most “alternative” medical practices have existed far longer than conventional healthcare, modern allopathic continues to be the dominant system of medicine used in the United States. Herbal medicine is one of the oldest healing practices known to humankind and continues to be practiced today despite the numerous challenges modern society poses. As Julie Stone and Joan Mathews illuminate in Complimentary Medicine and the Law, “Plant-based remedies have been the principal source of medicines in healing traditions around the world and, as the World health Organization is at pains to remind us, 80 percent of the world’s population still depends …
Blaming For Columbine: Conceptions Of Agency In The Contemporary United States, Claudia Strauss
Blaming For Columbine: Conceptions Of Agency In The Contemporary United States, Claudia Strauss
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
Modern Westerners are supposed to embrace a notion of unfettered personal agency. An analysis of public commentary (interviews, editorials, and online message boards) in the United States about the Columbine school shootings shows that the voluntarist cultural model of persons as autonomous agents, while certainly very important, is just one of a number of cultural models Americans use to explain human action and has particular political and interpersonal uses. We might think that conceptions as basic as those of personhood and agency would be hegemonic: both singular and internalized as unexamined, taken for‐granted assumptions. In some contexts, voluntarist ideas about …
Commentary: Borders As Sites Of Pain, Claudia Strauss
Commentary: Borders As Sites Of Pain, Claudia Strauss
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
I consider Walkerdine's second point that social borders -- especially those of class and work -- are sites of pain. She illustrates that contention with stories of working-class British women who had university educations and moved into the middle class but never felt they fully belonged, of workers in South Wales who are dislocated by the closing of their central mine or manufacturing plant, and of Australian manufacturing workers who are trying, sometimes with great difficulty, to remake themselves as flexible service and sales workers. I was intrigued by the implication for theories of motivation. Generally, we focus on drives …
Comment On James M. Wilce, "Magical Laments And Anthropological Reflections", Claudia Strauss
Comment On James M. Wilce, "Magical Laments And Anthropological Reflections", Claudia Strauss
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
Wilce draws our attention to the formulaic nature of anthropologists ethnographies, both considered as a distinctive genre and as inflected by larger modernist discourses of destruction and loss (which he terms neolament). His intriguing discussion of the laments that end many anthropological texts helped me to recognize similar laments that I heard when I conducted interviews in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. The latter examples raise issues about the politics of lamenting modernity and questions about what makes a lament effective.
Is Empathy Gendered And If So, Why? An Approach From Feminist Psychological Anthropology, Claudia Strauss
Is Empathy Gendered And If So, Why? An Approach From Feminist Psychological Anthropology, Claudia Strauss
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
Difference feminists have argued that women have special virtues. One such virtue would seem to be empathy, which has three main components: imaginative projection, awareness of the other's emotions, and concern. Empathy is closely related to identification. Psychological research and the author's own study of women's and men's talk about poverty and welfare use in the United States demonstrate women's greater empathic concern. However, some cross-cultural research shows greater sex differences in empathy in the United States than elsewhere. This combination of findings (women tend to demonstrate greater empathic concern, but this typical difference varies cross-culturally) requires a complex biocultural …
Diversity And Homogeneity In American Culture: Teaching And Theory, Claudia Strauss
Diversity And Homogeneity In American Culture: Teaching And Theory, Claudia Strauss
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
In teaching, as in any kind of cultural production, you can look at content, or you can look at reception. Here I want to talk about both: the content of what to say about diversity and sharing in U.S. culture, and how that may be received.
Cultural Standing In Expression Of Opinion, Claudia Strauss
Cultural Standing In Expression Of Opinion, Claudia Strauss
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
This article explores an underappreciated pragmatic constraint on the expression of opinions: When expressing an opinion on a topic that has been previously discussed, a speaker should correctly indicate the cultural standing of that view in the relevant opinion community. This Bakhtinian approach to discourse analysis is contrasted with conversation analysis, politeness theory (Brown & Levinson, 1987), and analysis of epistemic modality. Finally, indicators of four points on the cultural standing continuum (highly controversial, debatable, common opinion, and taken for granted) are illustrated with examples from American English usage.
Book Review: Geometry From Africa: Mathematical And Educational Explorations By Paulus Gerdes, Claudia Zaslavsky
Book Review: Geometry From Africa: Mathematical And Educational Explorations By Paulus Gerdes, Claudia Zaslavsky
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
No abstract provided.
Book Announcement: Women, Art And Geometry In Southern Africa, By Paulus Gerdes
Book Announcement: Women, Art And Geometry In Southern Africa, By Paulus Gerdes
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
No abstract provided.
What Does Equality Mean?--The Basque View, Marcia Ascher
What Does Equality Mean?--The Basque View, Marcia Ascher
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Ethnomathematics--Challenging Eurocentrism Inmathematics Education, Edited Byarthur B. Powell And Marilyn Frankenstein, Karen Dee Michalowicz
Book Review: Ethnomathematics--Challenging Eurocentrism Inmathematics Education, Edited Byarthur B. Powell And Marilyn Frankenstein, Karen Dee Michalowicz
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
No abstract provided.
Partly Fragmented, Partly Integrated: An Anthropological Examination Of "Postmodern Fragmented Subjects", Claudia Strauss
Partly Fragmented, Partly Integrated: An Anthropological Examination Of "Postmodern Fragmented Subjects", Claudia Strauss
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
It has become commonplace for anthropologists, historians, and other researchers to discuss the cultural and historical construction of "selves." One now-classic description of this sort is the historian E. P. Thompson's account (1963, 1967) of the way industrial capitalism created a greater time consciousness among English factory workers. More recently, the literary critic Frederic Jameson has written about the psychological effects of late-20th-century capitalism. Using as his evidence works of architecture, poetry, music, and other artistic and intellectual productions, he has argued that (at least in the United States, the focus of his description) the standardization of our environment, saturation …
Book Review: The Crest Of The Peacock: Non-European Roots Of Mathematics,By George Gheverghese Joseph, Bernadette Anne Berken
Book Review: The Crest Of The Peacock: Non-European Roots Of Mathematics,By George Gheverghese Joseph, Bernadette Anne Berken
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
No abstract provided.
Sand Songs: The Formal Languages Of Warlpiri Iconography, James V. Rauff
Sand Songs: The Formal Languages Of Warlpiri Iconography, James V. Rauff
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
No abstract provided.
The Taman Negara Batek: A People In Transition, Paul Faulstich
The Taman Negara Batek: A People In Transition, Paul Faulstich
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
Batek Negritos from the vicinity of Taman Negara National Park in West Malaysia are a hunting and gathering people presently experiencing rapid encroachment by the modern world. Under the authority of the Malaysian government, they are being encouraged to settle and to emulate Malay subsistence farming communities. Unfortunately, this strategy has had a number of adverse effects on the Batek.