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Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro (Urdu: ذوالفقار علی کلھوڑو, Sindhi: ذوالفقار علي ڪلهوڙو) is a Pakistani anthropologist, research scholar, and author. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He works at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) Islamabad.
Akbar Salahuddin Ahmed, is a Pakistani-American academic, author, poet, playwright, filmmaker and former diplomat. [2] [3] He currently is a professor of International Relations and holds the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University, School of International Service in Washington, D.C. [2] [3] [4] Akbar Ahmed served as the Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland.
An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Social anthropology , cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values, and general behavior of societies.
The title is from an African-American word, "drylongso", which is used to mean "ordinary", in reference to the social status of the interviewees. In a terse introductory statement chosen by Gwaltney from an interviewee not included in the broader text, factory worker Othman Sullivan says "I think this anthropology is just another way to call me ...
Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr. (May 16, 1914 – July 20, 2009) was an American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. He is remembered for developing the concept of proxemics and exploring cultural and social cohesion, and describing how people behave and react in different types of culturally defined personal space.
Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. [1]
Anthropological linguistics came about in the United States as a subfield of anthropology, when anthropologists were beginning to study the indigenous cultures, and the indigenous languages could no longer be ignored, and quickly morphed into the subfield of linguistics that it is known as today. [4] [5]
Firaq espoused a deep affection for Urdu and emphasised the importance of keeping Urdu in the collective linguistic awareness of India and the subcontinent. " Zubaan kisi qaum ki milkiyat nahin/ Jisne seekhi, usne kahi " (Language is not the prerogative of any particular society; the person who has learnt it, speaks it) was his statement.