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The questions he posed about cultural bias in scientific research contributed greatly to the postcolonial turn in the study of African civilizations. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Diop argued that there was a shared cultural continuity across African people that was more important than the varied development of different ethnic groups shown by differences ...
Catherine A. Lutz (/ l ʌ t s /; born 1952) is an American anthropologist and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University. [1] She is also a Research Professor at the Watson Institute where she serves as a director of the Costs of War Project , which attempts to calculate the financial ...
Smedley received her B.A. and M.A. in history and anthropology from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Manchester in the UK, based on field research in northern Nigeria. She taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses in social anthropology, African societies and cultures, the history of ...
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.
His first academic job was as assistant professor in the Anthropology Department at Washington University in St. Louis (1986–1988) followed by 10 years at San Francisco State University (1988–1998) and a decade at the University of California, San Francisco. He has also been a Fulbright Research professor in Costa Rica (1993–1994) and a ...
Nina Grace Jablonski [1] (born August 20, 1953) [2] [3] is an American anthropologist and palaeobiologist, known for her research into the evolution of skin color in humans. She is engaged in public education about human evolution, human diversity, and racism.
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.
Lila Abu-Lughod (Arabic: ليلى أبو لغد) (born 1952) is an American anthropologist.She is the Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York City.