7 results for „cultural anthropologist“
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magazine issue | 12/2012
Your mother, metaphors, and other monkey business: How experiences of physical warmth shape how we think about relationships
... importance and priority. Being physically close (or, as the anthropologist Alan Fiske has noted, moving in synchrony or sharing ... perceptual rags to metaphoric riches: Bodily, social, and cultural constraints on sociocognitive metaphors. Psychological ... / more
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magazine issue | 02/2013
That human touch that means so much: Exploring the tactile dimension of social life
... and less common, squelched under an onslaught of changing cultural values and new technology. We increasingly view touch as unhygienic ... may also regulate our social relationships. Cultural anthropologist Alan Page Fiske (1991, 2004) has elaborated on the social ... / more
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magazine issue | 05/2012
Death and deities: A social cognitive perspective
... & Greenberg, 2010). Drawing heavily from the work of the cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker (e.g., 1973), TMT begins with the observation ... / more
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magazine issue | 02/2012
The dish on gossip: Its origins, functions, and bad reputation
... understanding the origins of language itself. British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar believes that ... that involves negotiating and resisting social roles and cultural categories (Gaskins, Miller, & Corsaro, 1992). Importantly, the ... / more
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magazine issue | 10/2010
Are You a “Real Man”? How Men Earn and Prove Manhood Status
... encourage physically aggressive displays among men. As such, cultural beliefs about the tenuousness of manhood represent a social factor ... that must be earned via action. As documented by cultural anthropologist David Gilmore (1990), some cultures ritualize the transition ... / more
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magazine issue | 09/2008
Penetrating the Circle of Death: Why People are Dying (and Killing) Not to Die
... Springs) – built the theory upon a foundation laid by cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker in his book The Denial of Death (1973). The ... / more
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magazine issue | 10/2007
The Double Edged Passion
... play, but adults, too, respond to competition. As the anthropologist Thomas J. Schoeneman noted in 1975, witch hunts worldwide tend ... dishonest, or just plain disgusting. The hallmark of such cultural knowledge is that when asked, people reply “everyone knows.” For ... / moreHere you can search the entire InMind magazine for any content of your choice. You can reduce your search results by selecting one or more filter options in the right column.