Anthropology, relationship

Caniciro, U. L. (1967). On the Relationship between Size of Population and Complexity of Social Organization. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 23-234-243. 

Burton, J.H. and Wright, L.E. 1995 Nonlinearity in the relationship between bone Sr/Ca and diet paleodietary implications. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 96 273-282. 

The mobility of samples and data means that samples or data provided by research subjects could be used by people they never met—and hence with whom they never developed a relationship of trust. They may also be used for purposes different from those for which the samples were collected and possibly purposes that the research subject does not like. Research subjects will rarely learn of these secondary users and uses of their samples and data. When they do, the collecting researcher may be able to point to broad language in a consent form authorizing their sharing of samples or broader research aims. Nonetheless, participants may feel misled and harmed. For example, at least one band of Canadian native peoples alleged publicly that it had been mistreated when samples it claimed it had given for purely medical research were put to anthropological uses (Kleiner, 2000 They Need Your DNA, 2000). 

KJ Method was named after Jiro Kawakita, a man of many talents who was a professor of cultural anthropology in Japan. After extensive field research in Nepal during the 1960s, Kawakita developed the KJ Method to improve the integration and categorization of qualitative data around such factors as the environment, population, relationships, hierarchy, and religion. 

The answer to the former surely has to involve the relationship between the group s production of new knowledge (in the form of publications, patents, and textbooks for students) and the prevailing culture I cannot do better to define this otherwise vague and catch-all entity than to refer to anthropological practice. I adopt a by now classic characterization ... 

According to Bprsen (2013a), the overall research domain of Techno-Anthropology is Technology. This is a term with many facets and must be addressed from different angles. Three of the facets are technical products (designed artifacts and procedures), technical experts, and users/stakeholders. Techno-Anthropology focuses on these facets and their relationships, cf. Fig. 25.1 (ibid.). 

Practice theory is drawn from the work of Pierre Bourdieu (1977), rooted in the disciplines of sociology and anthropology. This approach allows us to focus on individuals and their positions in different institutional contexts for example, how much cultural and symbolic capital they bring with them into engineering. Many students forge important relationships that allow them to gain the social currency, or social capital, necessary to traverse... 

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