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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Anthropology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Archaeology itself is normally treated as a separate (but related) field in the rest of the world, although closely related to the anthropological field of material culture, which deals with physical objects created or used within a living or past group as mediums of understanding its cultural values.
These are the conditions of life with which people today must contend, but they have their origins in processes that began in the 16th century and accelerated in the 19th century.
Boas felt that each culture has to be studied in its particularity, and argued that cross-cultural generalizations like those made in the natural sciences were not possible.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Anthropology   (3269 words)

  
 Settler (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Settlers are people who have migrated from the land of their birth to live permanently in colonies controlled militarily by their home country.
Settler (culture), in contrast with nomads, people who take up residence on land and cultivate it
By extension, participants of similar migrations (such as Indonesias Transmigration Program) have also been known as settlers, even though such migrations are within recognized state borders and thus technically are not contrary to international law.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Settler_(disambiguation)   (205 words)

  
 ei: Settler Attacks Escalate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
At 21:00 on Wednesday 17 August 2005, Israeli settlers held a demonstration on the bridge between Abu Houli and al Matahen checkpoints north of Khan Younis.
In addition, Israeli settlers dug holes in the roads in al Mawasi roads and sprayed nails to hinder movement, especially on roads close to the settlements.
At 23:00 on Wednesday 17 Aug 2005, a group of 60 Israeli settlers attacked Al-Sha'er and Zu'rob neighborhoods adjacent to Gadid and Gan Or settlements in Al-Mawasi west of Khan Younis.
electronicintifada.net /v2/article4107.shtml   (811 words)

  
 Liberian Political Culture: The State, Civil Society, and Political Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
That Liberian political culture has deep historical roots is acknowledged by the fact that almost all of the existing literature on contemporary Liberian politics begins with a description and analysis reaching back to the 1820s.
Without claiming that settler and indigenous societies were the same, abundant historical evidence makes it clear that the two cultures have been marked as much by connections and congruities as by discrepancies and distance.
Settler and indigenous societies were brought even more closely together when substantial numbers of recaptives were thrust into the Liberian society in the 1840s and 1860s.
www.copla.org /yoder.htm   (4346 words)

  
 ei: Settler Violence
Settler violence against Palestinian civilians and their property has long been a feature of the landscape of the occupied territories.
Settlers are almost never held accountable under Israeli law and are 'protected' by Israeli soliders, who rarely take any action to protect Palestinians or international activists against settler attacks.
Settler children in Hebron are taught to hold a racist contempt for Palestinians and could often be seen in Hebron's market harrassing aged Palestinian vendors and overturning their produce stalls, while the Israeli soldiers that accompany the children to protect them took no action.
electronicintifada.net /bytopic/202.shtml   (351 words)

  
 New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Polynesian settlers arrived in their waka some time between the 13th century and the 15th century to establish the indigenous Māori culture.
There were many people from Scotland amongst the early British settlers and elements of their culture persist; New Zealand is said to have more pipebands than Scotland.
Cultural links between New Zealand and the UK are maintained by a common language, sustained migration from the UK and the fact that many young New Zealanders spend time in the UK on their "overseas experience" (OE).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand   (5051 words)

  
 Apolyton Civilization Forums > Civilization IV > Civ4-Strategy & Education > The Culture Bomb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
the ease of the culture victory really depends on the size of the map, the type of map, and upon whether or not the peaceful rulers who like to win via the space victory are in the game, and where they happen to be.
In years past (Civ3) the term "culture bomb" was used to describe building massive amounts of culture improvements in a city/cities near the AI to expand one's borders and shrink theirs.
When I say, I, "culture bombed the Mali" it will mean lots of culture imp's in the cities near the mali, and yes, that may include some Great Artist masterpieces as well.
apolyton.net /forums/showthread.php?threadid=142913   (2252 words)

  
 Genders OnLine Journal - Presenting innovative theories in art, literature, history, music, TV and film.
But for settler societies it was the opposite – national identity was associated with the act of colonization, with "stamping" an identity on the land (and marginalising its indigenous inhabitants in the process).
Like many other "settler" cultures (Australia, Canada), New Zealand has historically identified itself with a model of tough, rural, "pioneering" white masculinity whose presence is naturalized by association with the landscape and a "frontier" model of pragmatic, physical industry (Pearson 2001, 7).
The most obvious evidence of this is local reliance on imported culture – for example, New Zealand has one of the lowest proportions of local content on TV in the developed world (25%), and lacks the quotas of other settler societies (Australia and Canada) (Horrocks 2004, 10; Perry 2004, 85).
www.genders.org /g42/g42_bannister.html   (9414 words)

  
 Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
Soon the settlers would learn how delectable the pigeons were, and they and their swine would feed on harvests of the plump, easily slaughtered birds.
But to the European settler uprooted from the Old World and perhaps still dispossessed in the New, the bountiful country beyond the Appalachians was land waiting to be dismembered, to be parceled into their homes and farms and industries.
On a chilly March day a group of settlers who had already "topp'd the mountains" and followed Daniel Boone into the wilderness, building cabins, planting crops, and even forming a democratic government of their own, were gathered at the call of a North Carolina lawyer, Judge Richard Henderson.
tennesseeencyclopedia.net /index.php?pg=thisland.htm   (7853 words)

  
 Research in African Literatures--The Interface of Orality and Literacy in the Zimbabwean Novel
The settler folklore contributed to the invention of tribalism by drawing the African ethnic groups further apart from each other than they were in the precolonial era.
However, the settler accounts of the Shona culture were meant to justify the presence of their composers in the country.
In the oral culture drought signified punishment from the ancestors for desecration of the land.
iupjournals.org /ral/ral29-2.html   (9495 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Russell Johnston on Hiding the Audience: Viewing Arts and Arts Institutions on the Prairies
Cultural producers are dependent on attracting and holding audiences if they are to attract and hold their operating funds.
At the same time, cultural producers from a settler background who share the Orientalist vision will not see Natives as a vital audience for their work, and by extension are unlikely to be sensitive to Native values and perspectives in their novels, theater, exhibitions, and arts schools.
Cultural history in Canada has been moving away from studies of high culture and institutional histories of cultural organizations, and towards an understanding of culture which investigates the structures and patterns of everyday life.
www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=207511088655300   (2811 words)

  
 Epic 11 Report - Text Only
In a 20k culture game, especially in one like this, it is necessary to milk the capital (or whatever city you have selected for 20k), while the others essentially support it.
The early culture push was pulling off - a couple turns later St Regis revolted to me. Soon later the Iroquois declared war on the Egyptians - a civ the entire continent away.
In 880 AD after almost a millenium of sitting squashed in between my cultural radius, Centralia finally reverted to me. However, it was almost useless sitting smack in between Dallas and Baltimaore, as it would only increase the corruption in my cities.
www.geocities.com /ex_civ3/epic11_textonly.html   (10142 words)

  
 The Australian Public Intellectual Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The cultural presence and symbolic power of this exclusivist mythology are evident in the effectiveness with which it has been politically wielded, showing that it still holds social currency and that perceived threats or challenges to it arouse responses including anger, anxiety and fear.
Such a position maintains that it is white settlers who have the right to govern and manage the national space, in accordance with their values and priorities, thus maintaining the exclusion of the Indigenous ‘other’ from the development of the national agenda.
Similarly, Indigenous claims of cultural and spiritual connection to the land undermine settler attempts of indigenisation and the construction of a settler sense of belonging to the Australian continent.
www.api-network.com /articles/index.php?jas76_moran   (5582 words)

  
 How to Save the World
Some economists have postulated that the change from a hunter-gatherer to an acquirer-settler culture, with its associated acquisitive economy, was an adaptation by man to sudden scarcities of food 30,000 years ago, as the large, slow game that was our natural and easy prey became scarce as Earth's climate changed.
Perhaps the best way to identify this new culture, and new economy, is to describe what it would look like and how we might achieve it, and then give it a name.
It is their willingness to adapt their lifestyle to the needs of our acquisitive economy -- staying home to raise the family, or bringing in a second income, and providing the support and sustenance that men need to operate in the economy (vastly more than men reciprocate), that allows the economy to continue.
blogs.salon.com /0002007/2003/06/02.html   (1280 words)

  
 prokopbriefhistory
Instead of settler versus native, owner versus slave, we say 'fl versus white,' 'us versus them.' "'I mean to ask whether there is any way of avoiding the hostility expressed by the division, say, of men into 'us' (Westerners) and 'they' (Orientals [or any members of third world culture]'" (Sax, 1998).
When one is studying another culture, he or she is bound to compare and contrast it to her own.
When studying another culture, people are used to the norms and values of their own, to what is familiar to them.
it.stlawu.edu /~spapson/archive/x0mprok/prokopbriefhist.html   (700 words)

  
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Central Labrador - the district of Naskaupi - may be taken as comprising the shores of Hamilton Inlet and its drainage basin, historically the hunting and trapping territory of the Innu and the metis "settlers".
His conclusion that "there is little doubt that the settler mode will eventually triumph in Northern Labrador although it is impossible to predict how and when," (34) provided the opportunity for ISER research fellow John Kennedy to re-examine Makkovik's ethnic relations a decade later.
Kennedy's research showed that the Inuit culture had resisted assimilation by settler culture and was strong enough to remain distinct.
www.ucs.mun.ca /~melbaker/labrador/labrador.htm   (7701 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1939 (Duke University ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Presenting a new interpretation of white settler society, Kennedy analytically demonstrates how the social identity of white colonists was radically recast to accommodate their special circumstances.
While the majority of historians have primarily focused on the social divisions within the settler populations, Kennedy asserts that economic, ethnic, and social differences were secondary to the overriding need for unification.
As Kennedy has firmly established in his study, "Islands of White," settler culture was the expression of the white community's delicately held position of dominance in the order of imperial Africa.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0822307081?v=glance   (738 words)

  
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Russia's culture may be a problem; they're scientific, and look to have an absolute TON of land over there.
We're now getting 615 culture per turn, and this rate is accelerating at the rate of about 6 culture per turn per turn, but this acceleration will stop as soon as we run out of cities to rush in.
Also, there is a settler and 2 infantry onbard a galleon which I was going to sail north up the coast of Russia and settle in an open spot.
www.dos486.com /civ3/th2   (20945 words)

  
 4Literature || Isaac Asimov's Robot-Empire-Foundation Series
The rise of city culture, the introduction of hydroponics and the industrial use of robots outside the cities lessen the population and food problems on Earth.
Settler emigration grows to enormous numbers: beginning of the Great Diaspora.
Cultural crisis is evaded by the merging of Spacers and the Settler terraformers.
www.4literature.net /story/2003/1/21/94638/5941   (5165 words)

  
 Culture Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
I have seen many of our tribe deed away their land to satisfy a mortgage of which they were not able to cope.
I have had many ask me the difference in an "Old Settler Cherokee" and an "Eastern Emigrant." An old settler is a Cherokee who came with the first bunch from Georgia without being forced by the government.
An eastern emigrant is one that remained behind and was forced by the government to remove to the new country, west of the Mississippi and this movement was known as the "Trail of Tears."
www.cherokee.org /Culture/HistoryPage.asp?ID=114   (130 words)

  
 O'Regan & Batty
Aborigines in urban centres are themselves internally differentiated by social class, educational training, and degrees of involvement---including intermarriage---with the settler culture.
The contours of contemporary Aboriginal culture are also necessarily defined by what Aboriginal tradition and the set of practices associated with it permit to be transformed, what the settler culture permits Aborigines to do within it and to appropriate as their own of the settler culture.
If the settler culture still imagines itself as donor and therefore having certain rights over its Aboriginal recipients through that donation, these programs, strategies and Aboriginal expectation are based upon an emerging logic of Aboriginal political, cultural and social rights.
wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/oztv/Batty.html   (8816 words)

  
 Settler-movement founder backs Olmert - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Olmert's Kadima party, acknowledging that the dream of Israel's controlling all of the biblical land of Israel is unrealistic and accusing settler leaders of isolating themselves from the Israeli mainstream.
For settlers, he has been an iconoclastic voice who advocated reaching out to centrist and left-wing Israeli parties.
If the settler lobby does not venture beyond the confines of the far-right Israeli political parties, the settlers are liable to be find themselves isolated.
www.washtimes.com /world/20060312-111634-5778r.htm   (525 words)

  
 Pioneering North America: Mediators of European Literature and Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The participants in the 1998 Saarbrücken Conference on the Mediation of European Literature and Culture in North America, whose contributions are collected in Pioneering North America, examine Scheifflenesque figures of the literary and artistic realms: agents of cultural transference from Europe to North America.
Earlier approaches to Roughing It in the Bush within the tradition of literary travel are acknowledged by Morris and augmented by his atomization, at times to excess, of Moodie's travel rhetoric and motifs.
Essays pursuing this argument will perhaps be of greater interest to scholars of Canadian and American literature only too familiar with Europe's defining influence on their national literatures and more concerned with identifying national distinctiveness.
www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/721/721_review_heaps.html   (552 words)

  
 Don Macnaughtan - Lane Community College Library - Bibliography of the Siuslaw and Kuitsh Indians of the Central Oregon ...
Open warfare with settlers never afflicted this region of the Coast, but the local tribes were shattered by the combined effects of epidemics, environmental devastation, and cultural extinction.
Most of the survivors intermarried or were otherwise submerged in the new settler culture.
Since restoration, the tribal confederation has been rapidly passing new economic, political and cultural milestones, and the future for the descendants of the Siuslaw and Kuitsh looks exceptionally bright.
www.lanecc.edu /library/don/siuslaw.htm   (3430 words)

  
 City of Toronto, Arts Heritage & Culture - Arts Centres
The Culture Division is pleased to present several Summer Day Camp and workshop programs for young people.
These activities provide enriching entertainment while allowing children to explore the world of art and Toronto's exciting history.
Also, Expressions DOES NOT allow registration for children outside of the 8 to 13 age restrictions.
www.toronto.ca /culture/camps.htm   (652 words)

  
 TimeLine for the Robots & Foundations Universe
Meanwhile robot ships operating under Auroran programming cruise the galaxy ahead of the spreading Settlers, terraforming and preparing planets for colonization.
Spacer-colonized planet Inferno is doomed by ecological and cultural catastrophe.
Merging of Spacer and Settler culture prevents social collapse.
www.sikander.org /foundation.php   (1601 words)

  
 Portrait Australia: Australian Art, Crafts, Culture, Aboriginal Art, Australia Art Facts - Settler Art
Portrait Australia: Australian Art, Crafts, Culture, Aboriginal Art, Australia Art Facts - Settler Art
We decided upon the name "Settler Art" after thinking long and hard for a name which describes all traditional Australian Art which is not Indigenous or Aboriginal Art.
It was only after speaking with an Aboriginal artist who pointed out that everything which is not indigenous to Australia has been introduced by settlers that we decided on "Settler"
www.portraitaustralia.com.au /?d=71059   (133 words)

  
 Category:Anthropology - All About All   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Everything you wanted to know - online encyclopedia
Central to anthropology is the concept of culture and that our species has evolved a universal capacity to conceive of the world symbolically, to teach and learn such symbols socially, and to transform the world (and ourselves) based on such symbols.
Grammatical Categories and Cognition : A Case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language)
www.allaboutall.info /article/Category:Anthropology   (248 words)

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