Marc | December 27, 2006
Within Anthropology, we have a concept of general typologies of cultures. Personally, I always preffered the version put together by Gerhardt Lenski (a Sociologist), but which version we use is really unimportant. In my own work, I have combined Lenski’s models with those of Julian Stewart (culture types), Marshal Sahlin’s ideas on specific and general [...]
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Marc | December 6, 2006
I am just finishing working on a project for a client that involves looking at how people behave in a particular shopping environment. Nothing new about this type of research, since market research, sociology, anthropology and psychology have all been doing similar things for about a century. It does, however, offer a fascinating [...]
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Marc | December 1, 2006
Over the years, it has been my pleasure and priviledge to teach a number of truly exceptional students. Rarely, however, do I find such a high number of them in one class as I have this past term.
Yesterday evening saw the last class of my DIST 3901: Issues In Interdisciplinary Studies course. The course itself [...]
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