John Collier
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 82093 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Collier |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Collier |
| FIRMA | COLLIER J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4734-2270 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 547 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1850 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays
Informal pragmatics and linguistic creativity
Examples of successful linguistic communication give rise to two important insights: (1) it should be understood most fundamentally in terms of the pragmatic success of each individual utterance, and (2) linguistic conventions need to be understood as on a par with the non-linguistic regularities that competent language users rely upon to refer. Syntax and semantics are part of what Barwise and Perry call the context of the utterance, contributin…
Kinds of Information in Scientific Use
There are many different mathematical definitions of information that have their various uses, but I will be concerned with notions of information used in applications in various branches of science that are distinguished by their topic, i.e., what they apply to. I describe the major uses information, and show their relations to each other. I will argue that the various uses form a nested hierarchy, in which each is a restriction on the previous,…
Holism and Emergence
The paradigm of Laplacean determinism combines three regulative principles: determinism, predictability, and the explanatory adequacy of universal laws together with purely local conditions. Historically, it applied to celestial mechanics, but it has been expanded into an ideal for scientific theories whose cogency is often not questioned. Laplace’s demon is an idealization of mechanistic scientific method. Its principles together imply reducibil…
Explaining Biological Functionality
It is generally agreed that organisms are Complex Adaptive Systems. Since the rise of Cybernetics in the middle of the last century ideas from information theory and control theory have been applied to the adaptations of biological organisms in order to explain how they work. This does not, however, explain functionality, which is widely but not universally attributed to biological systems. There are two approaches to functionality, one based on …
Prospects for Reconciling Sellars’ World Images
Almost fifty years ago Wilfrid Sellars described two competing ways of imagining the world, the Manifest Image and the Scientific Image. The Manifest Image is an idealization of common sense aided by critical philosophy, whereas the Scientific Image is the product of our best science. The methodologies of the two images are very different: the Manifest Image deals with experience and looks only at relations among bits of experience and analysis o…
Every Thing Must Go
In this book, the authors argue that the only kind of metaphysics that can contribute to objective knowledge is one based specifically on contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' a priori intuitions, common sense, or simplifications of science.
A Dynamic Systems View of Economic and Political Theory
Economic logic impinges on contemporary political theory through both economic reductionism and economic methodology applied to political decision-making (through game theory). The authors argue that the sort of models used are based on mechanistic and linear methodologies that have now been found wanting in physics. They further argue that complexity based self-organization methods are better suited to model the complexities of economy and polit…
Theoria Referees
Change and Identity in Complex Systems
Complex systems are dynamic and may show high levels of variability in both space and time. It is often difficult to decide on what constitutes a given complex system, i.e., where system boundaries should be set, and what amounts to substantial change within the system. We discuss two central themes: the nature of system definitions and their ability to cope with change, and the importance of system definitions for the mental metamodels that we u…
Cultural Energy Lecture, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago September 19, 1987
What follows is text of a talk given in the context of an exhibit and it is organized in terms of movement through that exhibit, a format that can only partially be reconstructed here. The images reproduced here include photographs from the exhibit as well as others that were felt to be related to the theme of the original talk. All photographs are courtesy of the Collier Family Collection
Visual Anthropology
Survival at Rough Rock
This article is a historical research account of the Navajo Bilingual School at Rough Rock. The Rough Rock Demonstration School was a bilingual experiment to synthesize white education with a community Navajo school, utilizing both Navajo and white teachers, and headed by an all-Navajo administration
Visual Anthropology
First published in 1967, Visual Anthropology has become a classic in its field, invaluable not only for anthropologists but for anyone using photography, film, and video to understand human behavior and culture. This completely revised and expanded edition brings the technical information up to date and includes the insights the Colliers have gained from nearly thirty-five additional years of collective teaching and research experience since the …
Visual anthropology's contribution to the field of anthropology
This is an account of the movement of photography as art into the objectivity of the camera image as scientific evidence. On arrival at Cornell University, Collier did not appreciate the extreme flexibility of this department, primarily dedicated to applied anthroplogy, and thereby more open to diverse human data than other branches of the field. The action‐problem‐solving Cornell students and behavioral specialists leapt over theoretical obstacl…
Visual anthropology
Against Miracles
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Il film in Super 8 nella ricerca antropologica
Frequency-Dependent Causation
Ronald Giere's analysis of causal effectiveness in populations involves the comparison of two hypothetical populations, one in which every individual has the suspected causal factor, and the other in which none do. Elliott Sober has argued that in cases where causal effectiveness depends on relative population sizes, Giere's analysis breaks down. I take issue with this claim, and argue to the contrary that Giere's analysis can help provide insigh…
The Natural Man Observed
Apprendimento dell'antropologia visiva
John Collier's Crusade for Indian Reform, 1920-1954
Journal Article John Collier's Crusade for Indian Reform, 1920–1954 Get access John Collier's Crusade for Indian Reform, 1920–1954. By Philp Kenneth R.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1977, xvi, 403 p. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $12.50, cloth; $6.50, paper.) Herbert T. Hoover Herbert T. Hoover University of South Dakota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quar…
Principles of Visual Anthropology
This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and filmmakers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the field, and a new preface by the editor. The book covers ethnographic filming and its relations to the cinema and television; applications of filming to anthropological research, the uses of still photography, archives, and videotape; subdisciplinary applications in ethnography, archeology, bio-anthropology, …
The Indians of the Americas
Indians of the Americas
Visual anthropology
Photography in Anthropology
Visual Anthropology
Change and Identity in Complex Systems
Complex systems are dynamic and may show high levels of variability in both space and time. It is often difficult to decide on what constitutes a given complex system, i.e., where system boundaries should be set, and what amounts to substantial change within the system. We discuss two central themes: the nature of system definitions and their ability to cope with change, and the importance of system definitions for the mental metamodels that we u…
Visual anthropology's contribution to the field of anthropology
This is an account of the movement of photography as art into the objectivity of the camera image as scientific evidence. On arrival at Cornell University, Collier did not appreciate the extreme flexibility of this department, primarily dedicated to applied anthroplogy, and thereby more open to diverse human data than other branches of the field. The action‐problem‐solving Cornell students and behavioral specialists leapt over theoretical obstacl…
The Social Philosophy of John Collier
Survival at Rough Rock
This article is a historical research account of the Navajo Bilingual School at Rough Rock. The Rough Rock Demonstration School was a bilingual experiment to synthesize white education with a community Navajo school, utilizing both Navajo and white teachers, and headed by an all-Navajo administration
American Indian Education
Seen Through Navajo Eyes—Navajos Film Themselves
Frequency-Dependent Causation
Ronald Giere's analysis of causal effectiveness in populations involves the comparison of two hypothetical populations, one in which every individual has the suspected causal factor, and the other in which none do. Elliott Sober has argued that in cases where causal effectiveness depends on relative population sizes, Giere's analysis breaks down. I take issue with this claim, and argue to the contrary that Giere's analysis can help provide insigh…
The Indian Bureau and Self-Government
Dr. John Embree's article on American Indian matters, and your editorial remarks concerning it, have to be dealt with. The reasons are both practical and intellectual. I commence by stating my high regard for John Embree in those matters, mostly Far Eastern, of which he has authentic knowledge, and for Human Organization, a publication of which I make use all the time. I then remark: Embree's American Indian article contains extreme misinformatio…
Collier Replies to Mekeel
Informal pragmatics and linguistic creativity
Examples of successful linguistic communication give rise to two important insights: (1) it should be understood most fundamentally in terms of the pragmatic success of each individual utterance, and (2) linguistic conventions need to be understood as on a par with the non-linguistic regularities that competent language users rely upon to refer. Syntax and semantics are part of what Barwise and Perry call the context of the utterance, contributin…
A Dynamic Systems View of Economic and Political Theory
Economic logic impinges on contemporary political theory through both economic reductionism and economic methodology applied to political decision-making (through game theory). The authors argue that the sort of models used are based on mechanistic and linear methodologies that have now been found wanting in physics. They further argue that complexity based self-organization methods are better suited to model the complexities of economy and polit…
Cultural Energy Lecture, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago September 19, 1987
What follows is text of a talk given in the context of an exhibit and it is organized in terms of movement through that exhibit, a format that can only partially be reconstructed here. The images reproduced here include photographs from the exhibit as well as others that were felt to be related to the theme of the original talk. All photographs are courtesy of the Collier Family Collection
Visual Anthropology
Against Miracles
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Cancian
People of Tununak. Produced and directed by Norman and Leonard Kamerling
The Awakening Valley
The Indian in a Wartime Nation
ONE would expect the Indians of the United States to be confused and perplexed by the war situation. Essentially they are a rural people. Many of them live in remote areas, speak only their native languages, and have little access to newspapers, radio, or other forms of communication. How could they be expected to understand the clash of ideologies which has precipitated the world crisis? Moreover, the treatment accorded the Indians at the hands …
Amerindians
XV.— On the Charge of the ordinary and extraordinary Service of the English Navy in the middle of the reign of Queen Elizabeth; with a Letter and Report from Sir John Hawkins to Sir Walter Mildmay, on…
There is no member of our Society to whom this brief letter could be more appropriately addressed than to yourself, not merely from the profession to which you are so honourably attached, but from the interest you must take in the subject, and the information you are so well qualified to supply. The latter, in my case, is peculiarly necessary, and if, on some future occasion, you shall be able to add any additional illustration, you will confer a…
XXXI. On Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper; with extracts from some of his unprinted Papers and Speeches
A manuscript volume in my possession, which formerly belonged to Sir Christopher Hatton, as testified by his own handwriting upon it, supplies some additional information respecting Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper and father of Lord Chancellor Bacon, a notice of which seems not unsuited to the purposes of this Society. Sir Nicholas was a very unpretending man, as regards authorship: he published little or nothing in his lifetime; and perhaps the …
City Planning and the Problem of Recreation
The People's Institute, New York
America’s Treatment of her Indians
Essay| August 01 1923 America’s Treatment of her Indians John Collier John Collier Executive Secretary, American Indian Defense Association Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1923) 18 (5): 771–781. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1923.18.5.771 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Perm…
Amerindians
The Indian in a Wartime Nation
ONE would expect the Indians of the United States to be confused and perplexed by the war situation. Essentially they are a rural people. Many of them live in remote areas, speak only their native languages, and have little access to newspapers, radio, or other forms of communication. How could they be expected to understand the clash of ideologies which has precipitated the world crisis? Moreover, the treatment accorded the Indians at the hands …
Collier Replies to Mekeel
The Indian Education and Administration Research
American Indian Education
Refugees in America
The Indian Bureau and Self-Government
Dr. John Embree's article on American Indian matters, and your editorial remarks concerning it, have to be dealt with. The reasons are both practical and intellectual. I commence by stating my high regard for John Embree in those matters, mostly Far Eastern, of which he has authentic knowledge, and for Human Organization, a publication of which I make use all the time. I then remark: Embree's American Indian article contains extreme misinformatio…
The Indians of the Americas
Awakening Valley
The Awakening Valley
Culture in Crisis; A Study of the Hopi Indians
Journal Article Culture in Crisis; A Study of the Hopi Indians. By Laura Thompson, with a foreword by John Collier and a chapter from the writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. xxiv + 221 pp. + 24 unnumbered pages of plates. Bibliography and index. $4.00.) Get access Randolph C. Downes Randolph C. Downes University of Toledo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American H…
The Nez Perces
A sedentary fishing tribe in the plateau and mountain country of central Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and southeastern Washington, the Nez Perces were transformed by the acquisition of the horse into a tribe that hunted on the plains and assimilated much of the buffalo culture. In the mountains their traditional enemies were the Shoshonis; on the plains they fought the Sioux and were allied with the Crows. They were outstanding horsemen, and perha…
Photography in Anthropology
From Every Zenith
Appeals to Santiago . Produced by D uane M etzger and C arter W ilson , written by C arter W ilson , enthnography by D uane M etzger and R obert R avicz , filmed in 1966 by A rnold B askin and M ichae…
The Cultural Revolution in Canton (Part I)
For over a year the students have taken the lead in the Cultural Revolution all over China. Now the emphasis has shifted to the workers. This is a suitable moment to take stock. The following is a brief outline of the situation at Zhongda (Sun Yat-sen University)—October 1967—and
The Cultural Revolution in Canton (Part II)
This fiftieth issue of New Left Review opens with a critique, by Perry Anderson, of the structures of bourgeois culture in Britain. The task of forging a revolutionary and internationalist political culture in this country has always been a central preoccupation of the Review. This involves attacking the
Visual Anthropology
The Social Philosophy of John Collier
American Indian Ceremonial Dances
Seen Through Navajo Eyes—Navajos Film Themselves
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