George N Appell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George N Appell |
| GIVEN NAMES | George N |
| FAMILY NAME | Appell |
| SIGNATURE | APPELL G N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Endangered Cultures and Languages, Documentation of
The phrase “endangered cultures and languages” refers to the threatened extinction of these in indigenous societies. The concept of endangerment first appeared in publications in 1990. Endangerment begins when society's youth no longer learn and use their traditional language and culture, or are prevented from doing so. Various factors can cause this to happen, particularly colonialization and (later) globalization. Lists of endangered languages …
Laura W. R. Appell
Interethnic Conflict in Borneo
Anthropology's Gifts to Humankind
Scholars, true believers, and the identity crisis in American anthropology
Sanjek, Roger, ed. Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. xviii + 429 pp. including chapter references and index. $42.50 cloth, $12.95 paper. Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn. Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology: Dialogue for a New Era. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. xiii + 296 pp. including chapter references, appendices, and index. $31.95 cloth
Another Opening, Another Paradigm
Choice and Morality in Anthropological Perspective: Essays in Honor of Derek Freeman
British- vs American-Trained Ethnographers
Facts, Fiction, Fads, and Follies: But Where Is the Evidence
On the Coming of Age of American Cultural Anthropology
Cooperation Column
Methodological Issues in the corporation redux
Methodological problems with the concepts of corporation, corporate social grouping, and cognatic descent group
The classic methodology for the analysis of corporations and corporate social groupings produces culturally contaminated data. An alternative methodology is described in which abstract analytical concepts are used to determine whether a social isolate has the capacity to enter into jural relations and where the exact social locus of ownership lies. This approach is tested against Gilbert's ethnography of the Peruvian cognatic descent isolate. It …
Aboriginal Rights in International Law
Epistemological issues in anthropological inquiry: Social Structuralism, Cognitive Structuralism, Synthetic Structuralism and Opportunism
(1980). Epistemological issues in anthropological inquiry. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 1-27
Talking Ethics: The Uses of Moral Rhetoric and the Function of Ethical Principles
Journal Article Talking Ethics: The Uses of Moral Rhetoric and the Function of Ethical Principles Get access G. N. Appell G. N. Appell Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 27, Issue 3, 1 February 1980, Pages 350–357, https://doi.org/10.2307/800253 Published: 05 August 2014
Human Rights and the Extinction of Cultures: A Proposal for Government Financed Salvage Ethnology
Studies in Borneo Societies: Social Process and Anthropological Explanation
Teaching Anthropological Ethics: Developing Skills in Ethical Decision-Making and the Nature of Moral Education
How can the gap between ethical prescriptions and behavior be closed? The various ethical codes have not been sufficiently internalized so that they have become part of the anthropologist's decision-making apparatus. This can be corrected by developing a greater knowledge of the ethical codes; by developing a greater sensitivity to moral concerns; and by developing skills in ethical decision-making. This latter is complicated by the abstract natu…
Ethnology: Medicine Is the Law: Studies in Psychiatric Anthropology of Australian Tribal Societies. John Cawte
Ethnology: Brunei: The Structure and History of a Bornean Malay Sultanate . D. E. BROWN
Corporations and Social Classification [and Comments and Reply]
Maine argued that perpetuity is the essential characteristic of corporateness. Thus corporations may be defined as presumptively perpetual social units. Presumptive perpetuity is achieved by regular procedures of recruitment. Since corporations figure prominently in social structural studies from Aristotle's time until now, the classification of corporations is an important theoretical task. A recent classification by M. G. Smith is critically re…
The distinction between ethnography and ethnology and other issues in cognitive structuralism
analytical systems model contrasts markedly with descriptive generalization. In its nonadaptive form, that is without feedback, the abstract, analytical systems model is composed of elements and the interrelationship between such elements. It does not contain content, but it provides the procedures that can be relied upon for identifying and describing system-specific discriminations. As such it focuses on ST Casagrande (1963:294-295) points out …
Ethnology: Tausug Armed Conflict: The Social Organization of Military Activity in a Philippine Moslem Society . THOMAS M. Kiefer. Foreword by Fred Eggan
Case Materials Requested
Studies in Borneo Societies: Social Process and Anthropological Explanation
Corporations and Social Classification [and Comments and Reply]
Maine argued that perpetuity is the essential characteristic of corporateness. Thus corporations may be defined as presumptively perpetual social units. Presumptive perpetuity is achieved by regular procedures of recruitment. Since corporations figure prominently in social structural studies from Aristotle's time until now, the classification of corporations is an important theoretical task. A recent classification by M. G. Smith is critically re…
Talking Ethics: The Uses of Moral Rhetoric and the Function of Ethical Principles
Journal Article Talking Ethics: The Uses of Moral Rhetoric and the Function of Ethical Principles Get access G. N. Appell G. N. Appell Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 27, Issue 3, 1 February 1980, Pages 350–357, https://doi.org/10.2307/800253 Published: 05 August 2014
Facts, Fiction, Fads, and Follies: But Where Is the Evidence
The distinction between ethnography and ethnology and other issues in cognitive structuralism
analytical systems model contrasts markedly with descriptive generalization. In its nonadaptive form, that is without feedback, the abstract, analytical systems model is composed of elements and the interrelationship between such elements. It does not contain content, but it provides the procedures that can be relied upon for identifying and describing system-specific discriminations. As such it focuses on ST Casagrande (1963:294-295) points out …
Choice and Morality in Anthropological Perspective: Essays in Honor of Derek Freeman
Methodological problems with the concepts of corporation, corporate social grouping, and cognatic descent group
The classic methodology for the analysis of corporations and corporate social groupings produces culturally contaminated data. An alternative methodology is described in which abstract analytical concepts are used to determine whether a social isolate has the capacity to enter into jural relations and where the exact social locus of ownership lies. This approach is tested against Gilbert's ethnography of the Peruvian cognatic descent isolate. It …
Epistemological issues in anthropological inquiry: Social Structuralism, Cognitive Structuralism, Synthetic Structuralism and Opportunism
(1980). Epistemological issues in anthropological inquiry. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 1-27
Scholars, true believers, and the identity crisis in American anthropology
Sanjek, Roger, ed. Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. xviii + 429 pp. including chapter references and index. $42.50 cloth, $12.95 paper. Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn. Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology: Dialogue for a New Era. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. xiii + 296 pp. including chapter references, appendices, and index. $31.95 cloth
North Borneo Ethnography - A Protest
Teaching Anthropological Ethics: Developing Skills in Ethical Decision-Making and the Nature of Moral Education
How can the gap between ethical prescriptions and behavior be closed? The various ethical codes have not been sufficiently internalized so that they have become part of the anthropologist's decision-making apparatus. This can be corrected by developing a greater knowledge of the ethical codes; by developing a greater sensitivity to moral concerns; and by developing skills in ethical decision-making. This latter is complicated by the abstract natu…
Social anthropological census for cognatic societies and its application among the Rungus of Northern Borneo
Margaret Mead in her study of an Indian tribe, The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe, Columbia University Press, New York, 1932, included a detailed "schematic census" of the entire tribe from which it is possible to reconstruct her census schedule.In Coming of Age in Samoa, Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1928, and Growing Up in New Guinea, William Morrow, New York, 1930, Mead included in the appendices copies of the record sheets that she used i…
A Survey of the Social and Medical Anthropology of Sabah: Retrospect and Prospect 1
Observational Procedures for Identifying Kindreds: Social Isolates among the Rungus of Borneo
British- vs American-Trained Ethnographers
Methodological Issues in the corporation redux
Ethnology: Tausug Armed Conflict: The Social Organization of Military Activity in a Philippine Moslem Society . THOMAS M. Kiefer. Foreword by Fred Eggan
The Ethnographic Classification of the Dusun-Speaking Peoples of Northern Borneo
Ethnography of Northern Borneo: Critical Review of Some Recent Publications
The Structure of District Administration, Anti-administration Activity and Political Instability
The dynamics of administrative systems, particularly in area of malfunction, has been insufficiently investigated by the social sciences. The thesis of this paper is that a malfunctioning administrative system generates anti-administration activities. It is my hope that the case study of the Sada here presented will encourage persons in various levels of administration to test its theoretical implications for their usefulness in actual situations…
Residence and Ties of Kinship in a Cognatic Society: The Rungus Dusun of Sabah, Malaysia
The Structure of District Administration, Anti-administration Activity and Political Instability
The dynamics of administrative systems, particularly in area of malfunction, has been insufficiently investigated by the social sciences. The thesis of this paper is that a malfunctioning administrative system generates anti-administration activities. It is my hope that the case study of the Sada here presented will encourage persons in various levels of administration to test its theoretical implications for their usefulness in actual situations…
North Borneo Ethnography - A Protest
Residence and Ties of Kinship in a Cognatic Society: The Rungus Dusun of Sabah, Malaysia
Ethnography of Northern Borneo: Critical Review of Some Recent Publications
Observational Procedures for Identifying Kindreds: Social Isolates among the Rungus of Borneo
The Dusun Languages of Northern Borneo: The Rungus Dusun and Related Problems
of the Archipelago, mainly Bajau (Sama), used the term Ida'an (alternatively rendered Idahan or Idaan) to refer to similar, non-Muslim peoples but particularly to those in Sabah. This term appeared in the journals of early English voyagers to the Borneo coast (see Forrest, 1779:368), and it continued to occur with frequency in reports on northern Borneo into the late 1800's. However, the term Ida'an sometimes was not restricted to
A Survey of the Social and Medical Anthropology of Sabah: Retrospect and Prospect 1
Social anthropological census for cognatic societies and its application among the Rungus of Northern Borneo
Margaret Mead in her study of an Indian tribe, The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe, Columbia University Press, New York, 1932, included a detailed "schematic census" of the entire tribe from which it is possible to reconstruct her census schedule.In Coming of Age in Samoa, Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1928, and Growing Up in New Guinea, William Morrow, New York, 1930, Mead included in the appendices copies of the record sheets that she used i…
The Ethnographic Classification of the Dusun-Speaking Peoples of Northern Borneo
Social Anthropological Research in Borneo
Case Materials Requested
Ethnology: Tausug Armed Conflict: The Social Organization of Military Activity in a Philippine Moslem Society . THOMAS M. Kiefer. Foreword by Fred Eggan
The distinction between ethnography and ethnology and other issues in cognitive structuralism
analytical systems model contrasts markedly with descriptive generalization. In its nonadaptive form, that is without feedback, the abstract, analytical systems model is composed of elements and the interrelationship between such elements. It does not contain content, but it provides the procedures that can be relied upon for identifying and describing system-specific discriminations. As such it focuses on ST Casagrande (1963:294-295) points out …
Ethnology: Brunei: The Structure and History of a Bornean Malay Sultanate . D. E. BROWN
Corporations and Social Classification [and Comments and Reply]
Maine argued that perpetuity is the essential characteristic of corporateness. Thus corporations may be defined as presumptively perpetual social units. Presumptive perpetuity is achieved by regular procedures of recruitment. Since corporations figure prominently in social structural studies from Aristotle's time until now, the classification of corporations is an important theoretical task. A recent classification by M. G. Smith is critically re…
Teaching Anthropological Ethics: Developing Skills in Ethical Decision-Making and the Nature of Moral Education
How can the gap between ethical prescriptions and behavior be closed? The various ethical codes have not been sufficiently internalized so that they have become part of the anthropologist's decision-making apparatus. This can be corrected by developing a greater knowledge of the ethical codes; by developing a greater sensitivity to moral concerns; and by developing skills in ethical decision-making. This latter is complicated by the abstract natu…
Ethnology: Medicine Is the Law: Studies in Psychiatric Anthropology of Australian Tribal Societies. John Cawte
Studies in Borneo Societies: Social Process and Anthropological Explanation
Human Rights and the Extinction of Cultures: A Proposal for Government Financed Salvage Ethnology
Aboriginal Rights in International Law
Epistemological issues in anthropological inquiry: Social Structuralism, Cognitive Structuralism, Synthetic Structuralism and Opportunism
(1980). Epistemological issues in anthropological inquiry. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 1-27
Talking Ethics: The Uses of Moral Rhetoric and the Function of Ethical Principles
Journal Article Talking Ethics: The Uses of Moral Rhetoric and the Function of Ethical Principles Get access G. N. Appell G. N. Appell Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 27, Issue 3, 1 February 1980, Pages 350–357, https://doi.org/10.2307/800253 Published: 05 August 2014
Methodological problems with the concepts of corporation, corporate social grouping, and cognatic descent group
The classic methodology for the analysis of corporations and corporate social groupings produces culturally contaminated data. An alternative methodology is described in which abstract analytical concepts are used to determine whether a social isolate has the capacity to enter into jural relations and where the exact social locus of ownership lies. This approach is tested against Gilbert's ethnography of the Peruvian cognatic descent isolate. It …
On the Coming of Age of American Cultural Anthropology
Cooperation Column
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