Dear friends,
Born to be applied mainly to archeological matters, to prehistoric
and tribal art and to religious behavioral patterns, conceptual
anthropology is fast expanding to other social issues. Conceptual
anthropology is the discipline that looks at the meaning of human
expressions, it analyzes the bases and drives of social and
intellectual manifestations, behavioral habits, beliefs, rituals, and
artistic creativity. Recording, describing, dating, and comparing are
the raw material; the target is understanding human behavior and
action, cultural processes, their roots, their motivations, their
potential progress or regression, and the outcomes.
Every human expression has its own connotations that may provide
hints of its roots, motivations, orientations, and outcomes. Arts,
behavioral traditions, rituals, and beliefs are sources of information
on behavior trends. Rituals and beliefs are effects of memory
accumulation and they influence behavior; arts reveal immaterial and
emotional trends. The intellectual and spiritual expressions define
the identity of cultures and the many traits of social and conceptual
orientations.
This new discipline took shape during a congress of the
International Union of Prehistoric Sciences in Florianopolis, Brazil,
in 2011. Atelier Research Center, based in Valcamonica, Italy, is its
world center. Further development led to the creation of an editorial
sector dedicated to conceptual anthropology, producing in six years
over 50 books in Italian and in English, and the quarterly journal
EXPRESSION in English, which reaches researchers, institutions, and
other motivated readers in 80 countries. The over 200 authors are from
42 countries over five continents.
The objective of conceptual anthropology is cultural consciousness,
increasing the capacity for the perception of human behavior and
social trends and the ability to appraise them. Evaluations are
concerned with potential ranges of evolution and change, not only in
their social, economic, and technological aspects, but also in
ethical, psychological, esthetic and spiritual conditioning and
effects.
Each discipline has its memory as a basis for the advancement of
research and of the discipline itself. The combination of disciplines
is also an accumulation of knowledge and a balancing of concepts for a
healthy broader base of enquiry and thought. Every social, economic or
political issue may be analyzed following the methods of conceptual
anthropology.
Today, the media accumulates technical and historical memory and
indoctrination. But the insights and associations of the human mind
are still irreplaceable. Our being and our actions are rooted in
memory. Human behavior is based on memory. When mistakes are made,
they often derive from memory fogging. On the other hand, positive
results come from its good use. Electronic memory is a useful tool,
but we consider that the type of memory that turns into intuition and
rediscovery, coming from the deep well of human minds, is a
fundamental element for decision-making which is still dependent on
individual abilities.
Faced with the fashion of extreme specialization, which risks
reducing scholars to technicians and operators to robots, conceptual
anthropology goes against the current. It relies on broad cultural
humanistic formation and overviews. The technicians are useful and
necessary, but conceptual anthropology proposes a new, albeit ancient,
intellectual disposition, based on the panoramic wisdom of humanistic
and social sciences, backed by dynamic and practical analytical
methods.
Conceptual behavior still derives from the emotions of the moment
in which the first man-shaped tools were produced to enhance the
abilities of human hands. The same emotion recurs in the mind of a
child when his/her hand succeeds in holding an object for the first
time. Human actions are caused and accompanied by both premeditation
based on evaluations of ability, and emotions of achievement.
By using concepts and traditions of various disciplines, and
wide-ranging analytical systems, conceptual anthropology facilitates
broad ranges of decision-making. Let the technicians and the
conceptual anthropologists be aware of their different roles, let them
do their jobs and then enrich each other through the results of their
commitment
Research has a real social function when it produces culture. When
culture is creative and innovative, it promotes intellectual growth
and stimulates new options of thought. Conceptual anthropology, by its
wide-ranging orientation, opens up the mind to alternative thinking.
The multidisciplinary approach is a source of provocative and
stimulating awareness, a healthy and beneficial enrichment of the
intellect for young people of all ages.
Our world today, searching for its uncertain tomorrow, has a
profound need for this kind of humanistic reasoning. Atelier
Publications present studies and research on conceptual anthropology
which are pleasant to read and help learning without the feeling of
studying.
Please look at the catalog of Atelier Books:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=15jzmQfDYeYU7CEsYLu6fVmCkhljxC1tT)
and at a complimentary issue (29) of EXPRESSION journal:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZNxlr9GO12e5C97rFO5-fwPLMV-_0IZs/view?usp=sharing
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Best regards from
Emmanuel Anati
President, Atelier Research Center for Conceptual Anthropology
For ordering publications or for further information contact:
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ATELIER
Research Center for Conceptual Anthropology
Città Della Cultura
Via Marconi 7, Capo di Ponte, 25044, Italy
Phone +39 0364 42392
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