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In six pages this paper contrasts and compares Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures and Marshall David Sahlins' Stone ...
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the globe, to armchair inquiry into such things as films, television and music of contemporary urban life. While anthropology may ...
- male or female? For the most part, Michel Foucault, in his thesis "Discipline and Punishment," seems to regard feminism ...
The writer describes the requirements for a career in anthropology as well as the outlook for employment. The writer argues that a...
to his readers, giving his ethnic origin, social class and gender. He might say something like: "As a white, middle class male, I ...
The idea as expressed by Kirsch (2002) for example is that the people are ignorant and do not have the power as do the large corpo...
way to talk about complexity when it is so poorly defined is to describe "the boundary between order and chaos - where complexity ...
rooted in the behaviors of pre-historic man and has played a primary role in the evolution of human cognitive functions (Beeman). ...
In a paper consisting of seven pages Emile Durkheim's functionalism, Julian Steward's cultural anthropology, and Franz Boas's psyc...
This paper addresses the ways in which feminist anthropology can negate some of the traditional, male-dominated viewpoints in the ...
humans from animals (McConnell, 1977). Total Social Fact as Suggested by...
This essay offers a critique of a 2003 article by Alessandro Duranti, which is entitled "Language as culture in U.S. anthropology:...
This 5 page essay contrasts these classic anthropological texts by Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard. Ethnographic style vary but ea...
figure to a neighborhood who respected his demeanor and longed for the genuine cultural heritage they found at Sals pizzeria. ...
A 5 page essay exploring the ethnographic account by Catherine Dettwyler. Medical anthropology entials precise fieldwork, professi...
This 4 page paper gives a review of the films Disruption and Children Underground. This paper includes both the cultural language ...
power that Scheper-Hughes and the people of Ballybran have in common, as well as how they share these kinds of power, it will be i...
In four term papers of three pages each musical topics such as music and brain function; anthropology and music; memory, learning ...
One of these pioneers was Claude Levi-Strauss, Strauss, an influential man within the fields of social studies, philosophy, relig...
seek to find out the opinions of a certain population. Relational studies are those in which questions are used to define r...
a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...
into embarrassing intellectual difficulties. It becomes, most often, a term of art whose operational meaning is, We need a law aga...
(McGee et al, 2004). Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of meaning, the journey of understanding ha...
the development of the functionalist approach in social sciences. When developing his methodology he considered the flaws of the...
"symbols," and their relationship to art and its abstract nature. Having established a basis for discussing symbolism, specific ...
were the focus of their analyses (Merriam "Definitions" 193). Furthermore, as Jaap Kunst pointed out in 1950 text, musicology "doe...
In seven pages this paper considers how cultural anthropology is influenced by religion and art with the argument presented that e...
In 7 pages, David M. Hayano's ethnography of New Guinea's tribal societies in The Road Through the Rain Forest: Living Anthropolog...
In three pages this paper discusses social anthropology from a homosexual context in a consideration of the New York Greenwich Vil...