Essays 31 - 60
it means "partiality of cultural and historical truths" (1986) because the whole truth cannot be known in anthropological studies ...
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...
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...
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...
This paper discusses the field of forensic anthropology. The author addresses occupational requirements, investigations, cooperat...
Dick Van der Elst and Paul Bohannon's introduction to cultural anthropology is analyzed and critiqued in a paper consisting of fiv...
In five pages the ways in which anthropology is reflected in the philosophical works of Augustine and Plato are examined. Five so...
In five pages this paper discusses how culture and society can be better understood through studying social anthropology. Three s...
School for Social Research, and was influenced by Elsie Clews Parsons and Alexander Goldenweiser who sent her to study anthropolog...
readily be argued that the primary component in determining the various contributions rests almost completely upon mans brain size...
on the average, 2.5 times as many wives and three times as many children as those who have not. (Chagnoy, 1993). "These num...
In seven pages this paper examines the reshaping of gender thought through feminist anthropology in an overview of theories by bel...
In seven pages the evolution of narrative are examined in a consideration of Scarlet and Black, Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, He...
and Boas in order to trace the development of anthropology throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. This paragraph helps the stude...
This 4 page paper gives a review of the films Disruption and Children Underground. This paper includes both the cultural language ...
the last stage, however, the individual fully incorporates into their new role in life. They take on the symbols and responsibili...
Sociology and anthropology both focus on human behavior and interactions. The two disciplines, however, are quite distinct. Anth...
it relates to the divergent representations these two elements have throughout the world. Inasmuch as the typical global co...
(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...
"Day after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of t...
long for Nandas friend to marry her son. Nandas article points out mating customs and attitudes are culturally based. While Nanda...
(Delaney, 2003). He originally sought to call his newly emerging field "social physics", a term that clearly reflected his belief...
A 9 page paper that answers three questions about historical anthropology. Topics include evolution of social cultural change, col...
were the focus of their analyses (Merriam "Definitions" 193). Furthermore, as Jaap Kunst pointed out in 1950 text, musicology "doe...
"symbols," and their relationship to art and its abstract nature. Having established a basis for discussing symbolism, specific ...