Essays 31 - 60
the last stage, however, the individual fully incorporates into their new role in life. They take on the symbols and responsibili...
it relates to the divergent representations these two elements have throughout the world. Inasmuch as the typical global co...
"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...
A 9 page paper that answers three questions about historical anthropology. Topics include evolution of social cultural change, col...
on the average, 2.5 times as many wives and three times as many children as those who have not. (Chagnoy, 1993). "These num...
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...
Dick Van der Elst and Paul Bohannon's introduction to cultural anthropology is analyzed and critiqued in a paper consisting of fiv...
readily be argued that the primary component in determining the various contributions rests almost completely upon mans brain size...
In five pages the ways in which anthropology is reflected in the philosophical works of Augustine and Plato are examined. Five so...
School for Social Research, and was influenced by Elsie Clews Parsons and Alexander Goldenweiser who sent her to study anthropolog...
In five pages this paper discusses how culture and society can be better understood through studying social anthropology. Three s...
There are numerous nursing scholars who utilizing ethnographic techniques in their research; university courses that address both ...
(Delaney, 2003). He originally sought to call his newly emerging field "social physics", a term that clearly reflected his belief...
In nine pages this paper examines U.S. Chinese American communities and their traditions in this discussion of cultural anthropolo...
In nine pages cultural anthropology is applied to the culture of the Japanese Americans in hopes of understanding their U.S. histo...
In seven pages the evolution of narrative are examined in a consideration of Scarlet and Black, Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, He...
Sociology and anthropology both focus on human behavior and interactions. The two disciplines, however, are quite distinct. Anth...
and Boas in order to trace the development of anthropology throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. This paragraph helps the stude...
In seven pages this paper examines the reshaping of gender thought through feminist anthropology in an overview of theories by bel...