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2 Perspectives on Hinduism

In six pages An Introduction to Hinduism by Gavin Flood and Hinduism The Anthropology of a Civilization by Madeleine Biardeau are...

Narrative Evolution

In seven pages the evolution of narrative are examined in a consideration of Scarlet and Black, Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, He...

Homosexual Observations and Social Anthropology

In three pages this paper discusses social anthropology from a homosexual context in a consideration of the New York Greenwich Vil...

The New Guinea Highland 'Economics'

In 7 pages, David M. Hayano's ethnography of New Guinea's tribal societies in The Road Through the Rain Forest: Living Anthropolog...

Debate on Evolution vs. Cration

evolution gauntlet and run with it. Nevertheless, it goes without saying that there is a plethora of others who continue to espou...

Ruth Benedict's Anthropological Contributions

School for Social Research, and was influenced by Elsie Clews Parsons and Alexander Goldenweiser who sent her to study anthropolog...

Augustine, Plato, and Anthropology

In five pages the ways in which anthropology is reflected in the philosophical works of Augustine and Plato are examined. Five so...

Dancing Skeletons

A 5 page essay exploring the ethnographic account by Catherine Dettwyler. Medical anthropology entials precise fieldwork, professi...

Argonauts of the Western Pacific and The Nuer

This 5 page essay contrasts these classic anthropological texts by Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard. Ethnographic style vary but ea...

Hinduism and the Anthropological Method

it means "partiality of cultural and historical truths" (1986) because the whole truth cannot be known in anthropological studies ...

Topics on Music

In four term papers of three pages each musical topics such as music and brain function; anthropology and music; memory, learning ...

Anthropology and Linguistics

One of these pioneers was Claude Levi-Strauss, Strauss, an influential man within the fields of social studies, philosophy, relig...

Nursing, Cultural Understanding, and the Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory of Madeleine Leininger

19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...

Power and Society in Political Anthropology

it relates to the divergent representations these two elements have throughout the world. Inasmuch as the typical global co...

Anthropological Perspectives on Marriage

a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...

Anthropology and Social Justice

into embarrassing intellectual difficulties. It becomes, most often, a term of art whose operational meaning is, We need a law aga...

7 Anthropology Questions

the last stage, however, the individual fully incorporates into their new role in life. They take on the symbols and responsibili...

Anthropological Genre of Ethnology

four seasons in which there is a planting, harvesting and barren time. MANDALAS AND GENERALIZATIONS ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION ...

Nonscientific Inquiry and Interpretive Anthropology

you prefer, raised) to the level of sheer appearances, where their meaning can be more powerfully articulated and more exactly per...

Three Anthropology Texts Compared and Contrasted

This research report examines three studies in anthropology. The differences between ideas are highlighted. This four page paper h...

James Rachels and the Theory of Cultural Relativism

as backward and wrong. They are even more critical of such practices as infanticide, a practice affecting female infants among th...

A Globalization View

governments (405). For example, the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City on September 11, 2001 caused "s...

An Overview of Singapore

4.0% Others (Sikhism, Confucianism, etc) 0.6% Finally, literacy is high in Singapore, as revealed by the following chart. It has ...

Guatemala's Mayan People

business conducted in Spanish and schools are based on Spanish as well as bilingual programs that are thought to be transitional...

An Overview Perspective of Quebec

leading traders of the north even before European contact (Canada and the World Backgrounder, 1995). Utilizing their strategic lo...

The Origins of Racist Attitudes in Modern Times

of security" (Fuentes, 2004). Journalist Dale Maharidge, in his latest book Homeland, "answers that question and raises many mo...

International College Students and Cultural Adjustment

with a focus on studies that relate problems of acculturation, cultural adjustment and counseling in higher education. These stud...

The Region of Calabria

peninsula is separated from the rest of northern Italy by Basilicata; the Ionian Sea and Tyrrhenian Sea serve as nautical east/wes...

Mayan Technological, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Development

Mayan culture (Brady, 1995). There appears to be little differentiation in individual wealth levels as can be determined from exa...

Urban School Districts of the San Francisco Bay Area

experience on a daily basis. While the district works hard to address these ongoing issues, educators and administrators are ofte...