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together by shared traits, such as language, beliefs, religion or customs; also frequently they are bound by actual geographical b...
This paper explores the issue from an anthropological perspective. There are five sources listed in the bibliography of this four ...
similarity to the fascinating stories that are in both N. Scott Momadays House Made of Dawn and Anna Linzers Ghost Dancing as the ...
Johnson described the people who lived within the city as a group of somewhat organized scavengers. "The scavengers...lived in a ...
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single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...
an integral part of the travelogue. These obstacles are met and either overcome, or the obstacles serve as catalysts to propel th...
cycle of poverty is at play which acts to entrap its unfortunate victims into a set of circumstances which is all but impossible t...
tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....
Yugoslavia). Although the fighting stopped for the most part, there was no effort made for the various parties to actually resolv...
those who do not stop to examine their existence. For example, Americans do not often think of their historical past save as somet...
series of wars toward the northern section of the island. The first two Dutch attacks, one in 1846 and another in 1848, were repul...
are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...
in society provide numerous functions while at the same time explaining mans origins and how man relates with nature. Many of the ...
children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...
in the North Carolina mountains in the 1840s, is a "Gothic tale of terror and pagan violence" (Walser 284). Linney has written th...
of Bohemia and Moravia, which are now part of the Czech Republic (Our History). One aspect of Moravian life that Sara related ha...
are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...
traits or by innate traits (Margaret Mead: Human Nature, 2002). In Part Three of her work she studied "The Lake-Dwelling Tchambuli...
and Morality in Haiti is the culmination of Brodwins year-and-a-half anthropological research into the southern portion of the reg...
This essay utilizes a feministic approach and an anthropological approach to interpretation of Homer's Iliad. Eight pages in lengt...
attitudes that he has embraced have robbed his life of meaning and value. The ghosts remind him of his past and the choices that h...
This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...
In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at "Getting Ghost" by Luke Bergman. Problems associated with ethnographic literature ar...
a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...
Mekranoti Indians rather than the Cakchiquel Mayan as did Glittenbergs work. While each of these researchers immerse themse...
The evident aftermath of colonization on Sri Lanka has not been beneficial but has torn the country apart - literally. Unable to ...
the British rule has officially ceased. And so, through his personal experiences, the character of Camagu mirrors the turbulence ...
into his own. Although racism persists today, it is nowhere near the problem it was during the 1960s and 1970s of which Aschenbren...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...