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Essays 151 - 180
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...
prophetic apparitions make appearances(Shakespeare & Supernatural). One of the most climactic scenes in the play is the banquet ...
Sunflower oil producers once again are in trouble, and no one knows what effect - if any - that genetically modified foods have on...
interpretations. It is important for the one to understand that there exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives,...
Taking the skull, for example: it is obvious that the term skull refers to a particular object, or a group of objects, which have ...
to Quinn because they allow him to temporarily lose his identity. By walking, he could leave "himself behind," and simply give him...
as treasurer. With two other Spaniards and an Arab Moor, he was the only survivor who remained on the mainland," thus setting the ...
the orators, spokesmen and ambassadors of chiefs (Mead 29). In the formal village assembly, each "matai" has his place and repres...
are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...
and Morality in Haiti is the culmination of Brodwins year-and-a-half anthropological research into the southern portion of the reg...
traits or by innate traits (Margaret Mead: Human Nature, 2002). In Part Three of her work she studied "The Lake-Dwelling Tchambuli...
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...
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...
those who do not stop to examine their existence. For example, Americans do not often think of their historical past save as somet...
get it home. Advances in science and medicine have cured diseases and increased life span. The is a phenomenon of the last 30 year...
it means "partiality of cultural and historical truths" (1986) because the whole truth cannot be known in anthropological studies ...
example, is bypassed in favor of a machine to human interface. While the teacher is still involved in the classroom, that involve...
replaced essentially on a whim. Everything about our lives is now disposable. We drink out of plastic bottles and paper and styr...
formula which would ensure the future of the white minority into the next century (South Africas Apartheid Era and the Transition ...
rational-choice theory while studying the Ilongot head hunting beliefs and their change to Christianity (Rosaldo, 1980, 1989). To ...
In five pages this paper examines the importance of observation in ethnography in a comparison of Monica Moore's Nonverbal Courtsh...
a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...
School for Social Research, and was influenced by Elsie Clews Parsons and Alexander Goldenweiser who sent her to study anthropolog...
also changes in these areas and the area of the effects of class status changes of the same !Kung women in various world cultures....