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America from a Multicultural Perspective

backgrounds in an environment where there were no hard and fast rules as to how these people should interrelate. While the coloni...

Political Power, Supernatural Rituals and Anthropology

in society provide numerous functions while at the same time explaining mans origins and how man relates with nature. Many of the ...

Communication Both Human and Nonhuma

of these devices include reading machines made for the blind, speech-recognition devices, as well as computer programs that detect...

Food's Anthropological Symbolism

and societies (Counihan, 1997). This is evidenced in both food habits and human behaviors (Counihan, 1997). More specifi...

Yousry Nasrallah's Film On Boys, Girls and the Veil

accurately termed "head scarf." In allowing the Egyptian men and women who are featured in the film to speak for themselves, the d...

Anthropological Assessment of the Film North Country

children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...

Mundurucu Culture Females and Yolanda and Robert F. Murphy's Women of the Forest

This paper examines females in the Mundurucu culture as represented in this text from an anthropological perspective consisting of...

Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris

So, if our stone age ancestors did not give up their hunter-gather lifestyle and invent agriculture in order to improve their life...

A Look at Cannibal Culture

In this paper, the author explores anthropological perspectives on the way cultures have evolved in terms of how they view canniba...

Lucy and Lovejoy and Bipedal Locomotion In Australopithecus Afarensis

In seven pages biopedalism theories are considered in an informational overview along with Australopithecus afarensis benefits and...

Anthropological Views on Deviance

In four pages this paper discusses the text edited by Freilich, Raybeck, and Savishinsky entitled Deviance Anthropological Persp...

Magic and Why People Believe

that of Muiva Ndambuki, a Kenyan carpenter and father of eight, who believed an illness he suffered in 1994 was due to the jealous...

Snow White by the Brothers Grimm

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

Interdisciplinary Perspective on Foods That Are Genetically Engineered

Sunflower oil producers once again are in trouble, and no one knows what effect - if any - that genetically modified foods have on...

Tourism and Politics

on the surface. Things are of course different in various parts of the world. An example is that politically aware Torajans see ...

The Debate Surrounding Abortion as Revealed in Contested Lives

abortion conflict at the grass roots level is enlightening towards the understanding the national debate. According to Ginsburg,...

Functionalist Anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown

In five pages this research paper examines the functionalist anthropological perspectives of Radcliffe Brown and Malinowski in a c...

Healthy Marriage from a Psychological Perspective

In eighteen pages this paper examines the psychological components of managing conflict, finance management, making decisions, and...

Marriage from a Colonial Perspective

writes in Marriage to a Difficult Man: The Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards, "The Puritans loved robustly and gave mar...

American Family and Marriage from a Sociological Perspective

In five pages this paper examines the many changes to the US family and marriage from a sociological perspective. Four sources ar...

Perspective on Marriage/ Pro, Con Arguments

entertained an Indian couple at her home and the table conversation focused in the institution of marriage. Smita, the Indian wife...

Marriage, Separation, Divorce, etc., A Personal Perspective

This essay offers the personal perspective of the writer on marriage, separation, divorce and multigenerational families. Three pa...

Feminist Interpretations of Two Short Stories

It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...

"Indissoluble Matrimony" and "The Yellow Wallpaper"

in pay and in intimate relationships, is a fundamental part of feminist thinking; it is equality in personal relationships that wi...

Issues Through Liberal and Conservative Lenses

liberal origins, the conservative had developed their own distinctive view of Social Security, which can be summed up in a single ...

Different Points of View on the Gay Marriage Debate

by many as having originated in Greenwich Village New York in 1969 with the Stonewall Inn riots (Ahearn, 1996), is of course not a...

Critical Views of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...

Utilitarian Views on Homosexuality

Mills view of homosexuality and same sex marriage be? How would one construct an argument against the morality of homosexual sex ...

Rogerian Argument in Support of Gay Marriages

of marriage and those who are against same-sex marriages argue that this issue will only serve to erode the institution even furth...

Customs of Chinese Marriage Since 1949 Introduction of Communism

from welcoming" (Watson, 1991, p. 350). The traditional rural peasant view of daughters is still that they are "excess baggage." W...