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Anthropologists' Views on Museums

In five pages this paper examines the controversy surrounding museums from both sides in a contention that they are misrepresent e...

Cultural Concepts from an Anthropological Perspective

a unclouded awareness of that specific anthropologists viewpoint and his or her own cultural indoctrination. The Last of the Yahi ...

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

A Review of The Clerk's Tale and Traffic in Women

A 10 page exploration of the 1975 contentions of anthropologist Gayle Rubin. Her article, The Traffic in Women Notes on the Poli...

Should Cultural Artifacts be Returned to Their Countries of Origin?

1. "claims concerning the restitution of cultural properties to their ocuntries of origin" 2. "restriction of imports and...

The Field Museum, Evolving Planet Exhibit

Chicago features a fascinating exhibit, which is titled "Evolving Planet." The focus of the exhibit is on the progression of evolu...

Painter Lee Krasner

works than the colossal The Eye is the First Circle (about 93" x 191" or about eight by sixteen feet), for example. Here her art...

Ethnography in Call to Home by Carol Stack

An anthropologist's examination of the rural Southen blacks that relocated to the North and are now returning are examined in five...

Gender Parity in Daughters of the Dreaming by Diane Bell

In five pages this American anthropologist's controversial text is explored in a contention that the importance of aboriginal wome...

The Embedded Anthropologist Controversy: Why it is Ethical to Send Anthropologists to the War Zones

The other ethical dilemma goes to danger. These scientists are asked to put their lives in danger by working in these areas. This ...

Marital and Sexual Options

In seven pages this paper discusses how women globally are electing to escape from the traditional marriage construct in a conside...

Fairytales and Gender Roles

In five pages classic fairytales are examined in terms of their portrayal of conventional gender roles with the views of anthropol...

Impressive Online Science Museums

Inside the DNA pages, the screens are interactive. You can probe the DNA sequence to find matches, and while youre doing that you ...

Ritual and Museums

which is that the exhibits are intended to facilitate the "growth" and "learning" of the visitors (Virtual tour, 2004). The first...

Women's History Museum Design

rotunda. I would have a similar architectural style for my museum, since my point is to awe the visitor with the importance of my ...

Daniel Libeskind's Architectural Works The Dramatic and Theatrical Aspects of Daniel Libeskind's Work

The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...

Overview of the Kimball Museum

serve to offer a very strong visual foundation for the rounded linear shapes of the building. There are also powerful pieces of ar...

Transformations of Hagia Sophia

second fire, it was reconstructed yet again by Justinian I (Justinian the Great) during the sixth century. Due in large part to J...

Virtual Art Museum Tour: African Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

the author also, properly, offers the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the visitor to this site can go directly t...

MoMA Exhibits

space" spread over several buildings (About MoMA - Museum history, 2007). One of these, the "Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Educatio...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century History, Europe, and the Norton Simon Museum

In many ways we see, in the painting in the Norton Simon Museum, how there are timeless subjects in the world of painting. For exa...

Art and Public Funding Controversy

("Art on Trial," 2006). The Court would also issue the injunction as it believed that, after the case would be fully litigated, it...

Brickwork of Pennsylvania's Palmer Museum of Art

frontelevation2, one can see the powerful structural design of the building. There are strong high archways that are within a pitc...

National Museum of African Art

this series, while painted in the late nineteenth century, looks very much as if it were from the Byzantine era. The site gives th...

Rebranding a Museum

and special displays. The MMAH permanent collection includes a wide variety of works representing many cultures and eras. Among th...

European Painters' Display Viewed on a Trip to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art I

fit the mold of others who painted during the Baroque period. Historically, Toledo was a center of inquisition activity and int...

Mona Lisa Viewing Experience

world that actually extend beyond a recognition of the genius of the painter. The symmetry, color, rhythm, and other components of...

A British Museums' Survey

because of their simple aesthetics. As mentioned, there was possible religious interest, and we also have the reality wherein thes...

Denver Art Museum's Lakota Man's Necklace

In five pages this paper analyzes this 1920s' art piece in a consideration of composition including repetition, symmetry, and colo...

Perspectives on Human Nature

the pagan world, sex was considered a divine gift and it carried none of the sense of sin and punishment that became associated wi...