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Terms from Anthropology

together by shared traits, such as language, beliefs, religion or customs; also frequently they are bound by actual geographical b...

Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead

the orators, spokesmen and ambassadors of chiefs (Mead 29). In the formal village assembly, each "matai" has his place and repres...

The Tausug by Thomas M. Kiefer

In five pages this research paper discusses the anthropological study of the Philippines' Tausug people as conducted by Thomas M. ...

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...

Materialism, Idealism, Materialistic and Symbolic Anthropology

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures and Marshall David Sahlins' Stone ...

Assimilation Barriers

into his own. Although racism persists today, it is nowhere near the problem it was during the 1960s and 1970s of which Aschenbren...

Colonialism's Effect on Anthropology

"Day after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of t...

Application of Economic Anthropology

In six pages patterns of subsistence that existed among the European colonists and the Native Americans are subjected to an econom...

An Overview Education Concepts

Five educational concepts were explained with comments about how they would impact the student and the instructor. The concepts ar...

The Change in the Views of Stakeholders

Public relations must be concerned about the perceptions of the key stakeholders, the groups and individuals whose behaviors can h...

A Learning Activity and 3 Theoretical Applications

warm-blooded mammals that bear life young and most are insect-eaters (Krantz and Barrow, 2003). Considering the many misconception...

Traditionalism - Changes from the Early 1900s to Today

of the anti-democratic forces in post-Soviet Russia and by the end of the 20th century, traditionalism had entered the debate in t...

Clinical Supervision of Nurses in the NHS; Professional, Legal and Ethical Perspectives

nursing supervision is to provide support for nurse practitioner in a range of issues, developing their own identity as well as sk...

Performance Management through Clinical Supervision of Nurses in the NHS; Professional, Legal and Ethical Perspectives

Furthermore they state that is a strategic approach which relates to all aspects of an organization within the context the culture...

Different Perspectives on the Prison System

prisoners when they went into the courtroom resulting in the death of the judge, the main perpetrator and others (CACC Newsletter,...

Issue of Human Rights

a starting point. This was then built on by philosophers such as Kat, and the culture has changed so that these are perceived as a...

Military Courts and Justice

people do not commit more crime but rather they are perhaps caught more often when they do. In other words, a white man is less li...

Perspective and Points of View Creative Essay

Colette and sing happy songs about flowers and birds. (point one) But, of course, flower songs are not for grown ups. Now, the so...

Analyzing On the Use and Abuse of History for Life by Friedrich Nietzsche

for Life," commenting that ...we must seriously despise instruction without vitality, knowledge which enervates activity, and his...

Power and Leadership

In five pages this paper discusses power and leadership concepts according to the perspectives of Niccolo Machiavelli. Three sour...

Great Britain and Achievement in Education

size, parents generally have managed only to replace themselves with their offspring. On a timeline that includes all of human hi...

Profit and Corporate Social Responsibility

local community and society at large". Within this there may be the extension of the concept to the approaches such as environmen...

Divisions Between Human Epistemology and Divine Epistemology

God that is insufficiently explained by philosophy is referred to as "knowing" (Christian Gospel and Our Culture, 2004). "Knowing...

Human and What Humanness Means

is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...

Character Analysis of Philip in Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

to others had amused him, but it was disheartening when used against himself" (Forster, chapter 5). We are constantly remi...

'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' by Ursula LeGuin

know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...

Death in Jorge Manrique's 'Coplas'

different than the perspectives of the world at the time. Near the beginning of Manriques poem he states, "Let none be self-delud...

Gasoline Prices Change and a Reflection of Supply and Demand

way prices are expected to change, the AAA, which has been taking weekly surveys of prices from 2,8000 gas station in the state ha...

Marx's Capitalism Concepts and Plato's Dialogues on Democracy

In five pages this paper compares Plato's perspectives on democracy with Marx's concepts of capitalism. There are 4 other sources...

Faith's Concept Defined

In seven pages this paper defines the faith concept from global and healing perspectives. There are 5 sources cited in the biblio...