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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Utah Mormons

In five pages this report discusses the Utah based Mormons in a consideration of their concepts, beliefs, and rituals along with a...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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,...

Food's Anthropological Symbolism

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

Transcultural Model of Nursing

the attitudes, behaviors, values, etc. that are accepted and not accepted. Culture is historical with all aspects of life being ta...

The Children of Sanchez Autobiography of a Mexican Family by Oscar Lewis from an Anthropological Perspective

cycle of poverty is at play which acts to entrap its unfortunate victims into a set of circumstances which is all but impossible t...

Technological Change: Anthropological, Sociological, and Psychological Perspectives

example, is bypassed in favor of a machine to human interface. While the teacher is still involved in the classroom, that involve...

Anthropological Perspectives on Marriage

a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...

Investigation of Cultural Differences I

American value. Neither do we want anyone else dictating what constitutes security for any one individual; how we will sell...

Business Mediation and American Culture

or weak uncertainty avoidance and 4. masculinity versus femininity (Wentworth and Chell, 1997 p. 285). While Hofstedes work ultima...

The Clock, a Cultural View

This essay pertains to a Vincente Minneli film from 1945, "The Clock," which starred his wife, Judy Garland. The writer discusses ...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Cultural Change

This classic novel is examined from a cultural perspective in a paper consisting of 5 pages that asserts the downfall of Okonkwo a...

Black American Perspectives on Death and Dying from a Religious View

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

Analysis of FedEx

authority and an important role for policies and rules. In complex organisations the power may need to be spread over the organisa...

Exposure To A Different Culture

towards culturally different practices. 2. The Event In order to understand the ritual it is important to understand a i...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

Applying the Concept of the Truth to Organizational Research

The writer looks at how the concept of the truth is perceived and the role of the truth in research. The concept of the truth is e...

Defining Civilization and Explaining Liberalism and Realism

The geographical aspect has been argued as one that is essential, as all civilizations may be located in a map (Braudel and Mayne,...

The Central Reasons for the Onset of the First World War

history who have sought to elevate themselves by conquering others, including not only Napoleon, but also Hitler, Genghis Khan, Iv...