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Narrative Evolution

In seven pages the evolution of narrative are examined in a consideration of Scarlet and Black, Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, He...

Native Tribes of South America

on the average, 2.5 times as many wives and three times as many children as those who have not. (Chagnoy, 1993). "These num...

Art, Religion, and Cultural Anthropology

In seven pages this paper considers how cultural anthropology is influenced by religion and art with the argument presented that e...

Homosexual Observations and Social Anthropology

In three pages this paper discusses social anthropology from a homosexual context in a consideration of the New York Greenwich Vil...

The New Guinea Highland 'Economics'

In 7 pages, David M. Hayano's ethnography of New Guinea's tribal societies in The Road Through the Rain Forest: Living Anthropolog...

An Overview of Forensic Anthropology

This paper discusses the field of forensic anthropology. The author addresses occupational requirements, investigations, cooperat...

Qualitative, Quantitative, Interpretive Research Methodology

Sociology and anthropology both focus on human behavior and interactions. The two disciplines, however, are quite distinct. Anth...

Analysis of Merriam's Preface

were the focus of their analyses (Merriam "Definitions" 193). Furthermore, as Jaap Kunst pointed out in 1950 text, musicology "doe...

Music as Symbolic Behavior/Alan P. Merriam

"symbols," and their relationship to art and its abstract nature. Having established a basis for discussing symbolism, specific ...

Three Anthropology Questions

(McGee et al, 2004). Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of meaning, the journey of understanding ha...

Three Anthropology Texts Compared and Contrasted

This research report examines three studies in anthropology. The differences between ideas are highlighted. This four page paper h...

7 Anthropology Questions

the last stage, however, the individual fully incorporates into their new role in life. They take on the symbols and responsibili...

Ruth Benedict's Anthropological Contributions

School for Social Research, and was influenced by Elsie Clews Parsons and Alexander Goldenweiser who sent her to study anthropolog...

Cultural Understanding and Social Anthropology

In five pages this paper discusses how culture and society can be better understood through studying social anthropology. Three s...

Augustine, Plato, and Anthropology

In five pages the ways in which anthropology is reflected in the philosophical works of Augustine and Plato are examined. Five so...

Disruption and Children Underground: Film Reviews

This 4 page paper gives a review of the films Disruption and Children Underground. This paper includes both the cultural language ...

Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in a Consideration of Whether or Not Cultural Anthropology is a Science

to an invalid who is totally dependent on her parents for her care. The tragedy here, as is true in many respects in the cross-cu...

Hinduism and the Anthropological Method

it means "partiality of cultural and historical truths" (1986) because the whole truth cannot be known in anthropological studies ...

Cultural Anthropology and Alzheimer's Disease

readily be argued that the primary component in determining the various contributions rests almost completely upon mans brain size...

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean by Freeman Reviewed

variation of levels of acceptance of the book reflect its difficult subject matter. The Setting There have been volumes bot...

The Body and Anthropology

Anthropology of the body and its many cultural constructs form the basis of this report consisting of eleven pages and includes so...

Anthropology and Social Justice

into embarrassing intellectual difficulties. It becomes, most often, a term of art whose operational meaning is, We need a law aga...

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...

Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism

were Europeans. Hence, the plight of the American Indian is thoroughly ignored. Cultural relativism on the other hand looks at all...

A Cultural Anthropology Overview

his a "holistic" science, taking everything in context as humanity as a whole, rather than one that involves just a portion of som...

Anthropological Genre of Ethnology

four seasons in which there is a planting, harvesting and barren time. MANDALAS AND GENERALIZATIONS ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION ...

Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork and Methods

seek to find out the opinions of a certain population. Relational studies are those in which questions are used to define r...

Anthropology and Cultural Understanding According to Nancy Scheper Hughes and Renato Rosaldo

power that Scheper-Hughes and the people of Ballybran have in common, as well as how they share these kinds of power, it will be i...

Topics on Music

In four term papers of three pages each musical topics such as music and brain function; anthropology and music; memory, learning ...

Anthropology and Linguistics

One of these pioneers was Claude Levi-Strauss, Strauss, an influential man within the fields of social studies, philosophy, relig...