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Hanny Lightfoot Klein's 'Prisoners of Ritual'

many areas so that they remain chained to the patriarchal influence. "The patriarchal system, which came into being when society ...

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner

imbedded in such actions, there cannot be any clearly right or clearly wrong standards; without question, any and all moral princi...

Cultural Importance of the Circumcision Ritual

and special friends are assigned honorary roles in the ritual. For instance, one honorary role is that of "Sandek." Julie describe...

Transmission and Ritual in Communication

In six pages this report considers differences between ritualistic communication evolution and ideas that are transmitted through ...

A Look at Cannibalism as a Ritual and as a Means of Survival

In this paper, the author explores cannibalism from a ritualistic perspective and then takes a look at those who must take part in...

Fracture Healing and the Impacts of Smoking and Alcoholism

(Shaheen, 1996, p. 94). In adults, the most common elbow injury is a radial head fracture, affecting also the surrounding ...

Ghana's Astante Group and Healing Practices

In eight pages the Asante of Ghana are examined in terms of their religious and medical practices with a comparison between those ...

Healing Damaged Emotions by David Seamands

This Christian counseling text by David Seamands is analyzed in an essay consisting of five pages. There are no other sources lis...

Healing for Damaged Emotions by David Seamands and Gary Collins

Perhaps the most important problem that exists between the disciplines is that many Christians contend that if one accepts Christ ...

Donald Kalsched and C.S. Jung on Archetypes and Healing Trauma

In eight pages this research paper examines these psychoanalysts' theories of archetypes and apply them to the prevention of addit...

Memory and Healing in Toni Morrison's Novel Beloved

understood the reasons or implications. "Days after it was taken out, goose fat was rubbed on the corners of the mouth but nothin...

The Tradition of African Healing

This 8 page paper examines the role of several different African healers: the diviner, the herbalist, and the traditional healer. ...

Common Health Problems and Healing Through Nutrition

In fifteen pages Dr. Wright's Book of Nutritional Therapy is discussed in terms of its premise, case studies, and the data it pres...

Art and Healing

increased after self-induced, positive emotional states, but that it almost tripled after the introduction of music. The use of mu...

Successful Healing Through Reflexology

In fourteen pages this paper examines reflexology or foot stimulation in terms of its positive aspects or benefits, success exampl...

Indian Culture and the River Sutra's Healing Powers

In four pages this Indian myth is revealed as being more fiction than based in fact. There are no other sources cited....

Healing Wounds and the Role of Nutrition

placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...

Forgiveness and Spiritual Healing

become physically ill and emotionally upset (Casarjian, 1992). Casarjian says that "[forgiveness] promises the release from the ho...

Medicine and Morality in Haiti The Contest for Healing Power by Paul Brodwin

and Morality in Haiti is the culmination of Brodwins year-and-a-half anthropological research into the southern portion of the reg...

Best Practice in Ensuring Infected Wound Healing

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

Preface to Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing by Steven Friedson

insists on separating "aesthetics, religion and medicine" into separate epistemological categories, is so engrained that it become...

Christianity and Whether or not Belief in God Has Become Less Important Than Belief in Jesus Christ

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

Thomas Jefferson: Aristocracy, Education, Elections And Government

enough of these will find their way into every branch of the legislation, to protect themselves...I think the best remedy is exact...

Relationship Between Baconian And Cartesian Philosophy During The Scientific Revolution

his theory of mind/body separation. His desire to achieve such an all-encompassing objective was meant to start at the beginning ...

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

innately have over their thought processes. Ellis has been an instrumental force behind the mental health community coming to rea...

Health Beliefs of African Americans

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

Article Analysis/Crazy Beliefs

example, one of his main analogies is to compare the irrationality of religious loyalty to the phenomenon of falling of love, whic...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

THE LEGALITY OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND MEDICAL CARE

beliefs by refraining from eating," the court didnt agree. The court held that even if the children were mature enough to exercise...

Puritan Beliefs and Their Impact on Society

2000, p. 40). This small number would of course have included those who believed as he did. Calvinism encouraged its adherents to ...