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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...

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...

Dancing Skeletons

A 5 page essay exploring the ethnographic account by Catherine Dettwyler. Medical anthropology entials precise fieldwork, professi...

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...

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...

Debate on Evolution vs. Cration

evolution gauntlet and run with it. Nevertheless, it goes without saying that there is a plethora of others who continue to espou...

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...

Hinduism and the Anthropological Method

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

Nonscientific Inquiry and Interpretive Anthropology

you prefer, raised) to the level of sheer appearances, where their meaning can be more powerfully articulated and more exactly per...

Anthropological Genre of Ethnology

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

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...

7 Anthropology Questions

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

Power and Society in Political Anthropology

it relates to the divergent representations these two elements have throughout the world. Inasmuch as the typical global co...

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...

Comparison of the Fieldwork Methodologies of Bronislaw Malinowski and Purnima Mankekar

the development of the functionalist approach in social sciences. When developing his methodology he considered the flaws of the...

Sociology

(Delaney, 2003). He originally sought to call his newly emerging field "social physics", a term that clearly reflected his belief...

Three Anthropology Questions

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

Social Anthropology and Its Evolution

and Boas in order to trace the development of anthropology throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. This paragraph helps the stude...

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 ...

Cultural Tolerance Determination and the Impact of Cultural Relativism

In five pages this paper considers whether or not cultural tolerance can be defended by cultural relativism. Five sources are cit...

Cultural and Cross Cultural Essays

are only half in existence any longer. There are rooms that are connected, and dwellings that apparently possessed entrances on th...

Nursing, Cultural Understanding, and the Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory of Madeleine Leininger

19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...

Marketing's Cross Cultural and Cultural Influences

include language barriers, socio-economic status, religious beliefs, or other forms of restrictions that neglect to include the im...

Delivering Culturally Competent Service in a Healthcare Environment

nursing services, look at what it is and consider the way in which a particular organization may be compliant with a general frame...

Questions on Business and Economics

Six answers are provided to questions asked by the student. The first question looks at three different models of culture; Hofste...

Nursing Questions

provide effective communication, the Band Aid song "Do They Know Its Christmas" a song which led to Live Aid was effective; this w...

Cultural Context And Interpretation Of Scripture

Christian but it was a Western culture. East Asians are from a complex culture, one that is based in Confucianism and then, Christ...

The Value of Diversity

be undertaken carefully and has additional costs as well as potential benefits. It appears that the concept of diversity managemen...