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Gender in Beowulf

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

Mission Work/Kenya's Digo Tribe

behooves any missionary traveling to Kenya to be aware of that countrys recent history and political climate. The CIA World Factbo...

Substance and Symbolism of the African Mask

reminiscent of African culture as a whole is to miss the point of the masks intent. There are a variety of masks and they are mean...

Ethical Research Issues and Ojibwa Tribal Life

questions that will be addressed in the scope of this study: * What are the social impacts of the Native American monopoly on cas...

Theoretical Approaches to Nationalism

involved in group Isaacs neo-Freudian approach postulates a link between the individual and the group that forms the basis for t...

Shintoism and the Lost Tribes of Israel

and their Roman conquers. This, again, led to another great scattering of the Jewish people (Jones, 1996). Although there has been...

Japanese Lost Tribes?

that appears to illustrate the story of Isaac, which is recorded in the book of Genesis in both Jewish and Christian scripture. Th...

History and Fate of the Great Basin's Anasazi

between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada ... The landscape is more than half empty" (Christensen, 2003). Technically, however, t...

Canadian Environmental Conservation and Aboriginal Involvement

from the mountain. Since that time FOCS have taken a variety of initiatives to try and inform the public as to the environmental i...

Degrading the Environment: Kung San

environment throughout the past decades is sure to spell grave disaster in the twenty-first century. "More and more problems need...

E.C. Deloria's Waterlily Analyzed

Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...

Religious Views of Hopi and Navajo Tribes

In seven pages this research paper examines the religious views of these tribes and the artistic impact as seen in the Hopi kachin...

Social Structure, Family Traditions, and the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Indians

In ten pages this research paper examines the Eastern Dakota's Sisseton Wahpeton tribe in terms of its political structure, social...

Analysis of 1976 Documentary The Kawelka Ongka's Big Moka

In two pages this documentary on the Papua, New Guinea tribe known as the Kawelka is discussed in terms of what an uncivilized cul...

Analysis of 1964 Dead Birds Documentary

In two pages this ethnographic documentary that focuses on Western New Guinea's primitive tribe known as Dani is examined in terms...

1994 Bloody Civil War in Rwanda

Twa, who make up about 1% of the population, are the only group actually indigenous to the area (McDonald PG). The Tutsis and the ...

Dogon Tribes, Birth Twins, and African Religious Symbolism

In six pages the significance of twins in African religion in terms of symbolism and ritual is discussed with the emphasis upon Do...

Ashantee and the Gold Coast by John Beecham

In ten pages John Beecham's 1841 anthropological study featuring West Africa's Ashantee tribe is examined in terms of 3 examples o...

Maleness and New Guinea's Sambia

that there is no role for women in this ritual is an evident statement about the distinct characteristics of the rituals supportin...

Tantrism and Tantric Tribes

In seven pages this research paper examines India's tantric tribes and considers tantrism's effects on Hinduism and Buddhism. Six...

E.E. Evans Pritchard and the Nuer African Tribal Group

In a paper consisting of seven pages, Pritchard's descriptions of the Southern Sudan tribe known as the Nuer in terms of kinship, ...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

A Tribe Apart by Patricia Hersch and Psychological Theory

In seven pages this research paper applies psychological theories on adolescent development in an analysis of the teens featured i...

Stone Age Subsistence v Contemporary Threats to the Amazon

The Nukuk-Maktu tribe of the Colombian Amazon is one of the last remaining hunter-gathering societies that still observe their tra...

The Gebusi: A Study in Conversion and Syncretism

had the benefit of being conducted over a broad expanse of time, with Knaufts first visit to the tribe occurring in 1981, followed...

The Influence of Music on Trahce in African Tradition Religions

The writer presents an examination of the role music plays in trance. The paper looks at both shamanic and possession trance, the ...

Kikuyu Indigenous Tribe of Kenya

In eight pages this paper discusses the people and characteristics of the Kikuyu, a group that comprises the largest tribe indigen...

Venezuela and the Pemon and Yamamao Indigenous Tribes

In seven pages the Venezuelan rain forest inhabitants the Pemon and Yamamao indigenous tribes are discussed in an examination of t...

Venezuela's Indigenous Cultures

In five pages this paper discusses the Pemon and Yamamao indigenous tribes that inhabit the rain forests of Venezuela in a conside...

Econ/Anthropology Questions

This paper pertains to various topics, such as hunting/gathering tribes, Marxism v. Capitalism and multi-national corporations in ...