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High Modernism and Postmodern Art in the Works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf

"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...

Robert Venturi's Designs and Postmodern

In five pages this paper examines Robert Venturi's postmodernist designs. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Totalizing Theories Replaced by Postmodern Theories

that the world is undergoing a period of economic globalization and political fragmentation. If one accepts that as truth, one c...

Postmodern Research in Psychology

rather than something that is real (McNabb, 2010). Another premise in this paradigm is that there is no single best way to gain kn...

Political Power, Supernatural Rituals and Anthropology

in society provide numerous functions while at the same time explaining mans origins and how man relates with nature. Many of the ...

Anthropology, the Western Pacific Trobriander Islanders, Bronislaw Malinowski and Male Bias

male bias. The purpose of using Malinowskis work as an example of the male bias which permeates both historical and contemp...

Cultural Anthropology and the Theories of Clifford Geertz

In a paper consisting of 9 pages this paper examines cultural development in an overview of the theories of Clifford Geertz....

Views in Cultural Anthropology

is accomplished via a cycle of war, ritual slaughter of pigs and subsequent regrowth of the pig population. This cycle typically t...

Review of Martha C. Ward's Nest in the Wind Adventures in Anthropology on a Tropical Island

their diverse food choices, ranging from kava to dog to quarter-ton yams which they grow themselves, to their incredibly diverse r...

Anthropology and Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios

as treasurer. With two other Spaniards and an Arab Moor, he was the only survivor who remained on the mainland," thus setting the ...

An Ecological Perspective of Medical Anthropology

This paper examines the arguments presented in this book by Ann McElroy and Patricia Townsend. This three page paper has no addit...

Econ/Anthropology Questions

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

Anthropology and Leisure

In five pages this paper takes an anthropological view of leisure within the context of Phillip R. DeVita and James D'Armstrong's ...

Application of Economic Anthropology

In six pages patterns of subsistence that existed among the European colonists and the Native Americans are subjected to an econom...

An Overview and look info Forensic Anthropology

those a conventional forensic examination could determine. At the time anthropologists were somewhat reluctant to become involved...

W.T. Stace's Ethical Relativism and Ruth Benedict's Anthropology and the Abnormal Critically Analyzed

In nine and a half pages the major points of each work is analyzed in terms of relevant points and then based on these findings a ...

Politics, Organizational Culture, and Anthropology

In ten pages this paper consider organizational culture and politics from an anthropological point of view. Ten sources are liste...

Materialism, Idealism, Materialistic and Symbolic Anthropology

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures and Marshall David Sahlins' Stone ...

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...

A Consideration of Two Studies in Anthropology

so harsh and most of the children died. Glittenberg describes how she subsequently returned to Guatemala after that initial visit...

Dennis Werner and Jody Glittenberg on Anthropology

the oppression, the terror and the overwhelming sense of helplessness which sometimes overtook them. Dennis Werners "Amaz...

Anthropology and Social Justice Convergence

involved has been the object of old prohibitions against effecting no changes within study populations. The very presence of rese...

Answering Questions on Cultural Anthropology

within that society, it is not something that integrates itself into the culture of the people. Many people must engage in the sa...

Artifact Dating Techniques and Anthropology

serious question. Therefore, the tephra was assessed to be a reliable marker for further testing of the New Zealand coast, althou...

Gregory Bateson: Anthropology and Cybernetics

he began working for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA (Gregory Bateson). He served in India, Burm...

Terms from Anthropology

together by shared traits, such as language, beliefs, religion or customs; also frequently they are bound by actual geographical b...

Anthropology on Mars by Oliver Sacks

so rare as to be almost unknown to science-they might as well be on Mars. Sacks methods of investigation appear to consist largel...

Culture Study and Anthropology

competitive, and prone to violence with high rates of homicide, assault and rape (1983). According to Freeman (1983), Meads conc...

Anthropology: Love

Through love, all these opposites were overturned. In acts of love, the humble became proud, the servant became master, the renoun...

Anthropology of Rock Music

The Science Daily reports that songs with violent lyrics increase aggression ("Violent Music Lyrics," 2003). A study conducted by ...