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No Aging in India by Lawrence Cohen

practices organized and known as Alzheimers disease" (5). Therefore, it includes his own background in Canada and the United State...

Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris

So, if our stone age ancestors did not give up their hunter-gather lifestyle and invent agriculture in order to improve their life...

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...

The Debate Surrounding Abortion as Revealed in Contested Lives

abortion conflict at the grass roots level is enlightening towards the understanding the national debate. According to Ginsburg,...

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...

Racism Case Study Analysis

not understand. That was television, but it was not fiction. Still, in looking at less prominent individuals, a student may want ...

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...

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 ...

Chinese Marriage Pattersn Represented in Literature

In eleven pages this paper analyzes ten anthropological articles featuring research focusing upon marriage patterns in China. Ten...

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...

Cultural Concepts from an Anthropological Perspective

a unclouded awareness of that specific anthropologists viewpoint and his or her own cultural indoctrination. The Last of the Yahi ...

Utah Mormons

In five pages this report discusses the Utah based Mormons in a consideration of their concepts, beliefs, and rituals along with a...

Canadian Aboriginal Culture and Family Relationship Changes

In a paper consisting of seven pages sibling relationship changes in Canada's Native American cultures are examined through the us...

Our Hearts Fell to the Ground by Colin Calloway

In ten pages this research paper concentrates on Colin Calloway's anthropological study that forms the basis for his test Our Hear...

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...

State v. Nonstate Societies and Conflict Resolution

In seven pages the nation state is traced back to is anthropological roots and how social conflict is dealt with by nonstates and ...

Anthropological Analysis of the 1992 Movie City of Joy

In five pages gender roles, subculture, cultural change, and ethnocentrism concepts are considered in this anthropological analysi...

Victorian Anthropological Theories Reproduced by the Apartheid of South Africa

formula which would ensure the future of the white minority into the next century (South Africas Apartheid Era and the Transition ...

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...

Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead

the orators, spokesmen and ambassadors of chiefs (Mead 29). In the formal village assembly, each "matai" has his place and repres...

The Children of Sanchez Autobiography of a Mexican Family by Oscar Lewis from an Anthropological Perspective

cycle of poverty is at play which acts to entrap its unfortunate victims into a set of circumstances which is all but impossible t...

Snow White by the Brothers Grimm

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

Tourism and Politics

on the surface. Things are of course different in various parts of the world. An example is that politically aware Torajans see ...

Rosaldo and Scheper Hughes Anthropological Study Approaches and Limitations

rational-choice theory while studying the Ilongot head hunting beliefs and their change to Christianity (Rosaldo, 1980, 1989). To ...

Interdisciplinary Perspective on Foods That Are Genetically Engineered

Sunflower oil producers once again are in trouble, and no one knows what effect - if any - that genetically modified foods have on...

Anthropological Studies of Monica Moore and Jane Goodall

In five pages this paper examines the importance of observation in ethnography in a comparison of Monica Moore's Nonverbal Courtsh...

Comparing the United States and France

realms. Paris was home to the multitude of nineteenth century artists who changed fine art forever, and New York is still home to ...

Contemporary Bushmen

Bushmen. Deeming them "untamable" and a threat to livestock, settlers treated the Bushmen as vermin, killing them in great numbers...

Sir Walter Raleigh's Guiana Text

In sixteen pages this paper evaluates this 1596 text by Sir Walter Raleigh in order to determine if it is simply a collection of m...

A Look at Cannibal Culture

In this paper, the author explores anthropological perspectives on the way cultures have evolved in terms of how they view canniba...