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Terms from Anthropology

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

Culture Study and Anthropology

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

Boas and His Successor Levi-Strauss

its not possible to summarize them, but it seems that the consensus is that his work was principally in "kinship, myth, and a form...

Transcultural Model of Nursing

the attitudes, behaviors, values, etc. that are accepted and not accepted. Culture is historical with all aspects of life being ta...

Assimilation Barriers

into his own. Although racism persists today, it is nowhere near the problem it was during the 1960s and 1970s of which Aschenbren...

Dennis Werner's Amazon Journey and Jody Glittenberg's To The Mountain and Back and Anthropological Bias

Mekranoti Indians rather than the Cakchiquel Mayan as did Glittenbergs work. While each of these researchers immerse themse...

Anthropological Interviewing/Religion

of Bohemia and Moravia, which are now part of the Czech Republic (Our History). One aspect of Moravian life that Sara related ha...

Laura C. Hammond's This Place Will Become Home

set about "transforming an unknown and anonymous space first into a personalized space and finally into a home" (Hammond 3). Acco...

Anthropological Concepts Application

was connected by a road to the outside world. Throughout his text, Reck offers insight into the socio-political world of Celisti...

Colonial and Post Colonial History of Bali

series of wars toward the northern section of the island. The first two Dutch attacks, one in 1846 and another in 1848, were repul...

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 ...

No Shame in My Game by Katherine S. Newman

are also seeing to gain protection from the pressures of the street and, often, to escape trouble at home and in their neighborhoo...

Dennis Werner and Jody Glittenberg on Anthropology

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

America from a Multicultural Perspective

backgrounds in an environment where there were no hard and fast rules as to how these people should interrelate. While the coloni...

Race and Society

This paper explores the issue from an anthropological perspective. There are five sources listed in the bibliography of this four ...

Our Kind Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where Are We Going by Marvin Harris

interpretations. It is important for the one to understand that there exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives,...

Paleoanthropology's First Family the Leakeys

In five pages a family history of the Leakeys and their anthropological contributions and findings are examined. Five sources are...

Contemporary Bushmen

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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)....

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...

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...

Colonialism's Effect on Anthropology

"Day after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of t...

Chinese Marriage Pattersn Represented in Literature

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

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...