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Muslim Women - Oppressed

injustice" (Cudd, 2006, p. 23). This means that oppression is perpetuated through some sort of social institution or through the p...

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...

The Role of the Medical Anthropologist in Controlling Malaria in Namibia

lack of proper water treatment and drainage systems, all of which contribute to its spread. In Africa in general, where m...

Margaret Mead's Contribution to Ethnographic Film

to capturing reality, and artistic flair was considered, but they were not privy to the aesthetic possibilities that exist today. ...

Traditional Hunting and Its Relevance to Eskimo Societies

and fictitious" (Dahl 25). For one thing, hunting economics in Greenland are usually household oriented, rather than oriented tow...

Karen B. Strier's 'Primate Behavioral Ecology From Ethnography to Ethology and Back'

clarifies that her article picks up on "primatologys relationship to anthropology from 1981 onward". Striers goal is to s...

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...

The Case of Dr. Carl Bennett

would cause him to keep a distance from other children, such as twitching behavior, bands on his teeth, and glasses (Sacks 85). Fr...

Gender Roles and a Culture of Peace

Margaret Mead and Elise Boulding share very similar theoretical positions. This is true despite the fact that they worked in diff...

The Bone Woman by Clea Koff

governments to prosecute mass murderers for their crimes. The expose writing: This term usually refers to someone who is knowledg...

Ishi, the Last of his Tribe

This paper pertains to Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe, who journeyed out of the wild where he had lived alone for 35 year...

Talk as Social Organization and the Research of Anthropologist Marjorie H. Goodwin

In five pages this research paper focuses upon African American children's language within the context of the book He Said, She Sa...

An Overview and look info Forensic Anthropology

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

Anthropology and Lack of Feminism

- male or female? For the most part, Michel Foucault, in his thesis "Discipline and Punishment," seems to regard feminism ...

Biographical Profile of Margaret Mead

In six pages the life and work of anthropologist Margaret Mead are examined in terms of the controversies regarding her Samoa rese...

2 Works by Anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz

In twelve pages this research paper compares the works Sweetness and Power and Worker in the Cane in terms of what they reveal abo...

Myths and Their Style of Narrative

The Odyssey, contain a series of events which are common to myths of all cultures, phases or events that the hero or heroine of th...

Dr. Wade Davis and His Influences

remedies and the botanical pharmaceuticals of the Haitian peoples. Dr. Daviss early experiences, pre-Harvard, may have also influ...

Intelligence According To Machiavelli

these theories are placed in, they are all based on the "proposition that the advanced cognitive processes of primates are primari...

Constructing Social Behavior

that humans must be seen as social beings, namely beings which live together with others and form various social groups. Human beh...

Female Circumcision and Practice Elimination by Anthropologists

gender is not readily acknowledged within the stifling boundaries of a patriarchal society. As a direct result of societal dictat...

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...

Women and Men, Language, and Difference Implications

be easier to deal with if work was the only place where one ran into this problem, but too often, it occurs at home. Many husband...

Anthropologist Barbara Gallatin Anderson's Around The World In Thirty Years

In a paper consisting of five pages a tutorial on how to critique Anderson's books about her travels and the cultures and people s...

Male and Female by Anthropologist Margaret Mead

In five pages this paper discusses how family structure and gender are presented in this 1949 text with the differences based upon...

Anthropologist Margaret Mead

genders exhibited traits that are supposedly masculine, that is, they were "individualistic, assertive, volatile, (and) aggressive...

Oliver Sacks—An Anthropologist on Mars

totally impossible for a normally sighted person. When offered the chance to possibly have his color vision restored, he turned it...

Religious Plurality Views

through Me" (Vlach, 2007). However, Judaism and Islam are also exclusive religions (Vlach, 2007). They may admit or acknowledge th...

Public Administration: Discretionist vs Instrumentalist

fact, contended that: "even under the best arrangements a considerable margin of irresponsible conduct of...

Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...