Essays 31 - 60
it means "partiality of cultural and historical truths" (1986) because the whole truth cannot be known in anthropological studies ...
it relates to the divergent representations these two elements have throughout the world. Inasmuch as the typical global co...
the last stage, however, the individual fully incorporates into their new role in life. They take on the symbols and responsibili...
This 4 page paper gives a review of the films Disruption and Children Underground. This paper includes both the cultural language ...
"Day after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of t...
long for Nandas friend to marry her son. Nandas article points out mating customs and attitudes are culturally based. While Nanda...
a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...
into embarrassing intellectual difficulties. It becomes, most often, a term of art whose operational meaning is, We need a law aga...
(McGee et al, 2004). Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of meaning, the journey of understanding ha...
the development of the functionalist approach in social sciences. When developing his methodology he considered the flaws of the...
Dick Van der Elst and Paul Bohannon's introduction to cultural anthropology is analyzed and critiqued in a paper consisting of fiv...
readily be argued that the primary component in determining the various contributions rests almost completely upon mans brain size...
In five pages this paper discusses how culture and society can be better understood through studying social anthropology. Three s...
In five pages the ways in which anthropology is reflected in the philosophical works of Augustine and Plato are examined. Five so...
School for Social Research, and was influenced by Elsie Clews Parsons and Alexander Goldenweiser who sent her to study anthropolog...
"symbols," and their relationship to art and its abstract nature. Having established a basis for discussing symbolism, specific ...
were the focus of their analyses (Merriam "Definitions" 193). Furthermore, as Jaap Kunst pointed out in 1950 text, musicology "doe...
you prefer, raised) to the level of sheer appearances, where their meaning can be more powerfully articulated and more exactly per...
four seasons in which there is a planting, harvesting and barren time. MANDALAS AND GENERALIZATIONS ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION ...
In nine pages this paper examines U.S. Chinese American communities and their traditions in this discussion of cultural anthropolo...
In nine pages cultural anthropology is applied to the culture of the Japanese Americans in hopes of understanding their U.S. histo...
In six pages An Introduction to Hinduism by Gavin Flood and Hinduism The Anthropology of a Civilization by Madeleine Biardeau are...
This research report examines three studies in anthropology. The differences between ideas are highlighted. This four page paper h...
In seven pages this paper examines the reshaping of gender thought through feminist anthropology in an overview of theories by bel...
evolution gauntlet and run with it. Nevertheless, it goes without saying that there is a plethora of others who continue to espou...
In four term papers of three pages each musical topics such as music and brain function; anthropology and music; memory, learning ...
One of these pioneers was Claude Levi-Strauss, Strauss, an influential man within the fields of social studies, philosophy, relig...
Anthropology of the body and its many cultural constructs form the basis of this report consisting of eleven pages and includes so...
A 9 page paper that answers three questions about historical anthropology. Topics include evolution of social cultural change, col...
Sociology and anthropology both focus on human behavior and interactions. The two disciplines, however, are quite distinct. Anth...