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In six pages this paper contrasts and compares Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures and Marshall David Sahlins' Stone ...
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the globe, to armchair inquiry into such things as films, television and music of contemporary urban life. While anthropology may ...
- male or female? For the most part, Michel Foucault, in his thesis "Discipline and Punishment," seems to regard feminism ...
The writer describes the requirements for a career in anthropology as well as the outlook for employment. The writer argues that a...
humans from animals (McConnell, 1977). Total Social Fact as Suggested by...
to his readers, giving his ethnic origin, social class and gender. He might say something like: "As a white, middle class male, I ...
The idea as expressed by Kirsch (2002) for example is that the people are ignorant and do not have the power as do the large corpo...
way to talk about complexity when it is so poorly defined is to describe "the boundary between order and chaos - where complexity ...
In a paper consisting of seven pages Emile Durkheim's functionalism, Julian Steward's cultural anthropology, and Franz Boas's psyc...
This paper addresses the ways in which feminist anthropology can negate some of the traditional, male-dominated viewpoints in the ...
rooted in the behaviors of pre-historic man and has played a primary role in the evolution of human cognitive functions (Beeman). ...
This essay offers a critique of a 2003 article by Alessandro Duranti, which is entitled "Language as culture in U.S. anthropology:...
A 5 page essay exploring the ethnographic account by Catherine Dettwyler. Medical anthropology entials precise fieldwork, professi...
This 5 page essay contrasts these classic anthropological texts by Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard. Ethnographic style vary but ea...
figure to a neighborhood who respected his demeanor and longed for the genuine cultural heritage they found at Sals pizzeria. ...
This 4 page paper gives a review of the films Disruption and Children Underground. This paper includes both the cultural language ...
were Europeans. Hence, the plight of the American Indian is thoroughly ignored. Cultural relativism on the other hand looks at all...
his a "holistic" science, taking everything in context as humanity as a whole, rather than one that involves just a portion of som...
power that Scheper-Hughes and the people of Ballybran have in common, as well as how they share these kinds of power, it will be i...
seek to find out the opinions of a certain population. Relational studies are those in which questions are used to define r...
four seasons in which there is a planting, harvesting and barren time. MANDALAS AND GENERALIZATIONS ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION ...
variation of levels of acceptance of the book reflect its difficult subject matter. The Setting There have been volumes bot...
it means "partiality of cultural and historical truths" (1986) because the whole truth cannot be known in anthropological studies ...
to an invalid who is totally dependent on her parents for her care. The tragedy here, as is true in many respects in the cross-cu...
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...
"Day after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of t...
In seven pages this paper considers how cultural anthropology is influenced by religion and art with the argument presented that e...
In 7 pages, David M. Hayano's ethnography of New Guinea's tribal societies in The Road Through the Rain Forest: Living Anthropolog...