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Examples of Post-Colonial Strife In Literature

the British rule has officially ceased. And so, through his personal experiences, the character of Camagu mirrors the turbulence ...

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...

A Review of the Edward Boykin Book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

Theme of Incest in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

1949. The first soliloquy provides ample opportunity to witness the impact this has upon Hamlet, inasmuch as he simply cannot com...

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...

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...

Haunted Connecticut or Maybe Not

the towns is a place called Bara-Hack, in Usa county (Dagostino). What remains at the site today are "Cellar holes, foundations, w...

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...

Tennessee Folklore: The Ghost Lights of Chapel Hill

his lantern, as he searches for his lost head" (Brown). In addition to the lights, some people have reported UFOs in the sky; oth...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Introduction The work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez is referred to as magical realism for there are elements within his stories that ...

Culture Study and Anthropology

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

Terms from Anthropology

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

Food's Anthropological Symbolism

and societies (Counihan, 1997). This is evidenced in both food habits and human behaviors (Counihan, 1997). More specifi...

Two Ghost Stories, Dickens and Bronte

attitudes that he has embraced have robbed his life of meaning and value. The ghosts remind him of his past and the choices that h...

Family Stories

similarity to the fascinating stories that are in both N. Scott Momadays House Made of Dawn and Anna Linzers Ghost Dancing as the ...

The Ghost Map

Johnson described the people who lived within the city as a group of somewhat organized scavengers. "The scavengers...lived in a ...

Melville's "Le Samourai" - A Portrait of Existential Values

single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...

Race and Society

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

Myth in Homer's Iliad

This essay utilizes a feministic approach and an anthropological approach to interpretation of Homer's Iliad. Eight pages in lengt...

Ethnographic Literature Issues

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at "Getting Ghost" by Luke Bergman. Problems associated with ethnographic literature ar...

Art and Music A Reflection of and an Impact to American Culture

This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...

First World War Trilogy by Pat Barker

In ten pages the First World War trilogy Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road by Pat Barker are discussed. Seven...

Sigmund Freud's 'The Uncanny' and Fiction's Messages

In eight pages this paper examines the messages that exist within horror or ghost stories. Eleven sources are cited in the biblio...

Chinese Marriage Pattersn Represented in Literature

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

Act II Scene ii of Hamlet Within the Play's Overall Context

In six pages the response of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern to Claudius and Gertrude, the response of Claudius to 'The Murder of Gon...

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 ...

Sitting Bull's Life from Dakota to Wounded Knee

In five pages this paper discusses the life and death of Sitting Bull which include such topics as his Little Big Horn battle invo...

Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, Toni Morrison's Beloved and Ghosts

Set just after the civil war Sethe is a runaway slave who had once killed her infant daughter so that she would not grow up in the...

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 ...