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Music as Symbolic Behavior/Alan P. Merriam

"symbols," and their relationship to art and its abstract nature. Having established a basis for discussing symbolism, specific ...

Article Critique, Duranti

This essay offers a critique of a 2003 article by Alessandro Duranti, which is entitled "Language as culture in U.S. anthropology:...

Disruption and Children Underground: Film Reviews

This 4 page paper gives a review of the films Disruption and Children Underground. This paper includes both the cultural language ...

Historical Anthropology Questions

A 9 page paper that answers three questions about historical anthropology. Topics include evolution of social cultural change, col...

Personal Account/Male Growing Up in Vancouver

to his readers, giving his ethnic origin, social class and gender. He might say something like: "As a white, middle class male, I ...

Sociology

(Delaney, 2003). He originally sought to call his newly emerging field "social physics", a term that clearly reflected his belief...

Comparison of the Fieldwork Methodologies of Bronislaw Malinowski and Purnima Mankekar

the development of the functionalist approach in social sciences. When developing his methodology he considered the flaws of the...

Anthropology and Nursing

There are numerous nursing scholars who utilizing ethnographic techniques in their research; university courses that address both ...

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...

Questions on Readings

long for Nandas friend to marry her son. Nandas article points out mating customs and attitudes are culturally based. While Nanda...

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean by Freeman Reviewed

variation of levels of acceptance of the book reflect its difficult subject matter. The Setting There have been volumes bot...

A Cultural Anthropology Overview

his a "holistic" science, taking everything in context as humanity as a whole, rather than one that involves just a portion of som...

Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism

were Europeans. Hence, the plight of the American Indian is thoroughly ignored. Cultural relativism on the other hand looks at all...

Anthropology and Cultural Understanding According to Nancy Scheper Hughes and Renato Rosaldo

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...

Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork and Methods

seek to find out the opinions of a certain population. Relational studies are those in which questions are used to define r...

Debate on Evolution vs. Cration

evolution gauntlet and run with it. Nevertheless, it goes without saying that there is a plethora of others who continue to espou...

The Body and Anthropology

Anthropology of the body and its many cultural constructs form the basis of this report consisting of eleven pages and includes so...

Ruth Benedict's Anthropological Contributions

School for Social Research, and was influenced by Elsie Clews Parsons and Alexander Goldenweiser who sent her to study anthropolog...

Cultural Understanding and Social Anthropology

In five pages this paper discusses how culture and society can be better understood through studying social anthropology. Three s...

Augustine, Plato, and Anthropology

In five pages the ways in which anthropology is reflected in the philosophical works of Augustine and Plato are examined. Five so...

Cultural Anthropology and Alzheimer's Disease

readily be argued that the primary component in determining the various contributions rests almost completely upon mans brain size...

Dancing Skeletons

A 5 page essay exploring the ethnographic account by Catherine Dettwyler. Medical anthropology entials precise fieldwork, professi...

Narrative Evolution

In seven pages the evolution of narrative are examined in a consideration of Scarlet and Black, Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, He...

An Overview of Forensic Anthropology

This paper discusses the field of forensic anthropology. The author addresses occupational requirements, investigations, cooperat...

Cultural Anthropology Observations

figure to a neighborhood who respected his demeanor and longed for the genuine cultural heritage they found at Sals pizzeria. ...

Art, Religion, and Cultural Anthropology

In seven pages this paper considers how cultural anthropology is influenced by religion and art with the argument presented that e...

The New Guinea Highland 'Economics'

In 7 pages, David M. Hayano's ethnography of New Guinea's tribal societies in The Road Through the Rain Forest: Living Anthropolog...

Homosexual Observations and Social Anthropology

In three pages this paper discusses social anthropology from a homosexual context in a consideration of the New York Greenwich Vil...

Native Tribes of South America

on the average, 2.5 times as many wives and three times as many children as those who have not. (Chagnoy, 1993). "These num...

2 Perspectives on Hinduism

In six pages An Introduction to Hinduism by Gavin Flood and Hinduism The Anthropology of a Civilization by Madeleine Biardeau are...