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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...

Narrative Evolution

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

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...

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...

Dancing Skeletons

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

Argonauts of the Western Pacific and The Nuer

This 5 page essay contrasts these classic anthropological texts by Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard. Ethnographic style vary but ea...

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...

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...

Hinduism and the Anthropological Method

it means "partiality of cultural and historical truths" (1986) because the whole truth cannot be known in anthropological studies ...

Topics on Music

In four term papers of three pages each musical topics such as music and brain function; anthropology and music; memory, learning ...

Anthropology and Linguistics

One of these pioneers was Claude Levi-Strauss, Strauss, an influential man within the fields of social studies, philosophy, relig...

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:...

Analysis of Merriam's Preface

were the focus of their analyses (Merriam "Definitions" 193). Furthermore, as Jaap Kunst pointed out in 1950 text, musicology "doe...

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 ...

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...

Anthropology and Nursing

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

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 ...

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...

Sociology

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

Three Anthropology Questions

(McGee et al, 2004). Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of meaning, the journey of understanding ha...

Marketing's Cross Cultural and Cultural Influences

include language barriers, socio-economic status, religious beliefs, or other forms of restrictions that neglect to include the im...

Nursing, Cultural Understanding, and the Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory of Madeleine Leininger

19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...

Cultural and Cross Cultural Essays

are only half in existence any longer. There are rooms that are connected, and dwellings that apparently possessed entrances on th...

Cultural Tolerance Determination and the Impact of Cultural Relativism

In five pages this paper considers whether or not cultural tolerance can be defended by cultural relativism. Five sources are cit...

Delivering Culturally Competent Service in a Healthcare Environment

nursing services, look at what it is and consider the way in which a particular organization may be compliant with a general frame...

Questions on Business and Economics

Six answers are provided to questions asked by the student. The first question looks at three different models of culture; Hofste...

Tasks for a Citizenship Course

the main source of conflict in the future will be cultural. The idea is based on the concept that in the future the main clashes w...

American Society

In a paper of three pages, the author considers the nature of the American society in relation to cultural diversity. Though the ...

Student Supplied M6 Case Study

from another". It is with this difference we can look to how culture may be important when it comes to communication, as it is the...