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series of wars toward the northern section of the island. The first two Dutch attacks, one in 1846 and another in 1848, were repul...
In eleven pages this paper analyzes ten anthropological articles featuring research focusing upon marriage patterns in China. Ten...
In five pages this paper examines the importance of observation in ethnography in a comparison of Monica Moore's Nonverbal Courtsh...
realms. Paris was home to the multitude of nineteenth century artists who changed fine art forever, and New York is still home to ...
In sixteen pages this paper evaluates this 1596 text by Sir Walter Raleigh in order to determine if it is simply a collection of m...
Bushmen. Deeming them "untamable" and a threat to livestock, settlers treated the Bushmen as vermin, killing them in great numbers...
on the surface. Things are of course different in various parts of the world. An example is that politically aware Torajans see ...
are also seeing to gain protection from the pressures of the street and, often, to escape trouble at home and in their neighborhoo...
of these devices include reading machines made for the blind, speech-recognition devices, as well as computer programs that detect...
the oppression, the terror and the overwhelming sense of helplessness which sometimes overtook them. Dennis Werners "Amaz...
backgrounds in an environment where there were no hard and fast rules as to how these people should interrelate. While the coloni...
in society provide numerous functions while at the same time explaining mans origins and how man relates with nature. Many of the ...
it means "partiality of cultural and historical truths" (1986) because the whole truth cannot be known in anthropological studies ...
was connected by a road to the outside world. Throughout his text, Reck offers insight into the socio-political world of Celisti...
Mekranoti Indians rather than the Cakchiquel Mayan as did Glittenbergs work. While each of these researchers immerse themse...
into his own. Although racism persists today, it is nowhere near the problem it was during the 1960s and 1970s of which Aschenbren...
a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...
involved has been the object of old prohibitions against effecting no changes within study populations. The very presence of rese...
set about "transforming an unknown and anonymous space first into a personalized space and finally into a home" (Hammond 3). Acco...
also changes in these areas and the area of the effects of class status changes of the same !Kung women in various world cultures....
four seasons in which there is a planting, harvesting and barren time. MANDALAS AND GENERALIZATIONS ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION ...
and societies (Counihan, 1997). This is evidenced in both food habits and human behaviors (Counihan, 1997). More specifi...
explained by motivation. In the case of this story, the idea that someone of a rather primitive culture is using the idea of posse...
of Bohemia and Moravia, which are now part of the Czech Republic (Our History). One aspect of Moravian life that Sara related ha...
accurately termed "head scarf." In allowing the Egyptian men and women who are featured in the film to speak for themselves, the d...
children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...
"Day after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of t...
example, is bypassed in favor of a machine to human interface. While the teacher is still involved in the classroom, that involve...
replaced essentially on a whim. Everything about our lives is now disposable. We drink out of plastic bottles and paper and styr...
Through love, all these opposites were overturned. In acts of love, the humble became proud, the servant became master, the renoun...