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Colonialism
Colonialism has often spread to areas where it is economically valuable for the colonizer to develop. South America was one of
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1936
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Yanmamo
There are many differences between the South American Yanomamo culture and the North American culture that we have adapted to, but just at there is cul
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1366
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Vietnamese and pakistani Culture
What is culture? Culture is set of learned behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, values, and ideas that are characteristic of a particular
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936
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american indians
Indians in eastern North America possessed no alcohol at the beginning of the colonial period. By 1800, so much alcohol flowed through the
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933
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Anthropology
Anthropology may be dissected into four main perspectives, firstly physical or biological anthropology, which is an area of study concerned with human evolutio
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1428
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Media Culture Sign Symbol
A sign system is representation through communication which in turn leads to a shared meaning or understanding. We hold mental representations that classify an
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2397
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culture shock
The United States of America is a country in which many people from all over the world comes to live harmoniously with each other. Unlike Cana
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1290
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Chapter 3 Summary Forest of Kings
The main focus of the 20th century, or ever before that, is that we have made most of the singular in
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571
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The Makah
The Makah are a Native Indian tribe who have recently decided to enact their treaty rights, and start to hunt for whales. These actions have caused an uproar
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1580
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None Provided
Poverty Point sites in Louisiana and western Mississippi exhibit the first major residential settlements and monumental
earthworks in the United States. Alth
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1325
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Reation Paper
Well, finally got my book, so now I can write reaction papers….yay!
Anyway, I read the article “Why Don’t You Say What You Mean?” I have to be honest with yo
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245
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Cross Cultural Studies
Question: What is the value of making cross-cultural comparisons? (Miller, Pg#11: 1999)
Cultural anthropology encompasses all aspects of human beliefs
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446
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history of Anthropology
In the history of anthropology I have learned many new theories I have never known before, there are a great many objectives and thoughts that I had never even
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567
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Crop Production
Beginning about 12,000 years ago, the human population began a trend that completely changed the way we, as a race, evolved. For the first time in history, hu
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885
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Diet and Primate Evolution
Variation in the choices of food on a daily, seasonal, and yearly basis is one of the greatest differences between primate species.
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1733
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NeanderthalHomo Sapiens Hybrid
Implications of Neanderthal-Homo Sapiens Hybrid from the Abrigo do Lagar Velho (Portugal)
In a recent excavation at Abrigo do Lagar Velho in Portugal, Du
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1600
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transcending the barrierseric wolf beyond marx
"My primary interest is to explain something out there that impinges
me, and I would sell my soul to the devil if I thought
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1224
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Anthropologists
Anthropologists trace the origin and evolutionary development of the human race
through the study of changing physical characteristics and cultural and socia
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298
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social organization among he Swazi
Swazi’s are said to belong to the Nguni people who lived in central Africa and migrated to southern
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1190
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Architecture and Burials in the Maya and Aztec
Plundering and carnage were the overlying results of the Spanish conquest of MesoAmerica beginning in 1519. The ensuing years brought many new "visitors," mos
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1103
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chicken soup for the soul
Anthropology may be dissected into four main perspectives, firstly physical or biological anthropology, which is an area of study concerned with human evolutio
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1428
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culture
Goody, Jack. 1994. Culture and Its Boundaries: A European View.
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253
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A cross cultural perspective of polygyny
A Cross Cultural Perspective of Polygyny
As an institution, polygyny, the social arrangement that permits a man to have more than one wife at the same
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3150
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gender issues in sri lanka
In general, when considering third world countries, most would say that they have some very similar characteristics. Third world cou
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1221
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the forest people
In his book, The Forest People, Colin Turnbull achieves the taste and feel of life inside a Mbuti community, but in doing so offers a skewed anthropological lo
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587
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JESUS AND CHRISTOLOGY
Theologians and philosophers have been trying to question who Jesus is for hundreds of year now. This time in the form of what is called the contemporary stu
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1268
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capitalsit world system
For the past six hundred years a culture and a society, dedicated for the most part to development
and trade as the ultimate source of well being, beg
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382
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The Dobe Juhoansi
Lee, Richard B., 1993, The Dobe Ju/ ?hoansi. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, (second edition).
Bushman: a member of a group of short-sta
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1270
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Culture Shock
The stories that are told in Distant Mirrors reflect how people can be so comfortable with the way they live that they will never realize what is around them.
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1295
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burial ceremonialism
Throughout the course of human history, anthropological findings have assisted archeologists in creating an excellent archeological record. Findings such as
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1122
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anthropology
Phone Virachak is 37 years old and is a naturalized citizen who emigrated from Laos to the United States in1985. She came with her husband to America and thei
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Aztec Indains
The Aztec Indians, who are known for their domination of southern and central Mexico, ruled between the 14th and 16th centuries. They built a great empir
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1124
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The Western Lowland Gorilla
A comparison with humans and a critique of methods of study.
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1478
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The Aztecs A case study
The Aztecs are an ancient culture that had many customs and rituals that by modern standards are considered barbaric. Their culture was made up of different
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2195
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HOW TOOLS TRANSFORMED PROTOHUMANS
According to archeological and physical record, tool use has had an enormous effect in the trans
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1031
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Transcending the barrierseric wolf beyond marx
Transcending the Barriers "My primary interest is to explain something out there that impinges me, and I would sell my soul to the devil if I thought it would
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1223
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The Raid
The way I approached dissecting Clifford Geertz’s “The Raid” was by reading it carefully over a few times while taking notes on the side. The
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515
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Chasidim and Old Order Amish A Comparison
Chasidim and Old Order Amish: A Comparison
The two groups to be examined are the Chasidim and the Old Order Amish. We wi
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1622
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Gorillas in the Mist
Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey is an excellent account of her thirteen years studying gorillas in the Virungas Mountains. Gor
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1429
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Partial Birth Abortion
Ethical Issues involved in Florida’s
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2893
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Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict
After high school, Ruth Benedict took a year off to travel overseas. Upon returning home she was unsure of what she wanted to
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432
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Ruth Benedict Margaret Mead
After high school, Ruth Benedict took a year off to travel overseas. Upon returning home she was unsure of what she wanted to
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432
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Israel
Teams of archaeologists were excavating in Israel when they came upon a cave. Written across the wall of the cave were the following symbols, in this order of
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302
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Gender profiling of San Sherpas Yanomamo
Women’s status in Sun community is very high and their influence considerable. They maintain a status that is higher than that wome
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2031
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Western Medicines Impact on the Traditional Beliefs of the K
The people of the Kandoka village, located in Papua New Guinea, have quite a unique way of life that differs from that of Western civilization in several ways.
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1993
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Human Sexuality
Human sexual behavior is just one of the many things anthropologist study when it comes to humans. Humans are highly compl
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1021
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The Rave Subculture
I walked into the dark room after paying the ten-dollar cover charge. The music was what I noticed first. It was very loud and made a ring linger in my ears
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1418
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discovering truths
How do human beings make decisions? What triggers a person to take action at any given point? Have you ever found yoursel
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571
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Egypt
Place yourself in an ancient world. On September 28th, 2000 my boyfriend and myself attended the Metropolitan Museum of Art located in New York City, to visit
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1736
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the kafirs of kafiristan
The land in the east of the Hindu-Kush range that lies between Pakistan and Afghanistan was called Kafiristan (the land of Kafirs),
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977
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D Caries
Caries have been a constant nuisance to humans, decaying teeth can become a major problem for those affected. It is certainly not the oldest path
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4525
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yanomamo tribe
My name is Eric Dunning and this is my proposal to go and study the Yanomamo tribe in the rain forests of Brazil. I have compiled
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1267
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popuation
Our Earth has changed more dramatically in the 20th Century then in any other time period previous. During this time the health of our planet has also be
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431
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James Decartes
World War I left many families dead, creating large numbers of orphans. Jamaie (later to become James) Decartes was one of those orphans. His father died in
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1934
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cultures
- culture concept first clear definition developed by British anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
- examples of species of animals that lead a social exis
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191
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Ice Age Extinctions of the Megafauna
ICE AGE EXTINCTIONS OF THE MEGAFAUNA
During the last Ice Age before humans arrived, the North American
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3166
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Home bases and Early hominids
“Home Bases and Early Hominids” is an article that looks at the earlier studies
that suggests early hominids living in home bases and the new studies that m
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2671
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Domestication of the Dog
Today’s dogs serve as a number of different tools. We train dogs to see for the blind, we train them to sniff for drugs, we train them to save people’s lives,
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972
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The Social Brain
The ability of humans to learn and retain knowledge is an incredible power source and also a dominant characteristic of the hum
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2793
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The ethical dilemma of the Indian barial contoversy
Grave desecration has been experiences in the United States for nearly two hundred tears without respect to Native Indians first amendment rights to freedom of
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518
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Aztec Culture
The Aztec Nation A distant sound is heard. It sounds like a deep drum being hit with a heavy instrument. You hear it again and st
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Aztec Culture1
The Aztec Nation A distant sound is heard. It sounds like a deep drum being hit with a heavy instrument. You hear it again and st
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Tzotzil Maya
This paper introduces the Tzotzil Maya by establishing some of the essential information about them. The home of the Tzotzil Maya lies in the highland re
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1030
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The American Indian Genocide
Textbooks and movies are still hiding the genocide of Native American Indian cultures, which began five centuries ago. There were
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ethnography of the city
Cities exist for many reasons and the diversity of urban form and function can be traced to the
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2472
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Mixed Blood
The question of race has been a long debated topic that still has not been answered. Jeffrey Fish embraces this issue in his writing entitled, "Mixed Bl
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677
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The Hunter gatherer era
The Stone Age was a time early in the development of human cultures before the use of metals when tools and weapons were made of stone, and human food was main
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Structures of Resisitance
The nature of interaction between traditional agrarian society and the ‘modern world’ has remained a controversial debate amongst anthropologists, sociologists
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The Kung Bushman
Most contemporary foraging groups, such as the !Kung and other Bushman tribes, are viewed as a “primitive” people. Some have even gone as far to say that they
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1024
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Multiregionalism vs Out of Africa
Anthropologists today are debating two sides to the story of the evolution of the modern human Homosapian sapian. The
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1053
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Pygmies
Pygmy groups are scattered throughout equatorial Africa, from Cameroon
in the west to Zambia in the southeast. In Zaire, there are three
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876
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Documentary Review
The documentary I watched is about Thaipusam festival. I watched it on National Geographic Channel and was amazed to discover the meaning, the process and the
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622
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China
China is a Communist Republic government. This means that the government regulates, sets rules, and runs most business in China. However, the increase in a w
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615
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