Essays Tagged: "Anthropology"
Ted Hughes, Britain's Poet Laureate
from Grammar School he went up to Cambridge to study English, but later changed to Archaeology and Anthropology. At Cambridge he met Sylvia Plath, whom he married in 1956. His first collection of poe ... iter and critic Robert Ranke Graves' book The White Goddess (1948) and partly on his own studies of anthropology (12:486).Speaking of his early poems, the critics note that at first they were mistaken ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
The evolution theory
ism, modifications tothis doctrine have evolved to include modern scientific principles of Biology, Anthropology,Physics and Mathematics. The concept of 'Evolution' as proposed by Charles Darwin does ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Towards a better understanding of Shamanism
Shamanism in Anthropology has been an entity in a constantmetamorphosis. It has always been considered exotic and ... en believe it or not Physics.Now before we elaborate on the historical significance ofshamaninsm in anthropology it is imperative that a generaldefinition of shamanism is established.In order to study ... ntieth century. Nevertheless, differences did emerge thattransformed the definition of shamanism in anthropology in thatit added more to this vague definition.According to Mircea Eliade the shaman who ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Towards a better understanding of Shamanism
Shamanism in Anthropology has been an entity in a constantmetamorphosis. It has always been considered exotic and ... en believe it or not Physics.Now before we elaborate on the historical significance ofshamaninsm in anthropology it is imperative that a generaldefinition of shamanism is established.In order to study ... ntieth century. Nevertheless, differences did emerge thattransformed the definition of shamanism in anthropology in thatit added more to this vague definition.According to Mircea Eliade the shaman who ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Anthropology
The American Museum of Natural History has many exhibits that demonstratemany aspects of anthropology. The Museum is located on Central Park West betweenW81st and W77nd streets. The museum ... of time is needed to get the most out of it. The following exhibits thatdemonstrate many aspects of anthropology are located on the first, second and thirdfloors. The first floor has American Northwes ... acific Peoples. Themuseum also included many other interesting exhibits that did not have to do withanthropology like the Dinosaur Hall. All these exhibits in the museum had detailedinformation on eac ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Sex in Anthropology
Vanessa KibbleOctober 14, 1996Sex in AnthropologyAnthropological studies are investigations of human life as it functions in a society. T ... r her studies, can there still be a descrepency in data due to the sex of the person?Over the years anthropology has evolved to an ever expanding world that has more of a variation in thoughts and bel ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Families and Their Influence in Slughterhouse-Five
influence to each of the different round characters in the story. Vonnegut's views and knowledge of anthropology are expressed through the characters; families and other small social communities are e ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
What is ethnocentrism and cultural relativism and what problems do they present?
od of thinking is quite natural. But, this line of thinking does a large disservice to the field of anthropology. When an anthropologist cannot be unbiased in their observations, it becomes harder to ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Anthropology in relation to Disney's "A Bug's Life".
truly believe that it is a children's movie. This movie is an introduction to the complex world of anthropology and it's concepts. One finds elements of culture in many different lights throughout th ... anthropologist, this movie not only meets standards, it creates it's own. Children will be learning anthropology thanks to movies like this even before they can pronounce the word.
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Postmodernism and the works of Rosaldo, Dumont, and Derrida describing the theory of postmodernism in cultural change.
w focus on 'development' and 'modernization' in the form of postmodernism. In these changing times, anthropology has come into contact with a variety of evolving concepts, including hybridity, montage ... ow these concepts reflect the social, cultural and political changes that are occurring in study of anthropology today.Postmodernism, as theoretical school of thought, is an intellectual movement that ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Out of Africa: A Plausible Explanation.
ion can be supported through the evidence of fossil records. To the contrary, a good deal of modern anthropology suggests that the origination of the human species stems from multiple continents. This ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Hog Farms and How They Affect The People of the Great Plains Region.
the issue of what large hog farms do to prevent the problems they create. Mark Grey, a professor of anthropology, is concerned with the development and growth of rural communities. His research lead h ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Analysis of the song "testify" by rage against the machine.
member of Parents for Rock and Rap, an anti-censorship group. De la Rocha's mother holds a Ph.D. in anthropology, while his father was a member of "Los Four," a group that depicted Chicano history thr ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Jean Rouch uses his films to gain a better understanding of Anthropology.
Jean Rouch Claims To Be Pursuing A "Shared Anthropology". How Successful Is He?It is fair to say that Jean Rouch's search for a "shared anthrop ... nt style filming today. To understand if there is any truth to Rouch's claims of pursuing a "shared anthropology", this essay shall be focusing primarily on his films, The Human Pyramid (1960), Chroni ... e background and some of the arguments surrounding the work of Jean Rouch and his relationship with anthropology. It is a fact that Jean Rouch has made most of his films in Africa, so much so, that he ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
A biography of 10 famous psychological, anthropological, and sociological, practioners.
ANTHROPOLOGY:School of Thought - FunctionalismFamous Practitioner - Margaret MeadMargaret Mead was b ... who Mead studied.I feel that Margaret Mead was a woman who made great contributions to the world of Anthropology; she has many great accomplishments which are a tribute to her fine work. She has great ... French Jewish family. He became educated at the University of Paris and eventually went on to teach anthropology at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Claude Levi-Strauss is best known for his dev ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Anthropology and what we can learn from the study of other cultures.
During this Anthropology subject we are made aware of global problems including poverty,racism, and environmenta ... nagement of surrounding areas enabled the land to be preserved(Robbins, 1999).Before I started this anthropology course I already knew that a privileged few had access tomost of the world's resources, ... believe is so inherently normal may not be trueat all.I think the main ideas that this semester of anthropology challenged for me was the overallway that we think. When we go about our daily lives we ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Cosmology and 21st-Century Culture
begin to think about the way we humans may fit into the cosmos. Every traditional culture known to anthropology has had a cosmology--a story of how the world began and continues, how humans came to e ...
Subjects: Science Essays
This essay gives you an idea of how anorexic people live.
ogical and a sociological point of view. It will permit an in detail study of the disease, anorexia.AnthropologyAnorexia is a mental illness and a physical illness where people who purposely starve th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Sexual ethics. THis essay was an anthropology based ethical argument as to the establishment of an ethics of sexual behavior.
rules are ethical. In this essay I will attempt to construct a sexual ethic with regard not only to anthropology but also to feasibility.Since this is an anthropological argument, I will begin at the ... e is being hurt, will reign supreme as the most in line with human life. When one bases an ethic in anthropology, the ethic will have to follow the conventions that anthropology resents.On the thread ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality
How does an organisations culture develop and what can managers do to influence it?
This it has been found, is not an easy question to answer. The concept of culture has its roots in anthropology, the study of human affairs. In this context, culture has been used to designate two di ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers