Anthropology Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (330) essays
Anthropology essays:
FINAL PROJECT: A FILM ON HOMELESS WOMEN. how to create a film about homeless women. Ideas for the film. Cultural Anthropology class.
... tunnel in New York City. These tunnels are a common place for homeless people to hang around and even sleep in them. We are going to choose a small group of women who are living in the Tunnel, and they are going to be part ...
Effects of aging on beauty and societies views on growing older.
... fashion industries, the beauty myth's glamorized notions of the ideal body reverberate back upon women as 'a dark vein of self hatred, physical obsessions, terror of aging, and dread of lost control'" according to Naomi Wolf (Schiebinger 2002:397). Many of the ideals are unrealistic for some people ...
Analysis of the story "Shakespeare in the bush".
... to travel to Africa. Her friend gave her a copy of Hamlet as a parting gift with hopes that perhaps she would find the true interpretation. On her trip to Africa the author finds out that custom, translations, and culture play a larger role in the interpretation of Shakespeare and that his meanings ...
Discuss the causes of high rates of population growth
... means people do not know how to maintain good health and vitamin intake, resulting in a higher risk of illness which in turn means the death rate is high and people have more children to replace them, consequently increasing the rate of population growth ...
The Unokai
... peoples whose cultures are eradicated by our notions of progress. Don't use this essay if you go to U. Of M.!!!!! The Unokai how misinterpretation can lead to ...
Anthropology.
... religion, as in many interpretive pursuits of our postmodern age, there is nowhere left to hide." Bibliography Approaches to the Anthropology of Religion. Boulder, COWestview Press, 1995 An Anthropological Approach. New York: Harper and Row. Anthropological Conceptions of Religion ...
"Adoption of Unrelated Children". Essay is about adoption and the its effects on the society. Includes Darwin's theory.
... main problem and people mainly worry about the stress levels of their lives. So, if a pet is a sufficient source of reducing stress, then there is no need for all couples to adopt unrelated children to ...
La Quinceanera- written for cultural anthropology class to share a cultural ritual experience.
... An Hispanic Celebration of Budding Womanhood http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/dpalfrey/dpquince.html Resendes, Raymond. "The Celebration of the Quinceanera" http://gomexico.about.com/cs/culture/a/quinceanera.htm La Quinceaera: Towards an Ethnographic ...
Eating Christmas in the Kalahari
... customs, of how they celebrated Christmas and of how they dealt with 'gifts' or rather his gift to them in particular. Lee explains that the local people ...
Postmodernism and the works of Rosaldo, Dumont, and Derrida describing the theory of postmodernism in cultural change.
... people in other cultures, given the power and wealth imbalance of the colonial past, leaving the 'other' unable to speak for him/herself. Today, despite the multicultural and ethnically aware world that we live in, anthropologists are not capable of an unbiased and accurate ethnographic ...