Anthropology Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (330) essays
Anthropology essays:
Franz Boas
... PhD from the University of Kiel. At first he specialized in physics, but later moved toward physical, then cultural geography. (Kroeber et al p.5) In 1883 he went to Baffin Island to conduct geographic research on the impact of the physical environment on native migrations. While studying the Inuit ...
Margaret Mead- this was written for an anthropology class
... to the scientific community. Mead was born in December of 1901 into a Quaker family of a social science background with her father being an economics professor and her mother a sociologist. Margaret began her career in the fields of psychology and sociology with a Bachelors degree ...
Fieldwork
... Fieldwork Experience a. How you decided on the topic. While attending Roosevelt High School, I noticed a great population of Ethiopians (especially coming from Vancouver, Canada, where high schools are highly populated with Asians and rarely students of African ...
HOW THE POWERFUL MAYAN CIVILIZATION COLLAPSED & HOW THE SAME WILL HAPPEN TO NEW JERSEY IN THE CASE OF A DRAUGHT. for a cultureal anthropology class: research paper
... geographic area in Central and South America. Their civilization extended to parts of what is now Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador, and most of Guatemala and Belize. From the third to the ninth century, Maya civilization produced awe-inspiring temples and pyramids, highly ...
Indigenous language and culture: What role is played by communication technologies in the maintenance of indigenous language and culture?
... community was not reliant on outside funding or expertise. 'Finally, the Pitjantjatjarra, unlike the majority of Aboriginal people, live in an environment where they are in the majority: they have relatively secure tenure of their land, a strong connection to their traditional cultural ...
Is there a macho man myth in todays society?
... to abide by. These rules can change from generation to generation, but in today's society mainly focus on two main issues, male dominance in the work place and their expected physical ...
Changes in opiate use and addiction and in social perceptions of opiates in the USA and England through the 19th and 20th centuries
... University Peele, S, (1985), "The Meaning of Addiction. Compulsive Experience and Its Interpretation." Lexington: Lexington Books. Pp. I-26 Bewley Taylor, David R., 1968- "The United States and international drug control, 1909-1997" London: Wellington House, Pp 16-53 Bean, Philip., 1974- "The Social ...
Arranged marriages.
... to try to look the best and lie inevitably when marriage is involved. It is a sort of spiritual before being physical. People do not have to listen to what others have to say about themselves. It can be felt when they get to ...
What is anthropology and why we should study it?
... social work; and many areas of business. Cultural anthropology is extremely relevant to students today more than ever because the United States is becoming more and more inhabited by cultures ...
"Australian society is a tolerant society which readily accepts difference." Discuss.
... relation to his Argentine culture, his attitudes and experiences are expressed in migrating to Australia in 1962. A subculture within the multicultural Australian society is that which is practiced by the Argentineans, and is primarily influenced by its Italian, French and African ...