Barker introduces this chapter with an account of his first attempt at dying tappa with dun (or red dye) he joins a group of Maisin women as they join him in the process of dying the tappa. During this activity he learns of traditional meanings and implications of the dun dying process. This conversation gives barker the insight that no information has been withheld from him all he had to do was ask. This leads to his inquiry on topics related to spirituality. He began with the Maisin view on Christianity, he found that there are those who practice the religion and come to church weekly. He found that his informants accepted the existence of a Christian god, but saw him (god)... Through this inquiry he found more insight on the church’s view on the Maisin traditional religious beliefs and customs. He learned that the Anglican Church practiced a balanced separation, where they tolerated the Maisin beliefs, and incorporated certain customs into special religious days. Upon more investigation on traditional Maisin beliefs. He had learned that to the Maisin who had belief in ghosts, ancestors, bush spirits and magic; humans and spirits all dwelled in the same physical plane. He then went on to discuss the prevalence of traditional healing and sorcery in Maisin communities. As a conclusion to this chapter he ended off by describing the first arrival of missionaries and the attempted purges on magic and sorcery in the Maisin communities.…
The story ‘’The Home Place’’ by Guy Vanderhaeghe is about a relationship between a father and a son. Throughout the story, the readers see and understand the reason behind Gil and Ronald broken relationship. In this story, the author implies that when a father puts is love for is land before his son, their relation will suffer. Vanderheaghe explains his theme with the help of the characters traits, the setting and conflicts.…
She examines what motivates this. Nanda rejects poverty and existential insecurity as a reason for their belief because they are not poor. She also rejects the idea that their religiosity is a defence mechanism to modernisation and westernisation. She argues that their religiosity is to do with their ambivalence to their new found wealth. This has helped to see the relationship between globalisation and religion, as Nanda points out that globalisation has increased the religiosity in India.…
Hinduism is believed to have immigrated to America around the late 1800’s. Its influence on America and American culture and its peoples has been pervasive and varied. It was first introduced to mostly Christian America at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair at The Parliament of the World’s Religions by Swami Vivekananda (Guthrie 2). Since that time his descendants have grown so as to include indigenous Americans as well as many new arrivals from all over the world. Hinduism has impacted American culture in the areas of religion, literature, music, and philosophy, and most importantly, in the minds and souls of its American converts. And, in turn, America has also had a profound impact on Hinduism.…
1.1.7 How does an anthropological view of dancing at a Judeo-Christian wedding shed light on…
As a reform Jew, Ms. Hoffman takes pride in her enlightened, rational, science and fact based beliefs. She is not superstitious, nor does she use halacha as a guide for living her life. Like many reform Jews, she may equate the two as one and the same.…
Both sisters, who were born in India, moved to the United States to receive a college education. While in America, Mira kept her Indian culture by marrying an Indian man and staying a legal immigrant to the US to stay true to her culture. Bharati decided to become an American citizen and even marry a Canadian-American man. The decision to choose which culture to adapt to impacted the girls lives in two different ways. Bharati had to deal with what her family would think because she was marrying a white man, but she was able to transform her identity and experience another culture. “America spoke to me—I married it—I embraced the demotion from expatriate aristocrat to immigrant nobody, surrendering those thousands of years of ‘pure culture,’ the saris, the delightfully accented English. She retained them all” (Mukherjee, 71). Bharati let everything she grew up learning, be pushed to the side so she could adapt and try to be part of the American culture and she was fine with that. However, her sister, Mira, symbolized the people who stayed “rooted in one job, one city, one house, one ancestral culture, one cuisine, for the entirety of their productive years” (Mukherjee, 71), meaning that she stayed true to her Indian roots and did not experience and adapt to the American culture, even though she was living in the United States. Even though they both experienced the hardships of being immigrants, the two sister’s views on life are much different because one had adopted another country's culture, while the other one had stayed true to her original…
In Bharati Mukherjee’s personal essay, “Two Ways to Belong in America,” she talks about the ups and downs of the American culture from her and her sister, Mira's, experiences. Since Bharati is more adaptive to the "American way of life," she really doesn't mind the…
There are many reasons why this is an unlikely hit song and yet it found it's way to the top spot on the Country charts and gives no sign of leaving anytime soon. The song itself sounds more like an album cut than a hit; while the chorus has a beautiful payoff line at the end, it lacks the huge hooks and big emotional release that usually drives a song to #1. So let's see what it has that makes people want to hear it over and over.…
Every country and every religion have their own traditions. It is what makes their culture different from each other. The American and Indian cultures have a vast differentiation between them. While the culture of America is a mixture of different cultures, the Indian culture is unique and has its own values. Even though dating and marriage have the same meaning to him and her in every culture, the meaning of their relationships and wedding celebrations to him and her are different.…
Gender is a concept society often challenges whether by males or females, living up to traditional ideas causes constrictions to the individual. “The Altar of the Family” written by Michael Wilding suggests that conforming to traditional ideas or stereotypes provides constrictions to an individual’s beliefs. The author uses third person narrative in order to position the reader. Characterisation invites the reader to be critical of the father’s perspective on masculinity. Figurative language emphasises the opposing ideas of masculinity and setting described in the text produces different environments in which diverse ideas of gender are challenged.…
The House of God is a satirical novel by Samuel Shem (a pseudonym of the psychiatrist Stephen Bergman), published in 1978. It portrays the psychological harm done to medical interns during the course of medical internship in the early 1970s.…
The World House, a piece of literature written by Martin Luther King Jr, A great civil rights activist/leader, writer, and philosopher. In the passage, he talks about an idea from a famous novelist who died which was “A widely separated family inherits a house which they have to live together.” (J. L. Judith Nadell 597) (J. L. Judith Nadell 597)" \s "A widely separated family inherits a house which they have to live together.\"<>" \c 1 Martin Luther king then builds upon and talked about what he thought about that. In the passage he quotes “We have inherited a great “world house” in which we have to live together”-Black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Moslem and Hindu”.CITATION Mar12 \p 597 \l 1033 (King 597) TA \l "\“world house\” in which we have to live together\”-Black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Moslem and Hindu\”. (King 597) (King 597)" \s "\"world house\" in which we have to live together\"-Black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Moslem and Hindu\".< CITATION Mar12 \p 597 \l 1033 (King 597) >" \c 1 He makes the point that this is “the great new problem of mankind”… and to justify his theory he stated that “[we are] a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart must learn somehow to live with each other in peace”CITATION Mar12 \p 597 \l 1033 (King 597) TA \l "the great new problem of mankind\”… and to justify his theory he stated that \“[we are] a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart must learn somehow to live with each other in peace\”CITATION Mar12 \p 597 \l 1033 (King 597) (King 597)" \s "the great new problem of mankind\"… and to justify his theory he stated that \"[we are] a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and…
1.1.5 How does an anthropological view of dancing at a Judeo-Christian wedding shed light on Western society? What do we learn about Judeo-Christian culture from…
The war on drugs whether wrong, right, or indifferent, has yielded a plethora of life changing outcomes for many United States citizens. Both the plaintiff and the defendant have their own side of the dispute, and yet somehow the plaintiff in the non-stop ‘cash grab’ that’s so conveniently nicknamed the “War on Drugs” gets the benefit of zero-tolerance, or minimum sentencing. In most cases the defendants simply are doomed from the beginning due to horrible living conditions and lack of jobs in the area. Coupled with police brutality and prejudice pointed toward the African-American community as a whole, it should come as no surprise that in 2011 there were more African-Americans in prison or “under the watch” of the justice system than were enslaved in the United States in 1850. This is not any more a war on drugs than the Iraqi Conflict was a war on the seizure of weapons of mass destruction.…