across the world have developed various views on homosexuality. Most cultural perspectives developed from religious or humanitarian sources. Living in 21st Century America‚ I have personally witnessed some of the strides and struggles of GLBT (gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender) youth. In the United States there exist laws that both promote sexual diversity and laws that restrict the complete rights of such individuals. On a more cultural than legal level‚ tolerance for this group of people has grown significantly
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Ryan Casey Anthropology in the News Contagious Yawning Contagious yawning is something you can’t control. Infants after 11 weeks after birth start yawning and study’s say that around the age of four‚ children start to develop “contagious yawning”. Doctors use this to see if the child has a disorder such as autism. What the doctors would do is see if the child response to someone else’s yawn. If the child does respond then they would know if the child’s brain is functioning right. This is a
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Anthro. 3: Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology x. liu Fall 2013: MWF: 1-2pm‚ 155 Dwinelle Office Hours: Weds.‚ 2-5pm; 301 Kroeber Hall (Tel.: 2-0705) E-mail: xinliu@berkeley.edu This course introduces anthropological topics in the subfield of social/cultural anthropology‚ with a particular aim for students to learn a lesson about the idea of culture and its relevance for our global struggles today. For such a goal to be achieved‚ there is no way for us to avoid a historical perspective
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Fire Ants Create Floating Rafts to Face Flooding Mounds of fire ants can be found floating around waters in South Carolina. It is part of the tiny insect’s way of surviving the floods that have affected the state. In a video captured by WSAV 3 photojournalist Chris Murray‚ the ants are shown in a mound floating on top of flood waters near Charleston. WSAV 3’s reports that the ants use their claws‚ jaws and sticky pads on their legs to stick together. There is an oily fluid that keeps them on a
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McGraw-Hill © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Using These Slides These PowerPoint slides have been designed for use by students and instructors using the Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity textbook by Conrad Kottak. These files contain short outlines of the content of the chapters‚ as well as selected photographs‚ maps‚ and tables. Students may find these outlines useful as a study guide or a tool for review. Instructors may find these files useful as
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Medical Anthropology A. McElroy Aus: D.Levinson‚ M. Ember (Hrsg.) Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. Henry Holt‚ New York 1996; (Permission given by Prof. McElroy Jan. 21th 2002) Medical anthropology is the study of human health and disease‚ health care systems‚ and biocultural adaptation. The discipline draws upon the four fields of anthropology to analyse and compare the health of regional populations and of ethnic and cultural enclaves‚ both prehistoric and contemporary. Collaboration
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investigation into the effects of glyphosate on a yellow meadow ants ability to chose a food source Abstract: Yellow meadow ants play a vital role in our ecosystem and this experiment looks at how glyphosate alters their decision making when choosing a food source. To analyse the ants choice making I used a choice chamber with one side containing banana without glyphosate and one side with the herbicide. I hypothesised that there would be more ants moving to the side without the glyphosate because of their
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Running head: FINAL EXAM Anthropology of Healing Final Exam Each society has their own medical systems and practices for diagnosing and treating illness and disease. There is a direct relationship between healing beliefs and practices and cultures. Ethno medical inquiry is defined as “the study of how members of different cultures think about disease and organize themselves toward medical treatment and the social organization of treatment itself” (Fabrega 1975:969). Each ethno medical
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In the social sciences of sociology and cultural anthropology‚ researchers have developed their own unique style or research and investigational techniques. While between these fields some techniques are similar‚ there are some differences. Some differences occur with the philosophical reasons certain techniques are used. In the field of sociology researchers strive to understand social situations and to discover repeating patterns in society (Tischler‚ p.4‚ 2007). Two methods that sociologists
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Anthropology is the study of human beings‚ in particular the study of their physical character‚ evolutionary history‚ racial classification‚ historical and present-day geographic distribution‚ group relationships‚ and cultural history. Anthropology can be characterized as the naturalistic description and interpretation of the diverse peoples of the world. Modern-day anthropology consists of two major divisions: cultural anthropology‚ which deals with the study of human culture in all its aspects;
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