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    he aftermath of Globalization leaves the anthropological-cultural world not merely in pieces‚ as one of the most accepted anthropological analysts of the time‚ Clifford Geertz‚ postulates‚ but in dust: A seemingly atomized‚ incoherent mesh of individuals‚ who can’t be attributed to a specific ethnic background anymore‚ and who are barely representative members of the nation-states which issue their passports. By all traditional measurements‚ this conglomeration of individualized humans should not

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    The Body as a Canvas Scarred across her back are raised bumps forming intricate designs of lines and angles‚ a reminder of who she is and where she is from. She thinks back on the ceremony in which she was marked with the painful scarification. She remembered feeling a sense of calm as the village artist pierced her back with a small arrowhead‚ stretching the skin away from the body and swiftly but skillfully cutting a slit in her back. He repeated this several times as a ceremonial pot was filled

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    Chapter 6: Children’s Peer Cultures and Interpretive Reproduction I. Examining Peer Culture From Children’s Perspective A. Children and their peer cultures are worthy of documentation and study in their own right. B. Children’s culture is not something kids carry around in their heads to guide their Goffman‚ 1974). C. Childrens peer culture as a stable set of activists or routines‚ artifacts‚ values‚ and concerns that children produce and share in interaction with peers (Corsaro‚

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    Good luck to current and future Cal students! Happy studying! ** There is a Table of Contents at the bottom of this page.  It can be used to index the terms‚ but the terms must be in a Heading form. Amah Mutsun Ohlone Professor Lightfoot is going to be working on collaborative archaeology with this tribe at Pinnacles National Monument this summer. Refer to 11-24 Notes Related reading‚ authors‚ Cuthrell‚ Striplen‚ Lightfoot (from 11-22) IDEA: Native landscape management practices

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    we watched a film in class called The Execution of Clifford Boggess. In the beginning I believe Clifford Boggess to be a regular individual. Actually Clifford Bogess graduated with honors‚ was also a talented piano player who played at weddings‚ and he also went to church faithfully. He was a normal individual that you wouldn’t even expect to commit crimes like these. On June 18th‚ 1988 a man by the name of Clifford Holt Boggess was born. Clifford Boggess was a lower class Caucasian male. When Boggess

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    Rituals in Anthropology

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    Amberlee Deauseault Anthropology 104 TA: Adriana People all over the world have different rituals. A ritual is a repetitive act that symbolizes events that have taken place in the past. Many times it can be religious‚ but it can also be a ceremony having to do with social customs. Rituals are repeated yearly or every couple years‚ it is not a ritual if it is only done once and never again. A pilgrimage physically takes someone from one place to another‚ whereas a ritual could be performed

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    Anthropology Class Notes We/They dichotomy Western / Non-Western Rational / Mystic Scientific population / Non Understand the holistic "whole" approach Edward Tylor - Father of anthropology Franz Boas - Father of American anthropology Hominids - Bipedal Primates Chapter 1: Anthropology and human diversity Relevant Questions: 1) What is anthropology? The study of peoples (Anthropos-man / Logos-study of) 2)What are the goals of anthropology? To understand the biological evoltion of the human species

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    In the story “City” by Clifford D. Simak‚ it takes you through the struggle that the city was going through. Within the first two tales give you a great sense of when this book was published was during the year 1952. So‚ throughout the stories I could find that three pieces of direct evidence that Simak was trying to tie in the era of the book. The first is on page twenty with it saying‚ “The‚ city is an anachronism. It has outlived its usefulness. Hydroponics and helicopter spelled its downfall

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    Bibliography: ------------------------------------------------- Clark‚ Dylan. 2011. Lecture 3‚ ANT204‚ Sociocultural Anthropology‚ University of Toronto‚ Mississauga‚ ON‚ September 14‚ 2011. Schieffelin‚ B. B. (1990). The give and take of everyday life: language socialization of Kaluli children. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Schieffelin‚ E. L. (1980). Reciprocity

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    Anthropology 250 March 13‚ 2012 Midterm Section 1: Short Answer 2. List and briefly explain the three goals of archaeology. How do they apply and differ from the earlier paradigms of archaeology? * The three goals of archaeology are the study of culture history‚ reconstruct past life ways‚ and understand cultural processes. The study of culture history is to piece together the history of how culture changes over time. To reconstruct past life ways is a complex process that involves a

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