The Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea have been a key site of anthropological study for over a century. Trobrianders were first made famous by Bronislaw Malinowski in the early twentieth century‚ and were studied further by anthropologists such as Annette Weiner. Katherine Lepani’s ethnography‚ Islands of Love‚ Islands of Risk: Culture and HIV in the Trobriands‚ provides a modern analysis of HIV in the cultural context of the Trobriand Islands. Lepani sought to display HIV in the Trobriands as
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Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Creswell‚ J. W. (1998). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five traditions. Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Sage. Denzin‚ N. K. (1989). Interpretive interactionism. Newbury Park‚ CA: Sage. Denzin‚ N. K.‚ & Lincoln‚ Y. S. (Eds.). (2005). Handbook of qualitative research (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Sage. Geertz‚ C. (1973). The interpretation of cultures: Selected essays. New York: Basic Books. Greenblatt‚ S. (1997). The touch of the real. Representations‚ 59‚ 14-29. Holloway
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Anthropology and gender Introduction: anthropology and its theories Before tackling subareas and intersections of the field such as anthropology and gender‚ it is necessary to question what Anthropology is. The common knowledge about this discipline is most of the time permeated with misconceptions and myths‚ which La Fontaine tries to refute in his book “What is Social Anthropology” (1985). Firs of all‚ the author starts from exposing what anthropology is not: it is not the study of exotic and
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forced to adopt other useful tactics that would result in positive outcomes. This document will focus on several aspects of cross-cultural conflicts; A) Conflict assumptions. B) Cultural constituted phenomenon. C) Devaluation of groups‚ and D) Interpretive theory. Background: In 1990‚ the Federal Government declared that seven continuous census tracks in Brockton Massachusetts‚ made up a Medically Underserved Area (MUA). That the area from Oak Street to Nilsson Street the medical needs of that
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produced within a particular person‚ system‚ or culture. This meaning then frames and motivates the actions of individuals and groups. "Events are not just there and happen‚ but they have a meaning and happen because of that meaning‚" wrote Clifford Geertz. Meaning is also historically formed. For example; body image varies across cultures and is shaped by the specific meaning given to it by a culture. There is a time dimension involved in this same process‚ too. Western societies tend to value
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For my ethnography project I chose to study the life at the library located at Bryant University. A library is a key component in a culture‚ giving people a perfect environment to study‚ learn‚ work‚ and preserve important information from the past and the present. In order to maintain good grades in college‚ students have to dedicate a handful of their time to studying for each of their classes. Most college students prefer to study and do work in the library due to its quiet and peaceful atmosphere
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Ethnography Research Addressing ethnographic inquiry Frances J. Riemer Groping in the dark When I began my first ethnographic research project‚ I wasn’t an ethnographer. I was a teacher and a student‚ living in the city‚ pondering questions about education and social mobility‚ poverty and work. I had enrolled in a doctoral program and taken classes in research methods‚ but I became an ethnographer by doing the things that ethnographers do. I learned how to ask questions by asking
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Cross-cultural studies in the social sciences[edit] Main article: cross-cultural studies The term "cross-cultural" emerged in the social sciences in the 1930s‚ largely as a result of the Cross-Cultural Survey undertaken by George Peter Murdock‚ a Yale anthropologist. Initially referring to comparative studies based on statistical compilations of cultural data‚ the term gradually acquired a secondary sense of cultural interactivity. The comparative sense is implied in phrases such as "a cross-cultural
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where are we going? Studying Clifford Geertz‚ Patricia Limerick‚ John Wideman‚ and Ralph Waldo Emerson has made it easier for me to answer my own question. These four authors of varying expertise tied together a common thread called culture. Clifford Geertz in his essay "Deep Play" brought us the world of cockfighting in Bali. In this essay he portrays the culture of our present American society through the use of the Balinese cockfight. Amazingly enough Geertz used what some would call a primitive
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Violence is often at the heart of those types of communities. -We are all neighbors documentary. - Terms: culture ethnocentrism ethnocentric fallacy relativism relativistic fallacy armchair anthropology participant observation fieldwork ethnographic method socio-cultural anthropology applied anthropology identity enculturation egocentric view of the self sociocentric view of the self gender third gender gender hierarchy hegemonic masculinity rite of passage world view metaphor ritual myth revitalization
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