ANTH 100: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor: Dr. Anne J. Goldberg Student: Florencia Aguirre September 19th‚ 2012 Katherine A. Dettwyler - Dancing Skeletons: Life and death in West Africa (1994) Review In 1995‚ Dancing Skeletons was given the Margaret Mead Award by the American Anthropological Association. It is presented to anthropologists whose work was able to interpret “anthropological data and principles in ways that make them meaningful and accessible to a broadly
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Dominique Johnson Professor John Oriji History 430 Yoruba Girl Dancing Part II Colonization Leads to Interlacing of Cultures Reading the second half of Yoruba Girl Dancing one thing I enjoyed most was the description of the many different cultures that Remi was forced to live amongst. These cultures included the European culture of the upper class Nigerian in Lagos‚ the culture of being at the private school‚ the working class British culture‚ the lifestyle of Germans who wanted well and
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beautifully than anyone in the world. My imagination takes over. I feel like I can enter a million universes just by dancing. I can fly‚ I can teleport‚ I can travel in the most fantastic ways nobody but me could see or understand. I feel unstoppable. I feel invincible. I feel incredible‚ joyful and wonderful. it’s the best feelings anyone that loves to dance can have. In the bad times. dancing helps me find who I am when I lose myself in the bad times. When I am sad I dance to help heal the pain. I works
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My Favorite Short Story My favorite short story in the anthropology by Dr. Lynn Fauth is “Blue Winds Dancing.” The author‚ Tom Whitecloud uses versatile formal-informal storytelling‚ descriptive language to immerse the reader in the moment‚ and resolution of self-identity conflict. These elements exemplify Whitecloud’s mastery of fiction writing. The role of an informal storytelling told from a first point of view is effective in describing the disparity between the
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1. Dancing Raisins Here’s another quick and easy science experiment. All you need is a glass of clear soda‚ such as ginger ale or club soda‚ and several small raisins. Fill a glass with soda. Leave about ½ inch (12.5 mm) of space at the top. Drop the raisins in. Those tiny bubbles attaching themselves to the raisins are carbon dioxide (CO2) bubbles. The irregular surface of the raisins enables a lot of CO2 to accumulate. When enough gas bubbles attach to the raisins‚ they act like tiny balloons
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night sky. The aurora borealis and aurora australis – often called the northern lights and southern lights – are common occurrences at high northern and southern latitudes‚ less frequent at mid-latitudes‚ and seldom seen near the equator. In “Auroras Dancing in the Night”‚ “________________”‚ and“____________”‚ Don Pettit‚ Julian Simon‚ and Jared Diamond comment on the creation of aurora and the impact of aurora can have on Earth’s resources both in the past and in the future. This essay seeks to compare
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Flamenco is an individualistic‚ yet structured folk art from Andalusía‚ Spain. It is often improvised and spontaneous‚ the song‚ dance and guitar are blended together by the passionate rhythms of southern Spain.Gypsies say " it’s in the blood"‚ but Spain’s famous poet and writer Fredrico Garcia Lorca‚ called flamenco one of the most gigantic inventions of the Spanish people. The tragic lyrics and tones of flamenco clearly reflect the sufferings of the gypsy people. It is thought that the gypsies
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Clog dancing is an American dancing style that began in the Appalachian Mountains and is enjoyed throughout the world. It originated in the 1700’s when the Appalachians were being settled by the Scottish‚ Irish‚ Dutch Germans‚ and English. The dancing began as a basic foot tapping style and has become known as what we call clog dancing today. The Clogging dance style has been influenced over the years by many different types of people. One of the main groups that had a big influence on clogging was
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In Pittsburgh there are many young adults having sexual contact and getting pregnant and these are only one of the places with lots of young pregnant women. McKeesport high school in Pittsburgh everyone thinks it’s normal to see two or three pregnant girls at a time walking down the halls‚ but it doesn’t mean people don’t gossip about them. National Campaign to Prevent Teen pregnancy statistics show that teens are waiting until the age of 16 to have sex‚ that is 2 years longer then they use to. Teen
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TVR 7 1.The main difference is that field and remote production must take into account the technical problems created by the “real world” such as rain‚ traffic noise‚ and unwanted shadows. However‚ the studio is a controlled environment specially designed for television production. 2. Because intercom system allows various crew members to communicate with one another over head-sets while program is being recorded or aired. 3. Because field production has less equipment. 4. 5 basic
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