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    Anthropology. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology‚ 2‚ 243-251. Clarke‚ D. 1968. Analytic Archaeology‚ London‚ Methuen. Clifford‚ J. 1986. On Ethnographic Analogy. In: Clifford‚ J. & Marcus‚ G. (eds.) Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Fortun‚ K. 2001. Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism‚ Disaster‚ New Global Orders‚ Chicago and London‚ University of Chicago Press. Gell‚ A. 1997. Art and Agency: An Anthropological

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    Ghost Dances In 1973‚ Christopher Bruce heard about the murders going on in the small villages and towns of Chile on the orders of the government; just to show off their power‚ and how they were not afraid to use it. Bruce found out as a result of a letter received from a widow of a Chilean folk singer who had been murdered. He was asked to do work for the Chilean Human Rights Committee. The dance first premiered in 1988‚ the costume designer being Belinda Scarlett and the music being by Incantation

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    Analytical Essay of Donald Halls’ “A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails” Donald Halls’ “A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails” is a symbolic presentation of the decay of New Hampshire the author uses the life of Washington Woodward to show the pointless existence that is experienced in a place as lifeless as New Hampshire. He uses the contrast of his own opinion and the beliefs of Woodward to show how after a while it is impossible to escape a pointless mindset. Washington finds joy in discarded

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    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 both a physical illness and a symbolic epidemic

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    against it that its heart was cloven in twain. Then he took the monster on his back and went homewards with it to the King. As he came out at the other side of the wood‚ there stood at the entrance a house where people were making merry with wine and dancing. His elder brother had gone in here‚ and‚ thinking that after all the boar would not run away from him‚ was going to drink until he felt brave. But when he saw his young brother coming out of the wood laden with his booty‚ his envious‚ evil heart

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    References: Bourgois‚ P. (1991). Confronting the Ethics of Ethnography: Lessons from fieldwork in Central America. In F. Harrison (Ed.)‚ Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving further toward an anthropology of liberation. Washington‚ DC: Association of Black Anthropologists‚ American Anthropological Association. Kalow‚

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    Surname 5 Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Gang. Skeleton draft. The hip hop subculture is a way of life tethered to and popularized by the widespread practice of rap music. It originates from the African American community. It is expressed through flashy modes of dressing‚ graffiti art forms‚ break dancing‚ and slang. However‚ with the passage of time‚ the culture has traversed racial and cultural lines and has become one of the most practiced genres of music throughout the world‚ with an

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    pleasures‚ Mr. Gascoigne‚ a ruined politician and Widow Wycherly‚ once a beautiful woman. The three men loved her once upon a time. Dr. Heidegger and his friends were in his study ‚ and old fashioned room having many book cases‚ an Oaken chest‚ a skeleton‚ a gilt (covered with gold) mirror. It was rumoured that the spirits of his dead patients lived in this study. It was a summer afternoon. There were four champagne glasses on the table and five old people around it. Dr. Heidegger took out a rose

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    When looking at common repercussions of brutal honesty‚ such as hurt feelings or damaged relationships‚ it is easily noted that some remarks are better left unspoken. Occasionally‚ when a question is proposed‚ it is socially inappropriate to leave it unanswered as the silent yet extremely noticeable hesitation may be more insulting than giving an honest answer. Honesty is and has always been depicted as a positive attribute but seldom is light shed on the possible detrimental consequences it can

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    Delving Deeper: The Missing Pieces of Jean Rouch’s Les Maitres Fous (1955) Untrained as a filmmaker and educated in the field of ethnography‚ Jean Rouch spent much of the 1940’s and 1950’s exploring the colonialized areas of West Africa. He spent his time immersing himself in African culture‚ eventually taking a camera along to film what he witnessed. The footage he collected would later be edited in to several short amateur pieces. Over the next several years‚ Rouch would emerge as an unsuspecting

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