Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania‚ but he spent much of his youth in Iowa. He had become the director of the Mercantile Library in St. Louis in Missouri. Also he became an expert in exploration‚ be outdoors and to study nature was one of his greatest passions. Kephart was married very young‚ but her marriage turned out to be very unhappy. He began drinking‚ he lost his job and his wife left him. In the end he had a nervous breakdown. He decided to start over a new life. He wanted to
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As an introduction‚ Horace Miner in his essay provides again the definition of an anthropologist‚ in which we have to maintain an open mind regarding things we may not understand. He introduces the Nacirema people for their “exotic customs”. Extreme behaviors in human aspects that have been either suspected or been imagined can be found in this tribe. A study done on them was conducted due to many unknown (pre-study) details regarding this tribe. The Nacirema culture views the human body is “ugly
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“Death in Venice” starts with the author‚ Thomas Mann‚ introducing Aschenbach‚ an honorable‚ rational and well thought out older man who lives in Germany. All Aschenbach wants to do is become successful in his field of work‚ writing. As a young child‚ Aschenbach was raised to be a successful‚ fundamental and polite person‚ creating apollonian like qualities within him. But as the book goes on‚ Aschenbach’s apollonian like qualities seem to dissipate‚ leading this careful‚ fundamental person to a
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In Nacirema‚ Horace Miner uses satire and wordplay to teach us how easy it is to judge cultures that we don’t know much about. Miner is sneakily describing American culture‚ their entire way of life including both material and symbolic elements‚ the whole time77. Miner is trying to teach us that ethnocentrism‚ using your own culture as a standard to evaluate another‚ leads to the belief that other cultures are inferior78. Instead‚ we should be using cultural relativism‚ understanding other cultures
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‘The Last of the Mohicans’ is a pivotal film directed by Michael Mann which centres around the last members of a dying Native American tribe‚ the Mohicans‚ during the Seven Year War. Mann highlights the film’s dominant moral issue in his Post-Colonial context‚ social organisation‚ through the themes of Morally Good vs Morally Bad and Old World vs New World and film techniques that can be seen through two closely analysed scenes. The moral issue of social organisation is established by Mann’s contrasting
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graph‚ it is believed that all of climate change can be invalidated. However‚ Michael Mann refutes this belief wholeheartedly; the graph is based on data he and his colleagues comprised. To him this mistake in the public’s opinion was created on purpose to easily disregard the idea of climate change being true by those who are financially involved in industries that rely on destroying the planet to succeed. Mann emphasizes that even if you want to completely revoke the “hockey stick” graph‚ there
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The Complex Relationship Between Darl and Dewey Dell As I Lay Dying‚ the novel written in 1930‚ by William Faulkner shows his interesting yet quite odd style of writing and the characters that seem to travel from novel to novel. Faulkner creates a very odd and complex relationship between Darl and Dewey Dell Bundren‚ two of the main characters in As I Lay Dying. Both characters seem to have poor communication skills and they both have lost empathy after the loss of their mother Addie Bundren
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Charles C. Mann aims to prove a once-widespread belief about Native Americans false. This belief‚ which he calls Holmberg’s mistake‚ was first published in the book Nomads of the Longbow by Holmberg himself. Holmberg states that before European influence arrived in 1492‚ the Native Americans were nothing more than mere savages with lacking religion‚ no appreciation for the arts past feathered beads‚ little impact on the natural world around them‚ and nomadic lifestyles. Charles C. Mann‚ collecting
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“Body Ritual Among The Nacirema” As I started to read “Body Ritual Among The Nacirema” by Horace Miner I was really confused. You told us that the homework was to write what was the real true meaning of this reading but I had to reread the pages over and over to find the true meaning to the reading that Horace Miner was talking about. It is a culture named Nacirema and that no one really know much about this culture. And also that they come from the east. He talks about the rituals they have
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Canadian Journal of Sociology Online November-December 2006 John A. Hall and Ralph Schroeder‚ eds. An Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann. Cambridge University Press‚ 2006‚ 409 pp. $US 34.99 paper (0-521-61518-6)‚ $US 80.00 hardcover (0-521-85000-2) In an endnote buried deep in his own contribution to this volume editor John Hall questions: “[I]s it the case that Mann has been so overwhelmed by historical material that he has in fact ceased to be a sociological theorist‚
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