defines our history. Here’s an historical background of the museum. The UST Museum is the oldest museum in the Philippines featuring a rich natural history collection‚ with a diorama of selected Philippine fauna. Other exhibits include the ethnography collection (cultural artifacts)‚ the oriental arts collection (ceramic)‚ and the hall of Philippine religious images. Started as a Gabinete de Fisica‚ an observation room of mineral‚ botany and biology collections in the 17th century. Under the
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nutrition‚ reproduction‚ bodily comforts‚ safety‚ relaxation‚ movement and growth. Through his fieldwork and ethnography Malinowski demonstrates how each of these needs are met through certain functions in society. Malinowski is best known for the fieldwork that he conducted among the Trobrianders of the Trobriand Islands. Malinowski was among the Trobrianders from 1915 till 1918. Though the ethnographies that Malinowski published‚ the functionalist analyst approach is clearly presented. French structuralism
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of Postmodernity Oxford: Blackwell‚ 1989 Timothy Mitchell Colonising Egypt Berkeley: University of California Press‚ 1991 Pierre Clastres‚ ‘Of Ethnocide’ Archeology of Violence (trans James Clifford The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography‚ Literature‚ and Art Harvard University Press‚ 1988 Niklas Luhmann‚ Social Systems Stanford: Stanford University Press‚ 1995 Marshall Sahlins ‘The Original Affluent Society’ (first published in Sahlins Stone Age Economics) Culture in Practice:
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The sources of cultural misunderstanding made by the anthropologists in the readings from Spradley and McCurdy are affected by many factors including naive realism‚ culture shock and fully understanding what is culturally and ethically appropriate. Naive realism is the belief that people see the world in the same way‚ and culture shock is a condition of confusion and feelings of loneliness and anxiety experienced by someone suddenly entering a new culture. "Eating Christmas in the Kalahari"
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Karyn Lacy’s ethnography‚ Blue-Chip Black: Race‚ Class‚ and Status in the New Black Middle Class‚ aims to reveal “how different groups of middle-class blacks make their identity choices.” In examining the process of identity construction for middle-class suburban blacks‚ she incorporates spatial analysis and the intersection of race and class in order to highlight intragroup divisions. In doing so‚ Lacy argues that the intersection of race and class influences the identity construction of the black
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ANTH 418 Final Paper This paper will be discussing the ethnography by Allen Johnson titled Families of the forest. The ethnography describes the Matsigenka people of Shimaa that live in the Peruvian Amazon. The paper will examine the Matsigenka culture‚ the needs and resources of the culture‚ and proposed projects to meet the needs of the culture. The Matsigenka of Shimaa live in isolation along river valleys and forested mountains in the Peruvian Amazon (Johnson‚1999‚ p.24). They live in small
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childhood as a separate variable of social analysis‚ importance of children’s social relationship and culture independent of adult concerns‚ active participation of children in the construction and determination of their social world‚ importance of ethnography as a methodology for the study of childhood and the childhood as a phenomenon in relation to which the double hermeneutic of the social sciences acutely present (Prout and James 1990:9). Furthermore the discussion will attempt to elucidate on
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of precolonial Yorubaland is defined by oral history and archaeology‚ the years in which different clothing styles were adopted are absent. While one may be able to identify an estimate age in which different clothes were worn‚ the author of the ethnography did not provide any explicit dates when describing clothing styles. Without knowing the year in which different styles were adopted‚ it is impossible to know the exact way sartorial culture evolved over
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This familiar anthem The Star Spangled Banner is America’s long-standing and unchanging tradition that is played at every sporting events nationwide‚ school events‚ assemblies‚ Independence Day events‚ etc. It was invented when the U.S entered World War 1 by a man named Francis Scott Key who gave his poem to his brother‚ who noted that key’s poem fit the melody of The Anacreontic Song. It started out playing at the World Series game in 1918‚ where from that point in time it has been playing every
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