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    Through chapters 17-19 in Anthropology for Christian Witness Charles Kraft covers a range of topics; Education‚ family‚ and status and role. Through these three chapters we see the importance of looking outside our own culture and our own ‘world’. In the sense that we can not safely assume that everyone else lives the same way do. Education can be something we simply look at as “accumulating of information” but something much more. Chapter 17 in Anthropology for Christian Witness Charles Kraft breaks

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    histories‚ and cultures (19). o Why Anthropology for the study of globalization: “There is no such thing as a passive response to globalization. People protest‚ adapt‚ invent‚ accommodate‚ assimilate‚ make alliances‚ whatever. Specific responses will be constrained—not determined—by the global system‚ but only in conjunction with local history‚ culture‚ the physical and social enviroment‚ leadership‚ and individual decision making. This is why anthropology is so important to the study of globalization…

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    Romantic Love and Anthropology Author(s): Charles Lindholm Source: Etnofoor‚ Vol. 19‚ No. 1‚ ROMANTIC LOVE (2006)‚ pp. 5-21 Published by: Stichting Etnofoor Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25758107 . Accessed: 17/10/2014 16:30 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars‚ researchers‚ and students discover‚ use‚ and build

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    Eating Christmas in the Kalahari Eating Christmas in the Kalahari is an interesting story of how ethnographer‚ Richard Borshay Lee‚ exploring the culture of the local !Kung Bushmen natives in the Kalahari Desert‚ experiences a cultural misinterpretation which caused him so much grief and concern‚ it almost led to him backing out of his lengthy three year study. Lee nearing the end of his study‚ decided to supply the meat for the Christmas feast as a parting gift. Bushmen take this meal extremely

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    1.  Your textbook describes Weber’s famous secularization thesis in "The Protestant Ethic" (589-591).  What does Weber think about the relationship between religion and political structures? America is presented as an exception to this thesis; why do you think the US does not show the same religious trends as those found in most other industrialized countries? 2. How does Gmelch define the term magic in the article “Baseball Magic” and why does he think people use it? 3. What parts of baseball are

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    Posted Jul 24‚ 2013 9:27 AM Information about the final exam has been posted. Further clarification with regard to some of the longer questions is given below. Please pay attention. There are three long-answer questions 2 requiring 1/2 page and 1 requiring 2 page answers. These questions are on particular themes which require you to draw from more than one article from Conformity and conflict including the Haviland text. There is a question on women and politics and there are many areas in the

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    xxxxxxxxxxxxx Adverbials: before‚ while‚ when 5/21/08 LING 580 Methodology: During 1 ½ hours of elicitation‚ my partner and I together elicited adverbials. We elicited for a variety of adverbs‚ including conditionals such as ‘before’ and ‘after’‚ forms for time adverbs such as ‘the first time’‚ ‘the last time’‚ and also single words for times of day‚ week‚ month and year. Results: The words we elicited are below: Table 1: Time adverbials |Time adverbs |

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    Exam 1 study guide PEOPLE * EB Tylor- the father of modern anthropology‚ supported evolutionism/uni-lineal evolution * Franz Boaz- the father of American anthropology‚ supported empiricism * Margaret Mead- Boaz’s student‚ wrote about the sexual revolution * Borshay Lee- studied the !Kung San from Africa * Zora Neal Hurston- one of Boaz’s students‚ an African-American folklorist * Bronislaw Malinowski- the father of fieldwork‚ said anthropologists need to learn the language

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    POLITICS‚ POWER AND VIOLENCE Politics and power can be thought of as intimate aspects of all subjects that anthropologists investigate‚ as processes of domination‚ resistance and social transformation are inevitably involved in the creation and representation of cultural practices and relationships. Power and violence are not the same. Power is psychological‚ a moral force that makes people want to obey. Violence enforces obedience through physical coercion. Those who use violence may manage to

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    Spoon River Anthropology “Life Is Not Always Easy” Spoon River‚ Illinois‚ a small town where everyone is almost connected in one way or another. It’s a town where everyone sort of knows everyone and in this case when something happens or a secret is unfolded the news spreads throughout the town like wildfire. Spoon River Anthropology written by Edgar Lee Masters is a book full of epitaphs that explain a sort of storyline fashion of what goes on in the small town of Spoon River. Many of

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