I recently witnessed a Wiccan Mabon ritual on September 22nd 2012. This ritual was the celebration of the change from summer to fall. It took place in Colorado Springs‚ on the outskirts of town. We were outdoors‚ in a small grove of trees. It was a clear sky with the First Quarter moon beginning to rise over the horizon. The breeze was cool but not cold yet and slowly people started to drift into the clearing. My friend Tiff (name has been changed) was the leader of the ritual. Everyone was wearing
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Annette B. Weiner describes her fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea as entering a world without cultural guideposts. She was fully aware and expected to find difficulty with learning a new language and of letting go of her own cultural assumptions. Weiner studied the Trobriand Islands via the writings of Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski and thus her expectations were set by fieldwork performed sixty years earlier. Not to mention that Malinowski was a man‚ of a different time and therefore
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Marine archaeologists can use topographic data‚ specifically in a marine chart‚ to analyze the site of a sunken ship. As charts include the data of the ocean floor along with one’s outlines of courses and positions‚ they should aid any mariner in avoiding potential hazards at sea ("What Is a"). For marine archaeologists‚ it familiarizes them to the seafloor of their site‚ hopefully encouraging them to carefully plan out their survey and excavation of the site. Though not only should archaeologists
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Stephanie Saintyl Personal Anthropology April 23‚2013 At the beginning of the semester‚ I was not aware of what certain things I would be learning about in Intro to Anthropology. I didn’t even know what anthropology was and was just taking it to fill my pre-requisites requirement. Now that the class is coming to an end‚ I realized that I learned so much about my culture‚ self‚ and my community that I was unaware of before. There were …topics that I thought deeply about and realized that I
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Cultural Anthropology Fairy Tale: The Beauty and the Beast The Beauty &; the Beast Fairy tales are short stories which are read to children with the mission of giving them an important message that they will use at some point in their lives. Different values and beliefs are experienced through the stories of different princess’‚ monsters and heroes which give the children the idea that they may encounter a similar experience during their childhood. Later in live‚ adults
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authoritarian paradigm‚ interpretive‚ anti-establishment; Positivism vs. interpretive SELF-CRITIQUE – discrupts common sens‚ remise en question of assumptions 1. First predicament : sensitivity to cultural difference 2. Second predicament : status of anthropology as a cultural critique (reflection of self through studying alien culture). DUALITY-Palestinian and American‚ Said 50s linguistics‚ 70-80s literature and interpretation CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION ‘New criticism’ - internal criticism of
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Pam: Is Anthropology a Good Degree to Become a Social Worker? In a nutshell‚ becoming a social worker will require knowledge and skills that are not available with an anthropology degree. However‚ an anthropology degree does lay the foundation for understanding human behaviors and cultures. < h3>What are the Differences Between Anthropology and Social Work? Anthropology is the study of the human race from a historical and biological perspective. Anthropology focuses on understanding human development
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When one thinks about anthropology‚ they typically imagine someone going to a far off land with indigenous people that have stark differences to their culture. This idea of studying the “other” brings up several issues such as ethnocentrism or tunnel vision in which the anthropologist must learn to set aside their own culture to accept others. In recent years‚ a dichotomy of this traditional method has emerged‚ called native anthropology. Native anthropologists study cultures and communities they
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GAWAD KALINGA A Research Paper Presented to Professor Alex Lazo Department of Social Sciences and Humanities San Beda College In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements in SOCAN Sociology and Anthropology in the Philippine Business Environment Presented by: CALING‚ Michael Allan M. _______ ------ ------- _____ March 2‚ 2011 GAWAD KALINGA Gawad Kalinga (GK)‚ which means to "give care" in Filipino‚ is officially known as the Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation
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19 th Century Approaches Unilineal cultural evolutionism—generally regarded as the first theoretical perspective to take root in the discipline of anthropology a relationship of society advancement though a series of progressive stages. In this theory‚ people believed cultures develop under one universal order of society evolution. First originating from the mid-nineteenth century philosopher Herbert Spencer‚ Unilineal Evolution classified the differences and similarities of cultures by categorizing
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