To understand the reasoning behind my desire of pursuing a PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology‚ I will begin by stating the intersubjectivities that have been leading me throughout my academic life. Afterwards I would explain the academic-scientific logic behind my current research and future goals‚ since the both underlie in the passion for social justice that characterizes me‚ both professionally and personally. Since a young age‚ I was intrigued of why there are social asymmetries; due to my own
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2010 Internal Assessment – Tim Hortons The following observations have been reported due to findings I have noticed in Tim Hortons that deal with different ethnicities of people and their behaviours. They should not be used to judge the following cultures‚ but to simply observe their behaviours in comparison with other ethnicities. Tables with three or more friends These tables are racially discriminated because I see the same ethnicities of people sitting together with one another‚ ignoring what
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When viewing Disney’s A Bug’s Life with the critical eye of an anthropologist‚ it is hard to truly believe that it is a children’s movie. This movie is an introduction to the complex world of anthropology and it’s concepts. One finds elements of culture in many different lights throughout this film. A Disney masterpiece shall be proven in this paper to not only intrigue the younger audience‚ but it shall verify the fact that the way humans function is so easily portrayed‚ even in the simplest behavioral
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5 4/25/13 Chapter 4 KBAT Material Culture-The physical objects produced by a culture in order to meet its material needs: food‚ clothing‚ shelter‚ arts‚ and recreation. Culture-The body of beliefs (values)‚ social forms‚ and material traits that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people. Folk Culture-Cultural traditions practiced by a small‚ homogeneous‚ rural group living in relative isolation. Popular Culture-Cultural elements found in large‚ heterogeneous
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Scarlett Travis Anthropology 216 – “The Identity of a Black Puerto Rican” Although Puerto Ricans are made up of three peoples: Spanish‚ African‚ and Taíno‚ the black history of Puerto Rico is often made light of. Afro-Latino is a term coined to identify people from Latin America who have traceable African ancestry. To many‚ the term is oxymoronic and often problematic in the United States‚ where the need for racial and social classification needs to be refined to; Black‚ White‚ Hispanic
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versa because they were mostly English educated. Because of this‚ they almost always had the ability to speak two or more languages. In later generations‚ some lost the ability to speak Chinese as they became assimilated to the Malay Peninsula ’s culture and started to speak Malay fluently as a first or second language. Most Peranakans are of Hoklo (Hokkien) ancestry‚ although a sizable number are of Teochew or Cantonese descent. Originally‚ the Peranakan were mixed-race descendants‚ part Chinese
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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 was almost of a different culture himself. I would say that one of the main expectations was that of the role of women in the Trobriand culture. She writes that her fieldwork was not originally focused on the productiveness of women‚ however that changed when she witnessed the women distributing “their own wealth”‚ bundles of banana leaves
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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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