Polygamy Some say polygamy is a victimless crime, yet statistics show the contrary. Statistics show that polygamous wives reported that their husbands started becoming abusive towards them and/or their children once that wife started questioning the husband’s absolute authority. Many women stay in these bad situations, because of their children. They do not want their children growing u

Dobe Lee, Richard B., 1993, The Dobe Ju/ 'hoansi. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, (second edition). Bushman: a member of a group of short-statured peoples of southern Africa who traditionally live by hunting and foraging. While the term 'bushman' has come to be known as both racist and sexist, it is easily the most recognized term when describing the people living amongst

Problems In Archaeological Fieldwork And Excavation Archaeology is well known for being a field of remarkable detail and accuracy. Much like surgeons, an archaeologist must utilize great amounts of precision, as not to taint data collected (Joukowsky 1980). This being considered, would you let a prison inmate perform your medical operation, even while under the supervision of the surgeon

Morocco In & Out of Morocco In the Book In and Out of Morocco we are led on a journey into Northern Africa. In Morocco the society has been split in half, the migrants who went to work in Europe and the people who stayed at home. The migrants were usually uneducated men who left there families at home in hopes of making money. But what happens to those who stay home' What happens when

Anthropology Anthropology as a Way of Life In society today, the discipline of anthropology has made a tremendous shift from the practices it employed years ago. Anthropologists of today have a very different focus from their predecessors, who would focus on relating problems of distant peoples to the Western world. Anthropologists study these categories broad, narrow, present, and

Racial Profiling I. Introduction What’s a person, group or society to do when the holder of law itself states that a police officer’s true motive for stopping someone was irrelevant. If that person is suspected of some kind of violation, the police officer may pull that person over even if the police officer was motivated by racial bias (Savage 2001). Challen

Mathematics And Anthropology Mathematics and Anthropology The ancient Mayans, for instance, used a base number of twenty in their calculations, twenty being the total number of digits on the human body. Their written system of numerals made working with twenty fairly easy – four horizontal bars above one another represented twenty units of five each, with individual units represented

Race Or Ancestry' Race or Ancestry' Is there really an argument as to whether or not race should be a decisive factor in the identification of an individual' The fact of the matter is that race can still be used as an identifying factor today in narrowing down the missing. The majority of the population can still be classified into one of the major categories of what is termed as “r

Civilization In order to determine whether or not a society can be considered a civilization, it is essential to have a clear definition of the word itself. Webster’s dictionary defines a civilization as an advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of writing, and the appearance of

Civilization My Visit To The National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. and the on-line version August 25, 2001 This past week I went downtown to Washington, DC to visit and tour the Museum of Natural History. The purpose of this visit was to learn more about our civilization. While at the museum I learned that they also offer an on-line tour as well. So I took advan

Self-ethnology Self-Ethnography Anthropology is the study of humankind. Within this study, there is a subfield that focuses on the study of contemporary societies, which is called cultural anthropology or ethnology. On February 25, 1980, I was born into this world where there exists numerous different societies. Twenty-one years later, I am going to discuss the aspects and experience

Shaman Healing Cross Cultural Depending on which culture one is from the mind and the body are often thought of as having a connected symbiotic relationship, where the mind controls the movement of the body, and the body obeys the mind. In other cases that mind and body are two separate entities wholly independent of the other, where the body can control some actions of its own. The b

Social Hunting As A Means Of Ensuring Reproductive Success As one of the world’s foremost primatologists, Jane Goodall has become synonymous with the study of chimpanzees. Her book, In the Shadow of Man, describes her observations of a group of chimps in the Gombe Stream Reserve of Tanzania. Her research has made remarkable discoveries, uncovering the once unknown lives of wild chimpan

Sonolegna Discovering The Sonelegna Highly secretive “mystery religions” of the Sonelegna can be hypothesized to have caused the major temples of their urban center to have distinctive architectural characteristics. But more widespread magical beliefs and ritual folk practices can, by the same token, be theorized to account for the Sonelegna’s frequent repetition of architectural el

Switzerland Switzerland is a politically neutral country located in Central Europe, north of Italy (Switzerland was involved in neither world war.) It is a landlocked country slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey, and is also referred to as “Confederatio Helvetica” (abbreviated to CH.) It is bordered on the west by France, on the north by Germany, on the east by Austria, and

Thai Marriage One of the most important moments in a person’s life after birth is marriage. This is a special moment when a man and woman decide to unite in a bond that will influence them for the rest of their lives. However, marriage rituals and tradition vary from culture to culture. Even among people of the same race, ethnic or linguistic heritage can diversify. Like most cultur

The Amish Amish Culture The past five weeks in my life have really had an impact on me. In such a short period of time, I have become more aware of the different cultures that exist around the world today. We tend to think that our way of life is the only way there is, or at least the only right way. It is really very ignorant to think that everyone believes and behaves the same way.

The Age Of The Great Sphinx The age of the Sphinx has been a controversial issue in Egyptology for the past ten years or so. Nobody is sure exactly who built the Sphinx nor are they exactly sure when it was built. Of course Egyptologists say they have a certain time frame it must have been built in, but what exactly do they have to back that up' I believe the Sphinx has to be older than

The Caste System The Caste System The caste system of social segregation cannot be corrected by merely climbing the social ladder. In a caste system, one is born into a particular caste. In India there are four major castes and many sub-castes of those. These classifications have been followed for thousand of years. People do not question these classifications; they are woven into the

The Aztecs The Aztecs are Native American people who created a rich civilization and powerful empire in central and southern Mexico from the 14th to the 16th century. They were one of the largest and most advanced Indian nations to ever exist on earth. The Aztecs life style was better than many Europeans of that time but they lacked the military technology of the Europeans. The Aztec nat

The Cultural Transformation Of Cricket In the 19TH century the European missionaries invaded the Trobriand islands. The Trobriand island is located off the coast of New Papua-New Guinea. The Trobriand’s were a tribe who had a strong culture, and held warfare as a high importance. During the invasion of the Europeans the Trobriand’s were forced to set aside their “barbarous” rituals and

The Culture Of Fear Barry Glassner’s The Culture of Fear is a critique of pre-nine/eleven American culture. Published in 1999 by Basic Books, The Culture of Fear exposed Americans to their own misplaced fears. This book offers a new perspective of the American media machine and its effective fear mongering techniques. Barry Glassner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sout

The Devil And Commodity Fetishism In South America This essay discusses Michael Taussig's ethnography of plantation and tin mine workers in South America in his book, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America. The work deals mainly with the structure of society and the problems existing among the Columbian plantation workers and the Peruvian and bolivian tin mine workers when

Analysing Movement Into and Idententity in the Gothic Subculture ANALYSING MOVEMENT INTO AND IDENTITY IN THE GOTHIC SUBCULTURE TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. Introduction 1 1.1 History 1 1.2 Identification of problem 1 1.3 Objectives 2 1.4 Importance o

The Great Egyptian Pyramids: How And Why Were They Built Built about 2,600 years before Christ, the Great Egyptian Pyramids are the oldest and only remaining of the Seven Wonders of the World. In all, there are 110 pyramids in Egypt, most unrecognizable, but only one being the “Great Pyramid.” However, all of these structures were huge for their time, and we are still attempting to figur

The Life Of Olaudah Equiano, ACK Gustavus Vassa, The African In the following essay I am determined to leave my reader with not just the material I’ve been asked to cover, but with the excitement of Equiano’s love for god and life it self that has overwhelmed me when reading his accumulated journal entries. Within this paper I have been requested to address four specific questions which

The Navaho: A Brief Overview The Navajo The Navajo religion is, like most Native American religions, based on animism, or the belief that the earth is a living organism and it, and all of its parts (such as trees, rocks and animals), has a soul or spirit. Moreover, the Earth has organs and blood, the same as a person or animal. Certain geological formations might be her stomach or her

The Navajo Dine (the people) is what the Navajo call themselves in their own language. Until 1969, non natives called these people “Navaho,” but is now spelled Navajo. The Spanish borrowed the word Navahu meaning “the valley in which there are fields.” The Navajo speak a language that belongs to the Athopaskan language group. Which most of Athopaskan languages are found in central Al

Incas: Empire The Inca Empire The Incas were one of the mightiest and the largest empires in the whole of America. They were called the Incas which roughly meant “the ruling people”, and we first find them just north of Lake Titicaca in the 1200’s, in what today is southern Peru. This occurred at the same time as the Aztecs (mexica) entered Mexico from the north, and Chinggis Khan beg

Sorrow Of The Lonley Food and Reciprocity The question I will answer involving the Sorrow of the Lonley and Burning of the Dancers is what the behvior beliefs and differences are in the sharing of food with others in Kaluli society and our American society. I will begin by talking about how Kaluli treat each other when it come to giving and receiving. Next, I will elaborate on how