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FAMILY: AN INSTITUTION OF CULTURE AND PART OF HUMAN

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:06:53 UT

Family is one kind of social micro unit. Most of the time when a person thinks of the definition of a family, the image of a mother, father and children is what comes into the mind. That is actually the definition of a nuclear family, which is parents, and one or more children.

CONCEPTS OF CULTURE

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:48:45 UT

It is the holistic emphasis of cultural anthropology that distinguishes it most clearly from other related disciplines. For example, an anthropologist may focus his or her research on a particular dimension of culture, such as religion or political organization, but that dimension will also be described in terms of its relationship to the "complex whole" of the local culture.

RELATIONSHIP OF GEAN,HUMAN BODY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:36:43 UT

In modern sense, by ‘evolution’ is meant any change in the heredetary endowments. An understanding of the biological processes all for understanding the concept of ‘GENE’ which is vital to life process.

Anthropologist Pruetz's discovery inspiring young adventurers, scientists, photographers and storytellers

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:32:15 UT

Hunting tools used in Pruetz's discovery are on display in the collection of artifacts found in the main lobby of National Geographic's headquarters. They are also expected to be included in a Smithsonian Institution exhibit in 2009, according to Richard Potts, director, Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian.

RESEARCH AND LIFE HISTORY: FACING THE CHALLENGES OF NEW ETHNOGRAPHY

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:14:23 UT

Symbolic interactionism developed from the same tradition and yielded several excellent sociological ethnographies, including Shared Fantasy by Gary Alan Fine, which documents the early history of fantasy role-playing games. But even though many sub-fields and theoretical perspectives within sociology use ethnographic methods, ethnography is not the sine of the discipline, as it is in cultural anthropology.

AUTONOMY OF RURAL WOMEN IN PEASANT COMMUNITIES

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:36:56 UT

In the backdrop of such development it remains to address the dimension of autonomy so far as rural women are concerned. Arguably peasants still nourish conservative attitudes to folk women. Structural and symbolic violence originating from custom, scriptures and pre-existing values tend to undermine women's autonomous status at home and outside the residential locus.

STRUCTURALISM AND LEVI-STRAUSS: A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PARADIGM

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:25:28 UT

In the very beginning of anthropology, the theorists believed in the universality of cultural stages stemming from the psychic unity of mankind. When anthropology developed as an empirical science, evolutionism was replaced by functionalism negating the prior assumption. Later in the mid-twentieth century French anthropologist as well as philosopher Levi-Strauss introduced a new and different theoretical model in the study of culture named ‘Structuralism’.

ANTHROPOLOGY: THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF MAN AND HIS CULTURE AND HEALTH

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:24:23 UT

If a patient is not of the same ethnic or social class as the doctor, there might be problems understanding each other's cultural perceptions of health, Cashdan said. She thinks if doctors want to help patients change their health-related behaviors, they need to understand where their patients are coming from, and anthropology teaches that.

1947: PARTITION OF SELF, LIFE AND IDENTITY

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:17:26 UT

More recently, revisionist historiography and anthropology, as well as state governments, have begun to examine the experience of refugees and migrants, focusing particularly on the experiences of ordinary people, women and children, who were witness to violence and who became refugees of Partition.

“ECOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A HISTORICAL READER”

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:53:33 UT

A field such as ecological anthropology is particularly relevant to contemporary concerns with the state of the general environment. Anthropological knowledge has the potential to inform and instruct humans about how to construct sustainable ways of life. Anthropology, especially when it has an environmental focus, also demonstrates the importance of preserving cultural diversity.

CURRENT THEORETICAL TRENDS IN ANTHROPOLOGY

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:58:38 UT

However, as a scientific discipline anthropology is equipped with different concepts, theories and methods and with the involvement of biologists, scientists and other scholars anthropological thought started to develop more full-fledgedly in the middle of the 19th century.

COMMERCIAL SEX WORKERS IN URBAN BANGLADESH

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:51:52 UT

The situation of prostitution practices by commercial sex workers in a traditional, illiterate and Islamic bonded society like Bangladesh is much more severe and discriminated in a very unintended manner.

CULTURAL IMPERIALISM: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE POST-COLONIAL DISCOURSE IN ANTHROPOLOGY

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:09:46 UT

At present, along with its conventional field of research, anthropology has turned its attentions towards information technology, digital revolution, globalization, capitalism, imperialism, and aggression etc. and their cultural construction in a new unipolar world.

Forensic anthropology exhibition at UTK

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:06:07 UT

The idea for a forensic anthropology exhibit was first proposed in late summer of 2007, and the design was laid...

Why forensic anthropology is so important?

'ABSENCES AND SEAMLESS WHOLES': ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION AND IMPERIALISM IN STUDIES OF BANGLADESH SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:20:07 UT

Bangladesh scholars dealing with the colonial period have largely looked at imperialism as an economic system and have relied on the notion of exploitation to examine processes of inequality; these particular conceptualizations have contributed to the absence of a critical examination of social and cultural processes in eastern Bengal during the colonial period.