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The First Civilizations
Chapter 1-The First Civilizations: the Peoples of Western Asia and Egypt
I. The first humans; Australopithecines
A. The earliest humanlike creatures (hominids)
2. First to make stone tools
3. Oldest known tool: knife blade (2.6 million yea...
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Incas: 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 1200s, in what today is southern Peru. This occurred at the sam...
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In Search Of Respect
It appears that the primary theoretical orientation used in Bourgois book is based on cultural production theory and also draws on feminism. Or put in his own words, he seeks to confront the contradictions of the politics of representation of social marginalization ...
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Mexican Families
There are many similarities, as well as differences, in the structure of the Mexican family as compared to the United States. Unlike in the U.S., where children are encouraged to leave the family home after graduation from high school or college, in Mexico children are ex...
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Anthropology report
Progress undermines African culture
I read an article on how tourist and Christians are changing the African culture. According to Mr Opondo, tourism is effecting huge changes in the lives of people in the Kigezi highlands. He said, "The tourists who come to enjoy...
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Culture Report
The Kalapalo Indians of Central Brazil are one of a few surviving indigenous cultures that is uniquely protected by a national reserve in lowland South America. Through no effort of there own, they have been isolated artificially from Brazilian social and economic influence...
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Racial Profiling
Racial Profiling can be defined as the identification of racial factors, such as skin color, hair texture, facial structure, physical attire, gender, spoken language, accent, or religion. As noted above, there are many ways in which someone can be racially profile. Raci...
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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 husbands absolute authority. Many wom...
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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...
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Culture
CULTURE What is culture? Culture includes language, ideas, beliefs, customs, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, and works of art, rituals, and ceremonies, among other elements. The existence and use of culture depends upon ability possessed by humans alone. This ability has b...
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Ancient Futures
In a world of constant change and development, it is rare to come across a civilization that still operates in the same fashion as it once did in what is commonly named the pre-technology age. Helena Norberg-Hodge did just that as she dedicated a significant portion of ...
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The Navaho: A Brief Overview
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, t...
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Aztec Indains
The Aztec Indians, who are known for their domination of southern and central Mexico, ruled between the 14th and 16th centuries. They built a great empire and developed very modernized ways of doing things. They had phenomenal architectural skills and waterway systems. The A...
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Louisiana Creoles
The term Creole means many things to many people. It originates from the Latin word creare which means create. The Webster Dictionary states that a Creole is a white person of French or Spanish descent. Which means that Creoles are descendants of French and Spanish se...
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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 Trobriands were a tribe who had a strong culture, and held warfare as a high importance. During...
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The Husband/wife Realationship
In the husband-wife relationship: variation in love, intimacy, and sexual jealousy. The article describes cross-cultural differences in how married couples act towards one another. In American culture, love is seen as the most important aspect of marria...
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Online Gaming Gender Issues
Anthropology 98 Trevor Nelson 14804722
Role-playing games and their failure to escape from social subjectivity in their dealings with gender.
For many people the purpose of games is to escape reality. Specifically role-p...
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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 thousa...
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The Tonowi
The Kapauku people are found in the western area of the island New Guinea. They are an egalitarian tribe-level society whose complexities of trade are significantly linked to their political infrastructure of the big man system. The Kapauku people are a unique society becaus...
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Ptolemeic Egypt and the Falcon of Horus
Ptolemaic Egypt and the Falcon of Horus
The ancient Egyptian society is often referred to as one of the greatest civilizations to have influenced the world. Not only is their stretch of continuous success over time impressive, but the art and tech...
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Classifications Of Foods
According to Jelliffe, the worlds foods fall into five main classifications.
First are the Cultural super foods. These foods supply the major caloric load for a peoples. Some excellent examples of these types of foods include rice as a staple food in India ...
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Asian Americans
Asian neighborhoods attract immigrants as they offer a like community from where the immigrants left. They can live in an area where everyone speaks the same language, they can find restaurants and grocery stores with the foods theyre used to. They can find clothing and ...
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Double Talk
William D. Lutzs article on Language, Appearance, and Reality: Doublespeak in 1984, is about the disguising of words to make sentences more appropriate. What I mean here by more appropriate, is the notion that people can say something using misleading words to get the...
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Parties And Politics
You enter the area where the festivity is to take place everything has been decorated flawlessly and each person is dressed in extravagant costume. The feast and gifts are on careful display - the design is to impress, but not offend (overtly in any event). The host...
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Stronger, Faster, We Have The Adapdability
Stronger, Faster, Better, we have the adaptability
Moments before its life is abruptly ended, a particularly sneaky and cleaver mosquito pushes its needle into the back of a man who lives in Africa. Unfortunately for our African friend, the mo...
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