Anthropology

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. These were words of Army Bloom while commenting on the topic of marriage (Sardone 2010). Human race is a product of a family in one way or another. However, not all can be said to exist in the planet as result of marriage. They are those that were born out of wedlock and either live with one parent or have never known any of their...

Shadowed lives, by Chaves is a detailed social anthropologic ethnography of the hardships and struggles undocumented immigrants underwent in their pursuit for better lives. In a captivating creative craftsmanship, he passionately narrates the illegal immigration of the Mexicans and the Central Americans in the 1980s. It is an ethnographic account of migrations in the Northern San Diego County, California. The anecdote vividly reveals in details what immigrants seeking to make a decent living for...

The present set of reading materials deal with a number of issues relating to poverty, its measurement, macro and micro level approaches of dealing with it, and best practices to lessen its effects if not to eradicate it completely. While the articles Living Wage Considerations in the Right to Work State of South Carolina and What Do People Live On Living Wages In India undertake a macroscopic analysis of the issues discussed in the preceding paragraph, the remainder of the reading materials, viz.,...

Rastafarian religion and everything it includes and goes around is under a strict eye of Jamaican people as well as anthropologists and sociologists on the island and from nearby countries. In fact, this culture splashed out of the current residents of Jamaica (its population) moved to this place mainly from Ethiopia. Noel Leo Erskine could talk about Rasta and followers of this cult, as this author has a clear idea of what it is entirely. He could duly count down a period of time to shape the prerequisites...

Genetics may be defined as study of inheritance or heredity and variation in plants and animals (living things). There are several ways through which understanding of genetics has altered the human history course. One of these ways is the agricultural revolution through genetic engineering. Genetics has played a key role in the field of science and in particular developing techniques of nutrition and selective breeding in agricultural production. For instance, the advent of Genetically Modified...

Sometimes we tend to say things that we dont mean due to our anger, pain, shock, sadness and perhaps we might be going through psychological or mental problems. Such situations may make us not to reason with others thus leading us to act and behave in an irrational manner. This paper will seek to address instances of how irrational behavior comes about It must be said that there is no uniform standard of communication, as it all varies with different age groups culture and settings. What may be...

Polygamy is a Latin word which means a marriage form where any person has more than one spouse at a time. This is an opposition to monogamy, which means having just one spouse at a time. In case of a man who has more than one wife that relationship is called polygamy and where a woman has more than one husband at a time that relationship is called polyandry. A group marriage is one where a marriage has multiple numbers of wives and husbands. Why chose this topic The topic of polygamy even though...

What key adaptations do humans share with other primates How do humans differ from other primates Today, anthropologists recognize that both humans and apes display advanced evolutionary features, and differ equally (but in separate ways) from their common ancestor (Lewin 10). In order to further explore this idea, it will be necessary to enumerate the similarities and differences, in terms of evolutionary adaptation features, of primates and humans. First, both primates and humans (Homo sapiens)...

In the life of every human being, the cultural, ecological and biological aspects are considered to be very essential. These mainly reflect the roots and identity of an individual. In terms of adaptation, I personally believe that these three different aspects have great rapport with each other. Thus, from a personal point, the cultural, ecological and biological aspects relate with each by giving great considerations in each specific meaning and importance, as far as adaptation is concerned. I...

The 2010 Smithsonian Folklive Festival has many things to do with gender, sex, and sexuality. In fact, the whole performance falling into several core sections was patterned greatly by devoted people representing their indigenous likes and traditions. The pivotal attention on this show was likely to be grabbed to sexuality among ethnicities. Girls appreciating Sikhism or women sharing Japanese Koto music, or even men (Islanders) describing pop music and the way people should move on the stage  all...

Witchcraft and magic has been a topic of great interest in various fields including Anthropology and the Natural Sciences. This has been a great concern among the Roman Catholic Church that led to the Inquisition. Contemporary researchers attempted to shed light to the issue of witchcraft being diabolical in nature as the Roman Catholic Church has painted by documenting witch trials that happened in the early centuries in America and England. Most documented cases are from the trial records of people...

The countering of global warming is inevitable for the survival of humanity. However, the entire prospect of reducing the menace seems to be much commercialized to alarming proportions. Taking the costs incurred in the purchase carbon offsets for example, transaction directly and indirectly related to this are estimated to cost 150 Billion. The future projections even look more perturbing, standing at an estimated 3 trillion in the year 2020. The increase in the industrial prospects of the world...

The wolves of the Yellowstone region are members of the canine family and they nearly disappeared from the West by the early 1900s (Wood, 1997). In most cases, wolves are normally mistaken for domestic dogs or coyotes but they are large in shape and their snout distinguishes them from other canine species. In 1930, a federal agent killed the last indigenous wolves of Yellowstone. Following this, in 1933, the Yellowstone community adopted a policy that limited the unnecessary killing of any predators...