Essays on Cultural Anthropology

In collectivist cultures, there is a tendency to regulate through injecting feelings of shame guilt and culpability. A constructive discussion will highlight the child’s wrong doing as a violation of a rule to assure that they would properly behave the next time when dealing with...

The Jews who flocked to England following the Norman Conquest “remained sharply separated from, at any rate, the common people around them by peculiarities of speech, habits and daily life”. Such dissimilarities “aroused dread and hatred in an ignorant and superstitious age”. Charging interest for...

‘You are what you eat’ – it is the phase your mom told you when you were young and did not wanted to eat your vegetables. But how does food as well as this phase demonstrate itself in other cultures? ‘Next to breathing, eating is...

While one might initially presume an article about polio would belong to the field of biological anthropology; I feel that it can be argued that this topic intersects with both the biological and cultural anthropologic fields. As the researchers gained an understanding of why polio...

Jean Auel’s novel The Clan of the Cave Bear incorporated a wide foundation of ecological, archaeological, and anthropological data, leading it to be a realistic story of survival and hope. However, Auel used artistic license throughout the novel to express a major point in gender...

Rāhui is expressed in the Maori language as a ban or restriction on a place of conservation due to the scarcity of resources. New Zealand law has adopted this Maori concept of Rahui and can be seen in legislation as drawing on three of the...

Throughout our history persecutions of religious minorities has been commonplace in our society. Even now as we think of ourselves as enlightened individuals empowered by our circumstances, to achieve what many people would consider being perfect human beings persecution on our planet continues. Although there...

When referring to most civilizations of the past, what sparks in our minds is often its golden age. The period in which a civilization’s development in its societal structure and people reach maximum prosperity, stability and happiness. It is also commonly known to be the...

The impact of arts and paintings has been felt throughout many generations, yet one thing still stands out which is the undeniable fact that the creation of a piece of art is one of the easiest and safest means to preserve history and recall the...

This is a summary of the article “An Anthropology of Art: The Reflection on its History and Contemporary Practice” by Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins”. In the article, writers begins by addressing the definition of art, Anthropology of art is a subfield of social anthropology...