Essays on Culture

Last year in fall, I had the chance to go to Montreal for a few days during reading week to see my boyfriend. At that time he told me about a current lantern exhibition where he wanted to take me to. He has been there...

Traditional Indian medicine is full of wonders. Plant-based healing agents and herbo-minerals are being used to heal a variety of diseases since ancient times. Shilajit is one of them, a unique herbo-mineral preparation used for millennia around Asia and Europe. It is extensively used in...

In today’s globalized world an ever-increasing number of people find themselves at the interface of cross-cultural situations, which requires appropriate personal resources and adequate learning perspectives to deal with the ensuing challenges. When approaching to the election we found that high levels of individuals’ intercultural...

In British society, culture cannot be underestimated. This is because it is very important in the life of people working in any organization. The major fact is the way culture might result to communication breakdown like in Glenmore Hotel because of this, it is very...

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...

In the Ethnography: Wisdom from a Rainforest, by Stuart A. Schlegel, he described a large number of cultural practices. He went from describing the time when the whole Figel community got together to plant rice seeds to giving a short speech to the spirits when...

Have you ever experienced an urge to visit the magnificent locales by watching it on the silver screen? As per some recent research done in UK, films have been seen as a medium that can influence the destination choice for travelers. As per Macionis and...

Tracing back to the origin of sushi, it is surprising that its history is not far away. During the Yanbao period of the Edo period (1673 to 1680). Kyoto’s doctor Matsumoto Shinji put a variety of seafood vinegar together. Then, eat it with rice. It...

This paper is going to examine the connections between national cuisine and identity. Some foods are so identified with a country that it is difficult to imagine that country without talking about that particular food. Sometimes a cuisine can even be used to soften international...

Paul Walker was born on September 12, 1973, in California. “His mother was a fashion model while his father was a sewer contractor and a fighter”. Walker was raised in the Sunland in Los Angeles and went to high school at San Fernando Valley. After...