Everyone shops. We all have the urge to buy things for ourselves whether we need them or not. Most stores we shop at have surveillance equipment to protect themselves, and the customer, should a crime occur. Since the customer is filmed someone out there figured why not study this footage and that is where Retail Anthropology comes in. As The Free Dictionary online states, “Retail Anthropology [is] the study of consumers ' shopping habits in order to choose the best locations for new retail…
The Current State of New Zealand Tourism: Years ago, if someone mentioned New Zealand in a sentence, they wouldn’t know where it is or what you were talking about. Now New Zealand has grown, and is still growing today. One of the biggest reason now that New Zealand has been recognized more is because of our tourism industry. Tourism is one of New Zealand’s biggest export industries earing $11.8 billion of New Zealand’s current exchange earnings. New Zealand has a reputation of this clean green…
by ethnicity when observed in a diverse multicultural place such as Westminster mall? This paper describes my ethnographic work and study of the people I analyzed at Westminster mall on April 28, 2016. In the Cultural Anthropology book Welsch and Vicanco state that “Since the 1960’s cultural anthropologists have focused more intensively on the symbolic lives of people in all societies. I learned that there is many types of ethnicities and every ethnicity does particular things differently.…
Overflowing with dramatization, grievousness and loathsomeness, this phenomenal family story of life and death mirrors China 's century of turbulence through the eyes of Jung Chang 's three generations of family: her grandmother, mother and inevitably a life account of herself. In this book, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, we get to see the painful effects of Mao’s personality cult, and his painful policies. At age of two, Yu-fang, Jung Chang 's grandmother had her feet bounded. She was…
Have you ever had the fantasy on traveling around the world? Have you ever had any imagination about the friendly local people you meet during traveling or the stunning natural sceneries of some foreign countries? The answer for me is yes. Apart from that, photo-taking is one of my favorite hobbies and I am always dreaming to use my special camera angle to record the beauty of the nature, the precious moments and deliver the lifestyles of different cultures and countries. I had an opportunity to…
positive or even negative relationship. Specifically, environment as a stimulus to tourism, constraints to tourism, tourism impacts on environment and etc. (Hall, 1999). According to Stefanica & Butnaru (2013), the environment by its natural such as cultural-historical, social climate potential build the motivation of tourist to travel, and this statement are slightly same with Dan push and pull factor. Tourist will more likely choose to survey…
(Richard Sharpley, 2014) . It has strong links to cultural and social studies, foreign policy initiatives, economic development, environmental goals and sustainable developments and it embrace nearly all aspects of the society beyond physical development and marketing (David L., et, al, 2008). The interaction between tourists and poor communities can provide a number of intangible and practical benefits. These can range from increased awareness of cultural, environmental, and economic issues…
An unforgettable experience is an event that has a great impact on a person’s life (An Unforgettable Experience, 1969). The experiences that I want to share are the trip in Taman Negara and Redang Island. Firstly, I would like to introduce the two tourist attraction, Taman Negara and Redang Island, which I visited before going into the essay. Taman Negara was established as King George V National Park in 1938. Then, the park was renamed to Taman Negara after independence. Taman Negara, two words…
Cultural Revolution happened from 1966 to 1976, it also called “The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Phillips, 2016). The main persons of the Cultural Revolution are Mao Zidong, Liu Shaoqi and also the gang of four. Furthermore, it was a decade-long period of political and social chaos, which caused by Mao Zedong’s order, to use the Chinese masses to reassert his control over the Communist Party(Phillips, 2016). In the following, to introduce the background of Cultural Revolution,…
changes are in the way that ethnography is written and described. As previously discussed postmodern theory was characterized by a shift of agency back to the subjects of the ethnography allow individuals to talk and provide narratives of their own cultural practices. This was no previously down by early anthropologists such as Malinowski. The postmodern anthropologists shifted from have a descriptive almost god…