Anthropological categories of peoples

the spiritual realm. Human civilization and socialization has evolved alongside music and its influence. Music is used as an instrument of expression of human thoughts, emotions, enlightenment, injustice, and entertainment. The culture of a group of people is socially and psychologically intertwined with their musical rhythms and appreciations. Over the centuries different musical genres have shaped political and socio-cultural aspects of many nations. This paper looks at women…

daily encounters with one another” (Kimmel 2013, 139). Gender is not an essential category and there is no universally distinct characteristic that is masculine or feminine. For that reason, I chose Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies as one my favorite work because it illustrates the “attempt to mingle anthropological research work with educational planning makes the book attractive for large groups of people, but may sometimes lead the student in anthropology…

objectivity question, and (3) the crisis in anthropology and the crisis in feminism. As Abu-Lughod (1990) mentions, it is essential to define ethnography since it is ambiguous. For example, ethnography can refer as both “the activity of doing anthropological research, and more commonly, to the written results of this research, the texts or ethnographies which are now recognized as constituting a distinctive semi-literary genre” (Abu-Lughod 1990: 8-9). This question of, what is ethnography, is…

helps to look at how people experience and deal with their illness. This helps create a more holistic understanding to disease and illness experience, which helps create a more beneficial and more effective treatment plan. Because illness is better understood by looking at the social and cultural norm of a society, therefore using the experiential approach will help the treatment to standup to the social and cultural norms of that particular illness. 16. List two categories of disease. Provide…

My definition of gender was mostly formulated outside of a classroom. It’s partially based on experience; the other half is from research. Though I conceived my definition independent of school, I have read certain articles which validate my denotation. These articles include “Women’s Studies and the Question of Gender,” by Bonnie Smith, “There is no Hierarchy of Oppression,” by Audre Lorde, and “the Social Construction of Gender,” by Judith Lorber. From these articles, one may discern that…

anthropologist to ask its subjects for informal consent and interact with them in order to develop a better understanding of one’s culture. According to Dr. Mead, “I think it’s very important, if you’re going to be scientific about behavior, to give other people access to the material” (Brand 1976, 19). That is, in anthropology films are used as a visual device in order to communicate cultural ideas and perceptions. Due to the fact that producers and individuals in the filmmaking industry are…

The human species is highly diverse and there are numerous physical variations amongst individuals. It is seen when looking at populations from around the world. Take for example someone from Europe and compare him or her to someone from Africa, the differences are noticed immediately. Whether the diversity of the human species due to physical variation leads to the existence of distinct races within the species is not yet settled. The concept of race can be looked at from two standpoints; the…

According to the American Anthropological Association, anthropology is “the study of what makes us human” (2016). Unsurprisingly, there are many ways in which anthropologists have attempted to do so and have broken anthropology into four subfields; Archeology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, and Linguistic Anthropology. The father of American anthropology, Franz Boas, introduced this four-field tradition through the amassing of holistic data collection through fieldwork…

In The Disappearing Mestizo, the central question that Joanne Rappaport proposes is "when and how is someone a mestizo" (p, 4). In this analysis, I will explain about how she examines mestizaje as a negotiable category that is constructed based on the relations between class, social networking, and permeability of the gender. In terms of mestizaje, the concept makes reference to the racial mixture from a European and indigenous individuals. However, in her investigation Rappaport,…

that there is little understanding between health care policy makers and its patients, for example, “…health-system policy makers and practitioners appear to pay little heed to the importance of understanding the cultural and knowledge systems of the people they are meant to serve” ( 1997, p.148). The idea of this misunderstanding develops from the notion of different perspectives that policy makers and physicians have towards knowledge and beliefs (Pelto & Pelto, 1997, p.148). Practitioners and…