Anthropological categories of peoples

In Between: An examination of three anthropologists’ moments of liminality Liminality is a term used in anthropology to describe a period of transition concerning social structure and understanding. Liminality consists of a pre-liminal state, a liminal period, and a communitas state. The pre-liminal state is characteristically defined as a time when events occur under specific conditions that start to press against an individual’s normal social structure and thought process. The liminal period…

Gender affects many aspect of language, it changes the way people speak as well as the way people perceive others. It is also one of the categories base on which people can divide not only themselves but also their social position or use of language. Language is made out of several elements that make is whole. Those elements are called syntactic, phonological, morphological and semantic. Syntax is a set of rules that control grammatical structure of a sentence and it'sits processes. Study of…

Over the context of this paper, I will observe and implement my own culture through a magnifying glass to get a perspective of an outsider, and I will compare an aspect of another culture from an insider’s perspective in order to become more aware with the motivations behind the practice. Specifically, I will discuss the condition of higher education in America, contrasted with the practice of polygyny among African families to show how Sub-Saharan Africans view as “normal” in a larger context,…

There cannot be a universal definition of religion. In The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category in Theories of Religion, Talal Asad challenges Clifford Geertz 's specific definition of religion, arguing that specific, fixed definitions of religion are problematic because they tend to be based in the definers experiences with knowledge of a particular tradition, such as with Catholicism. Asad 's work has convinced me that it is pointless to try to establish a universal…

is enforced, the individual who breaks the rule is seen as one of a kind, someone unique; someone who cannot be trusted to live by the rule agreed by the group. This individual is regarded as an outsider; thus always subsequently judged. A few people would assume that to a large extent, men who have sex with other men have been negatively labelled…

understanding of race and color. With the books info on Japanese culture, and the scientific evidence, it became clear that skin color only matters a the cellular level. That our stereotypes and shared pectinous are only geographically unique and actions that people share are ruminates of their ancestors culture, or even their current culture. I feel that have grown as a human being and am becoming more tolerant of different races, that my perception of race should not be based on phenotypical…

QUESTION ONE [55 POINTS] Many different factors are involved in determining the race of an individual. Ultimately, race is a social construct, and people may self-identify as a different race than what they would seem to others (this is supported by the Modern Sociological Concept of Race). However, for a period in American history, litigating the race of someone was very important-it could be the difference between life and death if they were charged with a crime, or civilly they could sue…

Religion, states "It is apparent that religion can be seen as a theological, philosophical, anthropological, sociological, and psychological phenomenon of human kind. To limit religion to only one of these categories is to miss its multifaceted nature and lose out on the complete definition." Religion is a very broad concept, which causes it to have many different definitions and meanings for different people. In A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines, Grant struggles with questions of…

to do much with the land/environment but, Paleolithic peoples who stayed and created settlements learned how to manipulate the land to their benefit. In the end both societies were vital to progress of mankind and steps to building the society we are currently living…

One of the first schools of thought within the discipline was that of Evolutionism which looked at the sociocultural aspects of society through the lens of scientific method, “treating sociocultural phenomena as part of nature, subject to its laws” (Barrett, 2011, p49). Evolutionists believed that culture is purposeful and functional, and it will progress along a unilinear scheme, from savagery to civilization. Its gaze was entirely ethnocentric and anthropologists of this time relied on…