Anthropology

Summary David Entwistle the author of “Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity” goes into great depth in explaining the integration of psychology and Christianity by introducing different worldviews and philosophical foundations that form a relationship between psychology and Christianity. Entwistle also explains the history aspects between the two from faith and science then moves into the different models of integration explaining how they can co-exist with another. Psychology…

half of her book explained the diversity of culture each individual adopt and still practiced, which is known as the life of human. It is the affection people who shared the lane with those religion. At first, Benedict started with theoretical of anthropology is the study of human from past to present , which is discuss in the story of Boas the problems occurred being “Western Civilization,” the…

Ain Ghazal’s unique culture centered around its burial procedure, plaster statues, and everyday items. At its peak, Ain Ghazal was inhabited by around 3,000 people. The people of Ain Ghazal buried some of their dead friends and family underneath the floors of their houses, while others were put outside in the surrounding terrain. “Of those who were buried inside, the head was later retrieved and the skull buried in a separate pit below the house’s floor.” In addition to these discoveries,…

Anthropology is one of, if not the most diverse and versatile disciplines of study. There is no academic domain which is broader in area of study than anthropology, a fact which I have only recently learned. On the first day of class I had preconceived notions about anthropology, I believed it was simply the study of cultures from a subjective manner, a very cut and dry study which would not take much elaborate thought. As classes progressed, particularly once we had moved onto the study of sex,…

Is 'culture ' and 'personality ' a false dichotomy as Melford Spiro maintained? How does a person become a member of their culture? Psychological anthropology, emerging in the 1930s, questioned the relationship between the individual and society. This question became a key theme of research of so-called 'culture and personality ' theorists – a question still present within the subdiscipline today (LeVine, 2010). In positioning anthropological analysis along the two theoretical points –…

Sociologist have a crucial role in the field of anthropology. Sociologist analyze the functions of human society and how they influence members of that society. People are influence by their surroundings, norms, culture, and interaction. It would be very difficult to fully understand humans without the contribution of sociologist. The reading of this week begin with “Foundations of Sociological Thought” by Mcgee and Warms. The reading focused on some of the revolutionary minds of Sociology such…

There are many difficulties with anthropology and taking a narrow view, led me to ask at the start of the course in my tutorial presentation “Is Anthropology and Ethnography worthwhile?” Difficulties with suspicion of intellectual voyeurism such as in Margret Mead’s "Coming of Age in Samoa”, did it sell because it was scientific or because it titillated. There is difficulties as revisionist view that it is just cultural imperialism for it seems to be a western study of people under colonial…

Participant-observation is one of the key research methods in anthropology. It is often used by sociocultural anthropologists and other academics in attempt to understand as best as possible different aspects of a culture. Participant-observation is a method where researchers choose to live directly in the cultural group that they are studying. By living and immersing oneself within a culture for a long period of time, participant-observation works by allowing anthropologists to get deeper into…

For my anthropology class we were assigned to conduct an observation. While making that observation, it was important to take field notes and write up a detailed ethnographic description analyzing the interaction that was being shown. I ended up basically doing the same assignment 3 times, each having different quality of work. My first attempt I thought I have gotten a good understanding of what had to be done. I was observing the various people that purchase lottery tickets from the store.…

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 forced to create what the majority wants to see it is one’s as an…