Cultural anthropology

cultures as well as the two languages structures”. Thus, realizing the source and target culture is a demand because translation is not only a linguistic process, but also a cultural transfer. Translation challenges appear because there is a cultural gap between two languages (Newmark,1988), each language group shares the same cultural aspects…

Changing Identities by Changing Places or Identity Crisis in Postmodern Novels A sociological approach to self and identity begins with the assumption that there is a reciprocal relationship between the self and society (Stryker, 41). The self has an influence upon society via the actions of the individuals, consequently creating groups, organizations, networks, and institutions. Reciprocally, society has influences the self via its common language and meanings which enables a person to…

2.0 Evaluation 2.1 Strengths and Limitations Hofstede stated that the cultural dimensions can be used to investigate national preferences. It is able explain the difference in culture different countries using various cultural dimensions. In olden times, there was so little work on culture. Cultural differences among countries were not being concerned as much as current days. International businesses were just adapting themselves to the local environment. In recent times, due to more economies…

1. Why does Mario Vargas Llosa say that “only in the cultural arena is Latin America’s integration a reality”? Llosa says, “only in the cultural arena is Latin America’s integration a reality”; he is trying to portray that cultural aspects, like writing and art, have found what “unites” Latin America, where as in other areas, such as politics, have failed to define what brings Latin America together, but more of a separation. What Llosa is portraying here is that the creators of Latin America…

Juvenile Justice Essay We are living in a society that thinks, acts and decides how they live - all in different ways. Each individual has the capacity to make their own choices. Around us we see many things happening. One of them is the juvenile violence that each day raises crimes rates, and makes the Supreme Court want to treat juveniles as adults when they commit a violent crime. In my opinion children who commit violent crimes such as murder should be treated as adults, because they…

Ideas of semiotics come from mainly two people- Charles Pierce and Ferdinand De Saussure. They often share the same thoughts. According to Johnathan Bignell (2002 p.5,6) “Semiotics or semiology, then, is the study of signs in society, and while the study of linguistic signs is one branch of it, it encompasses every use of a system where something (the sign) carries a meaning for someone”. Semiotics according to Ferdinand De Saussure refers to “The signs of life within society”. As said by…

Northrop Frye. In the beginning of 20th century, James George Frazer, the Scottish anthropologist, who first used the concept of archetype in description of myths and rituals. His masterpiece The Golden Bough in Frye’s eyes is not only a great work of anthropology but also a work of literary criticism (Frye, 2009: 109). To some degree, this book can be considered as a foundation of myth-archetypes criticism (Ye Shuxian, 2011: 4). In short, Frazer discovered the repeated phenomena as patterns of…

In our world there are so many aspects. All of the aspects are come from human life that has many contribute in this world. Those aspects are politics, economic, social, and culture. Culture is one part of the aspect that also has influence in human life. One thing that we should know about the aspect is, the aspect is so many influences in our life and other place. Not only our life, in government life, and in international life also. As well with culture, because of culture at the past some…

As a whole the world itself is a series of “fates” or “destinies” that are inevitably intertwined, the acts of one man changing the acts of another. C.W Mills believed that in order to understand the way in which one person comes to be whom they are in this world, we must look at their life through the idea of sociological imagination. Which Mills describes as something that “enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the…

social and cultural heritage is the other issues that rise after the dam construction. Based on the Brandt and Fekri Hassan (2000), cultural heritage is the community’s history that connect the society throughout times. It could be in any forms as long as it indicate the identity to certain community (Brandt & Fekri Hassan, 2000). There are two type of the cultural possession thatcould be lost due to the dam construction that are underground significant historical remains and also the cultural…