Cultural region

Harry Spiegel Professor Tani Sanchez AFAS 371 7 April 2017 Feel The Noise and Step Up Cultural assimilation is defined as the “process by which a person or a group’s language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group”. (Webster) A good example of this is when someone from a foreign country immigrates to the United States and learns and eventually becomes a part of the American culture. Appropriation is defined as “taking something for one’s own use” (Webster). An example of…

At the critical age of thirteen, I, like all other thirteen-year-olds, transitioned from childhood into adolescence; unlike most thirteen-year-olds, however, I had the pleasure of experiencing one of those Earth-shattering revelations that rattled the foundations of the world I perceived, and this newfound lens would alter my understanding of… well, everything. My mother has always been adamant that her children, though born and raised in the United States, remain connected to their roots.…

In Paige West’s ethnographic piece, the use of cultural relativism is clear as she recognizes the different notions obtained by the U.S. government and the Gimi people of Papa New Guinea concerning space, reciprocity, lands, relationship to nature. For the Gimi, “land comes into being; it is produced…

Christal Padilla March 23, 2017 ANTHC 213 In his ethnography “Outlawed, Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian city”, Daniel M. Goldstein paints a vivid and important portrait of security, government, and community within the Bolivian town of Cochabamba. Like most other anthropologists, Goldstein takes an in-depth exploration and examination of the marginalized people of Cochabamba who at often times find themselves sacrificing their basic human rights in exchange for the luxury of…

song from the Cultural Revolution. Due to the fact that the song is written in complex diction, younger students may be incapable of understanding the message hidden within the song. Furthermore, because no author is provided and no organization in listed, the information found may not be completely accurate. Therefore, only the song itself, an artifact of the Cultural Revolution, should be interpreted by the reader. The song provides awareness into the arts allowed during the Cultural…

only does art and music become hindered when cultural appropriation is shunned, but so does personal expression. For instance, it is a human right in the United States to express oneself freely, whether that expression be of religion, language, or even as simple as hairstyles. In March of 2016, a video taken at San Francisco State University went viral when an African American student confronted a white student with dreadlocks, accusing him of cultural appropriation. The black girl, Bonita…

Mao Zedong had trouble gaining power and rising through the ranks of the Communist Party in the early nineteen thirties. With Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist army closing in on the Communist forces, the Chinese Communist Party was in need of a new leader. The Long March was the event that made Mao Zedong the clear leader of the Chinese Communist Party and later the People’s Republic of China. Mao Zedong, or Tse-tung, was born in a small, isolated village in Hunan Province on December 26th,…

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Hahn (1995:262-293), discusses ethnomedicine and anthropological medicine almost interchangeable, they are one in the same. There are several theories and practices included in anthropological medicine, the most important if the practitioners understanding of a distinct culture, subcultures, and how they differ if beliefs, importance, and understanding of different sicknesses. Hahn (1995:267-269, breaks down the theory of anthropological medicine into three distinct categories. First, sickness…

Clash of Cultural Appreciation Ideals Culture appreciation is a controversial topic in America it is often easily outburst by many different opinions, the different opinions arrive from not having a standard guideline that outlines a common definition of cultural appreciation and how to go about it. In his Article “This is How We Don’t: The Raised Stakes of Cultural Appropriation,” Rex outlines how he views cultural appreciation to be nothing more but stealing one’s identity, he refutes author,…