Economic anthropology

the trial of Rios Montt in Guatemala, the multidisciplinary approach proved pivotal in the conviction of Montt. Together Beatriz Manz, a social anthropologist and international eyewitness, Elizabeth Oglesby, a geographer, Clyde Collins Snow, an anthropology and archaeology consultant, and several others of different disciplines were able to bring the first…

How far was racism a dominant feature of British Society from 1958-79? The colour bar of the 1950s showed that racism was still a dominant part of society. The Colour Bar was a form of direct racism where unions, employers and the government all took part in refusing minority races services and employment. For example, during the 1950s, unions and management in business such as Ford enforced a quota system where 95% of jobs had to go to white people. This suggested a dominant racist society as…

Framing and Methodologies Crucial foundations exist in each theory that grant assumptions permitting conclusions to be drawn. Built upon this are methodologies that then are inherently influenced by a theory’s foundation. Configurational anthropology’s underlying assumption is that of cultural relativity, which has structured both the temporal and spatial alignment of the theory. Cultural relativity states that the beliefs and activities of a culture cannot be judged out of context. To ground…

POST #2 Watching Carlos lecture on recitatif, this is an informative and gives us a wider view of how racism goes about and how we are all participants in it no matter what we perceive ourselves to be. He starts by giving us two names and ask us to pick which race the two belong too. And he gives you a few seconds to make your judgment. He then says, if you made a judgement or even thought about who belongs to what race, its shows you identify with race. I will agree with him on that, because if…

Read Chapter 4" Collaboration with Families" and Chapter 5 "Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Issues in Education". Respond to the following: Q 1 | Why is it so important for teachers to understand culturally relevant pedagogy? Culturally relevant pedagogy promotes cultural acceptance and awareness in the classroom environment. It is effective in supporting the student(s) cultural identity and helps the student(s) develop perspectives that challenge inequalities in schools and society. This…

Kalow’s fieldwork to develop a documentary is common in the collaboration in interdisciplinary modern anthropology (Seymour-Smith, 1986). Kalow’s central premise was to show the underlying causes of child homelessness and the day-to-day life of the runaways. Kalow’s fieldwork uncovered the elements of normalcy in the children’s lives rather than demonising the runaways through a focus on teen prostitution, drug use and adolescent alcoholism (Kalow, 1996, p.60). Both Kalow and Malinowski’s…

in an earlier portion of the book “in the void left in our understanding of ourselves by biology lays the whole of anthropology.” Now we are left to seek the validity of this statement. In Sahlins text The Use and Abuse of Sociobiology, he argues that certain elements of human nature and civilization cannot be reduced to biological principles; moreover the importance of anthropology as a science is its significant contribution to understanding the variety and unity of human cultures. While I…

From the day a person is born, that is when he or she starts to develop their own voice. A person’s voice is a powerful attribute, one can tell what kind of person he or she is talking to based on his or her voice. One’s voice that he or she obtains helps defeine who he or she is. The voice a person has in the beginning of their life, is influenced by how he or she was raised. In Zadie Smith’s essay “Speaking in Tongues” she disscusses how when people grow older they are exposed to people that…

How do we understand the social world? This is one of the prominent questions in sociology that can be answered by sociological perspectives. Preceding the question is the definition of sociology along with briefly exploring its development throughout the 15th to 19th century to expound on the importance of its study. After defining and understanding sociological theories as the fundamentals of sociology, a scenario will be used to analyze and apply their principles. How sociology can…

In the chapter, “What Does It Mean to Be Human,” from the book, Ten Questions, Joel Charon describes the characteristics that define human beings and make them different from other species. Namely, human beings are defined by our social and cultural nature. (32) According to Charon, being social is essential to our survival because our identity is dependent on how we socialize with others. Charon defines socialization as the “the process by which the various representatives of societyㄧparents,…