Economic anthropology

culturally congruent care by tailoring patient care to fit the patient’s need. This theory holds that values, beliefs, and practices are influenced by ones’ worldview, language, philosophy, religion, kinship, social, political, legal, educational, economic, technological, ethnohistorical, and environmental context (Alligood, 2014). As a result, patient care should be holistic, individualizing care plan to fit the needs of each…

Feminist and oral history research investigates both cultural and social relationships within the larger context of historical events, economic pressures, and political environments (Buch 107). Ethnographies illuminate the connections and patterns that exist within the studied subjects’ social lives, including intricacies related to work, family, language, spirituality, among others. Unlike other forms of research which create distance between researcher and subject, ethnography relies heavily…

DOING ETHNOMUSICOLOGY REFLECTION In this reflective essay, I intend to broadly outline a range of pertinent questions, issues and methodologies in ethnomusicology, and their relevance across the disciplines. The seminars were guided more in a way of deep contemplation on global concerns and musical customs rather than hypothesis driven inquiries, introducing us to a vast array of literature in a highly interactive and interdisciplinary environment. I made some rousing discoveries in my assigned…

Their culture started to evolve and change such as their exchange systems, social control (legal systems), and religious systems. These cultures practiced reciprocal economic behavior. They specifically practiced generalized reciprocity, meaning that those who give to others don’t expect anything back in return. This is usually what is practiced in families, and these bands and cultures where very close like families…

wanted without any return. Now we will see how goods and services are applied to this concept. Economic not only includes exchange, it is the production, distribution and consumption of goods. When one considers that all economic goods will directly meet the basic needs of life in the area studied and the material means necessary to produce these things, he is using the procedure to recognize economic values. Also, he using his inside knowledge. This chapter went on the say how these concepts…

Stepheny Saavedra Anthropology 340 Dec. 1, 2016 “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” is one of the many cases that exemplify the barriers and obstacles people from distinct cultures encounter due to their ethnocentrism and lack of cultural relativism. After escaping to the U.S., a place completely different from what they called home, the Lees had to adapt and place their trust on strangers (to save their daughter) who viewed a condition with spiritual origin to the Hmong as a…

society function and interacts with one another. () Tourism and anthropology have been becoming more dependently on each other as time has gone on. With tourism there has been positive economical factors given to communities, tourist becomes aware of the ethical, environmental and political factors when they travel to a new destination. This is how tourism interlocks…

art historian, I couldn’t help but be reminded of art historic definitions of modernity and it’s the problematic idea of primitivism that was inherent in it. I was reminded of this because Arnaquq-Baril’s work reminded me of the notion of salvage anthropology in the 20th century. Anthropologists felt that native culture and native traditions were dying out. As a result, there a rush to record these traditions and ways of life before they became extinct. What struck me as ironic was the fact that…

earth undergoing a succession of global disasters, e.g. floods, earthquakes and changes to the earths crust. Inherently, this brought upon mass extinction to all life forms and later new life forms appeared. In the realm of physical or biological anthropology, the center focus is the study of evolution of humans, their changeability and adaptations to handle environmental…

There are many subfields in Anthropology. One of them is cultural anthropology, which is the study of individual cultures mostly through participant observation, living in a culture or learning a culture different from your own. Cultural anthropology seeks to learn and compare cultures to help us as humans understand each other and recognize our diversity (Cloak, Jr., F. T., 1968). Basically, one cannot fully understand a culture without looking at all the features (the whole picture). One of…