Economic anthropology

these partners sailed to another island, where they brought back their Kula shells from their partners in residence on that island.” Understand the Trobriander’s economic side of the culture can help us to understand how the traditional Kula exchange, yams, skirt, and bundles can show us how some individuals when from tradition economic to modern…

For four years during my undergrad I had the privilege of studying Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. When I started college, I believed that I would be pursuing a career in the museum world as a curator or in museum administration. However, my interests in the justice system along with my background in Anthropology conflicted with that goal of working in a museum setting until I found that I could have a career involving both of my areas of study. My…

The difference between equity and equality is that equity is about looking at inequalities in our classrooms, making changes to reflect or support the needs and strengths of various ethnic groups. While educational equality is that each student is being handed the same test with the same material at the same time. Equity is a mindset because it involves looking and notices inequalities in the classroom and choosing not to ignore them. One way that I will ensure equity in my classroom is by…

As we approach the summer of 2016, the issue of immigration in the Western world has yet to lose momentum; whether Donald Trump is arguing to build a wall on the Mexican border in the U.S. or European parties against immigration are gaining traction, it’s become clear that opposition to multiculturalism is currently rampant. German chancellor Angela Merkel is under fire for the number of refugees being let into this country; but perhaps her actions are serving one of her oldest goals, true…

individuals. There could also be certain implementations that could be put into place in order to mitigate the negatives and embolden the positive attributes laptops bring into the classrooms. Methods The goal of the project is to understand analyze the impact of personal computers and tablets have on the education of U.S college and university students and how they are used in classrooms. I am particularly interested in how computers are used either to aid education or are they a distraction…

D. The Impact of Literacy The existence of literacy can impact people who have it or around someone who apply it in their life. The impact can be in their personality or psychology, sociology relating to their social, economic and political status and also interpersonal relationship with others. 1. Impact on the personality Amory in TSOP is deeply affected by his ability in reading and writing. He becomes an over-confident person, a man with a high self-esteem and thinks that he has a superior…

Introduction It is considered that language is like “a mirror image of society” or “a system of measurement to evaluate the social perceptions” in various aspects of human life in different societies at different historical timeline. (Khang, 2011). Social changings push the development of language to recognize and reflect those movements. Beside social factors, cultural background, the growth of economy, education… gender also has a huge impact on the way of using language between two groups…

interesting part is the poor perspectives of scientist who do not validate a different path taken by ethnographer that is not guided by the scientific method. For example, “the term ‘ethnography’ is not listed in the index of Education and Culture: Anthropology Approaches (1963). In the over view of the article by George Spindler, the Anthropologist is not describe as an ethnographer but rather as a consultant, as a research whose greater contribution is the holistic approach to research an…

What is time? Time is a measure used to identify the order of events. Like the fish in water example it seems that time is natural and we do not notice it is manmade. We seem to have become so used to this idea that we do not think of time as something that is socially constructed. Social constructions of time is a way we try to giver order to our world. Time is a “social process of coordinating two or more human activities by reference to an external marker.” What we think of time is in…

At the time of Tom Boellstorff’s (2007) article ‘Queer Studies in the House of Anthropology,’ little anthropological research had been undertaken in the realm of non-normative sexualities and genders in non-western contexts. Along with this, there was a lack of scholarship on female non-normative sexualities in both western and non-western contexts. Boellstorff (2007:21) argued that this gap in anthropological research was due to a range of factors; particularly the continued barriers women face…