Ethnology

Marc Augé exposes the truth about the presence of "non-places" in contemporary society due to supermondernity. Auge attempts to improve quality of anthropological research, and on a larger scale, he also contributes to our understanding of space by introducing concepts and terms that can describe the new circumstances we live in. Through this book, we can understand the space that surrounds us in the present and how it is influenced by globalisation, urbanisation and capitalism. Marc Auge's…

Have humans ever accepted their creatures and listened to them as humans? Why does an immortal declaration “All Men Are Created Equal” deny its own definition by rejecting the innocent Frankie Jr.? Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), an English novelist who was raised by a political philosopher father William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist who promoted women’s rights and education. Mary’s mother was dead when Mary was eleven days old and her father married another…

This strategy took a paradigm shift “during the period of extraordinary European ascendancy from the late Renaissance” due to the remarkable development of different scientific disciplines such as, “ethnology, comparative anatomy, philology, and history” , by means of which Westerners varnished their subjectivities with a veneer of pseudo sciences. The following passage is from a travel narrative published in 1897 titled Morocco: Its People and Places…

CONNECTION TO MINISTRY CURRICULUM This resource is very much relevant to the Ministry Curriculum / B.C.’s New Curriculum as well as the First Peoples Principles of Learning as previously described. The lessons and activities I have extracted from this resource will cater to grade 5 because it is a sensitive topic that suits a more mature grade level that can handle the details of the content and activities. I will outline a few curricular competencies and content objectives that link to the…

Cultural discrepancies always play a role when it comes to conflicts. For example, language act as a barrier when trying to get ideas across and are often at the root of all miscommunications. Excluding background differences, all people are human. They feel, they cry, they tend and they’re especially prone to mistakes and hypocrisy. In the novel, The Light in the Forest, by Conrad Richter, a white boy growing up in a Native American tribe is to determine where his true loyalties lie. The…

Differences between Human Hairs and Animal Hairs Once determining that the fibrous evidence is a hair, our next step is on how to distinguish the feature differences between a human hair and an animal hair as shown in Table 8 (Sapp, 2004). (33 words) Animal Hair Coronal Spinous Human Hair Imbricate Table 8. Feature Differences between Human…

With the billions of people out there in the world living today, it causes a lot of cultures to arise. On the other hand, all these different cultures ancient or modern, are not a negative thing, in fact, it is not only positive, but also significant, with the diverse world we live in today. With that being said, the Meras were a small, yet significant ancient civilization with a rich and long culture, known to few till this day. They were a highly advanced, ancient society living near what…

Forensic Entomology Forensic Entomology is the study of insects and arthropods which help aid the legal system. This includes insects, arachnids, centipedes, millipedes, and crustaceans most commonly maggots are used. Forensic entomology can not only aid in murder investigations but it can also be used to detect abuse of children and the elderly, to determine the location of the crime scene if the body had been moved, termite damage or even bugs in food. History Forensic Entomology was first…

I’m Over This Anthropology As anthropology goes, culture can be expanded in multiple ways. It can be considered linguistic, ethnology and archaeology but also material and non-material culture. Material culture consists of things that you can touch and are given significance in society. On the other hand, there is a non-material culture which consists of behaviours, values and beliefs, ideas language, myths, family patterns and political systems shared within a society. both are influenced by…

Article Review James R. Gibson is a distinguished Canadian historical geographer at York University. He specializes in Russian geography, ethnology and history research.1 In the article, Gibson demonstrated and expounded the true factors of Russia’s absence in the North Pacific discovery and exploration. He offers a detailed study in both of the Russian histories and geography. Throughout the article, he clearly identified with two main points that Russia was “lack of opportunity and lack of…