Levi Strauss

Sidney Mintz in Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History interprets the Caribbean history by analyzing the Caribbean production of sugar and its European consumers. Mintz approaches the methodologies of cultural history, Marxism historiography, and anthropology in analyzing the production and consumption patterns, plantation slaves and industrial workers, and the usage and its meanings in modern culture. Mintz claims that sugar necessitated European imperialism, and that empire…

‘How do the features of a restricted narrative build suspense for the audience in Psychological Thriller films?’ I will be analysing the narrative structure of Psychological Thrillers, as well as the ideologies that distinguish thriller films from suspense films; by completing this research, I will gain an understanding of how texts are constructed in this genre to be effective at producing suspense throughout the narrative. The research I will be conducting will be referencing two films…

In 2007, the CEO and board of chairman Germany 's Siemens Cooperation stepped down after admitting to nearly $2 billion in bribes, which was the largest single corruption case in German corporate history. Klinkhammer (2013), argues that after being a corporate staple in Germany for almost 150 years, “corrupt activities had become cognitively institutionalized within the Siemens culture”. Similarly, the scandals of global companies such as Worldcom and Enron, just a few years prior garnered…

which consists of throwing sand at very high pressure to obtain a worn appearance and which is especially very dangerous for the health of the workers. Following pressure from NGOs revealing the widespread use of this technique, brands like H&M or Levi Strauss were the first to ban it in September…

Lacan from symbolism and Phallus-centric ideas to the psychology of women and femininity Freud had spent many years writing his first psychoanalytic publication, The Interpretation of Dream (1900), in which he advanced the principals of his new Doctrine (Kurzweil:13). He considered the essence of femininity in Oedipus Complex; so, after he had become convinced that the Oedipus myth is universal and that the boy’s first desires are for his mother. Based on this, he could also expect that the…

Propp’s analysis of the fairytales is considered to be the foundation in modern study of fairytales. However his work has been criticized by many different scholars,like Dundes (1965), Gilet (1999) Levi Strauss the younger. Propp’s morphological model is difficult to deal with so Gilet put option forward aradiation pattern of five elements based on grouping of Propp’s thirty one affair, namely. The initial situation, Interaction with the helper, Interaction…

Globalisation can be described as “a complex phenomenon; it is the interactive co-evolution of millions of technological, cultural, economic, social and environmental trends at all conceivable spatiotemporal scales.” (Rennen, Martens, 2003: 137). Globalisation is a process which involves the international movement of goods, services, money and ideas around the world. It has been argued that globalisation has many consequences, both positive and negative, for developing countries. This essay is…

In fact, the work of Linguistics is made evident it only refers to being able to use the language in practice. The structuralism approach has been most used in anthropology to sociology, particularly in the United States. Following the line of Lévi-Strauss, that popularized term structuralism. This type of analysis has been applied to the study of the kinship, the myth, the religion and to other areas. However, numerous theories of the sociology will have seen influenced by various concepts.…

in small groups, especially classrooms and work groups (see sociometry). In anthropology, the foundation for social network theory is the theoretical and ethnographic work of Bronislaw Malinowski,[12] Alfred Radcliffe-Brown,[13][14] and Claude Lévi-Strauss.[15] A group of social anthropologists associated with Max Gluckman and the Manchester School, including John A. Barnes,[16] J. Clyde Mitchell and Elizabeth Bott Spillius,[17][18] often are credited with performing some of the first fieldwork…

The Arthurian Legend is a collection of various stories which revolve around King Arthur, one of the legendary kings of Britain. These stories vary in their versions, interpretations, and spelling of names but their essences remain the same. They regale us with tales of the time prior to King Arthur’s conception to his rise to kinghood, tales of his adventures with his Knights of the Round Table, tales of the adulterous romance that occurred between his queen, Guinevere, and his knight and…