Physical anthropology

We live in a multicultural world, where people from various ethnicities, backgrounds, culture and beliefs are living among one another. With the increasing number of people with different beliefs and cultures needing treatment, HCP’s need to be aware of the practice and beliefs of these people to provide effective treatment. Leininger recognized this in the 1950’s and began developing a theory which would address this issue. Her culture care theory of diversity and universality is the basis for…

Part One: Information on human kinds past, present, and future have always been important for us to try and understand why we’re here and how we got here. Starting with the past, anthropology is the study of human kind, as well as the study of evolution. This is the discipline that is responsible for finding Lucy, our oldest known ancestor, and actually, the social scientist that found Lucy was Mary Leakey, the wife of Louis Leakey, who was also a social scientist, and as a result they made…

Ethnography is a participant-observer qualitative research method which involves an integrative analysis of behaviors, values, and patterns of interaction within a specific culture-sharing group (Creswell, 2013). It is a method that stems from cultural anthropology and sociology, wherein the researcher spends extended periods of time as a participant in the group of study, interviewing, observing, and sharing their cultural experiences. According to Creswell (2013), the process of ethnography…

tribal/religious reason or for any other reason, humans easily other humans. When humans eat other humans its called cannibalism, also known as anthropology. The act or practice of humans eating flesh or internal organs of other human being is cannibalism, & someone who practices cannibalism are called cannibals. The way ecology relates to cannibals is their relations to their physical surroundings, Which is eating people. The Interspecific relationship of cannibalism is +- because when a…

2. Totemism - Totemism is "special symbolic and spiritual association between a person or a group of persons and a natural phenomenon, individual, or kind" (Heider, 2007, p. 452). This allows for a type of primitive anthropology (Heider, 2007, p. 342) a concept in which humans can relate in a social construct in the natural world. This allows anthropologist to observe and record individual connections to both natural world and spiritual worlds, understanding ones personal or community beliefs…

When discussing human nature, anthropologists don’t One popular controversy within the anthropological community is based on the Yanomami indians. The Yanomami, or Yanomamo, are the largest “relatively isolated tribe” in South America; located in large, mountainous areas of northern Brazil and southern Venezuela in the Amazon jungle. Their current population stands at about thirty-five thousand, all of which are concentrated in several different parts of the South American jungle. Many…

revolutionized the method in which anthropologists examined societal formation and maintenance. Born in France in 1930 to working class parents Bourdieu studied philosophy at École Normale Supérieure. It wasn’t till much later Bourdieu entered the field in anthropology after spending an long period of time in Algeria following the war of independence. Bourdieu specifically can provide insights into understanding the patterns of behaviours and interactions executed by people when navigating organ…

language used by a culture primarily expresses that culture’s interests and concerns. After discovering a previously unknown civilization, Linguistic anthropologists have now delineated some characteristics about the Timbubba’s tribe language. Anthropology furthers our understanding of human kind. The evidence that the Anthropologists found suggests that language directly influences our thought process and the way that we view the world around us.…

species. It is however, as we are introduced to various semiotic concepts within the sub-sections of each chapter, that these familiar notions slowly start to morph into more complex ideas. It is these ideas that force us to question the subject of anthropology as a whole, extending our anthropological view ‘beyond the human’. Through his exploration of social dynamic of the Avila and their neighbouring villages in the Napo Province…

Social theory involves ideas about the changes and developments within society. These ideas can be multidisciplinary ranging from anthropology to law. The Social theories involved are analytic structures or models used to examine social occurrences. It is during the 19th century that the three great classical theories of social and historical change became evident. The social cycle theory, the social evolutionism theory and the Marxist historical materialism theory. The majority of social…