Visual anthropology

1. Why does Mario Vargas Llosa say that “only in the cultural arena is Latin America’s integration a reality”? Llosa says, “only in the cultural arena is Latin America’s integration a reality”; he is trying to portray that cultural aspects, like writing and art, have found what “unites” Latin America, where as in other areas, such as politics, have failed to define what brings Latin America together, but more of a separation. What Llosa is portraying here is that the creators of Latin America…

Culture refers to human activity patterns and symbols that give an identity to a group of people in a particular society. Culture is manifested in language, religion, literature, art, customs, and clothing. Culture dictates how people live and shows their specific beliefs. The moral values and principles of a particular people is also a part of their culture (De Groot, 2016). There are diverse cultures in the world that contribute to how people live and think. Every culture surprisingly shares…

Juvenile Justice Essay We are living in a society that thinks, acts and decides how they live - all in different ways. Each individual has the capacity to make their own choices. Around us we see many things happening. One of them is the juvenile violence that each day raises crimes rates, and makes the Supreme Court want to treat juveniles as adults when they commit a violent crime. In my opinion children who commit violent crimes such as murder should be treated as adults, because they…

For example: Advertising agencies in continental Europe (example: Italy) and a few in Britain use semiotics to design more effective advertisements”. He believes that advertisements give us visual and verbal signs with which semiotics can be used to give us a framework with how the signs portrayed in the advertisement will work. It is also clear that advertisements consist of ideological roles, Ideological here means “a way of perceiving reality…

Northrop Frye. In the beginning of 20th century, James George Frazer, the Scottish anthropologist, who first used the concept of archetype in description of myths and rituals. His masterpiece The Golden Bough in Frye’s eyes is not only a great work of anthropology but also a work of literary criticism (Frye, 2009: 109). To some degree, this book can be considered as a foundation of myth-archetypes criticism (Ye Shuxian, 2011: 4). In short, Frazer discovered the repeated phenomena as patterns of…

In our world there are so many aspects. All of the aspects are come from human life that has many contribute in this world. Those aspects are politics, economic, social, and culture. Culture is one part of the aspect that also has influence in human life. One thing that we should know about the aspect is, the aspect is so many influences in our life and other place. Not only our life, in government life, and in international life also. As well with culture, because of culture at the past some…

We often use national or regional identity to define and identify ourselves. We classify ourselves in one national or one region to prove who we are and why we are here. Like what Stuart Hall talked about identity in “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”, he mentioned two explanation of identity. The first one is about cultural identity, which shaped a person’s true self. And the other one is about questions of “what we really are” and “what we have become”. The first one is about the past, the…

As a whole the world itself is a series of “fates” or “destinies” that are inevitably intertwined, the acts of one man changing the acts of another. C.W Mills believed that in order to understand the way in which one person comes to be whom they are in this world, we must look at their life through the idea of sociological imagination. Which Mills describes as something that “enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the…

Case Studies- Related Issues Consist of Social-Community-Culture The fading of social and cultural heritage is the other issues that rise after the dam construction. Based on the Brandt and Fekri Hassan (2000), cultural heritage is the community’s history that connect the society throughout times. It could be in any forms as long as it indicate the identity to certain community (Brandt & Fekri Hassan, 2000). There are two type of the cultural possession thatcould be lost due to the dam…

Culture of “Americans” America’s culture is different and distinctive. America’s society is made up a diversity of ethnic groups that have shaped American culture and values. People’s attitude and behavior are based on their values. America’s cultural was influenced by Native Americans, Latin American, Africans, and Asians. The United States has been influenced by many other cultures that led to the shaping of their values. Religion and language are an example of the influence of other culture…