Visual anthropology

violated all the rules of academic painting, the established style of the time period. Freely painted brush strokes took over from the clear line definitions that were commonly found in academic paintings. Impressionism is based on painting the overall visual effects of that being captured as oppose to individual details. Mary Cassatt and Auguste Renoir shared much in their artistic styles. Both artists had a strong interest in capturing feminine beauty, chose everyday life as their subject…

Issues – first section: Before continuing onwards, it is important to understand the definition of the term ‘culture’ since understanding about culture and being knowledgeable about cultural differences between countries could be helpful in solving the issues that were faced in the case of Stephen Shawler. Culture is an extremely complex topic since it cannot be defined in a single definition and in general, culture can be termed as “a set of socially constructed meanings that shape the…

Americans have had the capability to interact with people from other nations. I believe to fully comprehend and understand the full meaning and definition of culture competence, you must first understand what “culture” means. The founder of Cultural Anthropology, E.B. Tylor defined culture as, “…the…

Introduction: Today’s Internet marketing strategy thrives on cultural customization. Those of whom are excellent marketers know how to effective market their goods or services, which is done by identifying the needs of the consumer and satisfying consumer wants. According to Weston (2012), it is a well-known fact that many marketers and business do not understand the importance of ‘researching the process of perception’ in not only foreign countries, but cultures as well! The true question…

In Pennsylvania, students may not be introduced to the concept of culture until after fifth grade, as the state and national core curriculum shies away from the general topic until middle school. More specifically, the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District specifies that between kindergarten and fifth grade, the children will “explore the themes of neighborhoods and communities,” and then “learn about United States geography and history” (Curriculum & education). Thus, even though…

Nationalism and Cultural Development History that written in the book, is pieces of writing that record the change of human society and cultural over time. Throughout history, we see many changes and turning points that greatly impact the society we have right now. From the early time period Rise of Rome to the American and French Revolution; the world had constantly shaping its boundaries. Society and humanities had constantly changing.The change in history are not seem as accidents. One of the…

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…

The study of Anthropology has proven to be flexible in the way in which cultures are studied. From when the study first began to the 20th century, many different ways of viewing culture have been documented, and many of those ways have been refuted. Our analyses of different anthropologists starts with Tylor a 19th century evolutionary anthropologist and ends with Malinowski a 20th century functional anthropologist. What falls between them are Boas and his student Kroeber. All four of them have…

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…

My rite of passage occurred when I was thirteen years old as I was forced to leave my childhood behind and become an adult. In my Mexican culture a quinceañera marks the transition from childhood to womanhood; however I fast-forward the preparation for my coming of age ceremony. I clearly remember my rite of passage ceremony: It was the day that my parents returned to Durango, Mexico and I stayed behind to permanently live with one of my older siblings. A few months before my rite of passage my…