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Anthropology
Tressa Berman's Circle of Goods examines several themes relating to tribal economies in the Northern Plains. Its core narration revolves around the system mentioned in her title: the "circle of...
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Anthropology
This question is still debated among archaeologists and anthropologists. Recent findings have overturned the old theory that there was only one migration of the Clovis people which resulted in the...
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Anthropology
That would be structuralism. Marcel Mauss was a French sociologist who was the nephew of Emile Durkheim, who taught and heavily influenced Claude Levi-Strauss, who was widely considered to be the...
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Anthropology
Errington and Gewertz state that their major objection to Jared Diamond's argument in Collapse is Diamond's claim that societies make an active choice to either succeed or fail. They emphasize...
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Anthropology
As we have limited online access to the book Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire, below are a few ideas to help get you started. You...
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Anthropology
The “applied” nomenclature in a topic means that “theory” is “applied” to a real-life question. Since Anthropology is the study of Man (anthros), the theories put forward by all the...
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Anthropology
In anthropology, cultural relativism can be defined as the idea that a society’s customs and beliefs should be described objectively and that they should be understood in the context of the...
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Anthropology
Invention, innovation, and cultural diffusion are all ways in which societies change. To most anthropologists, innovation and invention are similar things whereas cultural diffusion is relatively...
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Anthropology
In anthropology, the definition of culture has three aspects to it. Let us look at the definition and then at each of the three elements or components that make it up. For anthropologists, culture...
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Anthropology
In our world, there are many different cultures. Different countries have different cultures and even different parts of different countries can have different cultures. If we stayed our whole...
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Social Sciences
Rather than dwell on our differences, we can stress our similarities. An example might be the work of Claude Levi-Strauss, who pointed out that our family structures, our priorities for survival,...
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Social Sciences
It is a little bit odd to think of the notion of indigeneity being hegemonic since indigenous people have typically been oppressed rather than being in position to oppress others. However, it is...
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Social Sciences
Anthropologists argue that their view of the political differs from that of political scientists. However, this difference may well be overstated. It is more of a matter of degree and not a truly...
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Anthropology
Essentialism is the view that for any entity, as in indigent colonized indigenous peoples, there is "a set of attributes" that identify and define the indigenous entity. Canada is seeking in a...
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Anthropology
There are two way that families, kinship and descent connect. The first is through how they each are constructed. The second is through the function of each. Descent is the means of tracking...
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Kinship and Social Organization
The biological entrance to this question is through natural selection and the ideas of Charles Darwin – the family structure preserves the genetic makeup and increases the chances of passing on...
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Anthropology
In terms of socioeconomic ends, with Conrad Kottak’s definition of anthropology as the "holistic, systematic, and comparative study of humanity" in mind, subsistence has changed radically from...
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Social Sciences
We can, of course, not have any way of knowing for sure how people thought before and after they developed the technologies that you mention in this question. However, we can speculate. We can...
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Social Sciences
It is very hard to use scientific evidence of the sort that can be found through archaeology or biological anthropology to determine whether human beings are innately violent. There are two main...
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Anthropology
Archaeology is a branch of science that explores the lives of the people and their societies in the past by digging remains, dating, organizing and restoring them from particular eras or...
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Social Sciences
If anthropologists have a special advantage in trying to solve social problems, the advantage comes about because they are better equipped than people in other disciplines to clearly understand how...
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Social Sciences
A matrilineal society is a society where the family lineage is traced through the mothers and the females in the family while a paterilenial society is where the family is traced through the...
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Social Sciences
In the Indian culture the practice of arranged marriage often happens for a woman when she graduates and for a man when he is old enough to have a career and is financially stable enough to support...
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Anthropology
In simple terms, these calcium-dense parts of the human body are often the only remains to study in anthropologic digs. Because bones and teeth accumulate matter as a person grows through life...
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Social Sciences
There is very little in modern economies that resembles the potlatch. The potlatch was a means of redistributing wealth and of acquiring social status. A person would hold a feast, give away lots...
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Economics
Since you have placed this in the Business section and have tagged it with "Economics," I will address the economic aspects of the potlatch instead of the social aspects. I have edited your...
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Anthropology
We cannot know this for sure because human behavior cannot be objectively understood. However, the most likely reason for this is because our societies have until very recently been shaped by...
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Anthropology
I think that another way of defining the question is if one is bound by their cultural understandings in assessment of others. I think that one is always going to possess their own cultural...
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Anthropology
I think that the paradox that Lancy brings out is the idea that the neontocracy that is such a part of America is what precisely prevents American parents from voicing a universal protection for...