Imagine the day of your wedding, the day where you are taking another step into your life with your lifelong significant other. Often, this is the day of relief and happiness but this is completely the opposite of marriages in the Hmong community. In the Hmong community, marriage is a business transaction. The word for “to get married” in Hmong means “to buy”; marriage is a source of income. In preparatory to a wedding, both sides of the bride and groom will decide on the price of the bride. Women
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In exploring Kwame Anthony Appiah's interview in Examined Life, I found his approach to answering questions from the author Astra Taylor pretentious yet thought provoking. It was clearly an adventurous journey into altruism, past that of the consanguineal family or even tribes, into that of the entire global population through what he calls cosmopolitanism. His claims about cosmopolitanism in our new globalized world appear to be from that of an atheist, steeped in values arriving from philosophers
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Symbolic anthropology studies the way people understand their surroundings and make specific aspects of their society into a symbol in which the other parts of their life revolve around or connect to. When studying symbolic anthropology one can see that these significant symbols help tie together a bond between the people of that society; whether it be ritualistic or simple everyday actions. According to Clifford Geertz, symbolic anthropology should be understood well enough so that an individual
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Dr. Brook Anthropology 5 March 2012 Midterm 1 Espinal 1 Part A (2) Participant observation, for many years, has been a hallmark anthropological study. In recent years, the field of education has seen an increase in the number of qualitative studies that include participant observation as a way to collect information. Qualitative methods of data collection, such as interviewing, observation, and document analysis, have been included
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Franz Boas, considered my many to be the father of Anthropology, once said, “"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."(Franz Boas) He was a very innovative anthropologist and believed that cultures should be judged not my individual response, but culturally, linguistically and biologically. He came up with the concept of cultural relativism and believed that cultures could not be compared because of the
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Strategy-The strengths is that an anthropologist studies a culture in its own terms. The weaknesses are cultural relativism results in deep, rich, and profoundly respectful descriptions of cultures that form the majority of ethnographies in cultural anthropology. Epistemological Cultural Relativism-The strengths are that cultures are seen as unique configurations of moral imperatives, meanings, and behavior, a view held by many anthropologists. The weaknesses are that it treats cultures as the outcome
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Research Methods Sociology and Cultural anthropology both rely on data to analyze their research. Their investigational approaches differ in many ways. This paper will explore the research methods used in sociology and the research methods used in cultural anthropology and also discuss the philosophical justification for these research methods. Sociology explores an individual’s behavior and how those
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Identify three things you learned in the course that surprised, confused, or intrigued you, and explain why. The first thing that actually surprised me about this course is how much I actually came to enjoy it. I am not a big fan of history but I found that learning about the different early cultures were very interesting. The Tomb of Qin Shihuanghi and the terra-cotta soldiers were very intriguing. The sheer magnitude of work that went into building this tomb is fascinating enough but the fact
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If the family you are in is keeping you too busy, and/or is too full of noise, and distraction when will you move on to a new “family”? A choice many groups of people feel is the answer to what family really is. Family is a word of different meaning. A word that has been here since the beginning. A word that carries such a powerful meaning to certain cultures and societies and little meaning to others. There are 23 definitions in our Webster dictionary for the word family. Which tells us
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| ELIXUUM | Draft II | ARTH 72 | Ariya Behjat | 3/20/2012 | | Our recent discovery of a label-less object from the third millennium in a remote area near the North Pole, has opened new vistas to understand the cultural and social behavior of people who lived about a thousand of years ago. It is perplexing to see how such objects without proper labels were used and for what purposes these objects were utilized by the people of the pre-ice age era. Needless to say it is an established
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