For this Current Anthropology Paper, I chose to write about Molly Carney’s research on Cultural Resource Management. Molly was doing her Doctoral research on a Native American Tribe’s land in Washington State. She excavated a site named the Flying Goose (due to the large amount of “annoying” geese who inhabited the area near the site). Based on the very little evidence she found from the pit, one might assume that research would be halted, but through Molly’s creative means of investigation, she
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21. Singer calls biomedicine, “bourgeois medicine”. What does he mean by this term and what does CMA seek to understand about it? (4 points) Critical Medical Anthropology’s roots were shaped by theories created by Marx , Engels, and Wright Mills who all had a Marxist perspectives. Within this perspective the political economy and power differences between classes was emphasized. From this perspective, the terms bourgeois and the proletariat are used to characterized class based struggles. Singer
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All cultures around the world have a specific story to how the culture began. And in all of those stories are many recurring themes. Some of those symbols include water, the sun and moon, earth, and sexuality, plus many more. The cultures have that recurring theme based on what was critically important to their society. That could mean that geographically they depended on that theme, or even spiritually depended on it. For example, the cultures that are in the sam terrestrial biome are more likely
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“Playing with ‘Nitro’” is a text adopted from a one-minute 1990s clip that offers a historical description of Chinese rail workers experience in Canada. Chinese came in Canada as a source of labour in the construction of the Canada Pacific Railway (CPR) in the 1880s. “Nitro” is a clip that was released courtesy of a millionaire named Charles Bronfman and is under the Heritage Minutes of Canada. The clip depicts major themes of anti-racism and exploitation that Cantonese workers went through in Canada
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in and is very much a crucial part of the future we build. Heritage is the thing that which has been handed down to us from the past through our forebears. It is all that which is inherited including our personal traits, both characteristic and physical, traditions, stories, values, bloodline, culture, lineage, language,
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“Një botë, shumë kultura.” When translated from Albanian to English it reads, “One world, many cultures”. This is how I see our world. Within the United States itself, we have hundreds of cultures represented throughout. We’ve become so diverse that an individual can have two, three, or even four different cultures. With so many cultures, languages, and religions, providing culturally competent care could be difficult. But as nurses we have the privilege to broaden our minds and educate ourselves
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Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho once said, “culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers.” Culture is a way of thinking, behaving, and representing a group of the same morals and art. Culture gives us a sense of belonging in society, and differences in cultures lead to diversity in people from different parts of the world. Our cultural values and beliefs manifest themselves through
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Nicely written! I have found one of the most fascinating aspects of this course to be the idea of social imagination. Using it to "think outside the box" and coming to a conclusion that may seem far-fetched or implausible it very useful, especially when looking at the topic of race. Growing up, you never really think of why we classify people by race or the science behind it, you just kind of accept it and go with the flow. But when you apply your social imagination to this topic, you see how flawed
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Sticking up for diversity What Is Diversity? Diversity describes the similarities and differences that people have and also understanding that each. Why is diversity important We can learn from one another but we first must have a level of understanding about each other. why is sticking up for diversity important? The world is full of people who are warm within and who value diversity and once you realize the difference strength and not a weakness. how can you stick up for diversity? once you're
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Sociological Imaging is the ability to identify that one person’s actions or experience can directly affect his or her surrounding society and vice versa. In the midst of all of the police brutality and murders came a story reported by Fox News. An anchorman reported that during a Baltimore protest a black man had been shot by a police officer while protesting. The Baltimore police later released a statement clarifying the man was not gunned down by police and the story was not correct, in fact
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