Anthropological categories of peoples

Cannibals and Culture: The Anthropology of Michel De Montaigne is a journal article, written by Norris Brock Johnson, published in Dialectical Anthropology, Vol 18, No 2 (1993) pages 153-176, a journal that focuses on providing a forum for intellectuals to publish their work (peer-reviewed articles, editorials, letter, reports, book reviews, etc.) over social sciences and humanities. I chose this article, because I was so drawn to Michel De Montaigne’s writing. In my opinion, Montaigne is the most

culture as it nourishes and connects the group of people within said culture. As the Earth and its cultures become more globalized, food has evolved to become a teacher that showcases the many cultures inhabiting the planet. But, one person can only become accustomed to a low percentage of food, offered around the world, throughout his or her life. Thus, the food one person usually knows and likes is the food from one’s own culture. Most people, untrusting of what other exotic cultures offer, are

even if two people profess the same religion and denomination, there spirituality may be totally opposite. It is important for the holistic practitioner to get a clear picture of a person’s religious and spiritual beliefs, because these

The Psychology behind Prejudice: Humans’ Attitude Jacinda Knudtson Antelope Valley College Abstract Prejudice is an opinion in which is not based on any reasoning, and may cause harm. Prejudice can be seen just about anywhere, and it affects our daily lives. There are many different ways a person can show prejudice beliefs, but why do they believe things they have never experience? Some may say it’s something personal with one’s self that causes prejudice thoughts, or some may think it their

have come other societal transitions. Juliet Schor is the author of a trilogy of books that concern this shift in society. As an economist, she examined trends in the American economy, but also investigated these trends from a sociological and anthropological angle. She surveyed the increasing amount of work hours the average adult accumulated per year and the unprecedented amount of consumer goods that modern families have collected. Consumerism, which is an ideology of the acquisition of goods and

The final body of literature I want to give notice to is the literature pertaining to how museums are arranged by curators and other museum staff to effectively display their artifacts. I wish to dive into this literature because part of my own research will be examining how the curators of the Cleveland Museum of Art decided to arrange their ancient Greek exhibit. This pool of literature will help guide me in different ways to interpret the set-up of the exhibit, the placement of the objects and

America by Christina Snyder emphasizes the importance of the pre-colonial slave system in the Americas. She traces the evolution of this system and its effect on Native American social structures, including how race was understood among indigenous peoples. Previous to the mid-eighteen century, the south was a different place where hundreds of Natives groups controlled their respective territories. Snyder demonstrates how Indian slavery adapted to the colonial world and how indigenous societies were

“Body Ritual Among the Nacirema.” In this article Miner described some of the bizarre rituals and practices of the “Nacirema” which the reader comes to find out that he is talking about North Americans. The way Miner goes into detail about how these people live makes them seem foreign. Thus making the norm for an American lifestyle seem odd because the certain type of lingo Miner uses to make this “tribe” more exotic then the actually are. His point in doing this is to show the reader how obnoxious

A study of race has changed over centuries. Creating race was originally for anthropological purpose but it became biological, scientific, and political which started segregating certain human groups from another from the mid-18th century until now. Scientists have gone through studies to show us how different each human groups are. Because science is objective and believed to be trustworthy resources, we accept what science tells us without being skeptical. When going against what science has already

“Structural Anthropology” first hypothesizes that myths exist to provide people with anecdotes to help explain the unanswerable questions of their society such as life versus death or love, etc. Then Levi- Strauss applies Saussure’s method, designating a mythological object, in this case the myth itself, and then determining a set of invariants true to all myths. The most interesting of these invariants is the use of categories to deconstruct the events of a story into specific event types, which