Anthropology Essays

Charles Darwin was a British naturalist. He studied geology and biology of the area around the Pacific Coast extensively before producing his monumental work “Origin of Species” in 1859 to the world. Herbert Spencer was a British philosopher who showed early interests in physics, chemistry and natural science.

The universe comprises various materials that undergo different processes resulting in an alteration in their form after some period. Similar processes have been seen to influence the morphology of various organisms. The physical and sociological processes among various organisms often contribute to some alterations in the traits in such organisms.

Marriage whether arranged or love cannot be successful without a little sugar and spice. It requires compromise, mutual understanding, space and time to achieve that zone where two people can exist comfortably. In this era, arranged marriages are not less than love marriages. A change has been experienced in the thinking and perception of arranged marriage over time.

The environmental setting, being the first film consideration, calls for an understanding of the nature of the areas in which the Australopithecus boisei and Homo erectus species inhabited. Open environmental settings characterized the habitats for these species.

the author argues in his book that the most essential struggle for human rights in this era is to promote economic and social rights of the poorest in the world. To strengthen his argument, he used the eyewitness accounts of Russian prisoners and Haitian villagers to analyze the structural violence at a broader scale through lived experiences

Kevin P.D. Smith the author of City: A User’s Guide to the Past, Present, and Future of Urban Life, wrote his book in 2012. He is also an acclaimed author with many other titles in his name all having a distinct reflection of his excellent writing skills and creative abilities. He completed his doctorate at the University of Sussex, England.

In order to assist individuals in coping with AD, therapeutic interventions have the most backing.  Although no disease-altering drugs exist for AD certain options alleviate its symptoms and thus aid in improving life quality. Within the United States, four drugs within a class known as cholinesterase inhibitors have been approved for the relief of symptoms of AD.

The observation was then narrowed down to the index of nuchal area height and only three specimens (F, G and I) bore a resemblance to our mystery specimen with recorded values of 21, 23 and 12 referenced against the mystery specimen’s value of 23. A reference was then made to the index of the condylar position and we only remained with G and I. 

These are the theories of development that reveal the development of other nations of the world as a reflection of the western nations and more particularly the European nations. Such theories were developed in the 1950s and 1960 after the Second World War. This is the time Europe had regained its confidence from the war.

The new Paleo diet imitation involves the consumption of large quantities of meat. This may, unfortunately, ignore the health risks that are associated with meat-eating, ethical issues related to increased animal food demands and environmentally looming crisis that makes eating a lower ecological imperative on the food chain.

However, academicians who view development via deconstructionism and post-modernity lenses have influenced development’s traditional view. The deconstructionism and post-modernity theories tended to challenge the primary views of reality and objectivity.

The animal could get exhausted and when it runs for shade, it was captured and killed at a close range with a spear. Some archaeologists have argued against this method, citing that the early man could also get very tired from running. Evidence has been found with the people of South Kalahari in Africa, who used to run after antelopes for food.

The transition is seen as a gradual journey where an individual’s status becomes recognized by the large community. Special rituals are carried out for each rite of passage. Some of the rites of passage that essential in every part of the globe include marriage and death. Marriage and death mark a switch to another stage in the lifecycle of an individual.

The sea is undoubtedly among the most responsive indicators of the changing Arctic. It is an important characteristic of the environment. It is linked to coastal peoples' identities and livelihoods, especially if they rely on sea ice as a faster means of travel (Rignot et al. 267). They also rely on the ice sea to harvest birds, seals, fish, walruses, and whales associated with the sea.

Basically the question about the longevity of life being higher among females may be attributed to the human biological system solely however there has been advanced research in several different areas that have established that the reason behind the longer lifespan of women cannot solely be explained by biology alone.

There is a difference between genetic or molecular programming from computer programming. This is due to the difference in the changes that occur in computer and molecular programming. Simple mutations in molecular programming result in bigger changes.

The paper learns factors that led to the growth and development of a stronger kingdom among the Zulus under their able rule Shaka Zulu. It provides the reasons why the leader was assassinated by his own half-brother who ended up assuming his leadership position as well as how he was also overthrown with Boer who got the British support.

The author's parents made him understand that he was a Jew, despite being born and raised in a cosmopolitan region of Bronx, New York. Interaction, in school, and other social places, with his peers in the neighborhood made could not allow him to pursue his Jewish way of life and other traditional requirements of any Jewish boy.

Primitive people in our culture are very greatly misunderstood and misconceived. Among the various misconceptions that we hold against primitive people is that they live a life of suffering and continuous fear. Thinking about primitive people makes us conjure up negative images of them and we think of those who probably lived prior to the rise of civilization.

The Kurds are either nomads or settlers. Nomads are pastoralists while settlers are farmers, who are also in a huge majority. All other cultural patterns are found somehow coherent to the modes of sustenance for the Kurds. The farmers live in nuclear families and own their lands, where they work themselves to reap fertile crops. They seldom hire any outside workers to carry out their activities.

The Basseri are a nomadic tent-dwelling people from the Iranian province of Fars. They migrate every three to four days along steppes and mountains near the town of Shiraz following a tribal route. Anthropologists have long-established a connection between primary mode of subsistence and aspects of culture such as kinship, social organization and political organization.

Muslim men and women have different roles under the Islamic Religion. While some believe that the Quran guarantees their equality, certain provisions were likewise contained in the former, thereby serving as the basis by which the people base their perceptions as to the difference between the two genders. 

The social body constrains the way the physical body is perceived. The physical experience of the body, always modified by the social categories through which it is known, sustains a particular view of society. There is a continual exchange of meanings between the two kinds of bodily experience so that each reinforces the categories of the other.

Enculturation is a term that was coined and has widely been used in the field of anthropology, specifically in the study of cultural anthropology. This term has a similar meaning to the word socialization that mostly has been used by sociologists. Cultural anthropology is a sub-field of anthropology that studies society’s culture and how culture is transmitted from one generation to another.

The Basseri of Southern Iran are traditionally a nomadic, tent-dwelling people, descended from Arabic, Persian, Turkic, and Gypsy ancestors. Amanolahi informs us that the Basseri have now been detribalized and integrated into the national Iranian state, however. Traditionally, their primary mode of subsistence had been pastoral, herding sheep and goats.

It is believed that the Semai tribe is what remained from the original ancient populations of South East Asia, who then belong to the Senoi ethnic groups. The lands in Malaysia are fertile and productive; this has made the Semai society to practice horticulture- planting crops in their fertile lands. In recent times, the indigenous community has been made to shift to the Malaysia hills.

The Nigerian government had implemented the National AIDs Programme to reduce the spread of HIV/ AIDs. The government’s increasing efforts to control the widely spreading disease are inadequate since there is a requirement for the integrated efforts of everyone to effectively eradicate the disease. The Nigerian government is aware that AIDs is not only a health problem.

Beauty, especially physical beauty, is often dictated by universal standards. But the particular culture, history and social sensibilities of a community do also play a role in defining beauty. In the modern social context, the public relations industry plays an influential role in setting and imposing standards of beauty whether people agree with it or not.

It is true that pastoralists’ way of life as a mode of subsistence has greatly influenced the general way of life of the Bedouins. This has been proved by examining their social, political and economic practices that make their pastoralist's way of life easier. A community’s way of life is shaped by the environment. The harsh conditions made the Bedouins turn to the pastoralist way of life.

The entertainment sector is quite a culture in India and they are unique in all aspects. The architecture in India is unique due to their wide knowledge in engineering and architecture as well especially the Islamic buildings. India is a beautiful country which well known for its role in the medical world but its huge population has caused their poor living standards despite the industrialization.

The increase in medicalization changes from the medical profession, social movements, and interest groups to biotechnology and consumers, among others. The current growth in medicalization is a result of increased market and commercial interests rather than a profession. People have developed a culture of taking normal body conditions to be medical problems. 

The paper aims to describe the conversation that depicts organ transplantation as a process of commodification of human organs and its implications for the commodification of human life and to explore the conflicts within this conversation, especially in the context of oppositions between modernist and postmodernist views of the world system.

The literature defines human evolution as that six million-year process wherein modern humans evolved from ancestors that were basically apes or ape-like in their biology, and that implies that in terms of biology/physiology and behavior, modern humans evolved from apes, with prospects for continued evolution being traced back to this long evolutionary process with ape-like roots.

The most criteria defining civilization is the presence of a large settlement. It is through this settlement that there emerged leaders whose role was to bring order in society through a system of government. It is through the system of inheriting leadership that there developed a well-entrenched ruling class. 

The question that is answered, especially in the second part of the paper is with regard to how inequities can be achieved in any society, without those who are disadvantaged such inequalities feeling that they are being exploited by the dominant groups. The author of the article reviews the work of Bourdieu in order to identify how these inequalities are maintained.

Ethnography adds a very important value to the anthropology field.  Ethnography is one of the Anthropology branches. Anthropology requires all code of ethics provisions must be implemented. The Mead research complied with the objectivity, safety, and privacy code of ethics provisions. The Mead ethnography research rightfully shows that people adhere to the local rituals of the community.

The youths of Dakar have found identities through the entrepreneurial spirit, creating an unsanctioned, but thriving economy based upon information of the world outside of the city as it flows in through means of media influences. The transformation of the world into a single larger economy with thousands of micro-economies has created destruction and creation in its wake.

Landscapes were used to show the power of the kings and to demarcate his residence from those of the subjects. Landscapes also carried a religious import. Many rituals were associated with certain landscapes, they signified the form of certain deities such as the Danube and the serpentine ditches at Savi. These interpretations help avoid the misinterpretations of the West African people. 

It is necessary to develop a new approach that explains how natural instinct, cognition and environment act and interact in creating and managing emotions. There is both phenomenological account of emotion that attaches emotion to selfhood and the structuralist approach that considers emotion as something inherent. 

Evolutionary medicine plays an important role in understanding diseases and the manner in which the changes affect their treatment. Besides, through evolutionary biology, medics are in a better position of explaining the occurrence of diseases. Darwinian medicine should, therefore, be supported in its theoretical sense and in gaining an understanding of the problems that confront the study of medicine.

Since such situations do not arise every day, the author decided to use movies to observe that behavior. Movies such as horror movies, soap operas, high-level comedy and thrillers are known for eliciting emotional responses in the audience. So one Friday evening, the author decided to go to a cinema to watch a movie where a horror movie called The Ruins was to show that night.

Philosophically, interpretive sociology deals with researched meanings, which the sociologists obtain and attach to social phenomena. Philosophy justifies interpretative sociological research by subjecting these meanings to qualitative research and distinguishes sociology from natural science due to the latter’s governance by universal laws. 

The Bohra community retained the tabular Islamic calendar because they believed that it matches perfectly well with the lunar cycle, without the need to make any correction. This aspect differs from that adopted by other Muslin communities, who base the start of Islamic months on the positions of the moon.

It is different and a variety of options in which the Islamic texts are interpreted and in one of the common aspects is that the religion is portrayed as a religion of peace while other adherents of this religion will be deemed responsible for most of the terror attack in the world. But in reality, religion is emphasized on the faith.

Most of the people being trafficked are women and from poorer nations who are deceived through promises of better employment and decent jobs which will enable them to cater for their family’s needs and extract them from the jaws of poverty while at the same time hoping that the promised jobs will act as a stepping stone to a brighter future with better jobs.

The discipline of anthropology studies human beings with special reference to the evolutionary process they have experienced. In other words, the subject discusses the cultural and biological alterations attributed to humans and their past civilizations at large. The names and contributions made by Lamarck and Darwin appear to be at the top of the list of the anthropologists-theorists. 

The Zulu are the largest ethnic group in South Africa; they are “a pastoral people in the southern end of the eastern cattle area of Africa”. Their main mode of subsistence is by pastoralism or the domestication of animals. Zulus make their livelihood from the products they derive from livestock such as sheep, goats, camels, alpaca, reindeer and cattle.

The introduction of Islamic secularity through the school curricula was meant to bring about the separation of public life and government matters from religious teachings and commandments. The promotion of this was meant to teach the difference between religion and politics. Secularism is a tool that is regularly condemned by Muslims who do not have the same notion as those of others. 

The author does not understand how the government is justifying the minority. People like the elderly Jews entered the country with the hope that they would receive a good treatment from America that promises a lifestyle of hope and promise. However, these elderly are just surviving. They have lost hope and their only wish is to complete their remaining years with respect and dignity.

Prenatal diagnosis is accepted widely accepted as an aspect that could strengthen the Merriks in choosing the procedure as their best option. This would be based on the possibility of generalizing their problem and relating it to other cases such as sickle cell anemia or even Down’s syndrome. Their case is however different especially given that Mr. Merrik is now 38.