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The article explains where the Haitian Creole language comes from and by which dialects was it inspired. When African slaves were imported on the island they had no effective method to communicate between them. People spoke different languages since the slaves were form different part of West Africa, and so they had to create their own system of communication. The article also gives the main languages that influence Haitian Creole and how it finally became a nationally recognized language, in

The study of cultural variation among humans and collecting data regarding the impact of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities is the cultural anthropology branch of anthropology. (Wikipedia, 2013).

On the other hand applied anthropology (anthropology research) does very much consist of one putting their new found knowledge to use. These anthropologists go into a new region with pencil and paper at hand in order to jot down their observations. They wish to acquire new undiscovered traditions or history of a region so that they may formulate a summary. As Vine Deloria Jr. in Custer Died For Your Sins said, “ The summaries are condensed for two reasons. Some condensations are sent to government agencies as reports justifying the previous summer’s research. Others

Setting- the story takes place in 1937 in Alegria consisting of many sugarcane mills, as the story progresses, the characters travel through the Dominican Republic as far as the Massacre River which borders the Dominican and Haiti, in Haiti the setting is mostly the Cap, which is the town where Yves is from, Amabelle returns to the Dominican Republic and the story ends in the Massacre River Conflict- The major conflict in the book involves the fact that the Generalissimo wants to cleanse the Dominican Republic of Haitians even though they are needed as workers. The 1937 massacre occurs during the story as Trujillo forces the Haitians who migrated to the Dominican to be killed. The Dominicans are mainly a Spanish-speaking Catholic population while the Haitians are African and speak Creole. Trujillo sees them as a threat to the government and economy even though it is mere prejudice.

Applied anthropology is a concentration within the anthropology discipline. Applied anthropologist strive to learn about specific cultures, solve collective issues, and influence human social conditions. Through the application of data, theories, and methods they help better understand many social problems. Within each subdisiciplines of anthropology, there are applied anthropologist who help to better understand and directly deal the people of the culture or group. They use their practical knowledge and incorporate it to whatever environment they may be in. In specific, applied anthropologist in cultural anthropology observe the culture and their practices, listen to what the community wants, and supports them using their own professional skills.

What is anthropology? This is a question that can be answered in numerous ways, but we are going to define it as simple as possible. If we break the word down into its two components it means the study of human beings. “Anthropo” means human beings or human kind and “logy” or “logia” is Greek for the study or knowledge of something. When we put it all together, it is the study of human beings which can be very broad. Anthropology can be broken down into four subfields: physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and cultural anthropology.

3. Why is anthropology significant to society? - It is important for us as human beings to understand our origins and also to understand the cultures in the world outside of our own.

Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé first published in 1989, offers a fitting representation of French Caribbean history and culture. The novel stands out for its celebration of diversity and the concept of root identity throughout French Caribbean society. Condé’s novel reflects on the people living in Guadeloupe and the complex system that colonialism has created in the Caribbean. Also, it links the créolité movement from its counterpart Negritude and demonstrates how it shapes the identity of individuals living in the French Caribbean. The population of Rivière au Sel exemplifies the mixture of Guadeloupian people and how they interact with each other in a small community. Countless waves of immigrates to the Caribbean have brought African, East Indian, Europeans, Asians and other racial groups to live in close proximity to each other in Guadeloupe. In Praise of Creoleness, it explains the emergences of créolité and how it is a metaphor for a unique Caribbean identity completely separated from other movement in the Caribbean.

Anthropology is holistic. Humans are social beings more than anything, but with underlying psychological, biological and cultural connotations. The field of anthropology encompasses everything and anything having to do with humankind throughout history. Anthropology attempts to answer the tough questions about the human condition. What influences our actions? How has our species changed? Why do we look down on other cultures or societies? The questions are endless. It is the anthropologists’ job to try and answer them with unbiased subjectivity in order to come analytical conclusions about us as humans. (Kottak 14). To understand humans and the complexity of our cultures anthropology uses knowledge not only from the social and biological sciences, but also the physical sciences and humanities. In order to cover such a wide base of human history and interaction, anthropology itself has been split up into four different subsets that allow us to delve deeper into the understanding of the human condition. What is common throughout all the subsets is the application of knowledge in an effort to solve human problems. Throughout history though, the problems we have faced as humans have not always been the same. In fact they often change from generation to generation. For anthropology to keep up with these changes it’s had to

I was assigned to visit around the sector of Lionel-Groulx, which is very diverse and has numerous cultural landscapes. I often go to Lionel-Groulx to play basket-ball at DJ Sports center, there is a high concentration of Caribbean people at the center. We can observe that they are very outgoing and dynamic but have violent tendencies.

Park defines archaeology as a subfield of anthropology that studies the past culture of humans and reconstructs the past cultural systems that existed. He goes on to say that they study cultures and people that are no longer living (Park, 2008). Archaeology reconstructs past cultural systems. Archaeology began as a method of

Politically we are confronted with a host of issues ranging from matters pertaining to local taxation, planning, and zoning to regional (if not global) terrorism and other manifestations of conflict. The study of geography allows us to participate and enjoy our planet. Geography gives us a sense of reference to where we live and where we may be going in relationship to where we have been. Its appreciation of the world we live in. Anthropology is the study of human kind and culture, everybody wants to know where and how humans came to be. Some examples we can apply anthropology in our daily lives would be in relating to our families, friends, co-workers, in understanding work dynamics, in understanding and communicating with teens,, and in proposing new ideas, and plans. Its unique contribution to studying the bonds of human social relations been the distinctive concept of culture.

In society today, the discipline of anthropology has made a tremendous shift from the practices it employed years ago. Anthropologists of today have a very different focus from their predecessors, who would focus on relating problems of distant peoples to the Western world. In more modern times, their goal has become much more local, in focusing on human problems and issues within the societies they live.

According to Holbrook, “The social situation in British Guiana is complex due to several factors, these being the colonial history of the country, the importation of African Slaves, the political history, and even government policies’. British Guiana’s population made up of indigenous American Indians, descendents of European colonizers, African Slaves, East Indians, Chinese and Indonesian indentured servants. All of which have all resulted in several languages being spoken within in this country; however the two which are most widely used are English and Guyanese Creole English which is a Creole language spoken by over 700,000 people.

The evolution of Caribbean Literature started centuries before the Europeans graced these shores and continues to develop today. Quite noticeably, it developed in a manner which transcended all language barriers and cultures. Today the languages of the Caribbean are rooted in that of the colonial powers - France, Britain, Spain and Holland - whose historical encounters are quite evident throughout the region. The cosmopolitan nature of the region's language and cultural diversity develop from the mixture of European languages with Native American languages (mainly the Caribs and Arawaks) in the formation of creoles and local patois (hybrid languages) and those of Africans brought to the Caribbean as