The Ivory Chest Cultural Analysis

It could be seen that the influence on the conception of this craftwork are based on Keyser’s living place. The exterior of the craftwork is likely to store a traditional value and symbolize her community custom. The simplicity portrayed by the design indicates its friendly function as it serves either as a place to keep miscellaneous items or acts as a collection to the people. In addition, the craftwork also could be considered as unique due to its abstract design.

“The Locket” begins with a group of Confederate soldiers surrounding a campfire after a long and tiresome day of battle. One soldier in particular, Edmond, is seen staring at a golden locket in utter silence. The other men tease that inside of the locket hold a picture of the woman he loves, though Edmond never responds. Another soldier jokes that this piece of jewelry is some sort of good luck token for Edmond since he has never been injured since the battle began. Soon the readers find out that the locket actually belong to a woman named Octavie, Edmond’s lover, and soon find out that a priest returned the locket to Octavive before Edmond came home. This is surely a sign of Edmonds death, but at the end of the story Octavie finds herself

To remove the coffin from where it lay, the tar-like perfume was hammered away using solvents and heat until finally the entirety of the coffin was revealed. Thus, there appeared to have been white calcite in the eyes of the coffin before its decomposition, a beard was attached to the chin, and the pupils are obsidian with the eyebrows and cosmetic flourishes inlaid with lapis lazuli and colored glass. The pleating of the nemese crown was painted in relief and along the neck of the coffin were two heavy necklaces of beads made of red and yellow gold and blue faience threaded together in glass bounded linen tape . Below these necklaces lay a falcon collar, created separately from the lid, inlaid with eleven rows of lapis lazuli, quartz, carnelian, feldspar, and turquoise glass. The bracelets on his arms were made of the same material as the falcon collar described above, with a crook (heqa scepter) overlain with sheet gold, dark blue faience, polychrome glass, and carnelian and a flail whose decorations along the shaft had decayed due to the black

It had been four-weeks since Madame Valmonde has seen Desiree and the baby. As she arrives at L’Abri, the home of Armand and Desiree, she “shudders at the first sight of it.” The house is covered by “big, solemn oaks” (Chopin 422) who’s “branches far-reaching shadowed it like a pall” (Chopin 422). Offering another foreshadowing, it is suggested that the shadowing trees and the branches that cover the house compare to a cloth used to cover a coffin; allowing the reader to envision L’Abri as a gloomy or serious place that is absent of pleasure and happiness--a place that had not had a woman’s touch since Armand and his father returned from Paris after the death of his mother when Armand was just eight-years old.

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.

← EDIT FOR THIS TO BE CLEAR “The Things They Carried” presents artifacts and identifies their connotation. For example, a simple pebble picked up by Martha on the Jersey shoreline and sent to Jimmy Cross as a good-luck token became much more significant once in his hands. His interpretation of the gift was that it was a romantic symbol of her truest feelings for him. Alas, O’Brien writes that Martha stated, “It was this separate-but-together quality, she wrote, that had inspired her to pick up the pebble and to carry it in her breast pocket for several days, where it seemed weightless, and then to send it through the mail, by air, as a token of her truest feelings for him”

Every person has on object in their life that is very precious to the, for me, it is my pearl necklace. They are small and round and a lustrous cream color with a pink sheen. They have a tiny gold clasp that holds the necklace together. My pearls tell a story than no other personal artifact can: my heritage. The pearls symbolized tradition and womanhood in my family’s life, and they were to be worn with dignity and pride. Every holiday, the girls of the family accessorized their outfits with the pearls given by our grandmother. They were something we all had in common: the thread that linked our generations together. I recall looking down at my Nana’s casket and I could almost hear her voice whispering

This vase could have been used as a container for water or wine and perhaps as a drinking vessel.

In the nonfiction book Ivory, Horn, and Blood by Ronald Orenstein, the author discusses his opinions on the topic of poaching elephants and rhinos. Orenstein believes that poaching is morally wrong, unnecessary, and should be stopped. He refrains from using emotional words, instead focusing on and providing startling statistics and horrifying facts.

The author’s purpose in writing this article was not to show the “Nacirema” as an example of how extreme human behavior can become, but how an outside perspective can affect your perception of an alien culture. If one were to look at the “Nacirema’s” cultural behaviors regarding physical appearance and health without any insight or knowledge of the specific beliefs or values of that culture, they might seem bizarre and even incomprehensible. By showing behaviors and “rituals” performed by this unknown tribe, Miner allowed others to see that the way studies were representing distinctive cultures was narrowminded and defective. Without the proper comprehension of the basis of any society, huge cultural misunderstandings could occur. Of

56. In Jean-Antoine Watteau's The Signboard of Gersaint, why is a portrait of Louis XIV being placed in a storage box?

The Baule feel there is another world which exists simultaneously with the world of the living. This otherworld is the spirit world called the blolo. The blolo is the point of origin for the spirits of the deceased and of newborns. In order to communicate with these important spirits, many people of the Kongo have objects referred to as Minkisi (the plural of Nkisi) which harness the power and spirits of those who have died (Stokstad 890). Minkisi were used for centuries as tools for punishing criminals, curing illness, combating witchcraft or solving other problems. Some minkisi acted nice while others were meant to be violent.

The tech industry has been lambasted for the lack of diversity in the major players like Apple, Facebook, and Google, especially for the lack of black and brown personnel in upper management. Spike Lee has recently renewed his cry for a more diverse Hollywood, recently commenting, "It's easier to be the president of the United States as a black person than be the head of a studio [or] network." What about the nation's ivory tower educational institutions? Would it surprise you to know they are predominately white and male?

piece of love and good fortune that was sent from the women to their family.

This entire project consists of a lot of souvenirs, which I have brought from India, in memory of my childhood. The cultural treasure chest is a gift from my grandfather. It was during one of the times when I visited him that he gave me this present as a lasting reminder of him. It has an exquisite illustration of a royal Indian princess, Mumtaz. Inside the box there is a whistle, which honestly speaking I don’t know who gave it to me. All I do know is that I’ve had it for as long as I can remember. As a child, I really wanted to whistle but couldn’t, so I believe that someone gave this to me to fulfill my wish. The treasure chest also contains an elegant necklace, and a colorful anklet. Both of these ornaments are gifts from my grandmother,