anthopolgy

One of the most interesting indigenous groups in the world is the Batek of Malaysia, this is a group of people that live in the oldest rain forest of peninsular Malaysia. Orang ASli means “Original people” in the native Malay Language, and they truly are the original people of the land. Being a nomadic group of hunters and gatherers, means that they are at the mercy of the land and the elements for survival. Batek beliefs note that, the rainforest was created by “superhuman” beings for the Batek to use and will destroy the world and everything on it if the Batek were ever to leave the rainforest ( K.M. Endcott 1979a; Lye 2004). The Batek believe that the “superhuman” beings created the forest for the Batek to harvest, build houses in,

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

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.

An anthropologist usually, at the beginning of their career, conduct ethnographic research in a foreign country or remote location to validate themselves as a “bonafide anthropologist” (Brondo 43). Eventually however, the anthropologist will return home often to conduct research around their own familiar ethnic group. Tsuda refers to the anthropologists return to familiar territory as an “Ethnographic homecoming” (Brondo 44). The use of ethnographic methods in the anthropologist’s home or familiar environment is what Tsuda means by “native anthropology”.

Do you like, or do you dislike bats like they are a cold? If you don’t, well you’ll dislike this paragraph because this one is all about the Northern long eared bat in North Dakota. The Northern long-eared bat has been on the endangered list since November 30, 1979, and frankly they aren’t bad for being bats. There are people trying to save this animal, like environmentalists, and there’s people who dislike these bats, like farmers and ranchers. The thing is, farmers and ranchers are the people who put them on the endangered list in the first place and they don’t realize it, but they are hunting them to try and save their families and animals from this bat. They also put themselves on the endangered list because

While wearing a metaphorical mask helps a woman hide the ugliness nobody wants to see, a literal mask conceals too much. Men want to see women, especially if they are the correct size with the correct amount of curves; if they reach the right size, arrogance or pride will take away from the physical attraction. The Middle East takes the right to flaunt their beauties away by participating in the custom that most know as veiling (the act of covering with a light gauze cloth). The practice alone seems unimaginable but even scarier, the girls seem apathetic towards the demeaning tradition. Much like India, they brainwash girls to believe in a repulsive custom. They choose to believe they help men resist the temptation of a woman’s body. In Behind the Veil by Elizabeth W. Fernea, a woman attempts to clarify the lack of self-respect: “If I wanted to take it all off (her ababbayah and veil), I would have long ago. It wouldn’t mean as much as it does to you.” (Behind the Veil, Robert Fernea). Covering up the problem does not present triumph, but among the wreckage and turmoil of this wretched tradition, hope remains. They have a stronger force on their side; America will save them from their

The methods the farmers used would really depend on the type of land their farming on. The technique slash and burn is a technique that the 4 used in forested areas. The process begins with the cutting down of the growth and then using the ashes as added soil nutrient. Over a couple years the nutrition will fade and will result in the Mayans looking for another area while waiting for the first one to grow back. In the lowlands of the Mayan world it could sometimes be swamped so the farming technique had to be different, that's why they used raised field farming. The farmers would start by digging up mud shaping into raised field, they grew up to 4 to 5 feet in the water canals. The fish would later come and provide fertilizer inside the water canal. Plants would then start to grow and prevent the canal from drying up, the farmers would then use the plants as fertilizer for

Anthropology is the study of the human world. Anthropologists investigating the origin and development of human. Anthropology as a science split (physical anthropology, archaeological, linguistic, and cultural) and also in areas that are specialized as (forensic, medical, economic and business).

Firstly, Vampire bats and their survival are important to the food chain and are a secondary pollinator leading to increases in plant based food production of which helps to prevent famine in a particular area where they are common. Many tropical to subtropical and desert plants depend on bats for pollination. These plants include but are not limited to mangoes, bananas, and desert plants like the fruit of the cactus etc. A bat pollinates by landing on a plant and/or flower and the pollen of that plant sticks to bat's fur as the bat continues to do this the traits and attributes of the parent plants are spread to cover a larger area. In recent years the poverty rate has soared in recent years leading to as many as many as ten thousand people

Northern Long-eared bats consume the insects that are posing a threat to our agriculture such as beetles, flies, and moths. If the Northern Long-eared bat became absent, our agriculture would be pushed into more harm’s way. Besides, the bats are out of our habitat, therefore, we should stay

The first possible method for protecting the bats, would be to setup a protected area. Positive incentive driven programs and eco-tourism just won’t work with bats. Bats don’t have the same general appeal as something like a polar bear or panda. People generally don’t find bats to be likeable, and so convincing people to protect them likely wouldn’t gain much traction. Instead, a controlled area that quarantines the healthy population of bats away from their infected counter-parts and human interaction would be their best shot. The healthy bats need to be kept away from the infected ones. Since going out to capture all of the healthy population in not feasible, I suggest capturing a small, but viable, sample of healthy bats for contained breeding. As the bats reach maturity they could be released into the protected area to reproduce and increase the population of healthy bats. Funding this operation would be tricky, but if the facts are laid out, the government could be persuaded to aid in funding the project. After raising the point of how the bats function for efficient and free pest control (in what would other-wise be an impossibly expensive service by humans) the government would likely see that the more financially

Women in the United States and Saudi Arabia are all trying to maintain society’s dress code as woman, but there are differences in how conservative they are, their laws in their countries, and what society already expects from them as

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service produced a brochure that was titled, “Battle for Bats: The WNS Tragedy”. In this pamphlet, It states,

Knowledge and Ethics in Anthropology: Obligations and Requirements, edited by Lissette Josephides broadly discuss the epistemological and ethical elements that are involved in the field of anthropology. The book is largely inspiring in Marilyn Strathern’s work, challenging and debating different aspect of her contribution to the field.

Tim Ingold mentions in an essay that, “ Human beings are makers of the world”. This is evident through my research in a way that we understand how communities travel across the seas around Borneo to take on a new way of living within their newly formed tribes. These tribes make do with what they have in a completely new environment. As more and more communities spread across the coasts, setting up their new life, so did the distinction between the various tribes.