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    Lila Abu-Lughod is an American anthropologist whose work is focused around descriptive ethnography and mostly based in Egypt. Her work aims to tackled three main issues: the relationship between cultural forms and power; the politics of knowledge and representation; and the dynamics of gender and the question of women’s rights in the Middle East (Columbia). Lughod in her book Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? sets out to get rid of stereotypes that muslim women because of frequent ‘honor killings’

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    demise of the culture tied to that language. In reviving a lost language we are also reviving that culture as well, bringing back new ideas, thoughts, and stories that may have been lost along with the loss of the language. In the text, Cultural Anthropology, it explains, “different languages express different thoughts and cultural content,

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    For More Information Visit Our Website ( https://homeworklance.com/ ) Email us At: Support@homeworklance.com or lancehomework@gmail.com 1. Which of the following would not be considered a specialization within the discipline of physical anthropology? • human anatomy • paleopathology • primatology • phonology 1. The material products of former societies are known as: • artifacts • fossils • legacies • antiquaries 1. Anthropologist, Spencer Wells, is the director of the geographic

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    I would humbly use bell hook’s words to describe Euro-American research as imperialist, capitalist, white supremacist patriarchy affirming research. Smith (2012) explains that the term ‘research’ is inextricably linked to European imperialism and colonialism. The ways in which scientific research is implicated in the worst excess of colonialism remains a powerful remembered history for many of the world’s colonized peoples. Smith goes on to include the western discourse as defined by Edward Said

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    Final Research Paper Tanya ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology   Final Research Paper Different societies exist throughout the world and within these societies each society develops culture that works best for them. Within these cultures they pass all their acquired knowledge and traditions down from generation to generation. Nevertheless, each culture has their own way of life, own marriage beliefs, their own values and feelings on life and religious beliefs. Cultures tend to

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    ANTH100 Take Home Final Exam Jon W. Wilson American Public University System December 26, 2014 ANTH100 Introduction to Anthropology   1. Often in anthropology, the relative importance of gathering in foraging societies is underemphasized. Throughout much of human evolution, meat eating has been based on scavenging, with hunting only emerging much later. In most scavenging societies, gathering is usually the most important activity in terms of the relative amount of nutrition that it supplies to the

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    Paige Raibmon’s book “Authentic Indians” take a closer look at the concept of authenticity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Focusing on the culturally diverse Aboriginal people of the Northwest Coast, Raibmon examines how both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people constructed and used the idea of the authentic Indian to achieve their goals. Drawing examples from three ‘episodes’ or stories about Aboriginal people of the Northwest Coast, Raibmon argues that authenticity is not a

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    To view one’s own culture as the universal by which all others are judged would be ultimately subjective, as our perceptions of cultural differences are shaped largely by our immersion in our own culture. An ethnocentric approach stems from judging an alternate culture in relation to one’s own pre-conceived cultural values, held to be superior; the parallax phenomenon, the inability to escape our own biases, prevents objective analysis of different cultures. A cultural relativist maintains the post-modernist

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    Unilineal Cultural Evolution

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    the relationship between culture and personality by comparing the lives of adolescents in Samoa to those of American youths. She concentrated particularly on the sexual experiences of the girls she studied in Samoan culture; drawing the conclusion that the sexually permissive atmosphere of Samoan culture produced healthier less “stormy” adolescents than that of her own more repressed American culture. The theories of Culture and Personality and Functionalism addressed and rebutted many of the

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    ability to provide appropriate patient care. She saw the negative effects it had on the patient outcome. Leininger decided to become more familiar with the different cultural factors and pursued a doctoral degree in social and cultural anthropology. She found anthropology so fascinating that she lived and studied with the indigenous people of New Guinea for 2 years. Leininger formed the basis of her Culture Care Theory of Diversity and Universality from her studies and first hand experiences she gained

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