Graeme Clifford

assign meanings to these symbols in order to address fundamental questions about human social life. Symbolic and interpretative anthropology can be divided into two major approaches, wherein, one is associated with Victor Turner and the other with Clifford Geertz. Victor Turner was a British anthropologist who studied rituals and social change particularly among the Ndembu of Zambia. Through his work Turner was able to reveal how the process of social change unfolded from the point of view of the

One of the most significant and controversial elements found within the study of music is the representation of culture. Although the definition of representation according to Merriam-Webster is “a person or group that speaks or acts for or in support of another person or group,” it is not as easily said than done. The true act of representing another is both incredibly complex and challenging as it contains many subjective variables. History, for example, has demonstrated the complexity of defining

Gibson Girl versus Flapper Girl During the roaring twenty’s a new type of women arose, a women who rebelled against society’s standards for women, the Flapper Girl. The new Flapper Girl shocked society by setting a new type of women beauty that expressed their independence just like men. Meanwhile the Gibson Girl was the ideal figurehead for female beauty, they were often shown as fragile and vulnerable. Flapper Girls astonished the world by pushing the limits of the average Gibson Girl setting

When presented with ethnographic works, the first thing one would normally do would be to compare. The Vulnerable Observer by Ruth Behar and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, both demonstrate key factors that prove to be prevalent throughout the anthropological world today. Through the examination of each piece, it is clear that they both share similar restrictions, trials and tribulations. As both books begin to unravel, the themes of marginality and borders (in a multitude

The book, The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy through the Maze of Computer Espionage is a 1990 novel written by Clifford Stoll. Published by arrangement with Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc, the main idea of the book is a first-person account of the hunt for a computer cracker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkley National Library. Winding up on the front page of The New York Times, the astronomer trained and accidental computer expert, Cliff Stoll became

Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty In his play "Waiting for Lefty" Clifford Odets attempts to stir up the weary American public of the 1930s by providing examples of everyday people who, with some coaxing, rise above the capitalist mess they've inherited and take control of their destinies. In his work, Odets paints the common man as honest, sacrificial, and exploited, while big business and the government are portrayed as the proletariat's enemies, anonymous corporations of rich men intent on

Issues Faced By the Middle Class Society in Clifford Odets’ “The Country Girl” Dr. G. VISALAM Head, Department of English, Sri Muthukumaran Arts and Science College, Chikkarayapuram, Chennai – 600 069, Tamilnadu, India visalamganesh@gmail.com ABSTRACT This article dissects the issues and troubles faced by the middle class society in the play, “The Country Girl”. This paper also speaks about how the middle class people are psychologically affected by their problems. In this play, they aspire for

Name: Pavani Potluri Book Title: The Cuckoo’s Egg Tracking a Spy through the Maze of Computer Espionage. Author: Clifford Stoll Book Report The book’s narrator is an astronomy graduate student at the University of Berkeley, California. The events in the books are around the time 1986-1988. He works as novice manager of the computer system at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. His quest as a spy began when the Lawrence Berkeley Lab encountered a 75-cent accounting error. He discovered that someone was accessing

Robert Warshow, author of The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theater and Other Aspects of Popular Culture, was at once a student and teacher of experience. He was a lover of popular culture in all forms, a “New York Intellectual”, and a disenchanted writer searching for the cultural value in everything he saw, read or experienced. (denby 2001, xiii) Through reading his collection of critical essays one can see Warshow as a Jewish man, with strong opinions about communism and its affect on

William Kingdon Clifford, (born May 4, 1845, Exeter, Devon, England—died March 3, 1879, Madeira Islands, Portugal) British philosopher and mathematician. Although he was most famous for his work as a mathematician, Clifford also wrote, “The locus classicus for the ethics of belief debate is, unsurprisingly, the essay that christened it. “The Ethics of Belief” was published, in a journal called Contemporary Review.”(Chingell) As stated in his writing, “The Ethics of Belief,” W.F. Clifford tells a story