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  • Nisa's Marriage Ceremony
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    Marriage in Nisa: The Life and Words of a! Kung Woman Marriage is something that is sacred in all cultures. Everyone gets married in some way or another. In American culture, a man marries one woman, and together, they eventually raise a family. In some places, marriages are arranged. There are other places where people marry their cousins and others where men marry more then one woman. All of these types of marriages are discussed in Anthropology: An Applied Perspective. Many different cultures...
  • Responsibilities Of The Onsite Managers
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    1. What Managerial roles is Jack Welch most likely to play in creating a culture that values continuous improvement? The role Jack Welch played was allowing the creation of the "Quick Response Program". Allowing his employees to take over. This is a risky role to take, but at the same time, it has the possibility of being a successful move. 2. When the Louisville facility was turned over to its employees, how might the responsibilities of the onsite managers have changed? Were the managers likel...
  • Important Relationship Between Language And Culture
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    Whether realized or not, it is obvious that wherever the concept of language occurs, the concept of culture occurs. That is mainly because language is deeply embedded in culture. Although some people think that this statement is wrong due to the fact that a language is the key to the cultural heritage of another people or that knowledge of another language enables people to increase their personal culture through contact with great minds and works of literature, the culture of a society includes...
  • Texans And The Republic Of Texas
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    Texas Culture When the three of us decided to use Texas as our micro-culture, I thought it was a great idea. I am not a Texan, since by definition to be a Texan, you must have been born in Texas, no exceptions (web), but do consider myself an honorary Texan. My first experience with Texas was around 1983 when I visited the state. I was traveling quite extensively at that time and most of Texas was included in those travels. I had previously been in several other states in our nation but none see...
  • Cultures
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    Theatre will always survive in our changing society. It provides us with a mirror of the society within which we live, and where conflicts we experience are acted out on stage before us. It provides us with characters with which we identify with. The audience observes the emotions and actions as they happen and share the experience with the characters in real time. The survival of theatre lies in the very nature of humankind: its inner voyeuristic drive. The desire to watch other people dealing ...
  • Different Sides Of Western Culture
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    The Other Gana nath Obeyesekere argues that "one cannot escape the politics, ethics, and quandaries of representation even as we try to describe the Other". This argument has lead to a great debate between him and another anthropologist, Marshal Sahlins. Obeyesekere believes that even though we try to give an objective portrayal of another, we cannot help judging them by our own standards. Sahlins on the other hand, says that it is possible to describe other people in an objective way, as long a...
  • Cultural Diversity
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    Cultural Diversity: Campus Climates and Classroom Instruction American Society has been and continues to become increasingly mixed, complex, and variegated in its cultural practices and ethnic make up. However, the state schools have fallen short of race goals established thirty-one years ago in a desegregation case now known as Geiger vs. Sundquist. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has notoriously had one of the worst recruiting efforts for diversifying undergraduates. This realization ...
  • Most Important In The Maasai Culture
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    The Maasai Cultural Breakdown Paper " Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people" Proverbs 14: 34. This is a quote from a web site (web), that defines parallels to the culture of the Maasai. The Maasai Culture is from Southern Kenya. The culture is very family based, with many families being quite large. The Maasai own a total land area of 160,000 kilometers ( web ). Some of the physical characteristics include, but are not limited to, tall height, long pierced earlobes, ...
  • Contact With The Other Party
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    Ethnocentrism #1 a. The difference between the way that the Thais deal with traffic accidents is very different from our own in the manner that when an accident occurs they compare the damage done to each vehicle and then the damage done to each person. To call the police is a big waste of time because many other riders do not have a license. After the problem had been taken care of you are not supposed to make any other contact with the other party. It almost seems like the debate between the g...
  • Various Elements Of The Indus Valley Culture
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    Few scholars would disagree that at the time of the Buddha, a very heterogeneous and actively developing religious culture flourished in India. This generally accepted historical reality proves that Buddhism was neither a protest against, or an offshoot of Hinduism (this view is even expressed for example in the Encyclopaedia Brittania). Buddhism simply proved to be one of the more successful new schools of thought within a large variety of philosophies, especially after King Ashoka became a Bud...
  • Rampant In Many Other Cultures
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    Classical Readings on Cultural AnthropologyByGary Ferraro What do we have to learn through the study of different cultures? I was hoping for some wonderful revelation in the collection of writings. I may have found one. This book was a difficult read for me. I am not sure whether it's my age or my inexperience with classical readings. I also found it difficult to formulate a report on a collection of readings, the last report I did was on Laura Ingall's Little House on the Prairie. This reading ...
  • Counter Culture Groups
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    Counter Cultures May 4th, 1970 Kent State University; a mass group of student were protesting the Vietnam War when shots broke out and four protesters were killed by guards. These killings swayed the media and all people who knew of this incident to want stop the war. This is one of the common effects counter cultures during the Vietnam War and 60's had on the viewers and listeners at home; they had the power to make people rethink there thoughts on large topics such as the Vietnam War and many ...
  • Taste For High Culture
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    A question of discrimination Think, wrote the cultural critic Eunice Lipton, "about Michelangelo, van Gogh, Rodin, Picasso, Pollock. Could these artists be lesbians, Asian Americans, Native Americans" Her point was that if they had been any of these things, they would not have been recognised as "artist-geniuses" (her term); and this by implication shows that the notion of high culture in the western tradition embodies everything that is exclusive of other cultures and elitist within its own. To...
  • Respect Peoples Cultures
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    Personal Interests 2 People in general consider traveling as their personal interests. One of my Personal Interests is traveling. When I was younger traveling quickly became one of my interests simply because I enjoyed it so much. I have traveled almost all over the world and seen a variety of different cultures and people. The reason why I chose traveling to write about is because of the experiences and knowledge it gave me. There are two things that I learned while traveling. The first thing w...
  • Tomb With Mummies Egyptians
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    Egypt Revealed 1) What are mummies A mummy is a preserved body that has been prepared for thousands of years. 2) How are mummies made The ancient Egyptians used to mummify people by this process. They first removed their brains with a hook through their nostrils. They then proceeded to take out all the internal organs of the mummy, except for the liver and the heart. After, this they filled the empty insides up with sawdust or linen pads. Next, they cut a hole on the side of the body and filled ...
  • Society's Culture
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    What is Humankind Lisa Marinelli Anthro. 2 Anthropologists have continually attempted to distinguish humankind from its closest relatives-other primates. With so many things apparent in both human and animal life like language, society, and tools, humans are left pondering what separates them from apes and chimps. Through examining aspects of the lives of humans and primates, a rough answer to what is humankind will be derived. Culture: Culture is the learned behavior and set of rules shared by ...
  • Spread Of American Culture
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    It was the 1st of May 2003, my parents and I took a major decision. And we wondered if it was the right decision. A few months from then, their daughter would be on a jet plane flying thousands of miles away. Their lovely girl had secured admission in a prestigious American college. All the formalities were now complete, bags half packed and emotions on hold. It was a crucial period for my small family. I was in a suspended state of emotion myself -half scared, half excited. From the time my app...
  • Important Difference Between Vietnamese And American Cultures
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    Culture between America and Vietnam America is a country with diverse ethnicities and cultures. We are all from different backgrounds with our own set of cultural values and beliefs which makes us unique among each other. With these differences, we are able to learn interesting new things from our friends and people we meet. For instance, I've made a friend named David. He is Caucasian. We ask questions about each other's culture when we hang out and exchange with each other the Vietnamese and A...
  • Icelandic Culture And Lifestyle
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    What do you do when you meet someone for the first time? Most people shake hands with each other. This behavior is a habit for most Americans. However, the same act was quite different when my brother's friend tried to shake hands with my father. Although Korean culture has assimilated the handshake, a teenager shaking hands with an adult is still a cultural shock to many Korean adults. In a manner similar to this example, 101 Reykjavik also depicts the similarities and differences of cultures. ...
  • Influence And The Power On Other Countries
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    The United Stated is currently the most influential country on the face of the earth. Not only concerning the issues of money and business but also our choices of music clothes and recreational activities. Often times people think of countries such as Japan and China as being completely different. We think they have strange dress and odd customs, they are thought to have a completely different culture than ours. You will find that that is incorrect, the ir cultures are actually very similar to o...

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