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  1. How successful have the anti-caste movements been in terms of the relevance of caste in India today?

    • Essay length: 2137 words
    • Submitted: 10/06/2012

  2. Urban Athens: a cultural examination of the differing treatment towards stray dogs and immigrants

    • Essay length: 2235 words
    • Submitted: 10/06/2012

  3. I found it sometimes quite unreasonable to put people into different racial categories since there is not an absolute standard to differentiate people. Especially by reading Part Asian 100% Hapa by Kip Fulbeck, a Fine Arts professor at the University of C

    • Essay length: 1296 words
    • Submitted: 09/06/2012

  4. Food Culture-Sichuan Hotpot. Sichuan Hotpot is a participatory dining. Once the broth starts boiling, it is really a free-for-all.

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    • Submitted: 02/05/2012

  5. Durkheim on religion. In his text Elementary Forms of Religious Life Durkheim begins his introduction to the theory of religion by explaining what it is no

    • Essay length: 2681 words
    • Submitted: 02/04/2012

  6. The purpose of this report is to organise the temporary exhibition of a collection of Sixties artefacts and memorabilia, loaned to the museum by Mr Peter Van, a private collector, for the duration of a week. This report will outline the logistics involved

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    • Submitted: 12/03/2012

  7. Why was the concept of race so important to anthropology in the late 19th Century and why did that change ?

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    • Submitted: 14/01/2012

  8. Extended Essay on Mimicry in Humans

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    • Submitted: 10/01/2012

  9. This Research paper will present an overview of traditional Chinese marriage system and customs from the Engagement to the Wedding Day, also including various forms of marriages in ancient times.

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    • Submitted: 08/01/2012

  10. Are menstrual taboos simply a form of womens subordination?

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    • Submitted: 15/06/2011
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"It may be in the cultural particularities of people - in their oddities - that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found."

?Clifford Geertz

If you love challenging your assumptions and learning about different cultures, then maybe you'd enjoy studying anthropology at the university level. Anthropology is a broad discipline dealing with every aspect of humanlife, culture, and society, with particular emphasis placed on cultural relativism. It can be studied on its own, or joint with a related subject like ancient history or geography.

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Anthropology students can remain in the field; take higher degrees in a related subject like sociology; or pursue careers in a wide variety of fields,including marketing, HR, media and consulting.

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  • How useful is the term "counter-culture" to describe developments in Western Society during the 1960s? Discuss with reference to any three of the five disciplines represented in Block 6.

    "To sum up there was no single counter culture but several movements which posed challenges to "mainstream society" I agree to a degree with Ray Davis of the pop group the Kinks who said "that the so-called "Freedom of the Sixties was a myth, that the so-called "counter-culture" never really infiltrated society and that the establishment continued to rule" (Block 6, pg 175) I agree that the establishment did continue to rule and that the sixties did not witness a political or economic revolution but it had great impact on personal and social life . In his autobiography Jim Haynes', 'Thanks for Coming!' shows the deflation felt by many at the end of the sixties. He says 'the end of the sixties came as an incredible collapse [...[we weren't going to change the world. We could only maybe change ourselves a bit. And I think that this resulted in a depression.' (Resource Book 4, page 24) I think this shows that many involved in the "counter-culture movements felt they were trying to change the world and its thanks to their "disanchantment with mainstream culture that has allowed future generations new freedoms in morality; tolerance, equality and acceptance. (Word 1810)"

  • Discuss some of the recurrent themes in western representations of the non-European 'other'.

    "What is clear from discussing these different representations of the 'other' we have is that while they may focus on very different locations, and completely different sets of misinterpretations, they all share some very common grounds - both in the way these representations are formed, and more importantly the way these representations are criticized and rejected. Therefore in conclusion, while there will always be different names given to the ways we may represent certain areas around the world, it is likely that there will always be one combined perceived 'other' that an ignorant westerner may apply very similar frameworks to, no matter how different they may actually be."

  • Assess the evidence for and against the 'media imperialism theory'

    "Conclusion Through these points I hopefully have given a small indication of what the arguments for and against the media imperialism debate are all about. Generally the criticism is levelled at the most dominant world force, America. It is true that during the whole of the 90's the Americans have sought to eliminate the international trade barriers that exist worldwide in order to capitalise on the possible financial rewards available. There may in the future be massive benefits from the weaker nations use of western orientated material, but that is far from clear. It is extremely debateable whether access to western media content is detrimental, as essentially everyone has a choice in the way that they act and the attitudes and beliefs that they chose to adopt. So in effect there will only be a negative effect on the culture of third world, developing or weaker nation if the people who are part of that culture let it slip away (Hutchinson: 1999: 200)."

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