Using ethnographic fieldwork this dissertation explores violence between lesbian partners in the Ukraine. The Ukraine has been chosen as the focal point for this research because the ideas of romantic same-sex involvement defy prevailing social norms within the state and thus a paradigm exists both w...
For Horton, the result was a dissertation in anthropology at UCLA, to be completed in September, titled “‘Eating Hearts’: Witchcraft as Soul Murder.” Horton’s work explores the growing belief in witchcraft in a small town, a trend increasingly common throughout sub-Sahara Africa. Many sc...
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Topics on gerontology are grossly under-represented in the German anthropological field of research. Nevertheless, new establishments of distinct research centres in the gerontological area indicate a trend towards innovative and interdisciplinary research. Up to now, anthropology has contributed relatively fe...
Elliot Orings objectives for the article were to observe male urinating behaviors in public restrooms. I believe he did meet his objectives because he was able to observe them pee. 3. As stated before‚ the method that Orings used to research his topic was to observe Premium Culture ...
This review focuses on several human population health research topics that exemplify interdisciplinary concepts and approaches from anthropology, nutrition, and public health with an emphasis on applied or translational global health implications. First, a recent study on neonatal survival in a resource-...
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Cultural anthropology is that major division of anthropology that explainsculturein its many aspects. It is anchored in the collection, analysis, and explanation (or interpretation) of the primary data of extendedethnographicfield research. Thisdiscipline, both inAmericaand in Europe, has long cast a...