Cultural anthropology, a major division of anthropology that deals with the study of culture in all of its aspects and that uses the methods, concepts, and data of archaeology, ethnography and ethnology, folklore, and linguistics in its descriptions and
Anthropology is the study of humankind. Like most sciences, it is broken down into subfields. One of these subfields is cultural anthropology, which is the study of the commonalities and differences of both past and present cultures. As its name implies, it is interested in culture, the set ...
The issue of gender inequality is one which has been publicly reverberally through society for decades. The problem of inequality in employment being one of the most pressing issues today, in order to examine this situation, one must try to get to the root of the problem and must understand...
Suggested as a topic primarily for Master's level study (though the dates could be altered to enable its use at undergraduate level), this dissertation addresses key themes within sociocultural anthropology. Using participant observation (in the form of primary interviews with generation within the ...
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...
Entries covered under the rubric "feminism, topics" concern philosophical issues that arise as feminists articulate accounts of sexism, critique sexist social and cultural practices, and develop alternative visions of a just world. In short, they are philosophical topics that arise within feminism. ...
The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is 'culture bound' in our own medical belief and practice. "The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology" is unique because it is the first reference work to describe the cultural prac...
This paper explores two interrelated themes found in the anthropologyof ethnic dance ensembles in Kamchatka, Russia: authenticity and the place of individual in society. I use two elite dance troupes (one professional, the other semi-professional) to analyse local categories of cultural authenticity....
The rst, "Should Anthropology Be Part of Cognitive Science?" was published in volume 4, issue 3 (2012). The second, "Exploring Cognitive Diversity: Anthropological Perspectives on Cognition" appeared in volume 7, issue 4 (2015). Of course, the volume 12, issue 2 (2020) is the one ...
Among the most lively examples of new research in anthropology that demands a fluid, resourceful vision of culture is the topic ofmale fertility. Fertility research is by far the largest sub-discipline in contemporary demography. Yet until a very few years ago, women comprised virtually its sole...