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This is a 6-page paper on ethnography from a colonial and post-colonial perspective. It consists of three separate essays: one on recent controversy over the Eurocentric slant of various colonial ethnographies; one on the current concept of sexuality in anthropology; and one on how colonialism shaped the anthropological thought of the Dutch and French. It is written in MLA format and utilizes 3-5 sources per paper. | more info
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This eight-page paper questions the concept that skull size is indicative of race, and whether or not these principles can be applied to historical skulls. Supported by references this paper shows that although there may now be differences in skulls sizes and make-up between the three races (white, black and Asian) in historical anthropology these differences were not as easy to assume or identify. Paper includes a topic paragraph and outline, plus a reference page. Five references are used. | more info
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This is a two-page essay that defines relativism, ethnocentrisms, and the early theory of anthropology, unilineal evolution. It deals with these topics briefly and then discusses a case example of how they can be seen in an actual situation rather than just words on paper. The paper is in MLA format with zero sources. | more info
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This 3-page essay discusses the issue of gender-neutral language and cultural bias. It uses 5 sources and is in MLA format. | more info
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This 8-page research paper uses 8 sources and is in MLA format. It discusses Roman archeological finds and what they can tell us about women’s roles in Roman Society. | more info
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Summary- What follows is an eight page essay written in the APA style. It describes the interactions between the Inuit and three churches representing the Christian faith. The paper compares the methods used to proselytize by each of the churches and the results of such efforts. There is a reference section for citations after the essay. | moreinfo
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This 8-page research paper uses 8 sources and is in MLA format. It explores the role that politics have had in the study of archeology. Archeology’s influence on religious beliefs is also analyzed including findings that have in some ways disproved a wide held religious belief as well as findings that coincide with these beliefs. Issues of validity of some archeological findings are also examined as well as the Bible’s relation to politics. The paper concludes by discussing philosophical trends in archeology. | more info
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This report--2 pages in length, in MLA format, and relying on 1 source--examines the nexus between the royal and priestly functions in ancient Mesopotamia and manner in which they evolved. The report concentrates on the religious evolution model developed by Piotr Steinkeller. | more info
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This report is composed of brief answers to a series of questions relating to various aspects of Sumerian and Akkadian civilization durin the third and fourth millennia BC. It touches on such matters as religion, tutelary gods, development of civil government and bureaucracy, myth, saga, and male-female relations. It relies on numerous learned journals for source material, as well as several hundred slides showing various aspects of the ancient civilizations in question. | more info
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This one page paper compares the field work of Annette Weiner on the Trobriand Islands and Napolean Chagnon with the Yanomamo Tribes in the Amazon Basin. It is supported by two references. | more info
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What follows is an essay that critiques a book that describes a culture in the southern part of the African continent. It describes the book and its contents, and then answers a question about the writer’s feelings about ethnocentric responses that the writer may experience. Finally, the essay relates the experience to discussions about the subject that may have arisen in class. | more info
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This is an eight page paper that investigates the behavior of primates specifically the chimpanzees in Oakland zoo. Their behavior pattern arte studied and recorded on sheets which are later analyzed to establish their distribution across the sexes and ages. There is no dominant chimpanzee that exhibits all the behavioral characteristics but they are unevenly distributed. This paper follows an APA style with two sources. | more info
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This is a college freshman level research paper on the subject of cultural studies. Rituals and rites of passage from various cultures are discussed. Different types of rituals such as wedding, birthday and funeral ceremonies, which take place in various countries and cultures, are considered. This is a 3 page paper written in MLA format, it relies on 4 sources. | more info
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This is a one page essay answering three questions pertaining to anthropology and archeology. The topics covered are uniformitarianism vs. catastrophism, the inheritance of acquired characteristics and the discovery of four-winged dinosaur fossils. There are four sources cited and the paper is written in MLA format. The questions answered are: Describe the ideas of uniformitarianism and catastrophism, Describe the concept of the inheritance of acquired characteristics and explain why it is incorrect and What is the significance of the discovery of the four-winged dinosaur fossils. | more info
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This is a four-page, MLA-style paper discussing culture and human life. It examines indigenous knowledge and local cultures and what happens when cultures meet and one becomes assimilated into another. It outlines different perspectives on science and technology based on culture and highlights the differences and what can be gained from studying other cultures more carefully. The paper is supported by online and printed sources. | more info
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What follows is a five page essay written in the APA style. The subject is organizational structure in a pediatric trauma care center and the way that it affects cultural differences between hospital staff and patient’s families. The paper explains the difference between an organic and mechanistic organization and then shows how they apply to both the hospital and the client family. Suggestions are made to mitigate differences. | more info
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