Humans are primates. That is the guiding idea for those who use primates to study human behavior. People are members of the great ape family, along with the gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees. Our closest existing animal relatives are the bonobo…
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Private, Public, and Professional Voice: The Commodity of Culture in Applied Anthropology The relationship between activism and anthropology is something that all anthropologists must confront at some point. For this paper, the definition of an advocate will be one who…
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Anger is a combination of emotional and physical changes. Anger occurs when the body’s large energy released in a chemical form that releases adrenaline. Anger is a normal process that has allowed humans to evolve and adapt, but problems will…
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There does seem to be a connection between the state of a local economy and the childbearing rates of its citizens. Populations increase with increasing prosperity in a developing society, at least at first. Fewer babies die, and more children…
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Archaeology today, involves not only a systematic and meticulous excavation, but perhaps more importantly, cooperation with a variety of specialist scientific and historical disciplines to analyse and synthesise evidence of the human past in a way that reflects history accurately….
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Anyone who has spent time around toddlers knows beyond any doubt that boys and girls are different. This differences can be seen during any stage of life, but it is often most visible in the age when children are first…
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A never before published, eye witness account. I write here a ‘first hand account’ of a male initiation ceremony I stumbled upon in 1964, in the highlands of Papua-New Guinea, amongst the Huli people of Tari, in the Southern Highlands…
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Cry. Show your feelings, show that you are indeed human. Show that you have emotions too, and that things hurt you, just as they do to everyone else. Some people think that crying indicates weakness; if anything, the exact opposite…
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Imagine yourself in the situation when you don’t know how to ask for directions; how to use the phone; how to tank up the car; how to pay for your groceries or even how to identify the groceries you need…
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Everywhere you look, in this modern world, you see the works of Man. Cities, towns, highways, fields. Homo sapiens sapiens, our species, has been a prolific creator, a builder, a shaper, a creature unparalleled in changing its environment to suit…
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