Social Science

The Chinese one-child policy has probably been rather prophetic in it’s uber cautious approach to future restraints on resources. Currently, China doesn’t produce enough grain to feed the livestock required to satisfy rising middle class demand for meat so it…
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Studies have shown that female primates, with proper stimulation, are capable of physical responses that human beings interpret as orgasm. Although there has been no conclusive evidence to indicate what relationship their capacity for orgasm has to their sexual relations…
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Cultural change in reality equals the sum of a society’s ability to incorporate new ideas, innovations and habits. Different cultures differ to the degree that they are able to incorporate ideas, innovations and habits and a culture may therefore be…
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Mutts My siblings and I have been thought of as: “mutts;” “mongrels;” “misfits;” or “miss-be-gotten” breeds. We are native-born Americans who happen to be a mixture of African-American, Native-American and European-American descent. We and millions of folks like us empathize…
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Abuses of Anthropological Research Methodology resulting from Kenneth Good’s Yanomami “study” Since the time that Ken Good began teaching at New Jersey City University (NJCU) in 1992, I have continuously objected to his having been hired – because it was…
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When individuals become adults, men and women differentiate themselves from each other. Males and females are about 10% dimorphic. In other words, there are only slight differences between then, other than (of course) the genitalia. Some of these differences include…
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Communities are not a singular entity. They come in all shapes and sizes and are made up of all different types of people.To a large degree community viability is determined by the communication which occurs between its members and how…
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Franz Boas: Historical Particularism and the Concept of Race Franz Boas (1858-1942) relied upon historical particularism to guide his thinking in regard to culture. Herbert Spencer and Lewis Morgan, on the other hand, focused on unilineal evolutionism. The differences between…
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The role of Interpersonal communication in Creation and inhibition of human community formation The term community could be described as “a group of people having a common interest and living together in a geographical setting within the context of a…
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My love affair with anthropology! I spent 3 years studying a population via the use of anthropological field methods. Here, I want to talk particularly about the struggles I faced in the process, and the advantages of being a native…
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