Social Science

As the trend toward bigger houses, more expensive cars and the accumulation of more and more stuff continues, we are compelled to ask the question:  Does this incessant quest for materialistic possessions make us happier?  We all have the same…
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You may think that only bearded archeology students, led by long-haired professors, wearing stripey sweaters, can do archeology. Though such people lead digs, they need volunteers to help them. At many digs, anyone, even (supervised) children, can get involved in…
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Science has no relation to this age-old argument of whether money can buy a person’s happiness. Science has evolved over time through people’s curiosity of the world around them. When someone wakes up in the morning and look outside, they…
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Culture changes over time, all the time. This can be because the time, and with it the environment, changes (e.g. new inventions) but another reason can be acculturation. What is acculturation? In simple terms, it is the process of one…
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Anthropological kinship or genealogy charts are similar to the genealogy charts done by genealogists but they are mapped out using symbols rather than names. However names can be included in an anthropological kinship chart depending on the work being done…
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The Hopi people are native Americans who have lived in the high mesas for several thousand years. Today there are several hundred villages, all autonomous, each with their own form of self- government based on religious observance. The clans are…
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The culture of a work place, a field of science, a society or individual is always subject to change and growth. The appropriation of part of a culture into another culture is acculturation. The process usually proceeds from the dominant…
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Cultural loss can give people a sense of inadequacy, lost identity, anger and the breaking of ties that bind them to their past. Traditions and customs are linked to culture and dictate the way lives are lived based on the teachings of one’s forefathers. It is the…
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The art of mummification is one of the great achievements of ancient Egyptian civilization.  There was not a single, unchanging system; over the course of some three thousand years of history, the process of mummification was gradually refined, with occasional…
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The Neolithic period is also known as the New Stone Age and occurred about 9500 BC in the Middle East. It marked the time when people stopped being nomadic hunters and started to use agriculture as a way of life….
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