Franz Boas and Margaret MeadThe Quest for an Empirical Discipline In the nineteenth-Century, ethnology, which involves the organized comparison of human societies, and relied on second hand materials collected by missionaries, explorers, or colonial officials, earned the ethnologists their current…
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Everywhere has its stereotypes and suburbia is no different. You might think it hard for people to see you as cutting edge and hip if you live a nice, identikit home with 2.4 SUVs, in an area full of people who apparently belong…
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Some of the earliest remains such as bones, tools, butchery marks on animal bones that were left by earlier humans, and other types of evidence have giving anthropologist an idea about how early humans lived, functioned as a group and…
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It could be argued that some mass communication research methods constrain the audience to an entity that is empowered by the media, and not something that is actually enriching it. Taking art and taste’ as an example, when trying to…
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Some of the drawbacks of living in an automobile dependent community are startlingly obvious, others less so, but all should be carefully considered before deciding to move to such a place. If you already live in one then there are…
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I hate to break this to you, but Indiana Jones is a FICTIONAL character. While media certainly influences our perceptions of reality (art imitates life) we must be reminded of the fact that entertainment is about entertaining, not educating. This…
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It is obvious that the world has become a “Global Village” with the evolution of global transportation/travel and international commerce aided by the Internet and other forms of instant communication, not to mention the socio/political effects of organizations such as…
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The discovery in 2010 of the Tomb of Hecatomnus, was not widely reported, even though it was one of the year’s top archaeological discoveries. Archaeological discoveries though are, as a general rule, underreported, unless there is a large financial aspect…
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Kenneth Good’s study of the Yanomami shows that there are many advantages and disadvantages for anthropologists to have lengthy stays in the fields they are working in. There is the advantage of being able to thoroughly get to know the…
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We can ascertain that the great pyramids are not the product of Egyptians, but the culture of the predecessors of the Ancient Egyptians since the Egyptians were former slaves of the Babylonians who most definately built the pyramids and told…
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