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Tag: anthropology topics

The Mueller Report: Highlights

The Mueller Report is probably one of the most extensive legal investigations in the history of the United States. Certainly, … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology journals, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Religion and Economy – Part Two-by Keith Hart

We need to understand better how we build the infrastructures of collective existence, money among them. How do meanings come … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Why do Leaders Fail?

This is an opinion piece that some might say loosely fits within the realm of anthropology. And yet, if one … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography

World’s Most Vital Resource

It is not necessary to explain the process by which algae through millions of years of geological time and chemical … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology journals, anthropology lectures, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

The War Against Privacy

In the May-June 1993 issue of Wired Magazine, an article on a group of mathematicians advocating a radical, libertarian, cryptographic … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology journals, anthropology lectures, anthropology online, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Social Anthropology

Decline of Brazil’s Middle Class

Although he was a left-wing, socialist president for two consecutive terms, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva demonstrated that a left-wing … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Latin American Studies, Social Anthropology

Birth of the Pharmaceutical

In his highly original work, Birth of the Clinic, Foucault focuses his attention on the human experience and the rational … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Medical Anthropology, Social Anthropology

Origins and Scope of Thick Ethnography

Within a historical context, ethnography attempts to be holistic in nature based in part on emic views. It is written, … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Intricacies of Universal Health Care

What are some of the primary concerns of Universal Health and access to quality health care? Among researchers doing studies … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Medical Anthropology, Social Anthropology

Expatriates: Dilemmas and Misconceptions

Those who have chosen to become permanent expatriates at some time or another experience a very disturbing and confusing dilemma. … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Brazil, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Latin American Studies

Affirmative Action in Brazil: is it necessary?

Recently, I came across an article in Lasa Forum Spring 2013 edition in which Edward Telles and Marcelo Paixão assessed … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology topics, Brazil, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Latin American Studies, Social Anthropology

Indispensability of Medical Anthropology

Medical anthropology, although considered a subcategory in anthropology, has been making contributions to medicine and public health since the development … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology lectures, anthropology online, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Medical Anthropology, Social Anthropology

Tristes Tropiques: Revisited

When I first encountered Lévi-Strauss in graduate school, I thought the title of his monumental work sounded strange. At that … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Brazil, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Latin American Studies, Social Anthropology

Universality of Truth

  Now this is an article that is going to upset a lot of people but at the same time … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Self-imposed Discrimination in Brazil

When I arrived in Brazil seven years ago as an American anthropologist seeking to discover if Brazil would be a … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Brazil, Ethnography, Latin American Studies, Social Anthropology

Long-term Ethnographic Immersion

In the years I have been doing ethnographic research, I have found that some ethnographers have a tendency to avoid … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Ethnography, Ethnology, fieldnotes, fieldwork, Participant-Observer

Lecture series

Perspectives in Anthropology welcomes you to explore our new Lecture Series where you can discover a wide range of topics, … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology journals, anthropology lectures, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Ethnography, Ethnology

Transforming Refugees

  The point of this article is not to argue that bio-medicine has become a mechanism for establishing political or … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Ethnography, fieldnotes, fieldwork, Refugees

Traditional Family Values in Urbanized Societies

This article presents a brief discussion about the importance of traditional cultural and family values in urbanized, industrialized societies. In … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Ethnography, Family, Social Anthropology, Sociology

Unemployment & Poverty in Brazil

Although there is considerable literature on conditions of unemployment and poverty in many modernized countries, there is a penuriously small … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Brazil, Ethnography, Latin American Studies, Poverty, Social Anthropology

The Art of Capoeira

There are many holidays celebrated in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. And on almost every occasion, you can see … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Brazil, Ethnography, History, Latin American Studies, Sociology

Documentary Series

Some of you may be interested in knowing that Perspectives in Anthropology will be featuring a series of online anthropology … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Urbanization in Brazil

Originally posted on Christina H Kim:
This is a course description for my class at the New School for Fall 2014. Wanda…

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology, Urban Anthropology

Revolta dos Búzios – 1798

This review is organized as a history of the diverse elements of scholarship by which the field of African Diaspora … More

Afro-Brazilians, Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Brazil, Ethnography, History, Latin American Studies

Landless Workers Movement (MST)

Recently, I witnessed for the second time a demonstration by the Landless Worker’s Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra, or … More

Afro-Brazilians, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Latin American Studies, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra, Social Anthropology, Urban Anthropology

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