India is often perceived as a close-minded, intolerant, and traditional environment where unique expressions of identity and self are negatively received. Despite its strong negations towards certain practices, the society’s view on hijras – transgender men to women who identify as a “third gender” – is ambiguous with both positive and …
Continue reading Hijras: The “Third Gender” of India | Pooja Gandhi
Abstract: This paper, based on Sidney Mintz’s Sweetness and Power (1985), was originally submitted as a requirement for the ANT-285W Concepts & Methods in Cultural Anthropology course taught by Dr. Michelle Parsons during the Spring 2015. Drawing on a historical materialist approach to sucrose, hegemony, and power in British culture found …
Continue reading Sugar, Hegemony, and Power in British Culture: A State of Flux | Ricardo A. Pascual
A black gravestone adorned with roses and the words, “I kept my promise” is perhaps one of the more perplexing burial markers to appear in Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park. Underneath, lie the remains of Theresa Marie Schiavo- a 41 year old woman whose gravestone lists three dates, December 3rd 1963, February …
Continue reading Social Death, Biological Death, and the Space Between | Emma Neish
According to Caroline Ross (1998: 54), Head of the Department of Life Sciences at Roehampton University (UK), questions pertaining to life history strategies such why “a large animal takes longer to mature than does a small animal” and why “small animals that breed rapidly and develop early, have many young per …
Conducting fieldwork is the most important part of being an anthropologist. If anthropologists didn’t conduct fieldwork and immerse themselves completely in the culture, then they wouldn’t be able to understand the underlying concepts in a culture. My fieldwork is currently being conducted at the Washington Street Center located in Covington, Georgia. …
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