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27 Jun 2024: Boas studied competitive gift-giving among the Kwakiutl people in North America, a practice known as the <em>potlatch</em>. ... In contemporary Vietnam, burning money is a commonplace activity whereby people supply money to ancestors, gods, or ghosts

27 Jun 2024: Insisting on people’s sameness may even blend into opposition to affirmative action policies. ... Moreover, the right to biological reproduction of people or groups of people of all colours was limited.

27 Jun 2024: Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology - State https://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry-tags/state en Jean Price-Mars https://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/jean-price-mars <div class="image"><img typeof="foaf:Image"

27 Jun 2024: or to do with ‘nature’ and land rather than with people and urbanised surroundings. ... Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world.

27 Jun 2024: Visited people and mediating specialists co-construct this experience with and for the visitors. ... They look at the visited people as objects, from a position of voyeuristic separation.

27 Jun 2024: People have some sense of these distinctions, but their distinctness is not culturally meaningful. ... They also argued that people in different social worlds thought differently about mental causation.

27 Jun 2024: What happens then is that food serves to oppose two groups of people (givers and receivers). ... How is it that people and invisible guests can eat the same food?

27 Jun 2024: Distant people were often portrayed as cannibals: that is, as strange, animal-like creatures. ... epidemic of kuru, the neurological disease afflicting the Fore people (Bennet et al.

27 Jun 2024: People in the Trobriands traditionally adhere to matrilineal descent and patrilocal post-marital residence. ... Here, people of low castes were generally not expected to return the dan gifts they receive from their superiors.

27 Jun 2024: Abstract:. Buddhism has existed for around two and half millennia, and is practiced by over 500 million people in the world today. ... of people steeped in their worldly existence and participating through patronage and devotional practices to Buddhist

27 Jun 2024: traditions of interpreting and living by the revelation; knowledge, cultural production, and social life related to the revelation in one way or another; and the identity of people and peoples associated ... divisions. Some people are very committed to

27 Jun 2024: which can result in the eclecticism of medical concepts and therapies as practiced in people’s everyday lives. ... influence people’s behaviour, compel action, communicate, instil fear or trust, and even heal.

27 Jun 2024: that governed the lives of more than a quarter of a billion people. ... market, or particular groups), things (residential housing, furnishings, and aesthetic styles), and people (especially people’s embodied experience).

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27 Jun 2024: filter by subject. - Any -. Economics. Health. Kinship. Politics. Region. Religion. Theory. Sort by. sort by. title (asc). title (des). date (asc). date (des). Apply.. About. The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (OEA) is an open teaching and

27 Jun 2024: Just describing the meanings people assign, however, is not enough to understand what money is. ... Wolf, E.R. 2010. Europe and the people without history. Berkeley: University of California Press.

27 Jun 2024: Why do people of a given social formation, if exposed to the same rituals, narratives, etc. ... value hierarchy becomes reproduced within individuals, rather than different values coming to exist as equals within people?

27 Jun 2024: Why do people pay or evade taxes, and why does the state collect them? ... Fiscal systems also shape peoples’ perceptions regarding who contributes to society; where wealth is created; the place of the state in the lives of people; the place of people

27 Jun 2024: Outside of Amazonia, the peoples of the circumpolar regions have also prompted anthropologists to think again about animism. ... Nomadic Peoples (N.S.) 10(2), 6-30. Best, S., A. J. Nocella II, R.

27 Jun 2024: The Nuer: a description of the modes of livelihood and political institutions of a Niliotic people. ... describes the subject as ‘the study of what are called primitive or backward peoples’ (1952: 2).