Comparison of the Family and Gender Structures in the Yanomamo, the Aztec and the Modern American Families
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This is a 5 page paper comparing the gender and family structures of the Yanomamo, the Aztecs and modern Americans. The Yanomamo of the Brazilian rainforest, the Aztecs of Mexico and modern Americans all have traditionally different gender and family structures and roles but all also experienced shifts within their structures to adapt to new situations encountered by new generations. The males within the Yanomamo are considered as the warriors but are heavily influenced by the women who demand protection from raiding tribes. The men within the tribes also continuously create stronger alliances with other powerful men in order to increase their status and their marriage options. The families of the Aztecs of Mexico lived jointly and joint households consisted of complex kinship ties in addition to the genders enjoying a parallel level of roles and respect. After the Spanish conquests however, the gender roles and family structures shifted toward a more male oriented society consistent with the expectations of the Spanish. Finally, the traditional nuclear families of American society have also shifted within the last generation. As the incidence of divorce increases and more women are working outside of the home, American families have experienced a shift to households which may have traditional nuclear structures but more than likely have environments in which parents are divorced, or cohabitating or are single parent based. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Essay Title: Comparison of the Family and Gender Structures in the Yanomamo, the Aztec and the Modern American Families

Comparison of the Fieldwork Methodologies of Bronislaw Malinowski and Purnima Mankekar
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This 6 page paper discuses how Bronislaw Malinowski's field-work methods, for anthropology and ethnography, with the Trobriand Islanders differed from Purnima Mankekar’s field work methods in India. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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Essay Title: Comparison of the Fieldwork Methodologies of Bronislaw Malinowski and Purnima Mankekar

Comparison Reading of Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict
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This is a 5 page paper comparing two readings from Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict. Ruth Benedict’s “Patterns of Culture” and Margaret Mead’s “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies” are considered prominent texts in the world of social and cultural anthropology. In “Patterns of Culture” Benedict tells her theory of the “Integration of Culture” where it is necessary not to study a culture by observing and generalizing the sum of its parts but in actual fact, cultures and the personalities within it can only be described as a whole concept where the influences, economics, religion and family dynamics must all be considered as an influences on the whole. In Margaret Mead’s study of “The Lake-Dwelling Tchambuli” of Papua New Guinea in “Sex and Temperament”, she accurately describes the tribe and its varied aspects of temperament and gender roles and finds them to differ greatly than the other tribes around it. The influences found within the Tchambuli and their different personalities, according to Benedict then, must be based on the unique and specific background of the cultural elements within the tribe. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Essay Title: Comparison Reading of Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict

Complaint and Response
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A 5 page paper which addresses a student's assignment regarding writing a letter of complaint to a company whose product did not arrive in its entirety and was broken, and regarding the writing of a letter which would be the response from the company. The most important aspect of the instructor's directions apply to the use of the 'you' context within the letters. By correctly addressing this context, many of the other issues such as grammar, purpose, and clarity, will become much more clear and easily achieved. No additional sources cited.
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Essay Title: Complaint and Response

Concepts and Analysis of Stephen J. Gould’s Essay “Dolly’s Fashion and Louis’s Passion”
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This is a 4 page paper discussing Gould’s essay “Dolly’s Fashion and Louis’s Passion”. Anthropologist Stephen J. Gould questions in his essay “Dolly’s Fashion and Louis’s Passion” (2000) man’s presumed need to always present components within the world in categories and dichotomies. He argues that human life is filled with such “foibles” and conflicts as firstly “our need to create order in a complex world begets our worst mental habit: dichotomy” and second that “many deep questions about our loves and livelihood, and fates of nations, truly have no answers”. One of the most prevalent dichotomies which seems to annoy Gould the most and which leads man down many false paths is that of the “nature versus nurture” debate; or the “genetic versus environmental sources of human abilities and behaviors”. The fact this question is always an “either-or dichotomy verges on the nonsensical” according to Gould. He then proceeds to highlight two particular modern readings in which the scientific perspective (nature) is presented but the environmental (nurture) perspective is ignored because of today’s preference for the scientific theory. Despite the current trend of today, Gould and some educators do not ignore the centuries of debate which have also discussed the nurture component and more importantly for Gould, readers should be aware that this debate (and others) should not be considered as “either-or”. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Essay Title: Concepts and Analysis of Stephen J. Gould’s Essay “Dolly’s Fashion and Louis’s Passion”

Conflict Among the Trobriand Islanders in Malinowski’s “Crime and Custom in Savage Society”
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A 5 page paper which examines how the Trobriand islanders deal with different types of conflict as presented in Malinowski’s “Crime and Custom in Savage Society.” No additional sources cited.
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Essay Title: Conflict Among the Trobriand Islanders in Malinowski’s “Crime and Custom in Savage Society”

Considerations in Communication: Differences Between Japanese and American Cultures
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An 11 page comparison of the specific ways in which Japanese and American communication styles differ. The author examines this difference in terms of low and high context cultures and in terms of five specific taxonomies: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism-collectivism, masculinity-femininity, and time orientation. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Essay Title: Considerations in Communication: Differences Between Japanese and American Cultures