I feel that Matts main point is that we are built to be in tight groups (tribes) but at the same time we want to connect with all sorts of different people and cultures. He tells us in his article that he went on a trip around the world and made dancing videos with the people he met and what he learned was that people wanted to feel connected. He touches on the topic on how we have a ancient way of thinking when it comes to the type of people we socialize with. He uses the words primate, tribe, primitive, and the phrase caveman brain to show us how we still act today despite those times being thousands of years ago. He gives examples on how were connected financially and by simply being human.
In the article, “Anthropology Inc.”, Graeme Wood describes how anthropologists study a specific group of people, and how anthropologist practice research. When I was reading the article, the first example was the study of “Corrida de lesbianas” in home parties. Their goal was to write an ethnographic survey of drinking parties. The anthropologist approached to the study of this people by focusing on what, when, and how people drank Vodka.
Experiences with people, places and/or things, shape and affect an individuals choices, either to strengthen or break connections and relationships. Through past and new memories and experiences, we are able to reflect, assess and explore our owns concept of connections. There are however, obstacles and barriers one must meet to fully understand our selves and the complicated world of connections and belongingness. The environment or culture we are exposed in since we were infants for instance, greatly affects our identity- behaviour, values and actions- as we get older. Imagine two people from different countries, one grew up in Cambodia and the other grew up in the US.
MATH IN “Hidden Figures” The film “Hidden Figures” shows how math can affect society, and how it gets people to ignore race to win in a race of a different form. During this film these employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are trying to solve an issue regarding flight path in space, and where re-entry will occur, so they can get their astronaut to safety. Eventually, they get an African American woman, Katherine Johnson, who is a single mother in America during the 1960s, which is everything an African American woman tries to avoid being.
But with kinship, there is no separation. You share a deep connection where you both become one person, in a sense, because there are no differences. It is truly a gift to develop a kinship with someone, especially if that kinship takes the form of a
Rules of Engagement By Audrey Randall “The law of war is of fundamental importance to the Armed Forces of the United States.” (Department) This is what the Department of Defense believes regarding “rules of engagement” or ROEs, the terms and conditions set within American military directives, which are to be followed when engaging enemy personnel and are often decided by a JAG (Judge Advocate Attorney) officer. As a whole, the Department of Defense writes these out in their own Law of War Manuel. These rules often serve as a double-edged sword, attempting to balance the imperative nature of protecting civilian lives, and the unfortunate reality of combat.
“Father is next to sire and brother close/ to sibling, separated only by fine shades of meaning,” (Collins 15-16). Collins intends the reader to see that human beings psychologically connect themselves with others whether it is due to conformity, ego, or possibly even being intimidated by the thought of pure independence. The ideas and perceptions of the methods behind all the internal and psychological connection are up to the reader to interpret. Though all men were created equal, people are naturally unique and independent. Someone might have common hobbies and traits with another person, but Collins suggests that conforming and the feeling that you should go along with what the majority are doing is unnecessary.
Anthropology Questions: 1. Was this crime indicative of the beliefs, morals, and culture of the two aggressors? 2. Were there any scratch marks found on the victim? Were there any fingernails found at the scene of the crime?
Anth 101 Journal 1: Ethnographer for a day First question, what is culture meaning to us? To me, cultural has many different meaning, it can be agriculture, lifestyle, arts, education, economic, and so on. In the middle of the 19th century, some of new humanities such as anthropology, sociology and ethnology are rise in the western country, so the concept of culture was changed and has a modern significance. The term was first used in this way by the pioneer English Anthropologist Edward B. Tylor in his book, “Primitive Culture”, published in 1871. Tylor said that culture is "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society."
For my paper I interviewed John Navarra, a professor at UNCW. He has taught at UNCW almost since he graduated from there. Mr. Navarra is a Wilmingtonian himself, as am I. He is my archaeology teacher, and one of the youngest active archaeology professors I have met. Mr. Navarra teaches part time at UNCW, but also at a community college.
On Senses and the World Using the work of anthropologists Constance Classen and Horace Miner. Three different cultures will be examined in order to answer the question “what is the primary sense through which “we” perceive the world”. To answer this question one first should define “we”, which in this case “we” should be understood as broadly as possible, In terms of concept rather than exclusivity to a group, because the group one person could claim ownership to, and use “we” to describe most likely is very different culturally and in the context of perceiving the world through a sense to one another. Different cultures can place importance and create social constructions based on different senses in order understand the human experience their place in the world (Classen 1). “We” as a part of any society need senses to make since of the abstract and scientific complications present within our world.
When looking at friendship in regards to a community an apparent quality that makes a community function is friendship. Both Aristotle and Kant make important points that are essential to what can make a community driven towards the common good. The common good is going too held up in most cases in the framework of a community by Aristotle’s utility friendship; the next two forms of friendship that are encountered quite regularly are Kant’s forms of friendship of need and taste. Between these three types of friendship one should be able to relate to an acquaintance type of relationship. These friendships resemble many of our interactions that we have with people consistently especially in this culture we are subject to on a regular basis.
According to both books Introducing Cultural Anthropology and Conformity and conflict, they both pretty much say the same thing in different way. Both books explain and teach what cultural really means and how human groups adapt to different cultural. Anthropology studies the human species, and its cultural and biological adaption. Anthropology divides into four fields; cultural, archaeology, linguistics, and last biological.
Although researchers have tried to defined friendship simply focused on the differences between friends and non-friends, Willard Hartup (1996) cited in Brownlow (2012, p. 239) argues that a whole range of relationship is possible from best friend to good friend to occasional friend to non-friend. Therefore, it is far more complex than just a definition between friends and non-friends. Now that friendship is defined it is essential to define and understand qualitative approach. Unlike a quantitative data, qualitative method or approach involves the analysis of talk, interview material and written text such as transcripts, newspaper diaries or articles and it does not use any measurements nor is in numerical form.
Our one-to-one connections with each other are the foundation for change. And building relationships with people from different cultures, often many different cultures, is key in building diverse communities that are powerful enough to achieve significant goals. Trusting relationships are the glue that hold people together as they work on a common problem. As people work on challenging problems, they will have to hang in there together when things get hard. They will have to support each other to stay with an effort, even when it feels discouraging.
