FREE excerpts from ANY paper are available upon request!

Anthropological Concepts and Definitions

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was developed by Benjamin Lee Whorf (a linguist and anthropologist) and Edward Sapir. The theory argues that language is a finite array of lexical and grammatical categories

AN OVERVIEW OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

seen against the backdrop of the full range of human behavior (American Anthropological Association, 2002). The root of the word anthropology

Hypertension in African American Populations

in African American populations, while whites have noted a decline in hypertension in the last five years. In addressing the problem of hypertension, then, it is necessary to consider

Interpretive Anthropology: A Non-Scientific Mode of Inquiry

aspects of a culture as potentially harboring deep cultural meaning. Games and other recreational activities, for example, were classified by Geertz as deep play, a play with potentially important

African American Culture in the Media: Ebonics and Advertising

doing so through an incorporation of ebonics, a communication style that originated in fact with African Americans. Advertising, by all credits, is a

Forensic Anthropology / An Overview

the analysis of crime scene data that can determine not only how the victim died, but also how the crime, if there was one, was committed (Turbide, 1997, 72).

African Sleeping Sickness

and livestock causing a condition referred to as nagana (Wiser, 2004). Trypanosoma brucei rhodensiense and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, on the other hand, target man (Wiser, 2004). Respectively, these

Human Services/African AIDS Orphans

drawn from current scholarly literature. Introduction Numerous areas of human services are affected by the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. While this situation has many aspects, none is more tragic than

Codebook for Social Research and a Research Prospectus for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among African Americans

Single, never married. 2. Married 3. Separated 4. Divorced 5. Widowed DRVISIT (Response to "Select the highest number of visits to the doctor each

Culture and Diabetic Management in African Americans

as retinopathy, kidney failure, and even amputations are more likely among this component of our population (Skelly, Leeman, Carlson, et. Al., 2008). Diabetes is ranked as the fourth leading

RELEVANCE AND EFFECT OF CULTURE IN THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: Chapter Three

African Americans as compared to their white, Anglo-European counterparts in the United States. Research Questions The following research questions will be addressed in this study: 1.

MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND AFRICAN COUNTRIES

problem" to "undertaking the special needs of the least developed countries" (Resolution, 2000). The declaration was signed by 189 countries, and introduced eight specific targets on which to focus, which

Early African American Literature: Comparing DuBois and Baldwin

for the Advancement of Colored People. By his own admission, DuBois opposed the "accommodation" to Jim Crow separatism advocated by Booker T. Washington, opening a new discourse in which establishing

Andrew Burton/African Underclass

between 1916 and 1961 resulted in the development of a social underclass in Dar es Salaam the capital of Tanganyika. Burtons principal thesis is to demonstrate how the purge campaigns

The Evolution of Social Anthropology

the study of sociology as an organized discipline. For this reason, one can understand much about the state of modern anthropology by studying the contributions and theories propagated by prominent