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Related: Antropologia, etnologia, sociologia7 cultural concepts we don't have in the U.S. From the end of October through the New Year and onto Valentine's Day, it's easy to forget that the holidays we celebrate are simply cultural constructs that we can choose to engage in — or not. The concepts and ideas we celebrate — like our spiritual beliefs and daily habits — are a choice, though sometimes it feels like we "have" to celebrate them, even if we don't feel like it. Culture is ours to do with as we choose, and that means that we can add, subtract, or edit celebrations or holidays as we see fit — because you and me and everyone reading this makes up our culture, and it is defined by us, for us, after all. If you want to add a new and different perspective to your life, there are plenty of other ways to recognize joy and beauty outside American traditions.
Streams of Consciousness - Top 10 List - Top Ten List - Top 10 Greatest LSD Quotes - Top 10 List - Drug Quotes - Jerry Garcia Quotes - Terence McKenna Quotes - Steven Wright Quotes - Jim Morrison Quotes - Ken Kesey Quotes - Tom Wolfe Quotes - Timothy Lear Top 10 Greatest LSD Quotes “Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’” Worlds Most Isolated Tribe – Enter Their Mysterious Island & They’ll Kill You! Introducing the Sentinelese people. They’ve been kicking around this beautiful island for a whopping 60,000 years. They inhabit a tiny island in The Indian Ocean which is estimated to be approximately the size of Manhattan. From the sky it appears to be an idyllic island with amazing beaches and a dense forest, but tourists or fishermen don’t dare to set foot on this island, due to its inhabitants’ fearsome reputation.
500 Free Online Courses from Top Universities Advertisment Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more. Our site also features collections of Online Certificate Programs and Online Degree & Mini-Degree Programs. Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Potlatch (anthropologie) Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Originellement, la culture du potlatch était pratiquée autant dans les tribus du monde amérindien (les Amériques) que dans de nombreuses ethnies de l'océan Pacifique, jusqu'aux Indes. C'est pourquoi les premiers colons européens ont pu considérablement spolier les indigènes qui pratiquaient le potlatch, car ils échangeaient de l'or contre de la bimbeloterie ; les Indiens croyant à la valeur « potlatch » de ces échanges pensaient que ces trocs étaient équilibrés.
Ericsson As technology continues to transform our society, those responsible for our current systems of learning and education are facing overwhelming pressure to adapt. Education technology, connected learning and the rise of the Networked Society is transforming the established concept of learning, teachers’ roles and even the nature of knowledge itself. Can ICT redefine the way we learn in the Networked Society? In this video, renowned experts and educators explain how learning and education are shifting away from a model based on memorization and repetition toward one that focuses on individual needs and self-expression. Lifelong learning Formalized education is only one of many sources for the knowledge and skills we need to be able to participate in and contribute in society.
100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access Universities house an enormous amount of information and their libraries are often the center of it all. You don't have to be affiliated with any university to take advantage of some of what they have to offer. From digital archives, to religious studies, to national libraries, these university libraries from around the world have plenty of information for you. Digital Libraries Capturing images of manuscripts, art, and artifacts, digital libraries are an excellent way of both preserving the past and sharing it with everyone. Harvard University Library.
Two Spirits, One Heart, Five Genders Those who arrived in the Native American Garden of Eden had never seen a land so uncorrupted. The Europeans saw new geography, new plants, new animals, but the most perplexing curiosity to these people were the Original Peoples and our ways of life. Of all of the foreign life ways Indians held, one of the first the Europeans targeted for elimination was the Two Spirit tradition among Native American cultures. At the point of contact, all Native American societies acknowledged three to five gender roles: Female, male, Two Spirit female, Two Spirit male and transgendered. LGBT Native Americans wanting to be identified within their respective tribes and not grouped with other races officially adopted the term “Two Spirit” from the Ojibwe language in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1989.
Neuroanthropology This page gathers together several type of resources: our on-site resources to help you explore anthropology and the brain sciences; sites which provide news and info on anthropology and on brain science; some sites which present tutorials or overviews of neuroscience (including brain disorders); and finally some blogs of interest (which need updating, so check our blogroll too…). This page is a work in progress, so if you want to make a worthy addition, please leave a comment below or email me at dlende @ nd.edu On Site Wednesday Round Ups Covers both anthropology and neuroscience stories once a week
The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda The godfather of the New Age led a secretive group of devoted followers in the last decade of his life. His closest "witches" remain missing, and former insiders, offering new details, believe the women took their own lives. Salon/April 12, 2007 By Robert Marshall For fans of the literary con, it's been a great few years.
Byronic Hero: Definition, Characteristics & Examples The literary archetype of the Byronic Hero, first developed by the 19th century English poet Lord Byron, is one of the most potent and relevant character archetypes in Western literature, art and entertainment. Definition The archetype, or character type, of the Byronic Hero was first developed by the famous 19th century English Romantic poet Lord Byron. Most literary scholars and historians consider the first literary Byronic hero to be Byron's Childe Harold, the protagonist of Byron's epic poem 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'. However, many literary scholars and historians also point to Lord Byron himself as the first truly Byronic Hero, for he exemplified throughout his life the characteristics of the sort of literary hero he would make famous in his writing. A Byronic hero can be conceptualized as an extreme variation of the Romantic Hero archetype.
Science Says War Is Over Now (Given the Right Conditions) Fry has also identified 74 “nonwarring cultures” that—while only a fraction of all known societies—nonetheless contradict the depiction of war as universal. His list includes nomadic hunter-gatherers such as the !Kung in Africa and Aborigines in Australia. These examples are crucial, Fry says, because our ancestors are thought to have lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers from the emergence of the Homo lineage just over 2 million years ago in Africa until the appearance of agriculture and permanent settlements about 12,000 years ago. That time span constitutes 99 percent of our history. Lethal violence certainly occurred among those nomadic hunter-gatherers, Fry acknowledges, but for the most part it consisted not of genuine warfare but of fights between two men, often over a woman.
I think I know where babies come from, therefore I am human Throughout most of evolutionary history, sex was just sex. Among vertebrates, fish were the first to do it, going back some 400 million years. While it might be fun for fish and all the other species that evolved to reproduce sexually, for most species, sex still is just sex. Anthropology Resources on the Internet This resource area is meant to be used as a tool for finding information on anthropology that is available on the web. Please note other Resource links to on the left hand site and look at the Careers Development pages for information on funding opportunities. AAA is not responsible for and does not endorse the following websites, but merely provides the information. Anthropologists Archaeology Resources Biological/Physical Anthropology