Category: Culture
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Funeral Practices Around the World
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How Different Cultures Say Goodbye: Funeral Practices Around the World Death is something that every human society in history has had to deal with, but the ways we say goodbye to our loved ones couldn’t be more different depending on where you live around the world. Beliefs about the afterlife, death, and practicality influence these Read more
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How Indigenous Cultures Adapt to Globalization
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Hello everyone, this is officially my first blog post and I’m really excited to have a platform for all my thoughts. A topic that I always have found interesting is the uniqueness of indigenous cultures, and I’ve decided to make my first entry precisely about that. In today’s increasingly digitally connected world, it gets harder Read more
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Case Study of the Nacirema
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Today, I am going to examine the “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema,” a paper published in the American Anthropologist back in 1956, by Horace Miner. This paper, while perhaps unassuming at first glance, is one of the most influential and valuable works of cultural anthropology, especially for students first learning about the field, making it Read more
The New Anthropologist 