Tag: culture
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Fashion
Fashion is a part of our lives, whatever we say or think about it. It is a mode of our expression, it is a way of creating different facets of our persona and personality – the intimate lover, the calm business person, the fun outgoing friend, the caring parent, the cozy loving pet parent… It…
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Case study – The Malawi vampire crisis
Just yesterday, an article popped up about a worrying situation – the UN leaving Malawi due to a number of threats from the locals concerning a vampire scare, which has already led to the death of one man (who was stoned to death by the mob present) and which threatens to worsen as the…
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Fiction And Fanfiction
There are two kinds of fiction. One supportive of the aura of factuality and one digressing or even openly questioning or defying it. That’s the broad, simple terms. In reality, of course, it’s never that simple. Many works include elements of both where the author was psychologically swaying from one to the other.
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Anthropology and Crime
(Author’s note – This post was written a while ago and scheduled for today. When I heard about the Las Vegas shooting earlier this afternoon, I thought first that I would reschedule as a gesture of sympathy with the victims, many of whom are still fighting for their lives. Then, I decided that perhaps,…
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Advocacy
Advocacy is the part of anthropology that has the anthropologist play an advocate to a specific group or cause. This may be a matter of necessity (such as the questions about human rights of indigenous groups), personal wish or a thankless task given to them by others; just like a lawyer, an anthropologist may have…