Anthropology Resources

Anthropology has always been interested in studying the other. When thinking of anthropology, many have the image of the ethnographer travelling to a remote place to study an exotic p...

For over half a century in Western Europe and America, the subject of death retains its position in biologically and socially blurred territories defined and handled by hospit...

The piece was produced and created by Thomas Sellick-Newton, a performance artist based in South-West England. It was performed in Bournemouth Square, Dorset in May 2014, where it ...

Morality and ethics must form a central part of any civilised society, and Homer`s epic is by no means devoid of the hallmarks of such a society. His characters do not act purely in t...

In order to examine the importance of an education that fulfils the specific interests of pupils and in a wider sense, society as a whole, it is prudent to firstly examine the fundame...

Representation and the human mind Introduction The aim of this report is to outline evolution from the chimpanzee to modern humans and demonstrate how the mind has evolved liter...

Recently a rising number of scholars, both in Asia and in the Western world, are tackling for the first time martial arts as an academic subject, exploring all their cultural features...

What is the significance of the fact that concepts of the person vary from one society to the next? The idea of the person is innate, natural to the human mind. As an idea it is in...

Is a pilgrimage always religious? For centuries and in every corner of the world, people have gathered together in some of the largest human assemblages when embarking on a journey...

Societies like those in the Middle East have been characterized as obsessed with honor and shame, marked by Islamic fatalism or rife with agonistic jockeying between fragmenting triba...