Anthropology Resources (page 2)

In the classical accounts of Marx, Simmel, and Polanyi, money is seen as rendering everything quantifiable according to a 'universal yardstick' of value, permitting comparisons among ...

In all, assessment of the evidence indicates that humans are only prone to altruistic behaviour towards the wider group when there is some net benefit to be gained. The Kula Ring is d...

Part One: Research Plan People all over the world,in history and even in present day are always after the goal to construct their own personal skin and identity. Depending on cultura...

When you hear the words anthropology or ethnography, it's hard not to think of the founding father of modern fieldwork and participant observation, Bronislaw Malinowski. In this essay...

Every hearing person in the world knows at least one spoken language, none of them only know a signed language, that puts relevance on the reason why it needs to be vocal. Today pe...

This paper aims to establish the origins of the intrinsically human tendency for visual art, through the exploration of the mechanisms behind the evolution for artistic behaviours in ...

History and Anthropology The relationship between anthropology and history has always been a somewhat complex one (Evans-Pritchard, 1962a). Indeed, Victorian anthropology was obse...