Essays on Anthropology

The 2018 moa extinction case study combines archived oral records, chronological dating, and bird archaeological data to uncover human perception of megafaunal extinction events in Aotearoa. Wehi, Cox, Roa, and Whaanga analyse whakataukī or Māori ancestral sayings that provide glimpses into the island’s early extinction...

Jane Goodall was born on April 3, 1934, in London, England. She started liking animals during her early years. In her leisure time, she observed birds and nature. Since she was little she would dream of going to Africa to find exotic animals. She would...

The ethnobotanical knowledge of the Onge tribal community is impressive. Italian anthropologist Lidio Cipriani, who studied the community in the 1950s, was among the first of many experts to acknowledge this Onge heritage. He wrote in 1966: ‘In their continual search for food, the Onges...

Research in kinship has supported the overall improvement in ethnographic techniques since the time when anthropologists first started collecting their own data through first-hand observation. According to the Oxford dictionary, kinship is one of the main organizing principles in most societies. It allows people entrance...

Paul Broca was a French physician, anthropologist, and an anatomist. He specialized in the study of speech. His major discovery was of “Broca Area”. Broca area is also called convolution of Broca. It is the left hemisphere of the brain that contains neurons and these...

In the Atmosphere, there are many chemical compounds that are described as greenhouse gases due to their characteristics. These gases allow solar radiation (shortwave radiation) to penetrate freely through the Earth’s atmosphere thereby heating the land surface and oceans. When the earth’s surface is heated...

A skull was found by a hiker in a shallow grave in an undisclosed location as well as various skeletal body parts from different individuals in a mass grave. I was called to two different sites. My job as a forensic anthropologist is to examine...

A forensic anthropologist needs to know the human body like the palm of their hand, which they know very well since they have to have finished medical school. The primary task of a forensic anthropologist is to gather evidence to assist in the identification of...

The essay will look at different works within the discipline to expand on this “evil twin” relationship as we move away from this iconic work to contextualist this debate within current anthropology. The first section will look back at the discourse of development and anthropology...

Ruth Landes was an American Anthropologist who revolutionized the way in which the relationship between culture and power structures were studied in the field of Anthropology. Landes contributed immensely to the understanding of various cultures; this culminated in her book, The City of Women, a...

The beliefs and customs of other cultures have fascinated adventurous, travels and explorers throughout History. It is this fascination to understand cultural diversity that brought about the rise in Anthropology. However Anthropology in the second half of the 19th century, known as ‘armchair anthropology’, was...

Anthropology is the study of humans, their cultures and societies. It is the study of the others or the unfamiliar which is made familiar and brought to the forefront by anthropologist. Anthropology is subdivided into four main categories: a) archaeological, b) biological, c) linguistics and...