Visual Ethnography

A number of important anthropological question were first posed in modern form during the European Enlightement: what defines the human species in the abstract, what distinguishes human from animals, and what the natural condition of humankind. Carolus Linnaeus with his contemporaries human as three kind of human (homo) Such as Homo sylvestris ('forest man'), Homo troglodytes ('cave man') and Homo nocturnus ('night man').  1. Homo Sylvestris 

  Having thus laid before you the general lines on which I propose to deal with problems relating to race and nationality, I propose now that we should make a lightning trip round the world and cull, as we go, samples which will illustrate the kind of friction which arises wherever races or nationalities come into close contact. As I have already said, every country can yield us material for our study, but none on such a vast experimental scale as the United States of North America; we shall therefore commence our hurried survey in that country. Within the frontiers of the States is massed a population of 110 millions. When we look closely we see that over ten millions of these inhabitants are marked off from the rest by a frontier, a colour line, as sharply defined and jealously guarded as the frontiers of a kingdom. Across that racial frontier all legitimate social traffic is barred, the custodians of the frontier being those who stand on the white side of the line. Any at...

  I now enter the third stage of my argument. In the first I cited and discussed the various forms in which racial and national feelings are manifested by various peoples abroad; in my second I dealt with the nature of the various national movements at home. We now set out in search of the root from which the flower of our complex modern civilization has sprung. In the world of to-day we see many peoples exhibiting every phase in the evolution of that organization which permits mankind to live in massed populations. Fortunately for us there yet survive, in outlandish parts of the earth, remnants of native races retaining the primitive organization which guided mankind through that great hinterland of time lying between the emergence from apedom and the dawn of the modern world. For the student of sociology the immense primitive first stage of man's history is by far the more important. In his _Voyage of the Beagle_, Darwin draws a picture of the Fuegians which gives us a real insi...

Camping out can be such a fun activity especially when it is done with the entire family or close friends. This is the activity where you can be fit and healthy, stress free and re-bonded with your loved ones. Camping can give you enough time to take off from all the stresses that you are getting at work and your daily routine. This is the time to enjoy Mother Nature and breathe in fresh air. Camping is where you can be carefree and still enjoy everything that is included in it. This is why a lot of people are having their own camping groups so that this activity can be done on a regular basis. But before you go out and take a hike, make sure that you have everything you need packed up in your bag. Missing a single detail in camping will definitely ruin your camping experience. The most important thing to bring along is your sleeping bag. Hiking sleeping bags can be one's temporary bedroom while out in the woods. This should be where one can comfortably sleep and stay protected a...

While many anthropologists in the early postwar years, especially in Britain, rejected attempts to turn anthropology into an accurate science, others went in the opposite direction. This was not only the case with the American cultural ecologists and the British methodological individualists, but also –perhaps surprisingly – with people working within the broad framework of American linguistic anthropology. Several of Sapir’s successors explored semantics and language structures in traditional societies in an accurate way. Some of these devised quantitative methods tailored to measure frequencies and connections between native terms, and worked closely with psychologists, linguists and others engaged in the emerging interdisciplinary field of cognitive science. Among the foremost of these were Harold Conklin, Charles Frake and Ward Goodenough, who all contributed to the development of ethnoscience in the 1950s. Ethnoscience was concerned with describing ‘cultural grammars’, through i...

Me with my new Sleeping Bag  Sleeping bags are very important for a camper. This is where they can spend the night during their camping period. This is also where they can rest comfortably without being too exposed to the outdoor elements. This can also be a carrying bag when one is traveling. This is like carrying a tent in a bag. It is very convenient, easy to transport and useful. No camper should be without this equipment. However, it is important for a camper to choose the right sleeping tent to purchase. This is to make sure that they will be able to sleep comfortably even while they are in the outdoors. Here are some tips so that you will land on the right decision on which sleeping bag to purchase and use. First of all, you must consider its weight. Keep in mind that you will be carrying too many stuffs and equipments. And you cannot afford to add more weight to your things. Choose a sleeping bag that is light weight and easy to carry. It should be comfortable and conv...

Dangdut's Dance Hysteria The live Dangdut music rhythms make the singers and crowd of audience excited alike, so watch for unique Dangdut shows that mixes Belly Dance hip dance with sexual tease dance and excitement, sometimes the tease is really light and too sweet, sometimes Hot Dangdut turns the heat up and the tease gets more hot, so you see a switch from a happy song with happy crowd to hear the voice of the singer; moaning mixed up with the song, and that apply to the dance with more sexual tease gestures and dance movements, it seems that Dangdut music can be real cool, but be aware, it can turn on the heat and become real hot too, this is the main reason lots of people are turned away from this beautiful music, in fact the music itself is wonderful but Hot Dangdut dance is too hot for some so they prefer to stay away of it, but the Dangdut stays the most popular music in Indonesia, it is only a matter of time now, sooner or later, Dangdut music will conquer the whole wor...