Anthropology

    The development of writing began in Babylonia in around 3000 BC. The invention of writing in Babylonia consequently led to development of writing in Egypt and China. The writing system practiced in Mesoamerica was considered to be untrue. Writing was achieved in phases taking both the old and the modern phases.  The earliest writing can be traced in Mesopotamia where in spread to other areas such as china. The early writing system was invented to take care of local needs...

Man and apes are the closest relatives in the evolutionary perspective. In the history of the earth, it is not until recently, in geological time that is, that man diverged from the tree of the ape family. However, from the moment mans earliest ancestors started to move away from the rest of the primates eventually creating a separate specie, the ties in terms of shared characteristics, behaviours and abilities between man and apes were slowly stretched farther and farther apart. Or did it The three...

Culture builds the identity of a nation and represents a nation as a whole. In the modern age, many new aspects have had their effects on cultures of different nations and globalization is one of them.Globalization has had its affects all over the world like all the other aspects that have change the way of our living in the new era. As globalization has had its positive impact on the society where it has shorten the distances between people of different religions and cultures, conversely it has...

French theorist Michel Foucault has been described as a social theorist, a historian, and a philosopher. His works are the result of his engagement with approaches and concerns discovered within these disciplines. His writings traverse a wide range of fields and topics. However, he is interested at many times in analyzing the social construction of concepts of mental illness, systems of discipline and punishment, sexuality and subjectivity and the relation between knowledge and power. His inquiries...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a description and a discussion of the similarities and differences between two African ethnic groups and a particular social institution or issue. This paper discusses the institution of marriage customs between the Maasai who are a semi nomadic pastoralist ethnic group in East Africa found in the southern part of Kenya and Northern Tanzania and the Ngoni communities who are an ethnic group found in EastCentral Africa in Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia....

The most glaring similarity between Sambian and American Sexuality and Identities as driven by culture is the practice of certain rites of passage. Although in Sambian culture, the rites of passage for men are drwan out, complicated and ritualistic, they do find reflections in the American culture and ways. In Sambian traditions, the process of turning boys into men are done with the purpose of turning feminized boys into strong warrior like men in a process known as masculization. As already pointed...