Anthropology

Capturing the ideas among many evolutional anthropologists reflects on the Grandmother hypothesis wherein it tries to explore the validity and occurrence of midlife menopausal stage particularly among human females. Seeing this, the study of Alvarez seeks to concretize such dimensions by seeking to expand the research and try to include in the study other primates who also undergo such phases. The ability of the article to tap into life history among these primates corresponds towards creating a...

Space and place were traditionally a domain of philosophy and natural sciences, which considered them to be the phenomena of natural world. However, industrialization and human appropriation of natural world as the source of wealth and civilization resulted in the understanding that space and place as increasingly socially constructed. Such understanding may be first traced in Lefebvres contribution to social science. Lefebvre developed the concept of social production of space in his book The Production...

For this paper, the author would like to compare the cultures of two different countries  a developing one, represented in the Philippines and a developed one in the United States of America and to see how the cultures and goverments (politics) of these two countries have influenced the socio-economic conditions here.    Teodoro Agoncillo s History of the Filipino People mapped out the different experiences of the Filipino people throughout the years. It discussed the country...

Structural functioning is a wide viewpoint in the social sciences that tries to explain the structure of the society in terms of constituent parts. It seeks to explain elements of the society like customs, norms, principles and traditions. It is the study of the society as a structure with associated elements. It can be seen as a body with its associated organs. This makes an operational body that functions efficiently. Structural functioning sought to explain societys internal stability and the...

Providing the basic needs of an individual is very important to human existence. This kind of adage is also an equally essential motivating factor that drives people to further explore their horizon in order to enhance the ways that will better address the needs as well as the desire of the human population. In relation to this, the people or the human capital plays a primary and vital role in the development of the means, which will help them maximize the resources that they have in order to produce...

Korean writing system which is also popularly called hangul writing system is one of the native alphabet of Korean language.The history of writing in Korea can be traced back to the time of Hanja form of writing which is being considered as the oldest form of writing in Korea. This initial form of writing was used to represent original Korean meaning or simply to represent sounds. Considering this gap in literacy, king Sejong on of the monarch of the Yi Dynasty about 1440 when a new method of writing...

Anthropology in general is the study of humans or human beings. The term Anthropology was derived from the Greek word anthropos which means human. Through studying biological organism such as our closest relatives, we can learn human beings. Also, we can study other members of the primate orders like monkeys, apes and prosimians. We can also get to know humans by studying related functions, languages, evolutions, society, and cultures. In the United States, anthropology is subdivided into four subfields...

It is the responsibility of any government to provide for its population. It is due to this reason that family planning is becoming a major controversial concept in many nations. One of the most controversial population control policies is the Chinese one child family policy which was implemented in 1979. The policy was forced by the view that the increasingly growing population could evidently compromise the economic development and sustainability of the Chinese nation (Liu, Onuaha, 2005). The...