ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Zora Neale Hurston, Ella Cara Deloria, Audrey Richards

• School: UConn
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1000

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Eighty percent of the world"s coltan supply is mined in the congo in central africa. It is likely that you have some congolese coltan in your phone. The scramble for coltan has led to a violent fifteen-year conflict in the congo. Anthropology is the study of the full scope of human diversity, past and present, and the application of that knowledge to help people of different backgrounds better understand one another. - ken guest. Europeans encountered a diversity of cultures through increase transportation, communication, and colonization. Body ritual among the nacirema by horace miner (1956) Each day every member of the family, in succession, enters the shrine room, bows his head before the charm-box, mingles different sorts of holy water in the font, and proceeds with a brief rite of ablution. (miner 503-504) The nacirema regularly visit medicine men and holy-mouth men . Miner"s description of the nacirema make the strange seem familiar and the familiar seem strange.