When we think of our fast-food culture today table manners don't really play a huge role. There is less and less emphasis placed on sitting down together as family, neighbors,…
Jean Piaget, the developmental psychologist, noted that all children seemed, ‘equipped for the world that they found themselves in.’ In part he was noticing something “pan-culturally,” that was occuring. I…
In the first part of the 20th century, Chinese Christians were beginning to rebel against what they saw as imperial, 'outsider' missionary religion encroaching into their territory. This was a…
Anthropologists often comment about a kind of 'look' among hunter-gatherer cultures. The tribal member stands still, eyes neither fixed nor searching. There is an expansive gaze with which the hunter…