Category: Sciences

The definition of concepts of structure and function is important for explaining various anthropological phenomena. The anthropologist’s choice between the structuralist and functionalist methods has a significant impact on further development of his/her theories. Besides the concept of ‘structure’ used by Levi-Strauss, the concept of ‘function’ was implemented by Radcliffe-Brown, Durkheim, and Malinowski. Raising a…

Table of Contents Modern cosmology The big bang theory The Milky Way References Modern cosmology Different communities hold different views about the initiation of the universe. The ancestors explained the universe using various unsubstantiated myths and misconceptions based on their everyday observations. Biblical view embrace nature while cosmologists put it that the universe begun by…

Why and how does the world change? What causes all these changes and how they affect our future and present? These and many other similar questions bother so many people day by day, and it turns out to be not very easy to find the proper answers all the time. Changes take place in each…

Table of Contents Abstract Introduction The habitable zone Methods of Detecting Extrasolar Life and Their Limitations Proposed solutions for extrasolar life detection Conclusion Works Cited Abstract Extrasolar planets are planets that are found outside the solar system. Mathematical probability shows that some of these planets may contain life. However, this needs to be proven using…

Table of Contents Introduction Methods and Results Discussion and Conclusions Works Cited Introduction Functional Analysis of KV1.2 and Paddle Chimera Kv Channels in Planar Lipid Bilayers is a scientific article written by Xiao Tao and Roderick MacKinnon and devoted to the role of voltage-dependant K+ channels during the process of shaping electric signals in excitable…

The standard model of studying particle physics is surrounded with several issues in the wake of the anticipated entry of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Particle physicists are not sure whether LHC will challenge or add to the standard model used to study particle physics presently. Moreover, LHC might explain the some controversial macrocosmic issues…

Table of Contents Thesis statement Analytical part Conclusion References Thesis statement Ever since the end of WW2, when race-related discourse in the field of European anthropology became largely delegitimized, world’s well-established anthropologists had realized that there were put at liberty of discussing anthropological matters within the boundaries of only two conceptual approaches, which can be…

The twenty first century saw joint Australian-Indonesian archaeologists embark on an important historical assignment of finding evidence of the migration of the modern man to Australia from Asia. Unexpectedly, they ended up discovering another human species later named Homo floresiensis as it was found in the Flores islands. Due to its uniqueness and similarities with…

1. The anthropological study of Mary Bucholtz (2001) was conducted in the Bay City High School in 1995-96, and the article under review represents her findings on the discourse of whiteness, blackness, and super-whiteness exercised through acceptance of particular socio-linguistic roles by students known as ‘nerds’. The author investigates the linguistic mechanisms such as the…

Table of Contents Introduction The author, the reader and the informant The balance between description and analysis Theory in the text Methodological and conceptual contributions to anthropological knowledge Conclusion Reference List Introduction Orr’s book Talking about Machines has become one of the most significant writings in the field of anthropology since it revealed new insights…