Crystals. These aesthetically pleasing, colourful, lustrous, geometric, mysterious and fairly costly pieces of material are everywhere these days! In recent years, I’m sure we’ve all come across at least a dozen posts on social media promoting the use of crystals, … Continue reading Understanding Crystal Culture in Healing and Spirituality
Smudging is a Native American practice with a history that dates back thousands of years that has crept into the mainstream. However, the significant history and origins of this practice remain largely unknown by its new – mostly white – … Continue reading Anthropology: The History of Smudging in Indigenous Cultures
Margaret Mead was and remains to be one of the most influential and prominent figures in the field of anthropology in America. Not only in her time, but in the present day as well. In this post, we learn more … Continue reading Margaret Mead: The All-Time Influential Cultural Anthropologist
Anthropological fields, such as cultural anthropology, make it possible to understand humanity’s origins. They introduce the different societies and cultures, their differences and their similarities. Cultural anthropology plays a large part in doing so. Although anthropology focuses solely on culture, … Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About Cultural Anthropology
Credit: African news The #free Jacob Zuma campaign contributes’ to a looting tragedy in South Africa Looting is stealing goods and black South Africans were doing it as a protest. Looting occurs across several provinces in South Africa, dominated … Continue reading #Free Jacob Zuma: The Campaign that Triggered the Looting in South Africa
Gattaca, a film that debuted in 1997, explores genetic manipulation in a dystopian society. The movie was years ahead of its time. Technologies that enable gene editing, such as Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR), now exist. If parents … Continue reading Ableism and Modern Eugenics: A Result of CRISPR and Gene Editing
Childhood is a stage of life that most feel is entirely distinct from adulthood. It is a time full of innocence and imagination, free of the worries and complications that come with age. However, some historians have suggested childhood is … Continue reading Anthropology: Is Childhood a Social Construct?
Jewelry has been a significant adornment in every woman’s life. Since the inception of civilization, jewelry has been an integral part of every woman’s life. It has always been a very crucial part of who she is and what she … Continue reading An Overview of the Cultural Holistic Science of Jewelry in Indian Tradition
During the spring semester, my term paper assignment for one of my anthropology classes was an auto-ethnographic fieldwork essay, but I was limited to online resources to consolidate data due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this blog post, I aim … Continue reading Examining Social Issues Present in the Metal Music Subculture of America