After the Conquest
in The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth
September 1994; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural anthropology. 3540 words.
This chapter discusses just one text given to supplement Juan Smith and William Allison, which is from the long but poorly recorded Mattias Hendricks version of the conquest. It describes the death...
The Age of Modernism
in Language in Time of Revolution
August 1993; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural anthropology. 837 words.
This chapter begins by hinting at parallels between the revolution of Jews and the age of Modernism in literature and the arts. Modernism impressed all of Jewish culture and literature and, vice...
Amazons Everywhere
in Gentlemen and Amazons
March 2011; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural anthropology. 9060 words.
This chapter examines the matriarchal myth before J.J. Bachofen introduced his matriarchal narratives. It shows that Amazon stories had been very popular since ancient times, which signals a...
Anthropology
Published online January 2012.
Research Guide. Subjects: anthropology; human evolution; medical anthropology; physical anthropology; social and cultural anthropology.
Made up of a rapidly expanding range of articles written by distinguished international scholars, this dynamic, continuously updated online resource offers exclusive authoritative...
Anthrozoology
in Anthropology
Published online March 2013.
Article. Subjects: anthropology; human evolution; medical anthropology; physical anthropology; social and cultural anthropology. 5512 words.
Anthrozoology examines humans’ relationships with animals. As an interdisciplinary field, anthrozoology connects with many other disciplines, including sociology, psychology, and...
Applied Anthropology
in Anthropology
Published online January 2012.
Article. Subjects: anthropology; human evolution; medical anthropology; physical anthropology; social and cultural anthropology. 12858 words.
As a term and a subject area, applied anthropology refers to that broad array of research, methods, and outcomes developed and used for the explicit purpose of recognizing,...
Archaeology
in Anthropology
Published online January 2012.
Article. Subjects: anthropology; human evolution; medical anthropology; physical anthropology; social and cultural anthropology. 12602 words.
Archaeology is a historical social science concerned with study of past societies and cultures through material traces, called the archaeological record. These traces may have been left...
The Arctic and Western North America
in The Spiritual Quest
May 1994; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural anthropology. 11144 words.
The unmistakable affinity and probable common ancestry of shamanisms in Eurasia and America are especially striking in the case of the Eskimo (or Inuit) and the tribes of the Northwest Pacific coast,...
Ashkenazi or Sephardi Dialect?
in Language in Time of Revolution
August 1993; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural anthropology. 7112 words.
Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation was formed in Central and Eastern Europe some time after the thirteenth century, then branched out into several dialects and survived in Orthodox communities until the...
Assimilation
in Language in Time of Revolution
August 1993; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural anthropology. 799 words.
This chapter states that in the Diaspora today, when Jews are integrated into the polysystem of the general society, Jewish institutions are mostly reduced to purely “Jewish” issues. The individual...