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ndustrialisation within a statecontrolled socialist economy. Boumediene's successor, Chadli Bendjedid, introduced some liberal economic reforms. He promoted a policy of Arabisation in Algerian society and public life. Teachers of Arabic, brought in from other Muslim countries, spread conventional Islamic thought in sch...
992, cancelling the elections. Bendjedid resigned and a High Council of State was installed to act as the Presidency. It banned the FIS, triggering a civil insurgency between the Front's armed wing, the Armed Islamic Group, and the national armed forces, in which more than 100,000 people are thought to have died. The I...
d members of armed groups were granted exemption from prosecution under a limited amnesty, in force until 13 January 2000. The AIS disbanded and levels of insurgent violence fell rapidly. The Groupe Salafiste pour la Prdication et le Combat GSPC, a splinter group of the Armed Islamic Group, continued a terrorist campai...
outeflika to stand for reelection in the 2009 presidential elections, and he was reelected in April 2009. During his election campaign and following his reelection, Bouteflika promised to extend the programme of national reconciliation and a 150billion spending programme to create three million new jobs, the constructi...
ip and harassment of political opponents continue. On 2 April 2019, Bouteflika resigned from the presidency after mass protests against his candidacy for a fifth term in office. In December 2019, Abdelmadjid Tebboune became Algeria's president, after winning the first round of the presidential election with a record ...
ire northeastern Algeria and are delineated by the Tunisian border. The highest point is Mount Tahat . Algeria lies mostly between latitudes 19 and 37N a small area is north of 37N and south of 19N, and longitudes 9W and 12E. Most of the coastal area is hilly, sometimes even mountainous, and there are a few natural ha...
airly plentiful along the coastal part of the Tell Atlas, ranging from annually, the amount of precipitation increasing from west to east. Precipitation is heaviest in the northern part of eastern Algeria, where it reaches as much as in some years. Farther inland, the rainfall is less plentiful. Algeria also has erg...
heastern areas. The fennec fox is the national animal of Algeria. A variety of bird species makes the country an attraction for bird watchers. The forests are inhabited by boars and jackals. Barbary macaques are the sole native monkey. Snakes, monitor lizards, and numerous other reptiles can be found living among an a...
ranking it 106th globally out of 172 countries. Camels are used extensively; the desert also abounds with venomous and nonvenomous snakes, scorpions, and numerous insects. Government and politics Elected politicians have relatively little sway over Algeria. Instead, a group of unelected civilian and military "dcide...
imited to two fiveyear terms, but a constitutional amendment passed by the Parliament on 11 November 2008 removed this limitation. The most recent presidential election was planned to be in April 2019, but widespread protests erupted on 22 February against the president's decision to participate in the election, which ...
house, the Council of the Nation, has 144 members serving sixyear terms, of which 96 members are chosen by local assemblies and 48 are appointed by the president. According to the constitution, no political association may be formed if it is "based on differences in religion, language, race, gender, profession, or reg...
strument ENI that came into force in 2014. It has a budget of 15.4 billion and provides the bulk of funding through a number of programmes. In 2009, the French government agreed to compensate victims of nuclear tests in Algeria. Defence Minister Herve Morin stated that "It's time for our country to be at peace with it...
Air Defence Forces. It is the direct successor of the National Liberation Army Arme de Libration Nationale or ALN, the armed wing of the nationalist National Liberation Front which fought French colonial occupation during the Algerian War of Independence 195462. Total military personnel include 147,000 active, 150,00...
ublishing such ratings in 1972, with the exception of 1989, 1990, and 1991, when the country was labelled "partly free." In December 2016, the EuroMediterranean Human Rights Monitor issued a report regarding violation of media freedom in Algeria. It clarified that the Algerian government imposed restriction on freedom ...
that homosexuality should be accepted, according to the survey conducted by the BBC News ArabicArab Barometer in 2019. Algeria showed largest LGBT acceptance compared to other Arab countries where the survey was conducted. Human Rights Watch has accused the Algerian authorities of using the COVID19 pandemic as an excu...
he country's socialist postindependence development model. In recent years, the Algerian government has halted the privatization of stateowned industries and imposed restrictions on imports and foreign involvement in its economy. These restrictions are just starting to be lifted off recently although questions about Al...
nment to offer more than 23 billion in public grants and retroactive salary and benefit increases. Public spending has increased by 27 annually during the past 5 years. The 201014 publicinvestment programme will cost US286 billion, 40 of which will go to human development. Thanks to strong hydrocarbon revenues, Algeri...
Algeria, whose economy is reliant on petroleum, has been an OPEC member since 1969. Its crude oil production stands at around 1.1 million barrelsday, but it is also a major gas producer and exporter, with important links to Europe. Hydrocarbons have long been the backbone of the economy, accounting for roughly 60 of bu...
ces, though the trend in production volume is downwards. Production from the oil and gas sector in terms of volume, continues to decline, dropping from 43.2 million tonnes to 32 million tonnes between 2007 and 2011. Nevertheless, the sector accounted for 98 of the total volume of exports in 2011, against 48 in 1962, an...
ity as Algeria contains. As a result, Algeria is running a biocapacity deficit. Research and alternative energy sources Algeria has invested an estimated 100 billion dinars towards developing research facilities and paying researchers. This development program is meant to advance alternative energy production, especia...
particular in the framework of the program to aid those seeking work Dispositif d'Aide l'Insertion Professionnelle. Despite a decline in total unemployment, youth and women unemployment is high. Unemployment particularly affects the young, with a jobless rate of 21.5 among the 1524 age group. Tourism The developme...
a; its length is estimated at of highways, with more than 3,756 structures and a paving rate of 85. This network will be complemented by the EastWest Highway, a major infrastructure project currently under construction. It is a 3way, highway, linking Annaba in the extreme east to the Tlemcen in the far west. Algeria ...
Western Sahara live in the Sahrawi refugee camps, in the western Algerian Sahara desert. There are also more than 4,000 Palestinian refugees, who are well integrated and have not asked for assistance from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR. In 2009, 35,000 Chinese migrant workers lived in Algeria....
rber ethnicity in Algeria, the majority of Algerians identify with an Arabicbased identity, especially after the Arab nationalism rising in the 20th century. Berbers and Berberspeaking Algerians are divided into many groups with varying languages. The largest of these are the Kabyles, who live in the Kabylie region ...
endment of 8 May 2002. Kabyle, the predominant Berber language, is taught and is partially coofficial with a few restrictions in parts of Kabylie. In February 2016, the Algerian constitution passed a resolution that made Berber an official language alongside Arabic. Although French has no official status in Algeria, i...
and some television programs are broadcast in the language. Algeria emerged as a bilingual state after 1962. Colloquial Algerian Arabic is spoken by about 72 of the population and Berber by 2730. Religion Islam is the predominant religion in Algeria, with its adherents, mostly Sunnis, accounting for 99 of the popula...
, found that the growth in the percentage of Algerians identifying as nonreligious is largely driven by young Algerians, with roughly 25 describing themselves as nonreligious. Algeria has given the Muslim world a number of prominent thinkers, including Emir Abdelkader, Abdelhamid Ben Badis, Mouloud Kacem Nat Belkacem,...
olicy favours preventive health care and clinics over hospitals. In keeping with this policy, the government maintains an immunisation program. However, poor sanitation and unclean water still cause tuberculosis, hepatitis, measles, typhoid fever, cholera and dysentery. The poor generally receive health care free of ch...
also the language of instruction for science classes. The students can also learn English, Italian, Spanish and German. In 2008, new programs at the elementary appeared, therefore the compulsory schooling does not start at the age of six anymore, but at the age of five. Apart from the 122 private schools, the Universi...
Algeria has 26 universities and 67 institutions of higher education, which must accommodate a million Algerians and 80,000 foreign students in 2008. The University of Algiers, founded in 1879, is the oldest, it offers education in various disciplines law, medicine, science and letters. Twentyfive of these universitie...
a list of the most populous Algerian cities Culture Modern Algerian literature, split between Arabic, Tamazight and French, has been strongly influenced by the country's recent history. Famous novelists of the 20th century include Mohammed Dib, Albert Camus, Kateb Yacine and Ahlam Mosteghanemi while Assia Djebar is w...
erms of genre, exploring a wider range of themes and issues. There has been a transition from cinema which focused on the war of independence to films more concerned with the everyday lives of Algerians. Media Art Algerian painters, like Mohamed Racim or Baya, attempted to revive the prestigious Algerian past prior ...
years. Literature The historic roots of Algerian literature go back to the Numidian and Roman African era, when Apuleius wrote The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety. This period had also known Augustine of Hippo, Nonius Marcellus and Martianus Capella, among many others. The Middle Ages hav...
jma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work. Other known writers will contribute to the emergence of Algerian literature whom include Mouloud Feraoun, Malek Bennabi, Malek Haddad, Moufdi Zakaria, Abdelhamid Ben Badis, Mohamed Lad AlKhalifa, Mouloud Mammeri, Frantz Fanon, and Assia D...
lem Sansal, memory of the flesh of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and the last novel by Assia Djebar nowhere in my father's House. Music Chabi music is a typically Algerian musical genre characterized by specific rhythms and of Qacidate popular poems in Arabic dialect. The undisputed master of this music is El Hadj M'Hamed El An...
nique style of its kind. Modern music is available in several facets, Ra music is a style typical of western Algeria. Rap, a relatively recent style in Algeria, is experiencing significant growth. Cinema The Algerian state's interest in filmindustry activities can be seen in the annual budget of DZD 200 million EUR ...
documentaries. According to the European Audiovisual Observatory's LUMIERE database, 41 Algerian films were distributed in Europe between 1996 and 2013; 21 films in this repertoire were AlgerianFrench coproductions. Days of Glory 2006 and Outside the Law 2010 recorded the highest number of admissions in the European ...
ables. Among the dishes known, couscous, chorba, rechta, chakhchoukha, berkoukes, shakshouka, mthewem, chtitha, mderbel, dolma, brik or bourek, garantita, lham'hlou, etc. Merguez sausage is widely used in Algeria, but it differs, depending on the region and on the added spices. Cakes are marketed and can be found in c...
us games have existed in Algeria since antiquity. In the Aures, people played several games such as El Kherba or El khergueba chess variant. Playing cards, checkers and chess games are part of Algerian culture. Racing fantasia and rifle shooting are part of cultural recreation of the Algerians. The first Algerian and ...
ld Cup and 2014 FIFA World Cup. In addition, several football clubs have won continental and international trophies as the club ES Stif or JS Kabylia. The Algerian Football Federation is an association of Algeria football clubs organizing national competitions and international matches of the selection of Algeria natio...
ce Algeria 19541962. Viking Adult. , 2006 reprint Laouisset, Djamel 2009. A Retrospective Study of the Algerian Iron and Steel Industry. New York City Nova Publishers. . Roberts, Hugh 2003. The Battlefield Algeria, 19882002. Studies in a Broken Polity. London Verso Books. . Ruedy, John 1992. Modern Algeria The Or...
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This is a list of characters in Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged. Major characters The following are major characters from the novel. Protagonists Dagny Taggart Dagny Taggart is the protagonist of the novel. She is vicepresident in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, under her brother, James Tagga...
power. Later, Francisco bankrupts the d'Anconia business to put it out of others' reach. His full name is given as "Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastin d'Anconia". John Galt John Galt is the primary male hero of Atlas Shrugged. He initially appears as an unnamed menial worker for Taggart Transcontinental, who of...
led throughout much of the novel, working a job and living by himself, where he unites the most skillful inventors and business leaders under his leadership. Much of the book's third division is given to his broadcast speech, which presents the author's philosophy of Objectivism. Henry "Hank" Rearden Henry known as "H...
He is completely loyal to Dagny and to Taggart Transcontinental. Willers does not possess the creative ability of Galt's associates, but matches them in moral courage and is capable of appreciating and making use of their creations. After Dagny shifts her attention and loyalty to saving the captive Galt, Willers mainta...
idden from the outside world, which only knows of Ludlow as a retired film star. Considered a misfit by Galt's other adherents, he views his actions as a means to speed the world along in understanding Galt's perspective. According to Barbara Branden, who was closely associated with Rand at the time the book was writt...
ually run the railroad, but nonetheless opposes her in almost every endeavor because of his various anticapitalist moral and political beliefs. In a sense, he is the antithesis of Dagny. This contradiction leads to the recurring absurdity of his life the desire to overcome those on whom his life depends, and the horror...
who works as "coordinator" at the State Science Institute. He uses his position there to deride reason and productive achievement, and publishes a book entitled Why Do You Think You Think? He clashes on several occasions with Hank Rearden, and twice attempts to blackmail Rearden into giving up Rearden Metal. He is als...
ered it for social approval, to the detriment of the free. He works at the State Science Institute where all his inventions are perverted for use by the military, including a soundbased weapon known as Project X Xylophone. He is killed when Cuffy Meigs see below drunkenly overloads the circuits of Project X, causing it...
usinesses each person may own to one, forces Hank to divest most of his companies, he is given a senior position at the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources. Later in the novel he becomes its Top Coordinator, a position that eventually becomes Economic Dictator of the country. Mouch's mantra, whenever a p...
a roadside diner, and proves extremely skillful at the job. When Dagny tracks him down, and before she discovers his true identity, he rejects her enthusiastic offer to manage the dining car services for Taggart Transcontinental. He is based on Aristotle. Jeff Allen is a tramp who stows away on a Taggart train during o...
an investor in the San Sebastin Mines. He disappears from the story after having a nervous breakdown following the failed 'unification' of the steel industry. Laura Bradford is an actress and Kip Chalmers' mistress. She is one of the passengers on his train, and dies in the Taggart Tunnel disaster. Bill Brent is the c...
he heroic qualities that she had looked up to she thought she was marrying someone like Dagny. Shortly after making this admission, she commits suicide by jumping over a stone parapet and into the river, unable to live with her evil husband and seeing no way to escape him. Millie Bush was "a mean, ugly little eightyea...
shington man who has decided to run for election as Legislator from California. On the way to a campaign rally, the Taggart Transcontinental train that is carrying him encounters a split rail, resulting in the destruction of its diesel engine. His demands lead to a coalburning steam engine being attached to his train i...
nts before Dagny arrives to try to persuade him otherwise. Quentin Daniels is an enterprising engineer hired by Dagny Taggart to reconstruct John Galt's motor. Partway through this process, Quentin withdraws his effort for the same reasons John Galt himself had. Dagny's pursuit of Quentin leads her to Galt's Gulch. Gal...
s would have liked each other. Balph Eubank is called "the literary leader of the age", despite the fact that no book he has written has sold more than 3,000 copies. He complains that it is disgraceful that artists are treated as peddlers, and that there should be a law limiting the sales of books to 10,000 copies. He ...
quits and joins the strike. Richard Halley is Dagny Taggart's favorite composer, who mysteriously disappeared after the evening of his greatest triumph. Halley spent years as a struggling and unappreciated composer. At age 24, his opera Phaethon was performed for the first time, to an audience who booed and heckled it....
inky Holloway is one of the "looters" and is frequently referred to and quoted by other characters in the story, but he has only one major appearance during the Washington meeting with Hank Rearden. Lee Hunsacker is in charge of a company called Amalgamated Service when takes over the Twentieth Century Motor Company. H...
them could discover"; he dies in the Taggart Tunnel disaster. Owen Kellogg is Assistant to the Manager of the Taggart Terminal in New York. He catches Dagny Taggart's eye as one of the few competent men on staff. After seeing the sorry state of the Ohio Division, she decides to make him its new Superintendent. However...
rk out a plan to bring Rearden down. James Taggart knows he is friends with Hank Rearden and challenges his loyalty, and Larkin assures Taggart that he will go along with them. Eugene Lawson heads the Community Bank of Madison, then gets a job with the government when it his bank goes bankrupt. One of the looter's caba...
Dagny Taggart plans to hire him to lay the new Rearden Metal track for the Rio Norte Line, but before she does so, he mysteriously disappears. She later discovers that he has joined the strike and settled in Galt's Gulch. Cuffy Meigs is the Director of Unification for the railroad business. He carries a pistol and a lu...
sident of the Amalgamated Switch and Signal Company, Inc. of Connecticut. He is a businessman who sees nothing wrong with the moral code that is destroying society and would never dream of saying he is in business for any reason other than the good of society. Dagny Taggart hires Mowen to produce switches made of Reard...
n, which Mulligan took as a compliment. Judge Narragansett is an American jurist who ruled in favor of Midas Mulligan during the case brought against him by the incompetent loan applicant. When Narragansett's ruling was reversed on appeal, he retired and joined the strike. At the end of the novel, he is seen editing th...
on strike, along with most of the other industrialist "producer" types, by closing his motor factory. Dagny later finds him when she visits Galt's Gulch for the first time. Betty Pope is a wealthy socialite who is having a meaningless sexual affair with James Taggart. She is deliberately crude in a way that casts ridi...
er weak son Philip Rearden. Philip Rearden is the younger brother of Hank Rearden. He lives in his brother's home in Philadelphia and is completely dependent on him. He is resentful of his brother's charity. Dwight Sanders owns Sanders Aircraft, a producer of highquality airplanes, and joins the strike. Bertram Scudder...
re just air, that this is no time for talk, but for action. Global Progress is a sponsor of the Equalization of Opportunity Bill. Gerald and Ivy Starnes are the two surviving children of Jed Starnes, the founder of the Twentieth Century Motor Company. Together with their sincedeceased brother Eric, they instituted a co...
ton runs the Stockton Foundry in Stockton, Colorado. When he joins the strike, he opens a foundry in Galt's Gulch. Nathaniel "Nat" Taggart was the founder of Taggart Transcontinental. He built his railroad without any government handouts, and ran the business for no other reason than to turn a profit. He began as a pen...
and has a very undistinguished look. He knows politics, however, and is a master of public relations and backroom deals. Rand's notes indicate that she modeled him on President Harry S. Truman, and that she deliberately decided not to call him "President of the United States" as this title has "honorable connotations" ...
e comes to respect and admire the producers. He is shot attempting to inform Hank Rearden about a government plot, but does succeed in warning Rearden just before he dies. Ellis Wyatt is the head of Wyatt Oil. He has almost singlehandedly revived the economy of Colorado by discovering a new process for extracting more ...
d in Atlas Shrugged Fictional socialites Lists of literary characters Literary characters introduced in 1957
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behaviour, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and v...
in the works of Magnus Hundt and Otto Casmann. Their New Latin derived from the combining forms of the Greek words nthrpos , "human" and lgos , "study". Its adjectival form appeared in the works of Aristotle. It began to be used in English, possibly via French , by the early 18th century. History Through the 19th ce...
hed in France in 1848, the Socit was abandoned. Meanwhile, the Ethnological Society of New York, currently the American Ethnological Society, was founded on its model in 1842, as well as the Ethnological Society of London in 1843, a breakaway group of the Aborigines' Protection Society. These anthropologists of the ti...
parison of species he had seen in agronomy and in the wild. Darwin and Wallace unveiled evolution in the late 1850s. There was an immediate rush to bring it into the social sciences. Paul Broca in Paris was in the process of breaking away from the Socit de biologie to form the first of the explicitly anthropological s...
losopher specializing in psychology, Theodor Waitz, took up the theme of general and social anthropology in his sixvolume work, entitled Die Anthropologie der Naturvlker, 18591864. The title was soon translated as "The Anthropology of Primitive Peoples". The last two volumes were published posthumously. Waitz defined ...
ichard Francis Burton and the speech therapist James Hunt broke away from the Ethnological Society of London to form the Anthropological Society of London, which henceforward would follow the path of the new anthropology rather than just ethnology. It was the 2nd society dedicated to general anthropology in existence. ...
ogy and Ethnology 1871, and many others subsequently. The majority of these were evolutionists. One notable exception was the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology, and Prehistory 1869 founded by Rudolph Virchow, known for his vituperative attacks on the evolutionists. Not religious himself, he insisted that Darwi...
departments in the majority of the world's higher educational institutions, many thousands in number. Anthropology has diversified from a few major subdivisions to dozens more. Practical anthropology, the use of anthropological knowledge and technique to solve specific problems, has arrived; for example, the presence o...
ination of context, and the importance they place on participantobservation or experiential immersion in the area of research. Cultural anthropology, in particular, has emphasized cultural relativism, holism, and the use of findings to frame cultural critiques. This has been particularly prominent in the United States,...
anthropology; plus linguistic anthropology. These fields frequently overlap but tend to use different methodologies and techniques. European countries with overseas colonies tended to practice more ethnology a term coined and defined by Adam F. Kollr in 1783. It is sometimes referred to as sociocultural anthropology i...
to understand observable cultural diversity, such as by AlBiruni of the Islamic Golden Age. As such, anthropology has been central in the development of several new late 20th century interdisciplinary fields such as cognitive science, global studies, and various ethnic studies. According to Clifford Geertz, Sociocul...
her the principle axes of cultural anthropology and social anthropology. Cultural anthropology is the comparative study of the manifold ways in which people make sense of the world around them, while social anthropology is the study of the relationships among individuals and groups. Cultural anthropology is more relate...
Accepting other cultures in their own terms moderates reductionism in crosscultural comparison. This project is often accommodated in the field of ethnography. Ethnography can refer to both a methodology and the product of ethnographic research, i.e. an ethnographic monograph. As a methodology, ethnography is based up...
der relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology. Comparison across cultures is a key element of method in sociocultura...
red landscapes are evidence of the cultural and material lives of past societies. Archaeologists examine material remains in order to deduce patterns of past human behavior and cultural practices. Ethnoarchaeology is a type of archaeology that studies the practices and material remains of living human groups in order t...
uistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, semiotics, discourse analysis, and narrative analysis. Ethnography Ethnography is a method of analysing social or cultural interaction. It often involves participant observation though an ethnographer may also draw from texts written by participants of in social interaction...
ural phenomenon. Several anthropologists have noted that the Western categories of 'painting', 'sculpture', or 'literature', conceived as independent artistic activities, do not exist, or exist in a significantly different form, in most nonWestern contexts. To surmount this difficulty, anthropologists of art have focus...
rs, journalists in the field, film production to contexts of media reception, following audiences in their everyday responses to media. Other types include cyber anthropology, a relatively new area of internet research, as well as ethnographies of other areas of research which happen to involve media, such as developme...
to the 18th and 19th centuries, it was formally introduced as ethnomusicology by Dutch scholar Jaap Kunst around 1950. Later, the influence of study in this area spawned the creation of the periodical Ethnomusicology and the Society of Ethnomusicology. Visual Visual anthropology is concerned, in part, with the stud...
or in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope. It has a complex relationship with the discipline of economics, of which it is highly critical. Its origins as a subfield of anthropology begin with the PolishBritish founder of anthropology, Bronisaw Malinowski, and his French compatriot, Marcel Mauss, on the n...
eties. Political economy introduced questions of history and colonialism to ahistorical anthropological theories of social structure and culture. Three main areas of interest rapidly developed. The first of these areas was concerned with the "precapitalist" societies that were subject to evolutionary "tribal" stereotyp...
, researchbased, instrumental methods which produce change or stability in specific cultural systems through the provision of data, initiation of direct action, andor the formulation of policy". More simply, applied anthropology is the practical side of anthropological research; it includes researcher involvement and a...
Kinship, feminism, gender and sexuality Kinship Kinship can refer both to the study of the patterns of social relationships in one or more human cultures, or it can refer to the patterns of social relationships themselves. Over its history, anthropology has developed a number of related concepts and terms, such as "...
ropology is a four field approach to anthropology archeological, biological, cultural, linguistic that seeks to reduce male bias in research findings, anthropological hiring practices, and the scholarly production of knowledge. Anthropology engages often with feminists from nonWestern traditions, whose perspectives and...
and note that from 1891 to 1930 doctorates in anthropology went to males more than 85, more than 81 were under 35, and only 7.2 to anyone over 40 years old, thus reflecting an age gap in the pursuit of anthropology by firstwave feminists until later in life. This correction of systemic bias may include mainstream femi...
d Tell my Horse about her "anthropological observations" of voodoo in the Caribbean 1938. Feminist anthropology is inclusive of the anthropology of birth as a specialization, which is the anthropological study of pregnancy and childbirth within cultures and societies. Medical, nutritional, psychological, cognitive an...
nd, there are fields that intersect with medical anthropology in terms of research methodology and theoretical production, such as cultural psychiatry and transcultural psychiatry or ethnopsychiatry. Nutritional Nutritional anthropology is a synthetic concept that deals with the interplay between economic systems, n...
mental processes. This subfield tends to focus on ways in which humans' development and enculturation within a particular cultural group with its own history, language, practices, and conceptual categories shape processes of human cognition, emotion, perception, motivation, and mental health. It also examines how t...
it knowledge changes the way people perceive and relate to the world around them. Transpersonal Transpersonal anthropology studies the relationship between altered states of consciousness and culture. As with transpersonal psychology, the field is much concerned with altered states of consciousness ASC and transpers...