Tag: anthropology
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Love Traditions
I used to hate celebrating my birthday. It was so bad that I didn’t tell my friends the date of my birthday. And today I love traditions from celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, etc. How can hate turn to love? I got help from two books. And it’s not everyday a book can give you a…
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Ethnicity and Identity
What a heavy topic! And I dare to tackle it here. At least a part of it. I finished up the book by anthropologist, Manning Nash, entitled The Cauldron of Ethnicity in the Modern World. And I drew so much insight from it on both ethnicity and identity. First, ethnicity can be difficult to define…
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Questions about your ethnicity
Where were your parents born? or What’s your background? Questions that are referring to ethnicity in subtle ways. Yet, with all these questions, what does ethnicity really mean? Not being an expert myself, I recently read a book by anthropologist, Manning Nash, called “The Cauldron of Ethnicity in the Modern World” and watched the EPIX…
Tara Rama 