Abstract Forensic anthropology entails applying anthropological research and techniques to medicolegal issues. There are three subfields within the field of forensic anthropology, including osteology (study of the bones), archeology (collection of human remains), and biological anthropology (study of changes to the body after death, including decomposition). ... In any event, subfields of anthropology work together in order to determine the gender, race, and age of skeletal remains. ... This field shows a great deal of variety, so it is divided into three subfields: social anthropology,...

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Race has been shown to be a social construct used primarily by whites to advance themselves in terms of wealth and prestige, while holding others down and not allowing them to obtain affluence in white America. ... The American Anthropological Association has shown through DNA evidence that there is more variation in genetic make up within a "race" than between them. ...

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The Adrenée Glover Freeman Memorial Lecture In African American Women's Studies Leith Mullings is the Presidential Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Program in Medical Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City of University of New York. ... Mullings was responsible for coordinating a group of scholars and community members together for a project that lasted many years, and provided evidence on many social contexts of reproduction. ... The goal is to clearly display the challenge of how race, ethnicity, social class, and gender create tribulations that affect...

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The concept of race is one of the most academically and emotionally charged subjects in the field of Anthropology. ... Because of his extensive background in forensic anthropology, Dr. ... I chose to pick experts outside of anthropology but still in the social sciences field because I thought it would bring in a new and fresh take on the concept of race. ... Omi and Winant believe that we should think of races as an element of social structure, not of discrimination. ... There is no reason for anthropological research to be held back by terminology that confuses rather than illuminates the w...

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Cultural Anthropology White Privilege I Don't Think So! ... But can the term "white privilege- or even "male privilege- be used today to describe social subconscious thought? ... It is to me inconceivable to think that sweeping social reforms can happen overnight. ...

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Introduction: Traditionally the phenomena ethnicity is intimately related with the field of anthropology. ... According to Yelvington- ethnicity is an aspect of social relationship between agents who consider themselves as being culturally distinctive from members of other groups with whom they have a minimum of regular interaction. It is a social identity characterized by metaphoric or fictive kinship. ... Indeed, social, political, and economic bases of discrimination were initiated between these groups by the colonial Belgians after World War II th...

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Because both are motivated by similar economic, social, and psychological forces, it is only logical that those who sought to undermine Blacks were also the most virulent antifeminists 2." ... The theme of the chapter revolves around the unfair social norms of the time that plagued the lives of African-American slaves. ... It's also rather amusing how Giddings mentioned how many of these self-proclaimed anthropology experts attempted to tie in Darwinism with welfare, saying that welfare was bad for society as a whole because it retarded the whole survival-of-the-fittest evolutionary pat...

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