Moreover, I have taken a step back and pondered over my identity; my Indian history (known as our "rich Indian heritage"), the development of a deep affection for India moulded only through narratives, music, art and movies; my exposure yet (imagined?) ... While I openly admit that my knowledge in this field is by far, limited and trivial, I have debated, on a purely common sense level, the intricacies of identity formation of third and fourth generation South Africans of Indian descent. ... However, what has interested me is the formation of South Africans of Indian origin's social ident...

• Word Count: 1688
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A popular "science" about human mental processes in relation to associated features of the skull or cranium further "proved" racial superiority, with "whites" superior to all others: "that of the white being oval, that of the Indian cylindrical, and that of the Negro "eccentrically elliptical"." ... Instead of attributing the Indians with human characteristics, the scientists totally ignored the fact that the "savages" may have created the art, so the question of who the mound builders were occupied the attention of professional archaeologists and other scholars for years. ... Indian burial g...

• Word Count: 1439
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Culture includes language, ideas, beliefs, customs, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, and works of art, rituals, and ceremonies, among other elements. ... The classic definition of culture was provided by the 19th-century English anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor in the first paragraph of his Primitive Culture (1871): Culture . . . is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. ...

• Word Count: 4734
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But- and herein lay the real originality of the system- unlike the attitude of the nobles toward the bourgeoisie, the lords toward the serfs, or the Brahmans toward the other Indian castes, the gér could not materially exploit the lower castes without losing face in the eyes of others, as well as their own. ...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate