309. 16563 The Concubine and Segu Elechi Amadi's novel "The Concubine" and Maryse Conde's novel "Segu" both present us with views of African religion. But while Amadi's novel focuses on a misty past in which the traditinal religion and traditional ways seem to be eternal, Conde's world of slavers and Islamic armies helps us to understand the ways in which religious faith is changed by history. Pages: 4 Bibliography: 2 source(s) listed Filename: 16563 africa religion literature.doc Price: US$35.80

310. 16658 Weaving History, Archeology, and Narrative: A Brief Consideration of Elizabeth Wayland Barber?s The Mummies of Ürümchi This 5-page undergraduate essay concerns Elizabeth Wayland Barber?s book, The Mummies of Ürümchi. The essay begins with an examination of Barber?s thesis - that textiles and other clues help us see that the mummies have much to say about cultural transmission from west to east. This essay further examines Barber?s use of sources. Barber uses published data about the mummies, archeological evidence, scholarly work on textiles and linguistics, information available about the region in which the mummies were found, maps, black-and-white photos and color photos, as well as drawings. Mostly, she uses textile evidence and her own field work, two interrelated sources she uses with innovation and authority. This essay considers the ways that Barber?s work is credible and plausible, and to this effect compares Barber?s work to two other books, J. Mallory and Victor Mair?s The Tarim Mummies and Heather Pringle's The Mummy Congress, which are on the same topic. This essay concludes that Barber?s text is one of the strongest, managing to be both authoritative, and accessible. Pages: 5 Bibliography: 3 source(s) listed Filename: 16658 Mummies Ürümchi Barber.doc Price: US$44.75

311. 16671 Methodology questions In general quantitative research is most valuable when it is used to investigate any behavior (or value or belief) that can be quantified without doing harm to the core concept that is being investigated. However, some concepts and behaviors are in fact very difficult to quantify. How, for example, can one quantity the idea of religious belief without coming up with a unit that is so far divorced from the idea of faith that the research design has destroyed its own subject? One of the problems that often comes up within research design is that some elements of a problem may be best assessed through quantitative means and others through qualitative means, which is why so many researchers favor multi-method approaches. Pages: 3 Bibliography: 0 source(s) listed Filename: 16671 methodology qualitative quantitative.doc Price: US$26.85

312. 16808 Archarology Questions Chapter 9 This paper answers a series of questions on archaeology, relating to finding and identifying the origin of archaeological materials, identifying trade and how it was undertaken, suggesting now new analytical methods have been developed which allow modern archaeologists to be better able to be more precise about the place of origin most of artifacts. Pages: 1 Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed Filename: 16808 archaeology distribution exchange.doc Price: US$8.95

313. 16814 Archaeology Questions Chapter 10 This paper answers a series of questions on archaeology relating to Chapter 10 of the book "Archaeology: Theories and Methods" by Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn, considering issues of speech, ritual, expression, and considering symbolic meaning and how difficult it is to know the meaning ascribed to any ancient symbol because that is specific to the particular culture that produced it, and we cannot identify what we see based only on our own experience. Pages: 1 Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed Filename: 16814 archaeology preliterate society.doc Price: US$8.95

314. 16888 Museum Review: San Diego Museum of Man: Inuit Exhibit For this assignment, I visited the San Diego Museum of Man. For several reasons, all personal and esthetic, I chose to visit and focus on the Inuit exhibit. The setting is really very fitting for the general subject matter of all of the exhibits in the building. In fact, the environment seems to develop in much the way as man has developed (as depicted) in this truly anthropological museum. Clearly, the curator has striven to give each exhibit it?s own place in time in relation to others, but also to isolate it just enough architecturally from the rest of the museum so as to highlight the fact that it is genuinely unique. The overall effect is that one can truly feel like an immersive time-traveller in this museum. Pages: 2 Bibliography: 0 source(s) listed Filename: 16888 Museum Review Inuit.doc Price: US$17.90

315. 16902 Questions in Archaeology This paper answers several questions in archaeology, beginning with how to tell the age of human reamins and noting that bones tell much about age at death, beginning with the degree of bone development, something that follows a pattern through the life cycle, just as the teeth say much about development and health and other matters, reflecting aspects of the life lived before the individual died. Pages: 1 Bibliography: 0 source(s) listed Filename: 16902 archaeology anthropology remains.doc Price: US$8.95

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