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The sociopolitical issues of anatomy in America in the 19th century largely stemmed from the increased use of anatomy in the medical curriculum, headed by Xavier Bichat, René Laennec, and other European and American physicians. In America, medical education expanded significantly during this period, with the number of medical schools going ...
Culture shock is an experience a person may have when one moves to a cultural environment which is different from one's own; it is also the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country, a move between social environments, or simply transition to another type ...
Each episode focuses on a moment that shocks American culture. [2] The episodes are directed by different people every week. [3] Episodes. No. overall No. in season
A war for the soul of America: a history of the culture wars (University of Chicago Press, 2015) Hunter, James Davison, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (New York: Basic Books, 1992) ISBN 0-465-01534-4; Jay, Gregory S., American Literature and the Culture Wars, (Cornell University Press, 1997) ISBN 0-8014-3393-2 ISBN 978-0801433931
American culture has been shaped by the history of the United States, its geography, and various internal and external forces and migrations. [ 1 ] America's foundations were initially Western -based, and primarily English-influenced , but also with prominent French , German , Greek , Irish , Italian , Jewish , Polish , Scandinavian , and ...
Kalervo Oberg (January 15, 1901 – July 11, 1973) [1] was a Canadian anthropologist.Oberg was dedicated to fieldwork, serving as a civil servant and a teacher. He travelled the world and wrote about these experiences so others could enjoy them as well.
Developments in the culture of the United States in modern history have often been followed by similar changes in the rest of the world (American cultural imperialism). This includes knowledge, customs, and arts of Americans, as well as events in the social, cultural, and political spheres.
The debate between symbolic and materialist approaches to culture dominated American anthropologists in the 1960s and 1970s. The Vietnam War and the publication of Dell Hymes' Reinventing Anthropology, however, marked a growing dissatisfaction with the then dominant approaches to culture. Hymes argued that fundamental elements of the Boasian ...