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“For most of the last century, the basic bargain at the heart of the American economy was that employers paid their workers enough to buy what American employers were selling” (Reich 2011).  Robert Reich indicates that this basic bargain created a virtuous cycle of higher living standards, more jobs and better wages.  I am going to say that from a purely economic standpoint the cycle was virtuous, but when one takes a longer view, through environmental glasses, that capitalist bargain…

Two members of  the University of Witwatersrand African Centre for Migration and Society asked how foreign migrants to South Africa cope with hostility sometimes amounting to xenophobia. In this short version of a longer journal article, they come up with the answer -- tactical cosmopolitanism -- and offer a list of its characteristics. As I read this and…

Folklore: A Colonial Discipline/Culture Studies

The Relevance of Anthropology? A Marxist Response

Firefly: My friends, this man’s case moves me deeply. Look at Chicolini! He sits there alone, an abject…

When I see videos like this:

...it makes me think about the borders between academia and politics. Specifically, I'm thinking about anthropology. I don't think that anthropology can be defined in any one way, and I certainly don't think that the discipline (in its many manifestations) is some sort of political party. I don't think that's what…

Hans Andersen: স্ব-/স-আখর-এর ইস্তেহার

Construction of Masculinity in Bangla Literature

An Open Letter On The Occasion of Sacred Thread Ceremony

Brick Industry In West Bengal

Dances of Fire at Basalt Quarries

Basalt Quarries In West Bengal

Violent anthropogenic intervention into the 'nature'--Mines & Quarries

Jute Industry In West Bengal

The investigator, out of his severe guilt feeling as he is a member of the leisure class, executed some self-funded projects related to socio-economic conditions of West Bengal. One of them is jute industry in West Bengal, India. He had surveyed jute cultivation and industry (59 Factories).…

Balinese and Hawaiian Social Systems

http://austronesianstudies.blogspot.com/2010/06/balinese-and-hawaiian-social-systems.html…

THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN THE AUSTRONESIAN CONTEXT:

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SE 04 The Role of Law, Culture & Humanity in the Framework of Human Rights

Law itself is a clear indication that the content of self, ethnocentrism are increasing day by day and that is why law is making an effort to restore the essence of human right which was evolved by man at the time of inception of culture. Culture is sandwitched between nation and international agencies. Hence, an equilibrium never comes among…

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SE 06 Repulsive Violence - A Mandatory Tool For Maintaining Peace, Humanity, Social Solidarity And Affinity

Term Violence is discussed in different ways. It is generally perceived in negative sense, which needs reconsideration in modern world. Violence has travelled a long path since the advent of man on this blue planet and has assumed aggravated proportions with civilization. Violence can be of two types one which we…

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SE 05  Etiology of Violence and Compassion in Social Life

Ethnocentrism and emotion create an environment of violence for human being of this earth, who have evolved from single family and species but different geographia has made them different in nature and behaviour as described by numerous anthropologists and social scientists.

Violence is as common as other elements of this earth which give compassion.…