Socio -Cultural Anthropology

There are three important anthropological thoughts- Functionalism, Structural- Functionalism and Structuralism. Here we are going to discuss Structuralism. Structuralism...

Why the number 13 is so mysterious? Why do people have fear of lift number 13, building number 13,...

Language is the basic source of preserving cultural traits. It acts as a medium of transmitting the culture from...

We live in a world that is infused with religion. It is infused to that extent that sometimes even...

Who were the Aztecs? Why was human sacrifice so important and central among the Aztecs? In almost every corner...

Cultural diffusion is the process by which cultural traits discovered or invented at one place or society is spread...

The Anthropology of Magic explains the concept of magic, how magic controls the life of people, how it became...

This is the review post for the book- “Borrowed Breath: Woman Centered Polygamy Polyandry”. This is a non-fiction book...

In simple terms, taboo means banned on grounds of morality or taste. It is a kind of prohibition. Taboo...

Visual anthropology is a sub-field of social anthropology which is used to study and production of ethnographic photography and...