Essays on Armbands

MPM 346

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the traditional institution of trade and economics among the Trobriand Islanders. The primary focus is on the symbolic interpretation of the acts involved in the kula ring and in yam production, display and distribution. The first section of the paper explains the kula ring and how it operated in Trobriand society at the time of the first ethnographic description of the Trobrianders by Malinowski in 1914. The second section examines how social hierarchy is expressed in trade within the kula ring. The third section looks at the difference between symbolic gift ...

The uniform was one of the methods through which fashion was applied in the men’s bodies. This happened, especially during the World War II. Battle prejudiced the guys’ physiques were socially shaped by the substantial forces that profoundly affected not only the texture of the body and row shape, but also the castigations applied machismo and the principles applied to the body. The uniforms were able to outline the men’s body in that, those that were physically fit, others personnel could admire their hard effort they inflicted to look that amazing. The outfits clung onto their bodies ...