Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com an agonistic relationship between the legal, administrative construction spaces and the mythical, territorial, symbolic universes of indigenous groups (Bolivia) and quilombola groups (Brazil). The pertinence of such comparative potential is justified here, in that the two experiences seem to reveal different potentials of dialogue between these dime...

Since anthropology is key to understanding a psychological system, it is worth spending a little time on an overview of some of the key tenets of Frankl’s vision of man. In his work, Frankl presents a new, more complex and “well-developed anthropology” (Kimber, 2000, p.10) which goes to make up what we might term a “higher” view of man. This stands in stark contrast to the anthropological assum...

In vitro fertilization is becoming a pressing issue in contemporary societies. The article considers it starting from the Polish debate but takes up its broader anthropological and ethical aspects. Dealing with the latter, it also employs some acute remarks from “Dignitas Personae.” Finally it considers an approach to in vitro against the background of “European Convention on Bioethics.” In its...

This literature review presents the main organic, psychological and cultural factors influencing the sleeping habits of infants. By means of a clinical-anthropological approach, the interrelation between these habits and biobehavioral and psychosocial stressing factors is described, as well as cultural practices such as shared bed, night feeding, transitional objects and use of dummies. It pres...

This chapter aims to illustrate the role of culture for development over the life-span. First, theoretical approaches on development in culture are presented, starting from early anthropological to recent eco-cultural approaches. Then culture-specific conceptualisations of development over the life span are discussed, including childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. Finally, recent stu...

The paper discusses the importance of phylomemetic visualization to approach the cultural diversity in the social system like Indonesia, and thus revisit formal methodology regarding to the construction of the phylomemetic tree as an inspiration lent from the phylogenic analysis. A case of study is presented regarding to the data obtained from the diversity of traditionally inspired building-de...