Catherine Lem
I have been a writer since I was a small child winning county Write-a-Book contests. As a student of anthropology I have learned how to harness my writing into a way to analyze the world around me.
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A Broken Mirror: How the Similarities Between India and Nigeria Led to Their DifferencesThe historical similarities between India and Nigeria are not as significant as their differences. Their experiences under colonialism were extremely different, as are the results of those experiences.
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Intersexuality and the Battle of the ScalpelThere are numerous ways that a fetus can develop intersexually, and most physicians can not confidently say that an infant was �meant' to be either male or female. The key question becomes a bloody one, to or not to use the scalpel... -
A Conversation in the DarkWe are in Prague just for that one weekend, a weekend escape from our studies in Vienna. We are there just to be somewhere new, but our lack of planning has caught up to us once we are unloaded one cold and rainy evening in Prague.
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How to Examine Sacred Art Through the Emic and EticWhen we only look at sacred arts in parts, as when we only use an etic view, an I-It stance, or critical thinking, in our attempts to understand what other people hold sacred, we miss out on a large part of that sacred's context.
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Rats: Pests or Pets?A historical cross-cultural examination of human-rat interactions, as well as the story of one human and her pet rat.
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Henry Hobhouse Reveals Five Plants That Changed the World in Seeds of ChangeQuanine, sugar cane, tea, cotton, and the potato: Henry Hobhouse's book argues through a historical perspective that plants, these five in particular, have strongly influenced the course of history.
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A Vegetarian FutureIn order to make an educated decision in regards to a diet that is not omnivorous, one must be educated in the nutritional needs of the human body as well as how to support oneself on a diet devoid of meat and other animal products.
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Conflict DiamondsTo many of those who understand the diamond market best, diamonds carry other underlying images: images of warfare, political strife, and human suffering. Currently, there is much debate over how to best control these �conflict diamonds.'