by Alana Jolley | Jan 24, 2025 | Culture, Culture in the News, Indigenous Peoples
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”Ralph Waldo Emerson With wildfires raging near where I live in California, those in charge are trying to understand what is happening and...
by Alana Jolley | Jan 12, 2024 | Culture
Connecting Ethnography to Genealogy Research The first ethnography writing I completed was in the form of a personal history of my great aunt, Virginia. I did not realize my family-history writing might take on a whole new dimension by connecting ethnography to my...
by Alana Jolley | Jun 19, 2023 | Culture, Culture in the News, Global Villages
Culture of War Part I 80th Anniversary of D-Day, Operation Overlord, WWII On Thursday June 6, 2024 is the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, better known as D-Day. Most often D-Day is thought of as being one day, but June 6 was only the first D-Day. There was...
by Alana Jolley | Apr 22, 2020 | Culture, Culture in the News, Culture, Food, Nutrition, Global Villages, Indigenous Peoples
Culture, Health, and Wellness As of January 10, 2020, the WHO [World Health Organization] began using the phrase “2019 Novel Coronavirus.” Most human beings have been living within the world Coronavirus Pandemic (Covid-19) since that time. It is pertinent...
by Alana Jolley | Jan 3, 2019 | Culture, Culture in the News, Global Villages
Causes of Cultural Discontent Before examining causes of cultural discontent, we should revisit the word culture, and its context. We defined the word culture according to anthropological standards in previous posts and lessons. We know culture is written, spoken,...
