Film Synopses essays

Film Synopses essays This film showed the excavation of parts of Africa where it is believed that remains of Hominid (ancient man) lay. The physical anthropologists gathered their fossil finding which mainly consisted of teeth, after one excavation. The teeth were then compared to other teeth of hominids they had to give a time frame of existence for the remains they found. Another source for anthropologists is a museum in Kenya where Hominid fossils are safely kept in a vault. Entrance is very low and only select few are allowed to see remains. By comparing not only validity of the fossil but also the time in which the hominid lived. For many physical anthropologist the understanding of the transition of hominid evolution from archaic Homo sapiens to modern Homo sapiens, is still a plaguing question. Men and women communicate in different ways. Women give more acknowledgements than men do. Men feel uncomfortable with touching another man as where women would feel content with putting sunscreen on another female. Women are more actively understanding with each other, where as men abstain from this with other men. Communication between men and women is first understood in their body language. Men take up more space, with their legs and arms spread out, while women are more tentative and limit their body space as much as possible. In conversation women are more assertive and certain in questioning and answering. Where as men lack this and interrupt more. Traditional people of Ghana attend to their own physical needs before they refer to medicine. The traditional treatment is done through verbalization and spiritualization. The idea of illness is when spirits take control of the body. Spirits are also responsible for making people do things out of the social norms. When patients are in need of treatment for disease they seek help from a priest or priestess. The patients are usually brought to a shrine located some distance from...