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Elizabeth (Zee) Cohen
Wagner College, Anthropology, Undergraduate
- Anthropology, Sociology, Religion, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Political Sociology, Feminism, and 31 moreReligious Studies, Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion, Cultural Anthropology, Comparative Religion, Buddhism, Anthropology of Food, Anthropology of the Body, Historical Sociology, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Sociology of Food and Eating, New Religious Movements, Zen Buddhism, Religion and Sexuality, Anthropology of Death, Aboriginal History in Australia, Human sacrifice (Anthropology Of Religion), Philosophy of Death, Vanuatu, Women In Hinduism, Ufo Religions, Vanuatu research, Carribean Literature and Culture, Buddhism in Australia, Vanuatu kastom and modernity, Port -Vila, Vanuatu, Vanuatu History, Urban Studies, Urban Sociology, and Anthropology of Religionedit
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The South Pacific Islands are an incredibly large portion of the world that could give modern scholars insight into the history of religion and missionization and it has not been explored enough. This particular study focuses on Vanuatu,... more
The South Pacific Islands are an incredibly large portion of the world that could give modern scholars insight into the history of religion and missionization and it has not been explored enough. This particular study focuses on Vanuatu, a country in the South Pacific that consists of eighty-three islands. I will be focusing specifically on Pele Island which has a population of approximately one hundred and twenty people. While only a few hundred miles away lies Port Vila, a modernized part of the country which consists of constant imports and exports as well as modern technology and tourist attractions, the natives of Pele Island have a very strong attachment to their land and their environment and refuse to lose their heritage. On Pele, it is apparent that the missionaries failed to integrate the Ni-Vanuatu cultural understanding of religion and pushed Christianity as a completely new way of life ignoring their already established cultural customs. Ultimately, when the Christian missionaries left the islands they also left behind a clash of cultural morals and values among the local people. This study explores this more in depth and looks closely at how and why Christian religious influences have affected not only their individual family values but also the values they have as a collective community at large.
Research Interests: Religion, Christianity, New Religious Movements, Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, and 16 moreAnthropology, History of Christianity, Colonialism, Vanuatu, Religious Studies, Vanuatu research, Cargo Cults, Missionization, Port -Vila, Vanuatu, Vanuatu church and custom, Vanuatu languages, Vanuatu kastom and modernity, Anthropology of Religion, Religious Cults, Vanuatu History, and History of Vanuatu
This paper explores the product Spam, first created by Jay C. Hormel and later trade marked by the Hormel Company in 1937. This paper goes into the reason why and how Spam was created, and why it was helpful for the military in WWII.... more
This paper explores the product Spam, first created by Jay C. Hormel and later trade marked by the Hormel Company in 1937. This paper goes into the reason why and how Spam was created, and why it was helpful for the military in WWII. Moreover, it also looks at how America now looks down upon the product, due to its stigma of being low class food. After exploring Spam in the United States and Hawaii, it focuses on Guam, better known as the “Spam Capital of The World,” The Philippines and The Pacific Islands. It also discuses Korea and how Koreans’ view Spam as a small slice of the American Dream.