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    Chinese Kinship Systems

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    It would be impossible to disagree with the statement that "Chinese kinship is based on male predominance". In fact this statement may even be under-emphasizing the control and absolute power that males wield across all levels of Chinese society. Of course‚ where their power initially comes from though‚ is through the family or termed differently the "jia". It is this extended or ideal family that cultivates the consistent patrilineal form of control/descent and dictates that residence in said

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    Iroquois Kinship System

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    Iroquois Kinship 1 Iroquois Kinship System Carl B. Lockhart ANT 101 Robert Moon August 29‚ 2011 Iroquois Kinship 2 Iroquois Kinship System The first scientific investigation of an

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    The meaning of kinship terms

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    The Meaning of Kinship Terms’ ANTHONY I . C. WALLACE ANI) JOHN A T K I N S ; Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute and University of Pennsylvania INTRODUCTION H E meaning of kinship terms in foreign languages (or in English‚ for that matter) has traditionally been rendered by English-speaking ethnologists by a simple and direct procedure: each term is matched with a primitive English term (e.g.‚ “mother”)‚ with a relative product of two or more primitive English terms (e.g.‚ “mother’s

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    North American Kinship

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    The notion of American family has changed through the years; that is the reason why modern North American kinship greatly differ from the patterns observed from the 1970s and other previous decades. According to Gezon and Kottak in the book Culture‚ family is defined as a group of people related either by blood or marriage. Like in any other society‚ the model of American kinship is influenced by culture‚ but it drastically differs when compared to other societies. According to the book‚ American

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    Iroquois Kinship System

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    Iroquois Kinship System Anthony Sifuentes ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor Mario Tovar March 5‚ 2012 The Iroquois is the group I have decided to do my research of kinship systems on. This will come from what I have found in the text of chapters three and four of the text. The Iroquois is a unilineal descent group. This means that descent is traced back through one sex or side of the family. They traced their bloodline through the female side of the family‚ meaning

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    Kinship and the Inuit People It takes a certain type of person to be able to survive the harsh freezing climate of the Arctic. The Inuit‚ descendants of the Thule have been surviving along the shores of the Arctic Ocean‚ Hudson Bay‚ Davis Strait‚ and Labrador Sea for over 1‚000 years. The kinship relationships among the Inuit people are very important to their way of life and survival. Every family unit consists of the nuclear family. This is the most common type of unit in a foraging

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    Running head: KINSHIP 1 Kinship System of the San’s Amy Namer ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor: Christine Compton March 25‚ 2013 KINSHIP 2 Kinship System of the San’s In anthropology kinship is the system of social

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    Presented by‚ Shailendra Kumar Nitish Singh Amit Dogra FAMILY AND KINSHIP What family means… The family forms the basic unit of social organization and it is difficult to imagine how human society could function without it. The family has been seen as a universal social institution an inevitable part of human society. FAMILY Defining “FAMILY” Various sociologists “family” in various ways:  G.P Murdock defines the family as a social group characterized by common residence‚ economic

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    Family and kinship in india

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    religious‚ class‚ and caste groups crosscut Indian society‚ which is also permeated with immense urban-rural differences and gender distinctions. Differences between north India and south India are particularly significant‚ especially in systems of kinship and marriage. Indian society is multifaceted to an extent perhaps unknown in any other of the world’s great civilizations—it is more like an area as varied as Europe than any other single nation-state. Adding further variety to contemporary Indian

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    A Different Kind of Kinship Patricia F. Leavell ANT353: Anthropology of Gender Inst. Jeri Myers March 11‚ 2013 A Different Kind of Kinship Societies around the world have different ways of structuring their family units. Some are patrilineal and others‚ such as the Mosuo‚ are matrilineal in nature. This means that the family passes their inheritance down through the female line. In the Mosuo culture‚ they go one-step further than the passing of the inheritance in that the only males that

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