Kinships in the Yanomamo Ashley Jones ANT 101 Adrienne Stafford May 21‚ 2012 A kinship system is a system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture. Among many cultures kinship is greatly valued among the Yanomamo society. Their way of life centers around these kinships. Their kinships impact the way they think and how they live their lives. While in today’s society our families also known as our kin “kinships” are typically blood related or through marriage
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Australian Aboriginal kinship system has a large impact on how the culture behaves beginning with their creation stories and then onto how children are raised‚ children entering adulthood‚ and relationships that are taught. These examples of kinships can differ from culture to culture especially in the Australian Aboriginal culture which could bring a culture closer together or it can damage the culture. Kinships can change how a culture behaves through their beliefs. Aboriginal culture is the oldest living
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Kinship System of the Bushmen Dior McClelland ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Melissa Kirkendall June 25‚ 2012 For thousands of years the San people have inhabited southern Africa‚ foraging through the Kalahari Desert. The San also known as the Bushmen‚ but the word Bushmen can be affiliated with negativity‚ so they prefer to be called the San people. This paper will briefly explain the kinship system of the San people‚ provide three examples of how the kinship system impacted
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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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and identify the key features of society’s kinship structures‚ discuss the type of political/leadership found within the Azande and finally we will highlight the important features of the coviety;s religious and economic structures. The key features of the Azande kinship structures are based on Kin Groups and Descent. This society is based on patrilineal meaning that every children’s relationship is based on the descent of the father. The Azande culture does not track down past ancestors just as
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When looking at the Gebusi kinship there are some similarities to my own kinship. For example the Gebusi clan membership is passed down through the male line. In my kinship it is also passed through the male line. After one member of my kinship gets married they take the last name of the husband. In the Gebusi kinship not only is the line trace through the males after the females are married they become part of their husbands clan now and are no longer apart of their original clan. A difference that
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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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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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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 society
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purposes of this paper‚ will serve as our definition. The second form of taking race into account‚ called "racial kinship"‚ is when members of a particular race treat members of his or her own race with more benevolence than he or she would treat someone outside of his or her own race. Although both forms of taking race into account involve treating people differently based on race‚ racial kinship‚ unlike (our definition of) racism‚ is not entirely destructive in practice. A prevalent question in the arena
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