Iroquois Kinship Susan Pierson ANT101 Cultural Anthropology Kristin Akerele May 13‚ 2013 Iroquois Kinship This paper is going to introduce the Iroquois kinship. Kinship can best be defined as a system of social relationships‚ or in simpler terms a system of family. Kinship can be seen in our everyday lives within our own circle of family and friends‚ and how we classify them in regards to importance and how we treat them based on our classifications of them. Kinship can best be defined
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Kinship of the Iroquois Christine Garcia ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Prof. Benjamin Wright March 12‚ 2012 KINSHIP OF THE IROQUOIS Kinship can best be defined as a system of social relationships‚ or in simpler terms a system of family. According to our text‚ “kinship involves how people classify each other‚ the rules that affect people’s behavior‚ and people’s actual behavior.” (Nowak and Laird‚ 2010‚ 4:5) Kinship can be seen in our everyday lives within our own circle
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The Iroquois‚ or Haudenosaunee‚ which means “people of the longhouse”‚ were a great nation that was made up of six smaller nations‚ the Seneca‚ Cayuga‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ Mohawk‚ and the Tuscarora (The Canadian Encyclopedia). The Iroquois was formed when five nations‚ the Seneca‚ Cayuga‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ and Mohawk signed a Great Law of Peace‚ which is considered to be both a political foundation and the root for the Iroquois society in general (The Canadian Encyclopedia). It was not until 1722‚
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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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Kalahari Desert to live a traditional semi-nomadic life with the Ju/’hoansi Bushmen. I am going to discuss the five items that I will take with me and the reason why I want to take these items. Then I will discuss how the semi-nomadic life style affects my sense of home my relationship with my environment and my attitude towards the people I am around and my material possessions. Ju/’hoansi Bushmen The Ju/’hoansi bushmen are semi-nomadic people that live on the boarders of the Kalahari Desert.
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stories have not only differences‚ but also similarities. African and Iroquois cultures seem on the surface to have nothing in common‚ especially because they are from different parts of the world. However‚ they both share fundamental values. The myths “The Golden Chain” from Africa and “The World on the Turtle’s Back” from the Iroquois culture‚ are similar in the fact that they both value simplicity and a deity figure. Iroquois and African myths both include the presence of basic forms of nature
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The Iroquois myth‚ “The World on the Turtle’s Back‚” is a piece that has been passed down from one generation to the next since 1800. It introduces a story of the world; good and bad‚ male and female roles‚ a great god‚ the solar system‚ growth‚ etc. This text not only challenges stereotypical views of gender roles‚ but it also introduces a different perspective on superiority. As the male population is classically seen as dominant‚ fearless‚ and powerful souls; while the female population is seen
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The !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert The !Kung Bushmen of Botswana inhabit the semi-arid northwest region of the Kalahari Desert. Their average annual rainfall is poor‚ only six to nine inches a year. Field work for this article written by Richard B. Lee‚ was done in the Dobe area‚ which is a line of eight permanent waterholes. The Dobe area has a population of 466 Bushmen. This includes 379 permanent residents living in independent camps or associated with Bantu cattle posts‚ as well
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The Iroquois Nation was made up of five nations‚ all of whom believed that the Earth began with “one of the Ancient Ones.” The creation story continues to explain the existence of land‚ humans‚ and food. The Iroquois were a deeply spiritual people‚ and this spurned Mourning Wars. Their spirituality supported their belief that any member of their tribe that died a violent death‚ such as a warrior‚ could not be buried with their family‚ as their spirit was destined to wander the Earth in search of
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The San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert A well-known foraging community in the southwest region of Africa is the San Bushmen. These hunting and gathering bands have lived in the Kalahari Desert region for thousands of years. The men of these communities are the primary hunters‚ who provide about 20 percent of the diet from the animals they kill. The women collect a various nuts‚ tubers‚ melons‚ and berries that provide the other 80 percent of the San diet (Nowak & Laird‚ 2010). The
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