"Kinship of the batek" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 44 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    Cultural values varied in the region because there were so many different life styles and cultures coming to the new world. Was taught to defend honor at all cost. Treat other people with respect. Women were taught to be refined and lady like. Kinship was a value that showed when the villages and towns are

    Premium United States Native Americans in the United States Indigenous peoples of the Americas

    • 895 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Privileged Information

    • 923 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Kohut postulated that humans have psychological need to feel kinship or alikeness with other people. People with whom we feel kinship are said to be self-objects. Self-objects are useful developmentally because they help people feel understood and cared for‚ (Lynch) and they facilitate self-understanding by helping people make sense of their own

    Premium Emotion Apartment House

    • 923 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    In this essay I will be using Malinowski’s Functionalist approach and Levi-Strauss’s Structuralism‚ whilst analyzing the Trobrianders society and way of life. Bronislaw Malinowski initially created the Anthropological school of Functionalism. Malinowski’s version of Functionalism is more psychologically linked‚ and focuses on his idea that people have psychological and physical needs‚ and hence social institutions develop in order to meet these needs. Malinowski divides these needs into seven

    Premium Anthropology

    • 933 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    ’the other world‚’ the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization‚ a place where man’s vaunted intelligence and refinement are finally mocked by triumphant bestiality...it is not the differentness that worries Conrad but the lurking hint of kinship‚ of common ancestry. For the Thames too ’has been one of the dark places of the earth.’ It conquered its darkness‚ of course‚ and is now in daylight and at peace. But if it were to visit its primordial relative‚ the Congo‚ it would run the terrible

    Premium

    • 986 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    primarily seen in three main locations: Hrothgar’s hall‚ Grendel’s mere‚ and the dragon’s lair. When a king was crowned in Anglo-Saxon times‚ his responsibilities included‚ among other things‚ providing a mead-hall. The mead-hall was central to kinship and was often what brought a community together. When King Hrothgar built Heorot for his people‚ he intended it “to be a wonder of the world forever” (Beowulf line 70). Victor Chica wrote in “Home is Where the Heorot is” that Heorot has a dual purpose;

    Premium Beowulf William Butler Yeats

    • 939 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Cognitive Theory

    • 4064 Words
    • 17 Pages

    Cognitive Anthropology Tara Robertson and Duke Beasley (Note: authorship is arranged stratigraphically with the most recent author listed first) Basic Premises: Cognitive anthropology is an idealist approach to studying the human condition. The field of cognitive anthropology focuses on the study of the relation between human culture and human thought. In contrast with some earlier anthropological approaches to culture‚ cultures are not regarded as material phenomena‚ but rather cognitive organizations

    Premium Anthropology Culture Cultural anthropology

    • 4064 Words
    • 17 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Culture: Differences Make the World Go Round ANT101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor: Wendell Johnson Culture is what defines a person; it is the way in which he or she behaves‚ what he or she believes‚ and what sets one apart from the rest of the world. It is the beauty‚ difference‚ and intelligence that at times require study to understand‚ but is an acceptable way of life for those born into that particular society. Because the United States believes itself to be the epitome

    Premium Family Igbo people Marriage

    • 1010 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Cited: 1. A Man Called “Bee”: Studying The Yanomamo‚ by Asch Timothy and Chagnon Napoleon‚ in Yanomamo (Documentary Education Resources (DER)‚ 1974) 2. Fox‚ Robin. 1979. Kinship Categories. Evolutionary Biology and Social Behavior: Anthropological Perspective. William Irons‚ Pp. 132-144. North Scituate‚ MA: Duxbury Press.

    Premium Anthropology Cultural anthropology Sociology

    • 920 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Kenya Chappell Professor Emily Dean Anthropology 1010 Nov 3rd‚ 2012 Ethnographic Comparison For this paper I chose along with the ethnography of !Nisa‚ to write about the Family‚ Marriage and Kinship ties of Indian culture specifically of the village of Ratakote as told in Conformity and Conflict. The first thing I noticed about both cultures was they practiced arranged marriages with their children preferably being young (the Indians explained that young age was best so their children wouldn’t

    Premium Marriage

    • 945 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    life on the reservation‚ providing a rural environment that reflects how many people in that culture are living during that time. The film follows two boys‚ Victor and Thomas; both confront several lessons on living in poverty on Indian land‚ family kinship dealing the effects of alcoholism‚ American society and society’s feelings towards the Native American people. The

    Premium Alcoholism Addiction Drug addiction

    • 946 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 50