The Moso (or the Mosuo)‚ also known as the Na to themselves‚ are a small ethnic group‚ with population of around 40000‚ mainly living in Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in China. It is interesting that the most distinct characteristic of the Moso is their unique matrilineal system‚ compared to other ethnic groups‚ dominated by patrilineality‚ in China. When men dominance and women subordination exist in Chinese patrilineal system‚ it is supposed that there would be an inversed gender inequality in matrilineal
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Becky Jagiello 10/27/2012 Cult & Civ I Br. Hannon Section 4 Class I.D. #14 The Algonkian People The Algonkian people lived in southern New England in the seventeenth century. They lived a life that combined aspects of Paleolithic hunting and gathering with Neolithic agriculture. Obtaining their basic nutrition of life through these methods led to particular economic‚ social and gender relations. These people produced crops in addition to the abundant natural supplies of their territories
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Kinship of the Inuit Culture Ashford University ANT 101 Instructor: Jessie Cohen October 18‚ 2011 Kinship of the Inuit Culture Kinship‚ the relationship between individuals‚ is a cultural universal that is shared by all. These relationships are defined through marriage‚ descent‚ or other cultural arrangements. Kinship helps to establish how “people classify each other‚ the rules that affect people ’s behavior and people ’s actual behavior” (Nowak & Laird‚ 2010‚ sec 4.5). Kinship
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Kinship is traced matrilineally in Mosuo society by The Mosuo are a small community living around Republic of China. But many Mosuo people commemorate an matrilineal culture‚ by tracing ancestry through the female side of the genealogy. Matrilineality is the discover of descent through the female family line. It may also matches with a society system in which each person is recognized with their mother’s ancestry which can involve the legacy of property or titles. Matrilineal descent from a
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ABSTRACT Political Dynasty in the Philippines especially in Makati City is evident since the reigning time of Cory Aquino when she assigned the Binay family in that area. The study of Political Dynasty in an area is beneficial to Filipinos because the knowledge and evidence of this topic could enlighten them. In Makati City‚ it is evident that political dynasty is present because of the positive and negative effects of political dynasty that were agreed by the respondents. Results show that the residence
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Anthro 201-Intro to Social Anthropology Prof. Ward‚ Fall 2013 Study Questions: Anthropology & Contemporary Human Problems 6th Edition by John H. Bodley Chapter 1: Anthropological Perspectives on Contemporary Human Problems 1. Who is Franz Boas? What does this quote mean? What problems confront us today? 2. What do we mean by ‘progress’? Is human cultural evolution progress? 3. What human system of adaptation do we live in today? 4. What changes in our society have dramatically
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years the Azande have adopt to the new century shifting their ways of living. We will discuss 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
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social systems‚ habits of Chinese and English address terms are different. It is of great help for English language learners to communicate with understanding these differences. In this dissertation‚ address terms are divided into the name address‚ kinship terms‚ social address and reference terms. Chinese address terms system is complex and detailed‚ and includes hundreds of address terms. While English address terms system is relatively simple‚ general‚ and ambiguous and with a high degree of generality
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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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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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