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    family is broken down into two things the first is there is economic cooperation and the second is there is nurturing and enculturation of children (Gonzalez 2015). The idea of family encompasses many different types of kinship systems. I interviewed Grishma Desai about her own kinship system. Based on her family of orientation her father

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    Ruffin‚ W (2009)‚ Kindship Care: Grandparents and Relatives as Parents. Retrieved on April 7‚ 2010 from http://www.aces.edu/urban/FamilyWebsite/grgfeature.html Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Feature Article Kinship Care: Grandparents and Relatives as Parents By: Dr. Wilma J. Ruffin‚ Family & Human Development Specialist Many grandparents in the United States (US) are finding grandparenthood different from what they expected. Instead of the occasional visits from their grandchildren

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    Even the ancestors are compared to ensure no mixing of blood occurs. The entire process is thorough and selective. The family chosen will become part of the lineage‚ a good one must be chosen for the sake of the child and the family. American kinship greatly differs from its Indian counterpart. While Americans are neolocal‚ Indians are patrilocal. Indian marriages are commonly arranged‚ further solidifying the

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    horticulture‚ and hunting to subsist. 4. How are villages organized by kinship? Internally? Between villages? The Yanamami live in small-scale‚ kin-based communities. Each village seems to be relatively autonomous politically‚ with its own headman who leads groups of people and develops a consensus. There is no chief or other political authority that unites more than one village or the society as a whole. 5. How does kinship shape other

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    Fars‚ South Persia. The Basseri kinship is very banned together through migration and social organization are very important to the tribe. Sickness and healing is important for the nomadic movement. A. Although‚ the Basseri tribe of Iran are nomadic pastoralists the Basseri tribe travels on a set schedule through agriculture and migration and are banded through kinship‚ sickness & healing and social organization. II. In the Basseri tribe usually kinship requires a great deal of social

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    Non-related Foster Care and Kinship Foster Care. 1 in 4 foster care children are placed in kinship programs‚ whereas 48% of children go into non-related foster care. A kinship program helps to connect children with a family member whether by blood‚ marriage‚ or adoption. A benefit for a child that goes into a kinship program is that it keeps the child in a normal environment and is less upsetting to their routines‚ and most of all‚ they have better outcomes when placed with family. Kinship programs can keep

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    How does the process of dispossession affect Aboriginal people? In your response mention land‚ kinship groups and the Stolen Generation The dispossession of Aboriginal land had a damaging impact on the indigenous peoples in post 1945 Australia. Throughout Aboriginal history‚ land‚ spirituality and kinship have been inextricably linked. The dispossession from land and kinship has had a devastating impact on the stolen generation in that it took away their culture and spirituality. Dispossession

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    dreaming -Kinship-Ceremonial Life -Obligations to the land and peopleAboriginal spirituality is determined by the kinship because kinship is the fabric of traditional aborigional society. In this extended family everybody is related through the complex web of the dreaming.Tribes are made up of clans decended from a spirit ancestor denoted by a totem. The natural totem is from the clans region. It unifies the clan under the leadership of the spirit ancestor‚ creating a dreaming kinship with other

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    Dreaming‚ with all aspects of Aboriginal kinship‚ ceremonial rites and obligations to the land having been derived from the Dreaming. Accordingly‚ all knowledge and understanding in Aboriginal societies are predicated on the Dreaming.

 Notions of kinship are an important element of Aboriginal Spirituality and determine an individual’s place within the community. Hence‚ Aboriginal people are bound together in relationships of sharing and obligation. Kinship ties also assign the responsibility of transmitting

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    1.2 An overview of Vietnamese spoken language Le (2013) cites Huynh (1987) who argues that the Vietnamese language has three mutually intelligible dialects‚ namely Southern‚ Central and Northern with distinctive phonetic differences. Although these dialects vary in tone and pronunciation‚ they do not prevent Vietnamese people from understanding each other in communication. Le (2013) argues that spoken Vietnamese has a long history‚ which is considered to have existed since the fourth century BC.

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