Amanda hamner | Australian Aborigines and their Complex Kinship | Introduction into Cultural Anthropology | | Kathryn Grant | 6/11/2012 | | Australian Aborigines and their Complex Kinship Aborigines have a complex system in relation to their social and marriage laws‚ based on the grouping of people within their society. To understand the complexities of their social organization‚ consider it this way: divide it first into three main parts. The first part is the physical structuring
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Kinship Systems: Inuit of the artic Dorothy Young ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Christopher Deere December 16‚ 2011 Kinship Systems: Inuit of the Artic The Inuit people have adapted quite well living in the extreme cold of the artic. They live in the artic area of native North America. Commonly called “Eskimo”‚ their territory extends more than five thousand miles along the Arctic Circle from Russia‚ Alaska‚ and northern Canada to Greenland. They are a people who have
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Kinship as a Mechanism for Social Integrating Joey Rahimi It is often demonstrated in many anthropological studies that kinship acts as an important means for social integrating in a given society. But is it a fair generalization to say that kinship always functions as a mechanism for social integration? Kinship refers to the relationships established through marriage or descent groups that has been proven in some societies to lead to social integrating‚ or the process of interaction with other
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The Meaning of Kinship Terms’ ANTHONY I . C. WALLACE ANI) JOHN A T K I N S ; Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute and University of Pennsylvania INTRODUCTION H E meaning of kinship terms in foreign languages (or in English‚ for that matter) has traditionally been rendered by English-speaking ethnologists by a simple and direct procedure: each term is matched with a primitive English term (e.g.‚ “mother”)‚ with a relative product of two or more primitive English terms (e.g.‚ “mother’s
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FLASHCARD DATA FOR NATURE OF KINSHIP Topic 1: Overview | 1. |The term for culturally defined relationships between individuals who are commonly thought of as having |kinship | | |family ties. | | | 2. |The general term for socially recognized links between ancestors and descendants.
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explaining the concept of kinship in Africa‚ the differences and similarities between patrilineal and matrilineal families systems. Kinship is the web of relationships woven by family and marriage. Traditional relations of kinship have affected the lives of African people and ethnic groups by determining what land they could farm‚ whom they could marry‚ and their status in their communities. Although different cultures have recognized various kinds of kinship‚ traditional kinship generally means much
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Bibliography: * Mizoram: Society and Polity (1996) – C. Nunthara. * Kinship system of the Lushai (1960) – B.B. Goswami. * Changing family structure among the Mizos in Mizoram: A study in Aizawl District – P.C. Lalawmpuia. * Culture and folklore of Mizoram – B. Lalthangliana. * www.mizoram.nic.in * www.wikipedia.com
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The San Kinship System and Its Impact Upon San Culture Terry Barnes ANT 101 Prof. Colin Garretson November 29‚ 2012 The San Kinship System and the It’s Impact upon San Culture The San Culture is interesting‚ and its kinship bbehaviors are varied. In this paper‚ I will first share information about the hunters and gathers know as the San or Bushman who live in the of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa. Second‚ I will Identify and describe their kinship system‚ briefly describe
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still sharing the same social and ideological features. It is very difficult to trace back the origins of Kalapalo life because of the integration of the many different and culturally diverse groups in the Upper Xingu Basin. So‚ many of systems of kinship classification‚ marriage practices‚ ceremonial organizations‚ status allocation‚ and religious beliefs are consistent with cultural rules and social practices and not with the original system. Many of the modern local groups can only reconstruct their
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various citations retrieved from several creditable ethnographic research journal articles and books‚ Primarily‚ ethnography writings are based in part as an emic view of collected data on a society’s tradition’s‚ beliefs‚ values‚ and their kinship structure. Furthermore‚ in the studies of cultural anthropology‚ it is a known fact that every civilization consist of an organized system which is the platform for their mode of subsistence. In my research paper I will focuses on three
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