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    Contents 1. Key Information 3 2. Introduction to the Module 3 3. Intended Learning Outcomes 4 4. Outline Delivery 5 4.1 Attendance Requirements 6 5. Assessment 11 6. How is My Work Marked? 12 7. Assessment Criteria and Marking Standards 15 8. Assessment Offences 17 9. Learning Resources 19 9.1. Library 19 9.2. Other Resources 20 10. Module Evaluation 21 11. Report on Last Delivery of Module 21 1. Key Information Module/Unit title: Comparing

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    Bibliography: Barnard‚ A. 2000. History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: CUP. Barnard‚ A.‚ and Good‚ A. 1984. Research Practices in the Study of Kinship. London: Academic Press. Barnes‚ J. 1971. Three Styles in the Study of Kinship. London: Butler & Tanner. Holy‚ L. 1996. Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship. London: Pluto Press. Kuper‚ A. 1988. The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion. London: Routledge. Kuper‚ A. 1996. Anthropology and Anthropologists

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    Though they do not have all of the technology that we take for granted‚ they live richer lives than many non-Amish people. because gender relations are accepted amongst others in the community‚ they have strong beliefs‚ traditions and values‚ and kinship is important. In the Amish community‚ they rely heavily on their agriculture as a mode of subsistence. This is known as being an agrarian society. Though they have other means of sustenance‚ they recognize the importance of agriculture to the

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    attainment. The different parts of society need to be integrated together in order to pursue shared goals‚ this is performed by the sub-system of religion‚ education and the media. Finally‚ Latency; refers to processes that maintain society over time. The kinship sub-system provides pattern maintenance (socialising individuals to go on performing the roles society requires.) the four sub-systems ensure that society’s needs are met and social stability is maintained. However‚ Merton argues that complex modern

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    THE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY Week 1 Experience of family in the Jamaican context and impact of family structures and patterns on community development WHAT IS A FAMILY? A Family is: “a kinship unit‚ essentially of primary kin of the household head‚ but it allows for extension‚ either patrilineal or matrilineal.” (UNESCO‚ 1992) There are times when they do not share the same residence but the family still exists as a Unit WHAT IS A HOUSEHOLD? A household is: “a commensal (share the same food

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    inability to look inside while distracted by the beauty of the outdoors highlights that her movement from the inside to the outside furthers her development from isolation. In addition‚ the proposal scene between Rochester and Jane evokes the latter’s kinship with the moon. As he proposes to Jane‚ Rochester calls her “ ‘You–you strange‚ you almost unearthly thing!...’ ” (229). Just like the moon she praises‚ Jane is also of beyond the earth. Brontë links Jane to a personified celestial object; thus‚ she

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    Foreman 0 DUKE UNIVERSITY Durham‚ North Carolina From Status to Contract: Domesticating Modernity in Wuthering Heights‚ The Mill on the Floss and Dracula Violeta Solonova Foreman March‚ 2011 Undergraduate Critical Honors Thesis Trinity College of Arts and Sciences English Department Foreman 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My deepest thanks to my thesis advisor‚ Professor Psomiades for her dedication‚ insight‚ positivity‚ encouragement‚ and inspiration. Also‚ thank you to loved ones for

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    relativism‚ structuralism and post-structuralism; and recent interpretive and postmodernist viewpoints. al a n b a r n ar d is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. His previous books include Research Practices in the Study of Kinship (with Anthony Good‚ 1984)‚ Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa (1992)‚ and‚ edited with Jonathan Spencer‚ Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology (1996). MMMM History and Theory in Anthropology Alan Barnard University of Edinburgh

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    Ferdinand and her mother Queen Isabel of Aragon‚ Spain. They talked to King Henry VII of England. A treaty was made‚ despite the age being a faithless one and Ferdinand he never kept an oath an hour longer than it suited him; but mutual interests by kinship might hold sovereigns together against a common opponent. The children of Ferdinand and Isabel were all made political counters in their father’s great marriage league. The eldest daughter was married to the heir of Portugal; their only son married

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    Culture:- Culture is one of the most important concepts of social science. It is a unique possession of man. Only man in born and brought up in a cultural environment. It is a very broad term that includes in itself all our works of life‚our modes of behavior‚our philosophies and ethics‚ our morals‚ manners‚ our customs and traditions. Definitions:- 1.B.Malinowski defined culture “cumulative creation of man.” 2.Graham Wallas‚ culture as an accumulation of thoughts values and objects‚ it

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