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    Movie Report

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    Movie Report: Madea’s Family Reunion Sierra Hicks HDFS 2000 Summer 2013 Madea’s Family Reunion displayed examples of several themes and concepts that have been discussed in class thus far. The most obvious concepts were related to family. Although this movie focused on family‚ there were several ideas that dealt with aspects of love and marriage. There are three that caught my attention concerning family: types of family‚ how choices influence family‚ and strengths and challenges of African

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    Political Dynasty Outline

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    the landed‚ which then monopolized public office. The image of this government system was passed through the years‚ validating the Marcos regime‚ which is there silence of political kingdoms in the provinces. At present‚ the cultural importance of kinship affiliation explains the power and dominance of political

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    Nayar of India Outline

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    Jonathan Brooks 11FEB2013 Nayar of India There are different cultures in many places all over the world. The Nayar of India culture stood out to me from many others. The way they unite in marriage‚ heal sickness‚ their beliefs and values‚ and kinship took me by a great surprise. Their way of life is very unique. Growing up and living in a place such as America‚ where the cultures are similar in many ways makes me very interested in cultures such as theirs. In this research paper I plan to identify

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    Iroquois Kinship

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    Kinship of the Iroquois Christine Garcia ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Prof. Benjamin Wright March 12‚ 2012 KINSHIP OF THE IROQUOIS Kinship can best be defined as a system of social relationships‚ or in simpler terms a system of family. According to our text‚ “kinship involves how people classify each other‚ the rules that affect people’s behavior‚ and people’s actual behavior.” (Nowak and Laird‚ 2010‚ 4:5) Kinship can be seen in our everyday lives within our own circle

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    Canela Autosaved

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    The Canela have a kinship system that holds their society together‚ and how the unusual sex practices create satisfying bonds among the people. The Web of Kinship Consanguine and affinal kinship. In tribal worlds‚ Kinship is crucially important‚ far more than in in most expressions of Western Culture. The kinship shop system determines what kin and affine call each other and furnishes most of the social structure of a tribe. Kinship crates expectations of behavior that are

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    Mardu

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    hunting and gathering etc. The band was the basic economic group with a sexual division of labour and the emphasis on food sharing that together allowed more efficient resource exploitation. Important aspects of Mardu traditional culture relating to kinship‚ values and religion‚ retain their centrality. Religion. The Dreaming: That‚ what they believed in. The Dreaming is crucial because it is held to be the source of all power‚ released in the response of performance. (Source of new knowledge).

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    The descent system when kinship relationships are traced through males is called: a. Matrilineal b. Patrilineal c. Bilateral d. Parallel gendered 7. If persons inherit property from their mother’s side‚ but not their father’s side‚ the form of descent recognized in likely to be: a. Patrilineal b. Matrilineal c. Double d. Bilateral 8. Bilateral kindreds are: a. Ego focused b. Characteristic of a Filipino kinship c. Only identical

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    Essay On Hmong Families

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    Wisconsin. The Hmong are one of the newest groups of immigrants here in the United States and this specific group are refugees from Laos. The book takes a look at the details of their day to day lives. In this way we can get a better look into the Hmong kinship networks and communities. Women’s activities are also included within the study to show us the roles they play in family’s social and economic adaptation. This study helps us to see just how the Hmong see themselves adapting to this country and how

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    The Color of Family Ties

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    Rereading American. The essay‚ The Color of Family Ties‚ has carried on the comparison in the difference of race‚ class‚ gender and extended family involvement to Whites family‚ Blacks family and Latinos family to find their relationships between their kinships. The author has taken some data to describe the different behave of those three races to do with their kin. From the authors’ research we can see Blacks and Latinos more likely to live with kin or near kin and they contact each other more frequently

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    Vietnamese people list their family name first‚ then their middle name‚ and their first name listed last. First names are not passed down and names usually have meaning. Most names are able to be used for either gender. Each family member has a designated kinship term‚ which are used when family members address one another. The Vietnamese culture is more concerned with status‚ obtained with age and educational status‚ than with wealth. Education would likely be of most importance‚ followed by age‚ then wealth

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