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    Inuit People

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    as one of the harshest environments known to mankind. The majority of the Inuit people live in camps along the coastline and no doubt had to adapt to their environment or face extension. They are made up of various social groups with a bilateral kinship system that provides the Inuit’s’ with a flexible social structure. Imagine living in an environment that maintains sub zero temperatures almost year around‚ has extended periods of darkness and daylight‚ and having no wood for cooking food or shelter

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    I. Introduction In this paper I will give you information on who the Basseri are‚ how they live‚ how their kinship system‚ their political organization works‚ and I will tell you about their sickness and healing rituals. Before 1957 little was known about the Basseri of Iran. We now know about their kinship system‚ their political organization‚ their sickness and healing rituals and much more. II. This is how and where the Basseri live. The Basseri are pastoralist nomads. In the late 1950’s

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    African culture

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    ancestors have passed down‚ to an overall guide of how to live an everyday life until one dies. It is proven that relationships can exists between the members of two different societies. There are Seven institutionalized societal relations and they are Kinship‚ Alliance‚ Government‚ Inequality and Equality‚ Feudality‚ Association‚ and Exchange of Goods. These roles are a guide of a superiority and inferiority statuses. Chapter 2 This chapter opens into the topic of “Power.” Power is an important key

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    The Iroquois

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    Iroquois Vonda Matthews Cultural Anthropology July 7‚ 2013 Instructor: Rebekah Zinser Kinship is the cornerstone for how people within a society relate to others and race lineages. Many societies trace their lineage through the father‚ which is called patrilineal‚ or through the mother which is called matrilineal. The Iroquois nation traced their kinship through the matrilineal decent lines. Kinship directly relates to how family groups think‚ act and live along side each other. The culture

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    The Forest People

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    Itori forest. Although they do have knowledge of lineage‚ the Mbuti do not practice any recognized type of kinship patterns in their social organization (Mosko 1987). There are recognitions of kinship in some practices; for instance‚ in rules of exogamous marriage‚ or when setting up camp. The huts are laid out according to patrilineage‚ for mutual support‚ but no acknowledgement of kinship is given (Mosko‚ 1987). The Itori‚ for as much as five months out of the year‚ does not provide the fruits

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    Biography of Irawati Karve

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    IRAWATI KARVE Early Life: Irawati was born in 1905 and named after the river Irawaddy in Burma where her father‚ Ganesh Hari Karmarkar worked. At seven‚ she was sent to the Huzur Paga boarding school for girls in Pune. One of her classmates at the school was Shakuntala Paranjapye‚ daughter of Wrangler Paranjapye‚ Principal of Fergusson College‚ Pune. Shakuntala’s mother took an instant liking to Irawati and adopted her as her second child. In her new home‚ Irawati experienced a stimulating

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    Culture and Society ANTHRO 9 Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:45 A.M. Room: Haines 39 (in basement-A level) Final Exam date: March 18 (Tuesday): 3-6P.M. Instructor Prof. Mariko Tamanoi Email: mtamanoi@anthro.ucla.edu Office: Haines 325 Phone: 310-206-8399 Office hours: Tuesdays 11:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. FIRST and MOST IMPORTANT: READ THIS SYLLABUS CAREFULLY TO THE END! Section Leaders Bradley Cardozo: bcardozo@ucla.edu Camille Frazier: c.frazier@ucla.edu Emily

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    Falling into the Lesbi World holds more relevance to the anthropology of gender than simply pointing out a flaw in another academic’s work. For Blackwood‚ this piece is also‚ to some extent‚ an extension of her work on the understanding of kinship amongst Minangkabau. In her previous work on the matrilineal nature of the Minangkabau‚ Blackwood established the importance of the mother-daughter relationship (2005‚ 12-3)‚ so in this ethnography when she examines the relationship between tombois and

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    This gesture gives a powerful message in favour of consolidating the kinship bond. God asked the Prophet to inform humanity‚ ’No reward do I ask of you‚ except the love of those near of kin’. To describe the wider group of extended relatives the Quran uses the term ’arhaam’‚ plural of ’rahm’‚ that means womb. It metaphorically describes all the relatives by blood and marriage. This and other related terms‚ qurbah meaning kinship and its derivatives‚ have been used in the scripture at 22 places.

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    choice to study the Yanomamo‚ despite their hesitancy to cooperate‚ a wise and ethical one? Chagnon spent his first five months collecting what he thought was an intricate and elaborate table of genealogical information‚ marriage relationships‚ and kinships within the Yanomamo village of Bisaasi-teri. He knew from the beginning that it would be difficult to obtain the actual names of the tribesmen because it is a symbol of honor‚ respect‚ dignity‚ and political admiration. The less your name was spoken

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