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    Tribes in India

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    India’s tribal village first to get rights over its forests [pic] 24 December 2009   A tribal village in western India has been granted the right to cultivate and manage its forest‚ as per the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest-Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006. For over a decade the villagers have fought against the commercialisation of their land. As climate change negotiators try and figure out how to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest

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    Khasi Tribe

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    Khasi tribe is mainly found in the sate of Assam and the Khasi Jaintia hills in Meghalaya and in the states of Punjab‚ Uttar Pradesh‚ Manipur‚ West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir.Earlier the Khasis had their own kingdom‚ until the Britishers exercised control over them. The word Khasi find mention in the Shankradeva’s ’Baghavata Purana’‚ an Indo Aryan literature. The Khasi are an endogamous tribe who are divided into exogamous clans which are again subdivided into exogamous matrilocal families

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    Dinka Tribe

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    The Dinka are a tribe of people who are mainly located in over Sudan but they have spread themselves out all over the world in places like Kenya Uganda‚ Europe‚ and the United States. (Wiki _ Dinka people) They are a huge tribe and they carry 2-3 million people. They are spread out in tones of villages. Most villages of the Dinka tribe will range anywhere from 10‚000-30‚000 people. ("South Sudan." Britannica School.) They make up 17% of the African population‚ which is a huge amount. The Dinka have

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    The Mohawk Tribe

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    The Mohawk Tribe The Mohawk tribe resided around the Great Lakes and parts of what is now Canada and the state of New York also knows as the Mohawk Valley. Their territory spread among the south of The Mohawk river‚ and the westward border from the Oneida Nation’s territory‚ and eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont . They were one of the five tribes of the Iroquois Confederation‚ or League. The Mohawk tribe was the most easterly tribe of the Iroquois League.

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    The Nukak Tribe

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    The Indigenous Tribes of the Rainforest – The Nukak Tribe The Nukak Tribe is found in between the Guaviare and Inirida River in the Amazon basin. It is part of the Guaviare department‚ in the Republic of Colombia. Unlike any other tribe‚ the Nukak population is facing a severe threat to extinction. Their current numbers only lies around 400. Over half of their population were found dead or killed since they met in the Columbian civil war between the Columbian soldiers and gorillas. The out-side

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    the extremes to which human behhavior can go. He gives us the locations of the Nacirema‚their myth of origin and their market orientation. He introduces his topic ritual activity‚the main point of the article of which is the human body‚the way it looks and health. "The fundamental beliefunderlyinig the whole system appears to be that the human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility and disease." Nacirema people work hard ritually in order to fix these characteristics. As Miner goes

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    Sports Rituals

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    Sports Rituals Athletes use sports rituals in every sport in the world. They can be simple‚ something the person came up with just then on the spot‚ or they can be complex‚ something the player has been doing since they can remember. No one truly knows when sports rituals started to make an appearance in the modern world‚ but they are here now and do not seem to be leaving any time soon. Sports rituals mean so much. They get an athlete pumped or excited before a match. They help a person get focused

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    Ritual In Christianity

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    Ritual Ritual is a set of actions that usually have symbolic meaning. It mostly appeared in organizations with systematic structure‚ especially in religion. If others do not realize what is the meaning of the ritual they have seen‚ those actions will seem to be unreasonable and arbitrary. Sometimes‚ the forming of ritual could be chased through history. Almost all the rituals are used for ceremony. Let’s take Christianity as an example. There are two important rituals in Christianity

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    regarding things we may not understand. He introduces the Nacirema people for their “exotic customs”. Extreme behaviors in human aspects that have been either suspected or been imagined can be found in this tribe. A study done on them was conducted due to many unknown (pre-study) details regarding this tribe. The Nacirema culture views the human body is “ugly in its natural tendencies to debility and disease. The use of powerful rituals made in the shrines of homes are made to avert these diseases”

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    Family Rituals

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    My Family Rituals My family rituals derive from a culture that dates back before the beginning of modern civilization. The people I speak of are what our history books refer to as Ancient Mesopotamia; “The Cradle of Civilization”. The near extinction of its original inhabitants was as a result of war and religious crusade. Most recently of which was the Ottoman Empire’s massacre of the Christian living among them in 1914. My family is of the few survivors of such unfortunate events. Few people

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