Foragers - Hunting and food gathering people Animal domestication - The killing of animals for food Pastorialism - Way of life dependent on large herds of grazing livestock Matrilineal - Kinship with mother Patrilineal - Kinship with father Lineages - the holding of land by large kinship (blood relationship) units Megaliths - very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times Civilizations - Any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits
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into semantics. Foremost among European theorists of CA are linguists like Greimas‚ Pottier‚ Coseriu. In the US‚ CA appears to have developed independently. It was proposed by anthropologists‚ as a technique for describing the vocabulary of kinship terms in different languages. (See Goodenough (1963)‚ Lounsbury (1964)). Only later was it taken up and generalized by Nida (1964‚ 1975)‚ Weinreich (1963)‚ Katz and Fodor (1963)‚ Katz (1972)‚ a.o. 1.2. Main assumption: (1) The sense
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units from loving and existing. Savarese then links these cultural practices to the concept of privatization. I found it quite interesting how Savarese interweaved this larger societal issue in this paragraph. This seems to parallel the “Limiting Kinship” section in the Ginsburg and Rapp paper. Ginsburg and Rapp note‚ “the tendency to marginalize disability issues will continue…until the conditions of care are less privatized and the social fund of knowledge is increased”. This helped me understand
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steady nonviolent expansion of agricultural people moving 12-19 miles a generation which would repopulate Europe between 6500-3500 B.C. Farming communities organized around kinship and marriage Some scholars believe very ancient people trace descent through woman and may have been ruled by women Cultural Expressions Kinship systems influenced early agricultural people’s outlook on the world Religion of food producers reflected their awareness of their relationship to nature Religions of food
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Experiencing childhood in two unique cultures can be really tough particularly when you’re young. you feel the need to pick one and more often than not are compelled to act differently on account of who you hang around‚ but as you get older you begin to see the advantages of having two which permits you to pick and chose. I am Somali and grew up in a Somali household and my people with regards to family vary all that much from the traditional American family. family is very important to the Somali
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the idea that Christianity in this era was shifting from community faith to individualized religion. He believes that with the arrival of the Renaissance came the birth of the individual‚ and therefore naturally there was a movement away from the kinship and community aspect that had previously been seen in Christianity towards and personal salvation
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leave regarding the family unit‚ as such technologies can change the meaning of what family is‚ or what the norm of the family used to be. These also challenge fundamental categories about what is natural‚ the expected roles a person should carry‚ kinship problems‚ marriage problems and how it could be affected‚ childbirth. These bring about questions about what is ethical‚ what should be legal‚ and also other philosophical problems. The new reproductive technologies constitute a broad variety of technologies
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EXAM TIME: WEDNESDAY APRIL 30TH‚ FROM 2-5 PM IN THIS ROOM Second Exam Review Sheet Think about the two ethnographies we have read: Unity of Heart and In Search of Respect. How does each author go about writing their ethnography? How do they present the people they are studying? How do they place themselves into the ethnography? How does the cognatic descent system of the Nanumea reinforce their egalitarian culture? The cognatic system is an inheritance system that encourages people
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trade routes. Throughout post-classical Africa‚ the promotion of Islamic power took place through the mandation of the religion by local kinship rulers‚ the diffusion of religious art in overseas trade‚ and the importance of the economic relationship between Sudanic states in the expansion of Islam. The mandation and promotion of the religion by local kinship clans resulted in a rise of population in the Islamic faith throughout post-classical Africa. Islam offered many attractions such as equality
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After kinship‚ one of the most central ideas in anthropology is exchange. In societies without centralised states and systems of social control‚ exchange was often a key method for maintaining some sort of balance and political neutrality between communities. It was also a key method of ensuring the movement of desired commodities from one place to another and ensuring survival through the generations. In this lecture I look at two central anthropological thinkers in relation to aspects of exchange
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