The San Kinship System and Its Impact Upon San Culture Terry Barnes ANT 101 Prof. Colin Garretson November 29‚ 2012 The San Kinship System and the It’s Impact upon San Culture The San Culture is interesting‚ and its kinship bbehaviors are varied. In this paper‚ I will first share information about the hunters and gathers know as the San or Bushman who live in the of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa. Second‚ I will Identify and describe their kinship system‚ briefly describe
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Kinship systems in Foraging and Horticultural based societies provide support for people in all stages of their life. Address the following in a two- to three-page paper: a. Identify and describe the kinship system of one of the cultures listed below. These cultures are found in Chapters 3 and 4 of Cultural Anthropology. o Australian Aborigines o Btsisi o Inuit of the Artic o Iroquois o San o Yanomamo b. Briefly describe the culture
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still sharing the same social and ideological features. It is very difficult to trace back the origins of Kalapalo life because of the integration of the many different and culturally diverse groups in the Upper Xingu Basin. So‚ many of systems of kinship classification‚ marriage practices‚ ceremonial organizations‚ status allocation‚ and religious beliefs are consistent with cultural rules and social practices and not with the original system. Many of the modern local groups can only reconstruct their
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various citations retrieved from several creditable ethnographic research journal articles and books‚ Primarily‚ ethnography writings are based in part as an emic view of collected data on a society’s tradition’s‚ beliefs‚ values‚ and their kinship structure. Furthermore‚ in the studies of cultural anthropology‚ it is a known fact that every civilization consist of an organized system which is the platform for their mode of subsistence. In my research paper I will focuses on three
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Yanomamo Yanomamo people are of Central Brazil and the oldest example of the pre-Columbian forest footmen. The Yanomamo had very little contact with the outside world until the 1980 ’s. The Yanomamo language consists of a variety of dialect‚ but no real written language. Although they have no written language‚ the Yanomamo possess a large vocabulary and possess "oral literature." This makes it hard for them to keep a record of their history because of their lack of writing.
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Enculturation term anthropologists and psychologists use to descrive the deveopement‚ through the direct and indirect influence of parents and others‚ of children;s patterns of begavior socialization same as enculturation compatibility-‐with-‐child-‐ care theory Womens tasks have traditionally been those that do not remove the woman from the household due to taks only woman can perform for children (breast feeding for 2 or more years) economy of effort theory if effort is expended
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Kinship That Matters Since the inception of anthropology in the second half of the 19th century‚ kinship has been its buzzword. Scholars have studied kinship systems of distant cultures and proposed many definitions of it‚ yet‚ up to now there is no satisfactory definition that everyone would agree on. Moreover‚ being focused on studying and analyzing “others”‚ anthropologists turned their attention to themselves and to the “Western”1 world not so long ago—thus‚ a great deal of inquiries into the
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What is Family : In human context‚ a family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity‚ affinity‚ or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children. Anthropologists most generally classify family organization as matrilocal (a mother and her children); conjugal (a husband‚ his wife‚ and children; also called nuclear family); and consanguineal (also called an extended family) in which parents and children co-reside with
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Part 1 Marshall Sahlins is one of the most prominent American anthropologists of our time. He holds the title of Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago where he presently teaches. Marshall Sahlins’‚ The Use and Abuse of Biology‚ is an excellent text‚ which attacks both the logical errors of sociobiology and its ideological distortions. His work focuses on demonstrating the power that culture has to shape people’s perceptions and actions
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sought to orient my ethnographic researches. The results of some exploratory work toward this end have already been published.’ Included among them is an analysis of Truk kinship terminology‚ in which it proved possible to apply some of the principles of linguistic analysis to the problem of deriving the significata2 of kinship terms and of determining which terms went together in what I called semantic systems. I am taking up this material again in order to present a fuller discussion of the method
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