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    Ngwudike English 104 03-05-2013 Commercializing Christmas The season of love and giving hit the shopping malls on Black Friday; the stores fill with the latest gifts and the bargain shoppers begin the hunt for the perfect Christmas gift. Americans across the country mark this season‚ senselessly “buying” love for one another‚ while simultaneously degrading the very spirit of the holiday season: love. Thus‚ as the bells toll for the Christmas cheer‚ the deepening greed of our culture begins

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    The !Kung San of the Kalahari Desert Kinship Organizations Freddy B. Jerez ANT101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Lecia Sims August 14‚ 2011 From the beginning of human history people have lived as foragers. Foragers are a cultural society that depends on the gathering of food. The women are the primary food gathers which will allocate 80% of wild foods and the men will hunt and fish gathering the another 20% in meat; for the diet. Nowak‚ B. & Laird‚ P.‚ 2010. The women keep

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    I liked the cement mixer and played with it as much as or more than I played with the other toy vehicles I owned. At some point‚ several weeks or months after Christmas‚ however‚ my biological parents led me to believe that it was a magic and/or highly unusual cement mixer. Probably my mother told me this in a moment of adult boredom or whimsy‚ and then my father came home from work and joined in‚ also in a whimsical way. The magic—which my mother likely reported to me from her vantage on our living

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    A Christmas Carol By: Charles Dickens Many memories run through Scrooge’s head on Christmas Eve. He is always cranky and never appreciates anything. Ever since his partner Jacob Marley past away he turned into a mean bitter old man. He is so mean that if Bob Cratchit wants money he will have to work on Christmas day. For being that way Bob pays a little visit saying that 3 ghosts will visit him to teach him a listen. The first is Ghost of Christmas Past and he shows him how lonely he

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    Using research (eating Christmas in the Kalahari) explain how social actors give meanings to their actions through social interactions. Also consider how this can lead to cultural misunderstanding. In ‘Eating Christmas in the Kalahari’ Richard Lee kills an Ox for Christmas dinner. Richard kills a big ox for the tribe to eat on Christmas but instead of being greeted with the tribe saying well done for killing such a big ox like he clearly expects he is greeted with tribesmen telling him that the

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    Christmas is celebrated differently around the world. I’m going to compare my Christmas holiday traditions to French holiday traditions. The holiday tradition for christmas in my family starts on Christmas eve‚ since I have little brother and sisters we bake cookies for santa and set the milk out and we even put reindoor food out! (It’s glitter and trail mix) When me and my siblings have finally fell asleep‚ my parents put out nthe gifts they don’t wrap the ones from santa so it looks more realistic

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    The San (“Bushmen”) of the Kalahari Desert Angela Krantz ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Professor Michael King October 17‚ 2012 I have chosen to identify and describe the kinship system of the San (“Bushmen”) of the Kalahari. The San‚ as well as other cultures have a cultural rule‚ or descent that defines what category they are in socially. This descent originates from the parent and passes on to the child. There are two types of descents‚ unilineal and bilateral

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    Winston Churchill once said‚ “Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” As the big day draws near‚ it is important to reflect on the roots of the global holiday as well as the direction in which it is heading. Christmas is a tradition rooted deep in the history of western society. It has undergone many changes since it’s earliest celebrations. Even today‚ the holiday is constantly changing. Each year brings new innovations to Christmas. In the dawn of the holiday‚ it was minor

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    Literature “The Origins of ChristmasChristmas is a holiday celebrated by members of the religion of Christianity. The holiday acknowledges the birth of the Christian prophet Jesus Christ. It is celebrated on December 25th by an estimated two billion members of the Christian religion. The holiday is also celebrated by many non-Christians‚ who highlight the secular aspects of the holiday. Many of the symbols‚ traditions‚ and rituals widely attributed to Christmas have been discovered by scholars

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