Laura Vassalli 7118763 Professor Alison Brysk Global Studies 111 12 December 2012 HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN CONGO The conflict in Congo is one of the worst of our contemporary history in terms of casualties and human rights violations. Since the beginning of the civil war in 1996 about 5.400.000 million people died. “The wars in that country have claimed nearly the same number of lives as having a 9/11 every single day for 360 days‚ the genocide that struck Rwanda in 1994‚ the ethnic cleansing
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central African Mbuti or Bambuti tribe comprised an indigenous people who live within and on the border of the Congo basin rainforest in the Central African Republic of Congo. Their language falls into a classification of the Nilo-Saharan phylum. These groups of indigenous people‚ primarily settles in the Ituri forest. The forest is a component of a vast tropical rainforest within the Congo basin. This region receives higher precipitations each year‚ ranges between 50-70 inches amount of rain. The
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A Different Kind of Kinship Patricia F. Leavell ANT353: Anthropology of Gender Inst. Jeri Myers March 11‚ 2013 A Different Kind of Kinship Societies around the world have different ways of structuring their family units. Some are patrilineal and others‚ such as the Mosuo‚ are matrilineal in nature. This means that the family passes their inheritance down through the female line. In the Mosuo culture‚ they go one-step further than the passing of the inheritance in that the only males that
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contracted between two group of kin and persists beyond the lives of those actually married. i) Opposite sex based on a deep and abiding complementarity that extends beyond household decisions to include deeper spiritual matters. My Milk‚ My Blood: Kinship and Descent a) Once the baby is born‚ it continues to receive its mother’s blood‚ in the form of breast milk. b) Throughout the world the idea that individuals who share blood are bound to one another by powerful ties is the basis for domestic
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Kinship System of the Bushmen Dior McClelland ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Melissa Kirkendall June 25‚ 2012 For thousands of years the San people have inhabited southern Africa‚ foraging through the Kalahari Desert. The San also known as the Bushmen‚ but the word Bushmen can be affiliated with negativity‚ so they prefer to be called the San people. This paper will briefly explain the kinship system of the San people‚ provide three examples of how the kinship system impacted
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Australian Aborigines Carolyn Bennett ANT101 Lecia Sims 4/29/12 Aborigines 2 Introduction In the following pages I am going to try to identify and describe the kinship system and the habits and ways of the Australian Aborigines Aborigines 3 Australian Aboriginals The Australian Aborigines are a nomadic band of people that roam the outback of Australia. They walk for miles a day‚ rest at night
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Language Map Assignment –(Niger-Congo) I will be able to “read” a language map and identify divergence and convergence. Choose a LARGE language family or group from ONE of the following maps in the text: Africa‚ India‚ China Family: Niger-Congo family (Atlantic Subfamily‚ Voltaic Subfamily‚ Guinea Subfamily‚ Hausa Subfamily‚ Bantu Subfamily) Group: Niger- Congo group Languages: Niger-Congo language a) Location: Niger-Congo language group is in the West Africa (Liberia‚
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harmful effects within the Congo and their Natives. Introductory Section: During my brief introduction to the Congo‚ and reading the research of others based on conflict minerals‚ I began to wonder what other factors contribute and relate to this horrid reality within the heart of Africa and its effect on the young ones that live there. After taking some extensive notes and learning a little of the history of the Congo‚ I decided to focus my paper on the children of the Congo and surrounding countries
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Imperialism: These videos are portraying the truths about the Belgian imperialism in Congo. As indicated by the substance of these videos; the Belgian Congo is frequently referred to as a standout amongst the most brutal and exploitative provincial administrations in modern history. It remains as a great case of the remorselessness of European guideline in Africa for the purpose of economic increase. At first called the Congo Free State‚ the province remained an individual ownership of King Leopold II from
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Gender‚ Kinship and Marriage Introduction According to Kottak‚ Kinship or Kin groups are “social units whose members can be identified and whose residence patterns and activities can be observed”. A good example of this is a nuclear family which is the most prominent in state societies as well as foraging bands which we discussed previously. Gender (which I based) several questions on is defined by Kottak as “the cultural construction of sexual difference”. What Kottak is referring
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