gift honours both the giver and recipient resulting in a long lasting friendship with exchanges that strengthen the relationship. If a dispute should arise‚ gifts are used to ameliorate friendships. In addition to its economic redistributive and kinship functions‚ the potlatch maintains community solidarity and hierarchical relations within and between individual bands and nations. In this respect‚ the potlatch does not simply mark or create ethnic boundaries but attempts to subvert them.
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In the documentary Grizzly Man we can see that the two film makers‚ Timothy Treadwell‚ and Werner Herzong both had a different purpose in the making of this film. For Timothy Treadwell his purpose was to show the audience the bond between man and grizzlies but for Werner Herzong his purpose of the film was to show the horrifying truth of a man and nature. Throughout Treadwell’s footage we can see that he felt a strong connection towards the grizzlies so much so that he spent 13 summers
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Sister’s Kinship Corrie and Betsie Ten Boom are two of the main characters of the book The Hiding Place‚ which talks about a courageous family that helped the Jews to escape during the nazi holocaust in the middle of the second world war. While Corrie and Betsie are both middle-aged‚ Christian sisters‚ they are different in many ways such as sense of fashion and abilities. Betsie was a courageous‚ kind‚ faithful‚ Christian woman. She had suffered from anemia since she was a baby‚ and because of that
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FAMILY George Peter Murdock (Social Structure 250 societies) “A social group characterised by common residence‚ economic co-operation and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes‚ at least two of whom maintain socially approved sexual relationship‚ and one or more children‚ own or adopted of the sexually co-habiting adults”. The family thus lives together‚ puts resources and produces offspring. Nuclear family is the smallest group. Extended family is Nuclear family plus vertical
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Sex in Today’s Culture The changes in society’s attitudes to love‚ sex and marriage in the last few decades requires one to look at the Christian idea of marriage‚ and to see if the Bible’s teaching can still hold power. One fundamental question that must be revisited concerns what it actually is that constitutes a marriage. Should it be defined as a sexual union‚ or as a covenant? If it is a sexual union‚ does sex carry responsibilities‚ even if no covenant has been made? If it is a covenant
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3. Investigating Hierarchy from Below During my dissertation fieldwork‚ staying in two villages of different ranks broadened my experience with hierarchy and knowledge. As Traube (1989) argued‚ the form of cosmogonic knowledge is encompassing‚ rooted‚ comprehensive at the “trunk‚” or the source of hierarchy‚ but remains fragmented‚ partial and shallow at the tips. In Yap‚ the sociology of knowledge takes a slightly different form. Indeed‚ those who grew up in higher-ranking tabinaw are savvier with
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Course Project Milestone 2 Interview Guide and Questions Form This is a form to record your information for this assignment. Review the Course Project Milestone 2: Interviewee Guide and Questions guidelines and grading rubric in Doc Sharing (Assignments) prior to completing this form. Review the document in Doc Sharing entitled‚ NR391 Question Tips. Refer to Appendix A in your text and select five categories upon which you will concentrate for your interview guide and questions. Type your
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official‚ the beggar ‚ the thief ‚ the old spinster can get married. Gay‚ however‚ cannot. marriage is the last process and expression of love. Traditionally‚ marriage is an institution and promise about a man and a woman to live forever and form a kinship under the law. Our city – Hong Kong thinks homosexuality is unacceptable. Homosexuality can be classified into two categories: gay and lesbian which a man loves a man and a woman loves a woman respectively. It is a sexual orientation that one can
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Theories from the late 19th to 20th century has shaped modern day anthropology. Two leading anthropologists that have changed the way one interprets culture and people is Bronislaw Malinowski and Clifford Geertz‚ respectively. Both established their own theories and interpretations in anthropology that has been used and criticized. According to “A History of Anthropology” by Thomas Eriksen and Finn Nielsen‚ Malinowski was one of the four founding fathers of twentieth century anthropology‚ influencing
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Argumentum ad logicam: arguing that because an argument contains a logical fallacy the argument in its entirety must therefore be discarded. Example: The opposing argument contains an appeal to emotion (pathos)‚ the author criticises the opponent’s use of pathos as though it constitutes the bulk of the argument‚ positioning the reader to feel indignant about being manipulated by the opposition‚ and to feel that they can disregard the opponent’s argument in its entirety since it is evidently based
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