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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The jungle of Papua New Guinea‚ or PNG‚ is so dense it would take a healthy man with a machete a week to travel three miles. It took Dylan Barstow’s grandfather two weeks to be found by villagers after an airplane crash by the Sepik River‚ on the north side of PNG. His grandfather‚ in Jungle of Bones by Ben Mikaelsen‚ was flying an aerial missions in WWII when he and the crew of the bomber Second Ace crashed. Dylan and his Uncle‚ Todd‚ have set off on an expedition to find the wreckage of the plane
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The Forest People The forest people is referring to the pygmies of Africa. They live simple yet‚ complex lives. We might view them as less complex because of how small their population is. However they have rules and ways to achieve higher status than others. This book gives a great account from an anthropologist of what these people were like in the 1950s. It is important to remember that the pygmies in the Inturi forest might be living completely different lives. This book is only a snapshot of
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In Colin M. Turnbull’s book The Forest People there were many examples of theoretical approaches that he describes that the Pygmies use to maintain there social order. One of the elements that I noticed the most was interpretive or symbolic anthropology. In this book‚ Turnbull showed that in Pygmy society your social status and economic well-being are heavily dependent on the acceptance and respect you receive from other members of the community. Turnbull used interpretive/ symbolic anthropology
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Deep in the emerald forests of central Africa live the BaMbuti‚ a Pygmy race having their own unique way of life and culture. This way of life and culture is intricately patterned by their habitat: the Ituri Forest itself. In the 1950s anthropologist Colin Turnbull visited the BaMbuti of the Ituri Forest. He lived among them and did extensive fieldwork which he describes in his book The Forest people. What Turnbull discovered above all else is that the BaMbuti are a people who live by the forest
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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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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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