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    other family structures are being used which suggests that the nuclear family is not the norm. For example‚ the Kibbutz lived in an extended family structure‚ meaning that their entire family lived together and not just their immediate family. The Nayar tribe are an example of people who used the extended family due to living in poverty. The wives would get support from family members and work together to raise the children whilst the men would go out and provide for the family. Felicity Edholm critiqued

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    Four Subsistence Patterns

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    There are four subsistence strategies foraging‚ pastoralism‚ horticulture‚ and agriculture. Subsistence patterns are methods of obtaining food using available land‚ resources‚ labor and energy‚ and technology. Foraging are people whose subsistence pattern is hunting and gathering. Food foraging societies are people who are primarily nomadic and spend most of their time gathering plants and hunting animals for subsistence. One example of such of a society would be the Ju/’hoansi people. The roles

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    Matrilineal Societies

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    MATRILINEAL SOCIETIES Sociologyindex‚ Sociology Books 2011‚ Matrilineal Descent‚ Patrilineal Descent Matrilineal societies are those societies in which descent is traced through mothers rather than through fathers. In matrilineal societies‚ property is often passed from mothers to daughters and the custom of matrilocal residence may be practiced. In matrilineal societies‚ the descendants of men are their sister’s children and not their own‚ who belong to their mother’s matrilineage. Matrilineage

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    According to Adams‚ Gandhi met one of his famous companions‚ Sushila Nayar‚ when she was just six. She was brought to Gandhi by her mother. As the girl was sitting on his lap Gandhi asked her mother to gift the child to him! Although she didn’t become his at that very moment Nayar did return to him as a teenager and became one of his close companions (Kuroski). It is not very common for men to ask young girls as a gift it

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    CHAPTER 2 Cuckoo Search Algorithm This chapter provides a breif introduction to the area of Nature Inspired Algorithms and its classification. Among all the categories‚ Swarm intelligence will be the main area of focus. Various swarm intelligence techinques will be discussed in the later sections. Cuckoo Search Algorithm is also one of the latest swarm intelligence technique which is focused in this dissertation to solve the problem discussed in chapter 1. 1. Nature Inspired Algorithms Nature has

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    FLORA IN INDIA

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    particularly moist forest types‚ are rapidly being degraded as a result of population pressure and shifting cultivation. Under the Project on Study‚ Survey and Conservation of Endangered Species of Flora (POSSCEP)‚ Red Data Books have been published (Nayar‚ M.P. and Sastry‚ A.R.K. (eds) 1897‚ 1988‚ 1990. Red Data Book of Indian Plants‚ Vols‚ 1‚ 2 and 3. Botanical Survey of India‚ Calcutta). The total number of threatened plant taxa in all categories is 1‚331

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    Kung Women

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    to others creates the obligations and alliances that are at the center of all political relations.” The woman from birth are the gathers within the !Kung and Friedl believes that it is due to four inter-related factors as to why the woman are the foragers; the variability in the supply of game‚ the different skills required for hunting and gathering; the incompatibility between carrying burdens and hunting; and the small size of semi-nomadic foraging populations (page 102). !Kung women play a very

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    Navajo's Culture

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    Jonathan Brooks Outline 1) Navajo’s Culture A) First came from Canada‚ but settled in the four corners‚ southwestern regions. B) How they learned the way of the new lands to adapt their ways. 2) Foragers/ Agricultural A) They started out like foragers hunters and herders‚ but then stole the ways of the Hopis B) Navajo’s learned how to weave from sheep and learned how to make exchanges of hides. 3) Beliefs and Values A) Known as the Dine` people‚ they

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    Making a Living

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    MAKING A LIVING Anthropology: Chapter 16 Cultural Anthropology: Chapter 8 Physical Anthropology and Archaeology: Not Present CHAPTER OBJECTIVES 1. Know what an adaptive strategy is. In addition you should know how Cohen uses adaptive strategies to classify different societies. 2. Understand what foraging entails and what social and cultural traits are commonly found in foraging societies. 3. Understand what horticulture entails and what social and cultural traits are commonly

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    Gender Roles

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    Since the beginning of time men have played the dominant role in nearly every culture around the world. If the men were not dominant‚ then the women and men in the culture were equal. Never has a culture been found where women have dominated. In "Society and Sex Roles" by Ernestine Friedl‚ Friedl supports the previous statement and suggests that "although the degree of masculine authority may vary from one group to the next‚ males always have more power" (261). Friedl discusses a variety of diverse

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