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    7. Thou shalt not commit adultery (Exo. 20:14) This Commandment reads and it defines a right ad personam‚ created by the contract of marriage. Contrast in this instance the regulations of Hammurabi’s Code concerning sacred virgins. By this Law Moses erected a bulwark to protect the relations of the sexes and flung a rampart about the home. He here declares by obvious implication the sanctity and inviolability of marriage and protects true love. Marriage is made safe; the most tender of all relationships

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    AP Biology Reading Guide Fred and Theresa Holtzclaw Chapter 51: Animal Behavior Name___________________________ Period___________ Chapter 51: Animal Behavior Overview 1. How is behavior defined? Concept 51.1 Discrete sensory inputs can stimulate both simple and complex behaviors 2. What is ethology? 3. What is the difference between proximate and ultimate causation? 4. Using red-crowned cranes‚ what is an example of a proximate causation question and an example

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    married to more than one woman at the same time and wives are not sisters vi.Polyandry: a woman may be allowed to be married to more than one man at the same time. vii.Fraternal Polyandry: a woman may be allowed to be married to more than one man at the same time and the husbands are brothers. viii.Non-fraternal Polyandry: a woman may be allowed to be married to more than one man at the same time and the husbands are not brothers. 3.On the basis of authority: i.Pariarchal: the

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    Essay Critically discuss the Nineteenth Century theory of Evolutionism in relation to the social development of cultures. Critically discuss the Nineteenth Century theory of Evolutionism in relation to the special development of cultures. Anthropology originated in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Missionaries‚ traders and travellers in Africa‚ North America‚ the pacific and elsewhere provided the first great anthropological works. Anthropology is the holistic study of the biological‚ social

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    To view one’s own culture as the universal by which all others are judged would be ultimately subjective‚ as our perceptions of cultural differences are shaped largely by our immersion in our own culture. An ethnocentric approach stems from judging an alternate culture in relation to one’s own pre-conceived cultural values‚ held to be superior; the parallax phenomenon‚ the inability to escape our own biases‚ prevents objective analysis of different cultures. A cultural relativist maintains the post-modernist

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    According to Remington (2002)‚ “North America’s native peoples are often relegated to history viewed primarily as remnant of another era. Efforts to characterize Native American typically result in idealized portrayals of spiritualists communing with nature or bigoted descriptions of savages’ incapable of living in civilized society” (p.6). Sioux tribe‚ called themselves Lakota‚ Dakota and Nakota‚ which means the same thing in Sioux dialects: “allies”. The Indians lost the fight for their land

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    "Ethics" in a particular belief system‚ is a moral philosophy or set of moral principles and rules of conduct that a group of people believe in and live by. In the Buddhist religion‚ the fundamental Buddhist teaching is the doctrine of conditionality. Everything is dependent on conditions – nothing has a fixed and final essence and this includes ourselves. Buddhism seeks to minimize any thoughts or actions‚ that cause humans to suffer and that suffering results from the nature of the reaction to

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    Chapter 1: Why Study Families & Other Close Relationships Family: a relationship by blood‚ marriage‚ or affection‚ in which members may cooperate economically‚ may care for children‚ & may consider their identity to be intimately connected to the larger group. The U.S. Census Bureau Two or more people living together who are related by birth‚ marriage‚ or adoption. Family of Orientation: the family that you are born into. Family of procreation: the Family you make through marriage‚ partnering

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    - structural symbolic conflict Power * “Power is the ability to get others to do what you want despite Opposition”-Max Weber * Types of power Physical control- coercion (threats‚ actual violence)‚ force; police or military. Symbolic Control- Manipulation‚ intimidation Rules of Conduct- channel behavior in desired patterns‚ rules. * Weber also considered power a way to influence social life. Legitimacy of Power - Authority: power that is considered legitimate‚ lawful‚

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    ratio are serious‚ all pervading and far reaching. Lesser number of girls in society has resulted in increased violence against women and denial of basic rights to them. It has also led to increase in sex related crimes (rape‚ abduction‚ forced polyandry). Sex selection‚ further‚ impacts health‚ especially reproductive health of women who are forced to go in for repeated pregnancies followed by

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