AS1 14/15 - Why has gift exchange been a seminal topic in social anthropology? Gift exchange within social anthropology became a more expanded and discussed topic after Malinowki’s writings on the Trobian Islanders throughout the period of the First World War. In this writing he discussed the rituals involved in the Kula ring in his ground breaking research write up in the book "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" (Malinowski‚ 1922). This was shortly followed by the writings in Marcel Mauss’ "The
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In the world‚ there are many kinds of Indians and this includes the Native Americans. They were the first people who were in America‚ and lived in America for many centuries. There are also many different tribes and the Inuit was one of them‚ or so many think. Actually‚ the Inuit aren’t Native American‚ but they are neighbors to the Native Americans for they look like the Indians‚ their culture ‚ traditions and their language are similarly endangered. They are the Arctic people and they came from
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Anthropology 2 Midterm Study Guide: Professor Li Zhang Midterm Date: October 30‚ 2012 Week 1 What is the scope of cultural anthropology? Discuss its focus of inquiry‚ approach‚ and major changes over time. ● Cultural anthropology is concerned with the nature and extent of social and cultural differences among different societies. Focus on Inquiry: Why there are different cultures and how they came about and are affected or changing. Focus on Approach: Approaches could be urban
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the aboriginal suffered so much. The Indian act provided the federal government the power to control what aboriginal people can and cannot do. It was due to the Indian Act many crucial Aboriginal cultural ceremonies‚ such as the Sun Dance and the Potlatch‚ were banned. The Aboriginals had fewer rights and privileges compared to the rest of
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“If economics is the dismal science‚ the study of hunting and gathering economies must be its most advanced branch” (Sahlins 1972: 1). Stone Age Economics is one of the well-known books in the subfield of economic anthropology provided by an American cultural anthropologist‚ Marshall Sahlins. This book is a slight representation in the literature dealing with ‘primitive’ or ‘tribal’ economic life. This book consists of a series of chapters that lacks a proper conclusion of Sahlins discoveries
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Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebe 1. Note how Achebe immediately establishes his perspective from inside Umuofia (which is Ibo for “people of the forest”)in the first sentence. The wider world consists of the group of nine related villages which comprise Umuofia and certain other villages like Mbaino. What are Okonkwo’s main characteristics as he is depicted in the first few chapters? List as many as you can‚ being as specific as possible. What were the characteristics of his father which
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We are challenged by the issue of adapting to change in the novel I heard an Owl Call my Name. Through Mark‚ the main character we see the affects of change in the Native American Indian village of Kingcome. Not only do we see the westernisation of the village‚ but also the change in culture and way of living mark experiences when he arrives in the village from the western world. The changes the village and Mark go through are shown to us through characters‚ symbols and dialogue. The idea of change
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SA 101 Intro to Anthro midterm ---Coming of age in samoa--- (1928) Child rearing and shaping personality Sexuality‚ ‘there’ ‘here’ Popularizing with American students; not concerned with natural functions of life in samoa. Completely different ways of living. America in 1940; the comparison of here and there. Wanted to see how society was shaped. Culture doesn’t simply exist‚ but that cultures were formulated from an early age A study of socialization in a Polynesian island and an explicit
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J.R. Miller’s article entitled “Victoria’s “Red Children”: The “Great White Queen Mother” and Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada” was published in July 2008 in the Native Studies Review‚ Vol. 17 Issue 1‚ p1 -23. The article examines how even though First Nations people suffered tremendously during Queen Victoria’s reign‚ they maintained their strong allegiance to the Crown mostly due to their kinship mentality. Miller notes that slowly but noticeably‚ by the end of Victoria’s reign the Great
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Teaching an entire generation that their way of life was an abomination‚ as Ed Metatawabin was taught in the Canadian residential school system‚ allowed indigenous peoples to be marginalized by the rest of Canadian society; thus creating a clear imbalance of power between cultures so that First Nations lacked the support they needed to progress as a community. The dehumanization that the St. Anne’s residential school students were subjected to filled them with self hatred directed towards their
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