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    Totem Poles Essay

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    of as the tall poles bearing carvings of animals‚ marine life‚ birds‚ and human effigies standing along the beach villages of the inland passage mainland‚ islands and its plentiful rivers. However‚ crest poles take on many forms; Memorial poles‚ Potlatch poles‚ exterior and interior House poles‚ House Frontal poles‚ Ridicule poles and Mortuary poles. In modern times most are termed Commemorative Poles. Most poles tell of the genealogy of the resident‚ its clan and even their status in the community

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    Chapter 5

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    Chapter 5: Making a Living I. Adaptive Strategies Yehudi Cohen (1974) argued that similar economic causes have similar sociocultural effects Ex. There are clear similarities among societies that have a foraging strategy Cohen developed a typology of five adaptive strategies: Foraging Horticulture Agriculture Pastoralism Industrialism A. Foraging Although there are different types of foragers‚ they all share one essential feature: people rely on nature to make their living. Animal domestication

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    syllabus for socio 01

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    Course Title Society and Culture with Family Planning Course Number Anthro 1/ 12 / Socio 1 School Year and Semester 2nd Semester‚ SY 2013-2014 Department and College College of Community Resources and Development – Roxas Campus Name of Faculty Course Prerequisite None Course Description An introduction to the study of socio-cultural Anthropology focusing on the culture change. The course is primarily concerned with the understanding and comprehension of the origins and evolution of man and

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    Essay 2 Decoloniality

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    Daphne Stivelman – 250612808 Essay #2 CGS 3517 – Decoloniality Dr. Wendy Russel December 1st 2014 Walter D. Mignolo’s The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures‚ Decolonial Options successfully tracks the course of Western modernity‚ its reliance on coloniality‚ and presents a variety of ways in which decoloniality exists‚ and has always existed alongside the development of coloniality. He delivers insight on the ways that decolonial options emerged and has the potential to produce other

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    Acculturation-cultural modification of an individual‚ group‚ or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture Adaptation- the process of changing to fit some purpose or situation Agriculture- the science or occupation of farming American Anthropological Association- a professional organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology Anthropologist- the science of human beings; especially :  the study of human beings and their ancestors through time and space and

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    THE BASIC COMPETITIVE (Business Level) STRATEGIES Business strategy focuses on improving the competitive position of a company’s or business unit’s products or services within the specific industry or market segment that the company or business unit serves. Competitive strategy raises the following questions: ❖ Should we compete on the basis of lower cost (and thus price) or should we differentiate our products or services on some basis other than cost‚ such as quality or service?

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    Band Societies

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    March 16‚ 2010 Chapters 5 and 6. Substance Strategies Tribes Chiefdom States Band societies: (hunter/gathers) Small groups (40) Nomadic (mobile) Loose territory Circulation of kin/groups Advantages: Variety Resource Consumption exchange Egalitarian (equal) gender roles craft special p.o.p sustainability guns germs and steel… movie March 18‚ 2010 tribes: sociocultural system No centralized Authority diffused

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    Chelsea

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    Deep Time Deep time refers to an enormous timescale with which geologists and scholars of evolution must deal. Homo sapiens first emerged as a separate species‚ not 800 years ago‚ or even 10‚000 years ago‚ but somewhere between 100 and 200 thousand years ago. The earliest identifiable human ancestor appeared between 7 and 6 million years ago. And the earliest primates occurred between 65 and 55 million years ago. The planet itself if 4.6 billion years old. These timescales can be hard to get

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    Celtics Landmarks

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    Celtic Landmarks In Ireland When I speak of the ancient Celts‚ I am referring to the communities of people sharing linguistic and cultural ties who inhabited most of Northern Europe between 800 BCE and 400 CE. The folk of the Urnfield culture which preceded them may also have spoken a variety of Celtic‚ but they had not yet created the material culture that we identify with the Iron Age Celts. At the height of their expansion (4th-3rd centuries BCE) Celtic communities spread from Ireland to the

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    Reinforcement Test

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    RRT1 Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Which of the following is not one of the theories about how America was originally settled? a.|Humans arrived by boat and followed the coast southward from Alaska.| b.|Siberian hunters crossed from Asia to North American during the last ice age.| c.|Humans arrived in multiple migrations.| d.|Hunters from Asia dispersed themselves over much of North America.| e.|Europeans sailed

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