Sudan’s current state of affairs is seen as a civil war yet again. Much of the political climate is affecting the whole country and not just Juba. President Kiir‚ a Dinka‚ which is the largest ethnic group in South Sudan‚ and Vice President Machar‚ a Nuer‚ which is the second largest‚ were at odds‚ until their struggling resulted in the president firing Machar and the rest of the cabinet‚ suspecting a coup on his life was imminent. Since tribal ties are of utmost importance to the identities of the
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Structural functionalism From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Sociology Portal Theory · History Positivism · Antipositivism Functionalism · Conflict theory Middle-range · Mathematical Critical theory · Socialization Structure and agency Research methods Quantitative · Qualitative Historical · Computational Ethnographic · Network analytic Topics · Subfields Cities · Class · Crime · Culture Deviance · Demography · Education Economy · Environment ·
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Indigenous tradition In the past people have mistaken about their tradition Indigenous originality or occurring naturally (country‚ region etc) To be indigenous kinship (relation to one another) and location(connection of particular place) Indigenous religion beliefs‚ experience and practices concerning non-falsifiable realities of people who have kinship and location Syncretism: Syncretism merging of elements from different religions. Eg : north American tradition have been
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PASTORALISM Intro This lecture provides an overview of pastoralism‚ covering following topics: 1. Definition: What exactly is pastoralism? 2. Origins: When & why did it arise? 3. Environmental/geographical distribution: Where does it occur? 4. Subsistence strategies: How does it work? 5. Social organization: What are its social correlates? Definition Various definitions & classifications‚ but simplest are these: 1) Pastoralism = subsistence system based primarily on domesticated
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ELEMENTS OF RELIGION James Fieser CONTENTS 1. Methodology. 2. Indigenous Beliefs and Practices. 3. The Great Religions. 4. Religious Rituals. 5. Religious Myth. 6. Religious Experiences. 7. Religion and Social Conflict. 8. Religious Pluralism. CHAPTER 1 METHODOLOGY: LOOKING AT OTHER PEOPLE’S BELIEFS Consider the following exchange from an advice column‚ and pay special notice to its account of "the most religious people on earth": Dear Mr. Angst: I watched
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Anthropology Class Notes We/They dichotomy Western / Non-Western Rational / Mystic Scientific population / Non Understand the holistic "whole" approach Edward Tylor - Father of anthropology Franz Boas - Father of American anthropology Hominids - Bipedal Primates Chapter 1: Anthropology and human diversity Relevant Questions: 1) What is anthropology? The study of peoples (Anthropos-man / Logos-study of) 2)What are the goals of anthropology? To understand the biological evoltion of the human species
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MMMM This page intentionally left blank History and Theory in Anthropology Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history‚ and Alan Barnard has written a clear‚ balanced‚ and judicious textbook that surveys the historical contexts of the great debates in the discipline‚ tracing the genealogies of theories and schools of thought and considering the problems involved in assessing these theories. The book covers the precursors of anthropology; evolutionism in all its guises; diVusionism
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The subject of "traditional family patterns in Africa" is so broad that it cannot be adequately addressed by many scholars. The cultural and physical diversity added with the dramatic social changes of the last three decades on the continent makes the family pattern situation so variegated as to defy any sweeping generalizations. This difficulty in generalization bone of diversity was already apparent to many early scholars of the African traditional family. This essay will briefly explore traditional
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(1999) asserted thatsociety’s definition of ‘family’ is rapidly expanding and has come to include single parents‚ biracial couples‚ blended families‚ unrelated individuals living cooperatively‚ and homosexual couples‚ and so forth. For instance‚ the Nuer ‘ghost’ marriage in Sudan is different from what is considered as typical family setting in the west as described by Maybin and Woodhead‚ whichstated that a dead husband continued to be the father of the children born to other lovers by the widow (Maybin
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Home Log In Sign Up Top of Form Type to search for People‚ Research Interests and Universities Searching... Bottom of Form 1‚562 The African Origin of Ancient Egyptian Civilizationmore by Brandon Pilcher This paper argues that the ancient Egyptian people and their civilization were primarily of indigenous African origin. Multidisciplinary evidence from physical anthropology‚ genetics‚ archaeology‚ and cultural anthropology are all cited... more This paper argues that the ancient
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