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    It is Eddie Mabo’s flaws as much as his strengths which explains his achievements The film ‘Mabo’ directed by Rachel Perkins‚ is a triumphant account of Eddie Koiki Mabo’s strengths‚ determination and his historical battle to have Indigenous ownership of Australian land. Although he does not have a perfect personality‚ in some cases‚ his defect still helps him a lot. Because of his intolerance‚ he is always energetic to fight for his goal; because of his idealism‚ he always believe his own values

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    In the essay‚ Nguyen’s book is the premise we have used; there are sourced references supporting the statements. A Vietnamese family is reviewed‚ how they suffered in their own country‚ escaping through Cambodia and Thailand‚ finally‚ finding a refuge in Australia. Australia was not‚ necessarily‚ an ideal place to finish at due to the fact that being multicultural was very new to Australians. We briefly looked at Malcolm Fraser and the White Australia policy‚ how it changed Australia and the way

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    Stolen Generations 30‚000 years ago Australian Aborigines migrated from Asia (Ricco Villanueva Siasoco). They brought beliefs‚ rituals‚ and culture with them. During the 1950s to the 1960s‚ the Indigenous people were forcibly removed by the government and missionaries when Europeans started to occupied Australia. Children were ripped away from their parents and were adopted or sent to institutions. The adults were sent to live in white communities which exposed they to new diseases and

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    of a modern man. A few conclusions and theories are formed about the lifestyle of a primitive man in both readings. Not only is a primitive man shown differently from a modern human being but each society has a different lifestyle such as a Trobriand Islander is very different than an Azande. In the beginning of the reading “Argonauts of the western pacific” a primitive man is shown as a savage and a person who can only live in a simple way which can exist in the past and who can’t work with any

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    While writing this book I also learned‚ that those who live on the Trobriand Islands relay heavily on the production of yams. The production of yams is their main economic source. Yam production is almost entirely done by the males in the society. Once a year men harvest a large amount of yams. Even though men control and do most of the work while harvesting the yams‚ women also play a part in the harvesting and production of yams. Women do this by helping the men cultivate the soil to prepare

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    the natives of New Guinea Islands.After the end of the war‚ the history of anthropology‚which is probably the most revolutionary work wrote Argonauts of Wetern Pasific.And it was during this period that he began his signature work among the Trobriand Islanders‚studying kinship‚trade‚the practical purposes of ritual and religion‚as well as the intersection between cultural ideas and actual daily behaviours.(www.nndb.com) Malinowski helped develop the field of anthropology from a primarily

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    All societies and human beings have a set of beliefs for ordering the world. Religion and magic are belief systems used by many societies. This essay will discuss the function and moral dimensions of both magic and religion‚ and focus on the need to explore human beliefs and behaviours in the context of the society in which they occur. I will also discuss the way in which magic and religion use various processes to provide psychological reassurance to individuals‚ leading to the conclusion that

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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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    We’re All Human According to Brian Schwimmer‚ “kinship is constructed from a set of categories‚ groups‚ relationships‚ and behaviors based upon culturally determined beliefs and values concerning human biology and reproduction.” (Schwimmer‚ 1996) This definition resonates with me because it has the influx of the sociobiology and relativist perspective on the subject. Faubion describes kinship as “…illustrative of the constitution of intersubjectivity‚ of organized alterity…” (Faubion‚ 2001) which

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    recreating social bonds and kinship it has a noticeable political aspect involved in it too . Trobriand Islanders do not have a specific word for exchange; exchange is rather seen as part of their reality. Within a capitalist economy the only form of exchange of exchange that is recognized is that of market exchanged which is based on supply and demand. According to Erikson (1995) The Trobriand Islanders recognize multiple forms of exchange. The first form is Gimwali ‚ which is market exchange . Pigs

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