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    had my attention. From the places they lived to they way they where treated always amazed me. After reading about their rituals‚ social organization and settlement patterns for the textbook‚ they are a society of people who are all one. The type of kinship they practice is all is one. For example‚ if an outsider came to their tribe someone in the tribe would classify that outsider as their mother‚ and a name that is given to that tribe members real mother will be given to the outsider. According to

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    the Navajo’s beliefs and values‚ kinship‚ and their social organization. Pastoralists depend on animals for their survival‚

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    Anthropology Pakistani Rural and Urban Community: Comparing Family and Kinship Systems. People in Pakistan are greatly trilingual and most people living here are Muslims. They respect their customs and traditions and closely follow family values. Most people are living as joint family systems along with their kinsmen‚ with exceptions choosing the nuclear way of life. Kinship is a relationship between any entities that share a genealogical origin‚ through biological‚ cultural‚ or historical

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    IRAWATI KARVE Early Life: Irawati was born in 1905 and named after the river Irawaddy in Burma where her father‚ Ganesh Hari Karmarkar worked. At seven‚ she was sent to the Huzur Paga boarding school for girls in Pune. One of her classmates at the school was Shakuntala Paranjapye‚ daughter of Wrangler Paranjapye‚ Principal of Fergusson College‚ Pune. Shakuntala’s mother took an instant liking to Irawati and adopted her as her second child. In her new home‚ Irawati experienced a stimulating

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    Culture and Society ANTHRO 9 Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:45 A.M. Room: Haines 39 (in basement-A level) Final Exam date: March 18 (Tuesday): 3-6P.M. Instructor Prof. Mariko Tamanoi Email: mtamanoi@anthro.ucla.edu Office: Haines 325 Phone: 310-206-8399 Office hours: Tuesdays 11:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. FIRST and MOST IMPORTANT: READ THIS SYLLABUS CAREFULLY TO THE END! Section Leaders Bradley Cardozo: bcardozo@ucla.edu Camille Frazier: c.frazier@ucla.edu Emily

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    Aboriginal art‚ including rock engravings‚ murals and paintings. The Witjira National Park was recognised in September of 2008. These parks being returned to the original custodians does not come easy. Indigenous Australians must prove their continuous kinship with the specific land they are inadequate to claim‚ which devours to be vacant government-owned. Returning land to Indigenous custodians will continue to

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    Haley Luu Chapter 1 - Outline! AP U.S. History 
 ! I. Introduction! a. Three things Native Americans had in common! i. They identified themselves primarily as members of multigenerational families rather than as individuals or subjects of governments.! ii. Most emphasized reciprocity and mutual obligation rather than coercion as means of maintaining harmony within and between communities. ! iii. They perceived the entire universe‚ including nature‚ as sacred.! II. The First Americans

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    concerns of family life. Overall patterns of similarity are discernible and merit consideration as crucial to an understanding of the family in modern Philippine life namely: 1) The Roles of Men and Women; 2) The Parent-Child Relationship; 3) Extended Kinship and the Nuclear Family. First was the Role of Men and Women‚ the stereotyped view of the Filipina’s role in her society is primarily that of the solicitous mother guarding the interests of her many children and watchful lest her husband be distracted

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    Lewis Henry Morgan (November 21‚ 1818 – December 17‚ 1881) was a pioneering American anthropologist and social theorist who worked as a railroad lawyer. He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure‚ his theories of social evolution‚ and his ethnography of the Iroquois. Interested in what holds societies together‚ he proposed the concept that the earliest human domestic institution was the matrilineal clan‚ not the patriarchal family; the idea was accepted by most pre-historians and

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    various citations retrieved from several creditable ethnographic research journal articles and books‚ Primarily‚ ethnography writings are based in part as an emic view of collected data on a society’s tradition’s‚ beliefs‚ values‚ and their kinship structure. Furthermore‚ in the studies of cultural anthropology‚ it is a known fact that every civilization consist of an organized system which is the platform for their mode of subsistence. In my research paper I will focuses on three

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