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    Basseri Tribe of Iran

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    sheep and goats to graze the land and they depend on the animals for their primary means of food. Everything that the Basseri do is central to the animals that they raise and kinship is vital to their society. Purpose of this paper will to explain the Basseri primary modes of substance are their cultural beliefs‚ kinship‚ leadership‚ and economics of the tribe. Each mode has an important role with how the Basseri society has endured for so long in this region of the world. CULTURE Basseri

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    Professor Michael Marmura‚ early in his career at the University of Toronto‚ wrote an important essay entitled “The Quran and the Jahiliya Temper.” Part of this essay I intend to paraphrase as an introduction to our theme: “Revolutions and Legitimacy in Islam.” Dr. Marmura chose to depict the “Jahiliyah Temper” as expressed in the Arabic poetry of the pre-Islamic Period. As the majority of these poets was either nomads or expressed the ideals and the aspirations of the Bedouin‚ the term “Jahiliyah”

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    Appreciation Of World Movie Class College:Wenjing Name:Wang Qiushuang(Beatrice) Major:English Class:101-3 Student Number:20109053307 Legends Of The Fall-------Confliction Background : It was shoot at the western part of America where is a beautifull and attractive grandeur.It is narrated as a story by an Indian called One Stab‚a best friend of the Ludlow family. Tired

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    One cannot discuss production without comparing it to exchange and both these concepts cannot be discussed without linking them to kinship and the concept “domestic mode of production”. Humanity is dependent on modes of production‚ distribution and consumption in everyday life. Wolf (1982) states that “Marx adopted the term production for this complex set of mutually dependent relations among nature‚ work‚ social labor and social organization” (Wolf‚ E. 1982:74). Production is therefore the process

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    aboriginal spirituality

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    The Aborigines have a particular social structure called the kinship system‚ this system is based around their relationships with others. When the Aboriginals meet and welcome a new person into their community or tribe they‚ in a way‚ adopt them. They become named as “daughter/sister” or “brother/son” etc. They have to name the person in relation to themselves to allow that person to fit into their society. The value of the kinship system is that it structures people’s relationships‚ obligations

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    It suggests that altruism will occur towards those with kinship. Multilevel selection‚ on the other hand‚ is a combination of group selection and individual selection and it states that those two forms of selection‚ without regard to kinship

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    The Iroquois

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    Iroquois Vonda Matthews Cultural Anthropology July 7‚ 2013 Instructor: Rebekah Zinser Kinship is the cornerstone for how people within a society relate to others and race lineages. Many societies trace their lineage through the father‚ which is called patrilineal‚ or through the mother which is called matrilineal. The Iroquois nation traced their kinship through the matrilineal decent lines. Kinship directly relates to how family groups think‚ act and live along side each other. The culture

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    Native Navajo Indians

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    The Navajo Indians Cultural Anthropology 101 The Navajo Indians of the Southwestern United states have a distinct social organization‚ kinship‚ and a both traditional and biomedical way that they approach sickness and healing. Their social organization revolves around their community and the Earth. Kinship for the Navajo is matriarchal and they are a pastoral society. The traditional Navajo have medicine men that the tribe goes to for any sickness and healing that needs to be done

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    the Dreaming. The process of Dreaming is a life-long pursuit. The Dreaming is embedded in all aspects of life and is intrinsically connected to kinship‚ obligations to land and people and ceremonial life. Kinship is a complex system of belonging and responsibility within a clan. It is not only based on familial relations but also totem relations. Kinship ties govern day to day activities as they govern basic rules such as assigning the responsibility to transmit the knowledge of the Dreaming from

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    The Gebusi Tribe

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    The Gebusi In the rugged and tropical island of Papua New Guinea‚ lived an extraordinary group of people called‚ The Gebusi. In the 1980’s‚ The Gebusi tribe was anything but modern and acculturated. The Gebusi had their own individual and unique rituals and traditions that they practiced and followed. The Gebusi tribe participated in ritual homosexuality‚ sorcery and/or witchcraft was highly regarded and practiced‚ and they participated in preferential sister-exchange marriages. By 1998-99‚

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