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    Kinships in the Yanomamo Ashley Jones ANT 101 Adrienne Stafford May 21‚ 2012 A kinship system is a system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture. Among many cultures kinship is greatly valued among the Yanomamo society. Their way of life centers around these kinships. Their kinships impact the way they think and how they live their lives. While in today’s society our families also known as our kin “kinships” are typically blood related or through marriage

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    Australia Kinship System

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    The Australian Aboriginal kinship system has a large impact on how the culture behaves beginning with their creation stories and then onto how children are raised‚ children entering adulthood‚ and relationships that are taught. These examples of kinships can differ from culture to culture especially in the Australian Aboriginal culture which could bring a culture closer together or it can damage the culture. Kinships can change how a culture behaves through their beliefs. Aboriginal culture is

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    Racial Kinship Debate

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    purposes of this paper‚ will serve as our definition. The second form of taking race into account‚ called "racial kinship"‚ is when members of a particular race treat members of his or her own race with more benevolence than he or she would treat someone outside of his or her own race. Although both forms of taking race into account involve treating people differently based on race‚ racial kinship‚ unlike (our definition of) racism‚ is not entirely destructive in practice. A prevalent question in the arena

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    FLASHCARD DATA FOR NATURE OF KINSHIP Topic 1: Overview | 1. |The term for culturally defined relationships between individuals who are commonly thought of as having |kinship | | |family ties. | | | 2. |The general term for socially recognized links between ancestors and descendants.

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    Essay On Gebusi Kinship

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    When looking at the Gebusi kinship there are some similarities to my own kinship. For example the Gebusi clan membership is passed down through the male line. In my kinship it is also passed through the male line. After one member of my kinship gets married they take the last name of the husband. In the Gebusi kinship not only is the line trace through the males after the females are married they become part of their husbands clan now and are no longer apart of their original clan. A difference that

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    Chinese Kinship Systems

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    It would be impossible to disagree with the statement that "Chinese kinship is based on male predominance". In fact this statement may even be under-emphasizing the control and absolute power that males wield across all levels of Chinese society. Of course‚ where their power initially comes from though‚ is through the family or termed differently the "jia". It is this extended or ideal family that cultivates the consistent patrilineal form of control/descent and dictates that residence in said

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    Iroquois Kinship System

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    Iroquois Kinship 1 Iroquois Kinship System Carl B. Lockhart ANT 101 Robert Moon August 29‚ 2011 Iroquois Kinship 2 Iroquois Kinship System The first scientific investigation of an

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    The meaning of kinship terms

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    The Meaning of Kinship Terms’ ANTHONY I . C. WALLACE ANI) JOHN A T K I N S ; Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute and University of Pennsylvania INTRODUCTION H E meaning of kinship terms in foreign languages (or in English‚ for that matter) has traditionally been rendered by English-speaking ethnologists by a simple and direct procedure: each term is matched with a primitive English term (e.g.‚ “mother”)‚ with a relative product of two or more primitive English terms (e.g.‚ “mother’s

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    North American Kinship

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    The notion of American family has changed through the years; that is the reason why modern North American kinship greatly differ from the patterns observed from the 1970s and other previous decades. According to Gezon and Kottak in the book Culture‚ family is defined as a group of people related either by blood or marriage. Like in any other society‚ the model of American kinship is influenced by culture‚ but it drastically differs when compared to other societies. According to the book‚ American

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    Iroquois Kinship System

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    Iroquois Kinship System Anthony Sifuentes ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor Mario Tovar March 5‚ 2012 The Iroquois is the group I have decided to do my research of kinship systems on. This will come from what I have found in the text of chapters three and four of the text. The Iroquois is a unilineal descent group. This means that descent is traced back through one sex or side of the family. They traced their bloodline through the female side of the family‚ meaning

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