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    What can we learn from studying foraging societies? Is there anything we can learn regarding our relationship to the environment‚ or our family members‚ for example? I believe that much can be gained from studying foraging societies like the San or the Batek. We can learn how these cultures survive in the marginal environment that they live. We can learn how they work together as a team to ensure that their needs are met. Since the goal of a foraging society to work together and share the fruits

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    How do these texts illustrate the relationship between kinship and politics? In Greek Mythology‚ the power of right is passed by kinship in generations‚ and people’s belief in gods leads their life and their acts show gods’ will. In the meanwhile‚ politics originally indicates certain relationships are between politics and groups of individuals. Moreover‚ politics is always referred to methods‚ including the purpose and the use of power‚ for addressing impacts on the tendency of those individuals’

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    Anthro 308/ Case Study #3/ Matrilineality and Kinship To the Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea‚ children are amongst the most important part of their lives. A child’s link is the key to creating a relationship linked by marriages between their mothers and fathers’ matrilineages. The strength in these lasting relationships is tied to their own future. The Trobrianders believe in spirit impregnation‚ this is why a matrilineage is so important. The father of the child is a Pater‚ not a genitor because

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    What is the relationship between “biology” and kinship systems? A. Kinship can be defined as society acknowledging biological connections between people. This view however has been challenged because kinship systems are regarded now as too complex. C. Levi-Strauss (1963) argued; “Kinship…only exists in human consciousness.” The correct way of studying the relationship between biology and kinship systems can only be made by looking at particular societies and cannot be made universally. Biology

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    Background Horniman Horticulture is a wholesale nursery company‚ which was purchased by the browns couples from Maggie’s father at $999‚000. The nursery’s operations filled 52 greenhouses and 40 acres of productive fields and employed 12 full-time and 15 seasonal employees. Sales were primarily to retail nurseries throughout the mid-Atlantic region. The company specialized in such woody shrubs as azaleas‚ camellias‚ hydrangeas‚ and rhododen-drons‚ but also grew and sold a wide variety of annuals

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    S. Having adequate knowledge about crops’ behaviours and characteristics is very essential for the farmers / producers most especially in the field of production. Three examples of specific aspects of crop behaviour that a farmer / producer must know are the plants’ life cycle‚ mode of production‚ and also its growth habit. The plant life cycle begins with a seed. This seed will sprout and produce a tiny immature plant (seedling) which will further mature. This maturation would result to reproduce

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    explaining the concept of kinship in Africa‚ the differences and similarities between patrilineal and matrilineal families systems. Kinship is the web of relationships woven by family and marriage. Traditional relations of kinship have affected the lives of African people and ethnic groups by determining what land they could farm‚ whom they could marry‚ and their status in their communities. Although different cultures have recognized various kinds of kinship‚ traditional kinship generally means much

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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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    Australian Aborigines - Indigenous Australians There are several hundred Indigenous peoples of Australia‚ many are groupings that existed before the British annexation of Australia in 1788. Before Europeans‚ the number was over 400. Indigenous or groups will generally talk of their "people" and their "country". These countries are ethnographic areas‚ usually the size of an average European country‚ with around two hundred on the Australian continent at the time of White arrival. Within each

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    Kinship and the Inuit People It takes a certain type of person to be able to survive the harsh freezing climate of the Arctic. The Inuit‚ descendants of the Thule have been surviving along the shores of the Arctic Ocean‚ Hudson Bay‚ Davis Strait‚ and Labrador Sea for over 1‚000 years. The kinship relationships among the Inuit people are very important to their way of life and survival. Every family unit consists of the nuclear family. This is the most common type of unit in a foraging

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