Thanksgiving Service Analysis

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What are the expectations wanted from us? Can we say that the expectations wanted from us are the social norms of our society? Unwritten rules and standards that are expected from us, that contributes to the formation of our own self. In our society, people expects us to abide to the social norms and expectations that situates our status in that society. In my case, as a good Muslim, I am expected to know every aspect of my religion, and be able to explain it to others when asked. My mother always says that “If you cannot explain to a stranger why you are a Muslim, then you still have more to learn.” Since I was a child, I was always sent to the mosque to learn to read the Quran and to learn the most important
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Author John Monaghan and Peter Just described a different anthropologist’s analysis of a ‘joking’ and ‘avoidance’ relation in their book entitled, “Social & Cultural Anthropology A Very Short Introduction.” They talk about Radcliffe-Brown’s analysis of the Crow and Navaho Indians. According to Radcliffe-Brown’s analysis, the Crow Indians have a joking relationship, which, “…is one where one party is permitted, and sometimes required to tease or make fun of the other, who in turn is required to take no offence” (Monaghan & Just, pg. 57). In the Crow Indians, this behavior is to be endorsed between the sisters- and brothers-in-law of a family. Where the expectations from the wife is to accept this behavior as normal and to be fine with it happening. On the contrary, the avoidance relationship that took place within the Navaho Indians, is “…the opposite of joking relationships, are characterized by extreme mutual respect and a limitation of direct personal contact” (Monaghan & Just, pg. 57). In this society, older Navaho women wore small bells which warned the sons-in-law that she was arriving, and that he should start to leave. The sons-in-law would not be in the presence of their mothers-in-law out of full respect, and because they are expected by their society to not be in the same room as their

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