Kinship

similarities and differences within and among societies. When studying the main features of peasant and tribal societies, one notices their differences and similarities, in this case, focusing mainly on the economy and exchange of surplus, including their kinship and how their social relationships differ. The tribal society is one where the mode of production is for common use for the society while a peasant society’s mode of production is more isolated and surplus is transferred to a group of…

Osaki, Lillian. “Redefining Motherhood in African American Neo-Slave Narratives: ‘Beloved’, Dessa ‘Rose’, and ‘Corregidora.’” Ahfad Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, Dec. 2014, pp. 21–36. EBSCO. This journal article utilizes the writings of three black women, Toni Morrison, Sherley Anne Williams, and Gayle Jones, to consider the representation of motherhood within their narratives. However, the information that will be gained from this article comes to us from the Beloved section. Beloved, according to…

being forced from their land and traditional way of life as a result of government policies such as “Protection and Assimilation”. Aboriginal spirituality is a culture and a way of life, so this separation of Aboriginal people from their land and kinship groups has had a severely detrimental impact on their spirituality, and subsequently their culture and identity. A quote by Noel Pearson in the book Voices of Aboriginal Australia: past, present, future compiled by Irene Moores for the…

people mainly near Barnes and Noble and Starbucks, however, I also examined people walking about the mall in general. To narrow the scope of my observation, I decided to focus on a number of interconnected themes: gender roles, race, ethnicity, and kinship. Gender roles is a major theme found not only in the mall, but in the grocery store, at school, at work, and even at home. A gender role is defined as a set of standards that a society puts forth to dictate what types of behaviors are…

My topic is on Bhaca society and they are a compact ethnic group located in South Africa. Specifically, they are part of the Nguni origin and are located in a country called East Griqualand brimming with mountains. Bhaca life exists in a district referred as Mount Frere. The district of Mount Frere is where the Bhaca found a permanent home. Mount Frere is located in the country of East Griqualand, it is between 3,000 and 6,000 feet above sea level, and around forty five miles from the coast. The…

AXIS, EVOLUTION AND THE SHIFTING SELF How an individual interacts within the family can be seen as a function of self. But the idea of self is in flux, much like ie. Enter anthropologist Jane Bachnik. Bachnik is a leading thinker on the self, and has explored ideas of connectedness, patterns of behaviour, and the shifting self, or kejime. She has written extensively on the relationship of public to private, and of the self within society. Bachnik suggests there is a sliding scale for ideas of…

The distribution and consumption of cigarettes have become social processes, which has embedded itself into a variety of cultures and used to build the foundation of kinship and relationships. Such social processes raise complex complications in it’s production and consumption, as in the case studied by Robyn Dwyer, the consumption of tobacco has become heavily embedded within Vietnamese culture, to where it is probable to suggest that tobacco can become a stepping stone or “gateway drug” to…

can be found that the view on interracial relationships in the communities within the South Asian diaspora is shaped around the specific values and morals put upon the women. These specific morals and values were placed upon women overtime by the kinship and communities within the South Asian diaspora. Considering the movie, Mississippi Masala, features a relationship between Demetrius, an African American, and Mina, a Ugandan Indian, it can be used to explore the South Asian diaspora view on…

Sometimes the kinship is not blood related, so the terms ‘uncle’ and ‘aunty’ for example are used for people related to each other through their kinship. The Family structure of the Aboriginal people are very large in amount of persons, part of the family structure is blood related and part it isn’t. For example, two sisters are identified as the same and if one has a child they both become mother. This is their kinship. Another example is when an Aboriginal die in…

According to the text, African American children most often reside in “kinship care.” I grew up with my bio-grandmother as mines and my cousins' caregiver, I remember living in poverty, getting clothing handed down from one child to the other, and walking across the park to the community center to eat lunch during the summer…