Kinship

October 18, 2014. The morning light trickled down through the dense canopy of trees that encircled the cemetery as I walked through the grassfield in front of the entrance. Only a few clouds blotched the otherwise flawless sky-blue. Passing the entrance that read “Los Angeles National Cemetery”, two signs stood in front of me: one with a list of floral regulations, the other welcoming visitors, while warning them of prohibited activities. Behind it, a black signpost read: “Blue Star Memorial, A…

This is how Nacy Scheper-Hughes found that kinship helps create unbreakable ties between people that are forever lasting, but poverty, hardship, and hunger tear apart kinship. At first Nancy moved into a hut at the top of a shantytown called Alto do Cruzeiro, which in our language is Crucifix Hill. Nancy was placed in Alto do Cruzeiro, Brazil by the Peace…

and the behaviors that come from these beliefs and values. These aspects have shaped the Mosuo people. The things that have shaped the society of the Mosuo people in infrastructure are substance and settlement. The topics in social structure are kinship and gender roles. Lastly, superstructure…

The family ecology perspective focuses on two things: how the environment affects a family, and how a family affects the environment. First, a family's life can be altered from the economy, education, region, and culture. Neighborhoods are viewed as a place where children flourish and connect with others. However, a socio-economic status of neighborhood can alter a family's life. For instant, if a neighborhood is poor; a family’s life can have a great negative social life, poor health quality,…

Over periods of time cultures continually shift and change. There are different political levels of culture that categorize people groups by their stratification, kinship, and economic stature “When culture first began on Earth, all societies were organized at the band level as foraging societies. Over time, various cultures became increasingly more complex while others remained bands” (“Cultural Anthropology Lecture 2, 2016: p1). Each of these cultural levels has positive and negative social…

This continued to be the case even after families were torn away from each other and forced into slavery. Even after they reached the Americas, the importance of kinship remained, and the people created new family bonds and kinship networks that extended from plantation to plantation. Despite the harsh work and abuse, the captives carved out lives for themselves and their newly created families. The people even gained new skills to protect their…

First, in the Hua world, foods are used to represent their view of the life. Since, they have a concept of “Nu” which symbolizes their nurture and growth, the relations of the food and the person who eats it is important for them (Anna Meigs 1988 : 346-349). Thus they created rules related to foods, and through following them, they keep their lives. Also, for them, foods represents the person’s identity itself.(Anna Meigs 1988 : 354). In other words, this mythical rules work as a symbol, and by…

duty is that they all come back to love because you have to have a willingness, understanding, respect and admiration of a topic or subject to truly succeed in life. Fourth, Gilgamesh lives in the face of mortality, by realizing that he was given kinship not immortality and sharing that with his people. Fifth, the tests Gilgamesh faces throughout his life is that of bravery, honor, friendship, death, seduction and love. These tests all provide him with valuable lessons. Sixth, The Epic of…

Bipedalism and upright posture are considered some of the most important characteristics that separate humans from other species. The article, “Kinship in a Footprint?” by Michael Day, delves into the significance of bipedalism in hominin evolution and the different ways in which bipedalism is studied. He writes that bipedalism and upright posture are behavioral responses in relation to the environment for primate species. It is useful in increasing visual surveillance, displaying threats,…

The tale’s thematic link between God and the world of humans is further cemented in the rhyme scheme present in Dorigen’s speech. The rhymes employed create links between the concept of God and its creations: Earth and humanity. The connections are impossible to ignore: “Eterne God, that thurgh thy purveiaunce / Ledest the world by certain goveraunce” (865-866). Eternal God id the source of worldly goods and sustenance (both physical and emotional), yet it is given to humans as God sees fit…