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Kinship in "Oedipus the King" and "Midsummer Night's Dream", 2008.
This paper examines the theme of kinship in Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" and Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream".
1,346 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 69.95
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The paper analyzes the treatment of kinship in Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" and Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" and considers why family relationships are such a frequent subject in these genres. The paper shows how kinship is treated in relationship to its role in patriarchal societies in both of these two plays. The paper explains how kinship is a powerful plot driver in both plays, due to the fact that kinship, as epitomized in the paternal bond, lies at the heart of patriarchy.
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"It is not surprising to find family relationships to be such a frequent subject in these genres - after all, these are the deepest ties that bind, and thus offer a rich source to be mined for both comedy and tragedy. In both of these plays, kinship is crucially important because it sets up the problems that are key drivers of the plots. In Midsummer Night's Dream, the problem consists in the fact that a father is attempting to invoke paternal authority to thwart the romantic wishes of two of the principal players. Egeus, an Athenian nobleman, is pleading with Theseus, Duke of Athens, to force his (Egeus's) daughter Hermia to marry the man Egeus has picked for her: Demetrius. Hermia is insisting she would rather marry the man she loves, Lysander."
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Female Kinship in Prison, 2005.
An explanation of kinship networks in female prisons.
2,070 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 11 sources, APA, AU$ 108.95
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This paper explains the development and purpose of kinship networks in female prisons. The paper identifies and describes the roles that make up these groups. The paper also discusses the fact that women represent the fastest growing prison population.
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"The number of women incarcerated in prisons and jails is growing dramatically. According to Harrison and Beck, during ... alone, the number of women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal prison authorities increased..."
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Charles G.D. Roberts' "Kinship", 2008.
An analysis of how a poem by Charles G.D. Roberts, "Kinship," views native Canadians at the time the poem was written.
1,013 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 54.95
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This paper analyzes a poem by Charles G.D. Roberts, "Kinship," that encapsulates the privations of Native Canadians during the latter stages of the nineteenth century. Specifically, the paper discusses how native Canadians found themselves marginalized in the Canada of that time - and how Charles G.D. Roberts, while progressive in his empathy and feeling for the plight of Canada's aboriginal population, nonetheless sees this segment of the nation's population through a European lens.
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"In late nineteenth century Canada, the question of what to do with the nation's natives was one that preoccupied policy-makers. Simply put, here was a large number of men and women (and children) whose traditional habits, attitudes, modes of living, and religious sentiments were well outside the mainstream of Canadian society. The end result, as grimly noted in an online report sponsored by the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Center, was for the Canadian government to pursue a policy that forcibly remade Native Canadians in the image of their European counterparts ("Our Way," para.5-6). This meant, for all intents and purposes, the imposition of policies that undermined traditional native culture, the creation of the Industrial and Boarding School Systems and the abolition of religious ceremonies and dances."
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Challenging Kinship Assumptions: Adoptees, Gays and Lesbians, 2003.
Compares the difficulties faced by adoptees and gays and lesbians in contemporary American society.
1,398 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 70.95
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Despite seeming unrelated, the search by adoptees for their biological families and the revelation of a nonstandard sexual identity by gays and lesbians to their families actually involve similar psychological components and elucidate similar cultural stereotypes about kinship. In both circumstances, individuals risk discovering weaknesses within assumed American definitions of family. This essays discusses the difficulties encountered by adoptees and gays and lesbians in coming to terms with their nontraditional status. It emphasizes the role of gender and cultural assumptions by looking at the views of authors such as Judith Modell and Kath Weston.
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"Interestingly, both adoptees and gays and lesbians frequently rely on their mothers rather than their fathers for support. In Modell?s research, adoptees searched more frequently for their biological mothers than for their biological fathers, and they often expected more support from their adoptive mothers than from their adoptive fathers (1998: 158-9, 165-6). ??Mother? called up conventions about acting like a child to a parent? (Modell 1998: 166), showing the influence of traditionally assumed kinship ties felt by adoptees. Gays and lesbians also had assumptions about the roles their mothers would play in their coming out. Weston explains, ?when people attempted to predict the outcome of disclosure, their judgments generally reflected cultural assumptions about gender, power, and specific categories of kinship relations? (1991: 52). As a result of these assumptions, many people felt that a mother?s ?feelings? would make her more understanding than a father?s ?reason? (1991: 53)."
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Ecology, Kinship and Social Structure, 2004.
An anthropological analysis of the relationship between environment, sustenance, family relations, social structure, food, and culture.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 75.95
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This paper contends that family, food, and environment are the key building blocks that produce a culture. The paper discusses the opinions expressed by anthropologists, Miriam Kahn, Mary Douglas, John Cole, and Eric Wolf. The focus of the paper is on the symbolism of food in the Wamiran culture in Papua New Guinea.
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"Of course, an anthropologist can never entirely separate the delicate relationship that exists between ecology, kinship, and social structure within any given society or community. Family, food, and environment are the key building blocks that produce a culture. The language of food?s abundance can create an entire symbolic system of need, dependence, and social uncertainty, when deployed within a particular, uncertain system and environment of kinship and social structure, as noted in Miriam Kahn?s text regarding Wamiran attitudes towards sustenance in Papua New Guinea."
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The Sarakatsani Shepherds, 1999.
An analysis of how Campbell relates the political relationships and political values of the Sarakatsani shepherds to the cycle of their economic life and their kinship relationships.
2,000 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 96.95
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This paper provides an ethnography of the Sarakatsani shephards, with emphasis on their economic life, kinship relationships and system of values. The paper is broken up into an introduction, a discussion o f the three "political relationships" and a conclusion. In buliding up his picture of political culture in this Greek rural community, Campbell's central concern, the paper proves, is how social solidarity is maintained.
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"The institution of patron client relationships enables the shepherds to deal with the villagers and government officials without loss of honour. It establishes a face-to-face relationship that in other cultures is substituted by the impersonal citizen-representative dyad. The competition for social prestige among related families gives expression to their mutual hostility so that a violent means of retaining self-regard may be avoided."
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"All Our Kin", 2004.
Summary and review of Carol Stack's book on the kinship network that exists within poor sections of African-American community.
870 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 46.95
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This paper describes the subject of Carol Stack's book, "The Neighborhood", the focus of the book, and the purpose of Stack's research, which was to search for some kind of relationship model among black families. The paper then goes on to discuss Stack's findings regarding the kinship network she uncovered and how poverty is such a defining element of this network.
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"The author has conducted an in-depth study of the lives of families living in these neighborhoods marked by perpetual poverty. ?Poverty? as we all know is the one thing that has been perpetually and negatively affecting the lives of this community for ages and nothing significant or concrete has been done so far to address this issue successfully. Several attempts have been made to bring the African American community out of their dismal situation but all these measures have failed to cast a lasting impact and for this reason, most black families in poor neighborhoods are still living in sub-human conditions."
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The Cherokee Community, 2003.
Discusses changes in the kinship system.
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Describes traditional community, matrilineal social structure, and the underlying causes of transformation of the values and practices of kinship system from the end of the 19th century. Explores the role of Europeans and the federal government.
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"The topic of this paper is the changes in the kinship system of the Cherokee community. In order to understand the significance of the status of the kinship system of the Cherokee Indian tribe during the period from the end of the 19th century to today, ..."
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Marriage & Family In US & China, 1989.
Compares institutions & practices in traditional American & Chinese cultures. Discusses roles & functions, nuclear family, partner selection, kinship and social factors.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 60.95
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"Marriage is an institution shared by Chinese and American cultures. Marriage is defined as, "the civil status, condition, or relation of one man and one woman united in law for life" (Black's Law Dictionary, 1979).
Family is considered a collective body of any two persons living together in one house as their common home for the time (Black's Law Dictionary, 1979).
As is evident from the legal definitions of marriage and family, the two are interrelated to the degree that it is difficult to discuss one without consideration of the other. For this reason, the topic chosen for this analysis is "marriage and family," rather than "marriage" or "family" in Chinese and (...)"
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Arunta & Eskimos, 1997.
Compares two non-literate cultures of Australia & sub-Arctic. Locales, kinship, social structure, marriage and child-rearing.
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" Two non-literate cultures, the Arunta of central Australia and the Eskimos of the sub-Arctic region, display similarities and differences in their approaches to kinship, marriage and child-rearing. Though they live in opposite extremes of hot and cold, dry and wet, the two peoples engage in hunting and gathering and manufacture only what they need for their semi-nomadic lives. Their kinship systems are strikingly different, yet both serve to distribute marriageable partners fairly widely. Both peoples also take similar views toward their children, whom they regard as the bearers of spirits of ancient Aborigines or of Eskimo relatives. In neither case is there any written code that describes their kinship systems and the nature of their relations with older spirits. But, in both cases, this knowledge becomes a part of their lives and their views of the people they meet.."
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Cultural Diversity in U.S., 1997.
Completed research project on ethnic & social identity Looks at the concepts of categorization, kinship and cultural & personal values. Includes a questionnaire.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 11 sources, AU$ 60.95
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"CULTURAL DIVERSITY SURVEY
Introduction
While the United States has long been considered to be a nation of immigrants, the bulk of the newcomers during most of the nation?s history were from the various European cultures with which their predecessors also identified. Beginning in the 1960s, however, the proportion of Europeans among immigrants to the United States has decreased steadily (Lynch, 1993, p. 36). Thus, an ever increasing number of ethnic communities have developed and continue to develop in this country whose social mores are quite different from the European cultural values that tend to characterized the behaviors of the majority of the American population.
People with similar characteristics and values frequently form into groups."
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Love Medicine: Family Values Among the Dispossessed, 2002.
An analysis of Louise Erdrich's tale of characters linked in confusing extended family relationships who seek meaningful connection through tribal kinship.
2,520 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 116.95
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Louise Erdrich uses her disjointed multiple narrative style to represent the similarly fragmented lives of her Native American characters whose home lives and family values cannot be expected to be what mainstream America would consider "normal" because their native traditions are no longer intact. Everything that their ancestors once stood for has been destroyed. The original natives of this continent, are now outsiders, alienated from the value systems established by the newcomers in their own homeland.
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"Louise Erdrich?s Love Medicine is ?a collection of interrelated short stories? (?Voices from the Gaps?) with different narrators, about a group of Native Americans who are connected in confusing extended family relationships. As critics point out, telling stories in this disjointed way is part of the Anishinabe oral tradition in which characters evolve in stories told episodically over time (Stokes). Love Medicine centers around four Anishinabe* families, and although the Morrissey?s, Lamartines, Kashpaws and Pillagers don?t always get along, the underlying connectedness of the separate individuals is vital to these stories. In Louise Erdrich?s world of dispossessed, alienated Native Americans, boundaries between families and kinship ties are often obscured and connections need to be discovered. For Erdrich?s characters, biological ties and nuclear families are less important than tribal kinship."
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The !kung Bushmen, 1990.
This paper presents an overview of the African hunter-gatherers !Kung Bushmen, commenting on their physical and social environment, population and health, sex roles, childhood, family and marriage, kinship, and division of labor.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 7 sources, AU$ 72.95
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"There are few true hunter-gatherer societies living in the modern world. One of those societies, the !Kung-San Bushmen of Botswana and southern Africa, provide a unique and provocative look into societal evolution and the behavior of pre-agricultural and industrial societies. The life of the !Kung represents a way of life that was universal for Homo Sapiens until about 10,000 years ago, or with the advent of the agricultural revolution and all it entailed. With the !Kung, modern Anthropologists are able to glean "basic human social forms, language, and human nature.".
This paper will present an overview of the !Kung Bushmen, commenting on their physical and social environment, population and health, sex roles, childhood, family and marriage, kinship, and division of labor. One initial linguistic note: the Bushmen's oral language consists of a number of clicking sounds ... "
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Hmong and Yanomamo Cultures, 1994.
A comparison of the ecologies, external contact, population, types of agriculture and kinship systems.
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"The purpose of this paper is to present an ethnographic study of a particular culture, including a discussion of how the research was undertaken and by whom, and a description of the environment and ecology of the region as well as a review of the group's social behavior and values. Further, an analysis of the-culture's family/marriage and reproductive behavior will be put forth and then compared with the Yanomamo tribe of the Amazon.
For this study, the people of the "Golden Triangle" have been selected, specifically the Hmong culture. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Paul and Elaine Lewis undertook a study of the six tribes that live in the hill country of northern Thailand which borders on Loas and Burma. While the fertile valleys within this region have been populated for some eight centuries by the Lanna or Yuan people, also know as the "Northern Thai," "the..."
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History of Jamaican Culture, 1992.
Examines marriage and kinship and discusses patterns, racial make-up of the population, poverty and white rule.
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"History of Jamaican Culture
Jamaica is rich in cultural history and anthropology. The family life of Jamaicans has been studied often because of its unusual marriage, settlement and kinship patterns. The study of these aspects of Jamaican culture offers insights into the economic condition of the people as well. Social relationships in Jamaica have changed considerably because of political and economic problems in the past 30 years. For this reason, politics and migration must also be examined.
The island was discovered by Columbus and is located in the northern part of the tropical Caribbean. It is 49 miles wide and 140 miles long, with mountains around the entire perimeter. Because of the mountains, the temperature is varied and rainfall is plentiful, offering a variety of soil conditions and cool ..."
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The Definition of Marriage, 2003.
A discussion on whether it is possible to formulate a definition of marriage with cross-cultural validity.
3,925 words (approx. 15.7 pages), 13 sources, MLA, AU$ 161.95
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This paper examines the arguments over how one can formulate a cross-cultural definition of marriage. Through a literature review, it looks at some some definitions of marriage as well as some of the ethnographies that subvert and call into question how we actually conceptualise marriage. These include the Na of Lijang, the Nayar of central Kerala, the debate over the Virgin Birth and Bourdieu?s work on marriage with a parallel patrilateral cousin. It attempts to show how these case studies call into question some of the basic understandings of kinship and marriage as formulated by both descent and alliance theorists. It concludes by looking at some of the more recent developments in kinship theory and how they can help us work towards a definition of marriage.
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"The economic and social factors involved in marriage have tended to be reified by many kinship theorists. One can trace some of the origin for why marriage definitions and kinship studies of marriage have been reified and abstracted in an attempt to produce harmonious wholes in the Virgin Birth debate. Dogma and ritual, Leach (1968) points out, to not necessarily correspond to internal states. One could equally argue that the reified systems of kinship studies show little relationship to how marriage actually works in all of its ambiguities."
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