YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Anthropological Perspectives on Marriage
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a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...
injustice" (Cudd, 2006, p. 23). This means that oppression is perpetuated through some sort of social institution or through the p...
care without losing her job, as the spouse "cannot miss classes at school" (Brady 361). I know a young couple where it is the husb...
kinship and marriage. There is a great deal of marriage of cousins within this group. This trend is interesting as it differs a g...
In five pages this anthropological and sociological text is reviewed....
In five pages this paper examines the anthropological text in an evaluation of the myths and rituals the author describes....
In eleven pages this paper analyzes ten anthropological articles featuring research focusing upon marriage patterns in China. Ten...
define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The same debate in mostly-liberal Vermont several years ago resulted in ...
This 5 page paper discusses the portrayal of marriage in three plays: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen; The Marriage of Olype by Aug...
want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...
same question this paper will answer. Sociological versus Psychological Studies During the 20th century, a variety of tool...
put before us, is a father who "trusts" everything will be fine, because at least there may be some land acquisition in the final ...
so harsh and most of the children died. Glittenberg describes how she subsequently returned to Guatemala after that initial visit...
cycle of poverty is at play which acts to entrap its unfortunate victims into a set of circumstances which is all but impossible t...
a unclouded awareness of that specific anthropologists viewpoint and his or her own cultural indoctrination. The Last of the Yahi ...
example, is bypassed in favor of a machine to human interface. While the teacher is still involved in the classroom, that involve...
the woman reaps any benefit at all from her matrimonial vows. "If marriage be such a blessed state, how comes it, may you say, th...
right of same-sex couples to marry and New Jersey has granted these couples the "legal equivalent of marriage" (Hull, 2007, p. 748...
is linked to moral, religious and political views about the legalities involved in gay marriage and the sanctioning of gay and les...
work, does not eliminate the need for men and this has not provided an excuse for them to essentially run away. In all honesty men...
children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...
accurately termed "head scarf." In allowing the Egyptian men and women who are featured in the film to speak for themselves, the d...
of grandparents, aunts or uncles, brothers or sisters, adoptive parents, single parents and almost any sort of family one could im...
that the basic needs and desires of a society to maintain stability and social order are often very influential in where a society...
and mother. Nor does she seem to have regretted that - basically, she had no choice in the matter. Mr. Ramsay...
of these devices include reading machines made for the blind, speech-recognition devices, as well as computer programs that detect...
and societies (Counihan, 1997). This is evidenced in both food habits and human behaviors (Counihan, 1997). More specifi...
tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....
in society provide numerous functions while at the same time explaining mans origins and how man relates with nature. Many of the ...
backgrounds in an environment where there were no hard and fast rules as to how these people should interrelate. While the coloni...