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    have with animals, we risk damaging both the human and the pet’s well-being when they are forced to separate for various reasons (housing, illness, family disputes). Beyond psychological issues, if we discount or ignore the importance of pets in the kinship network in anthropological studies, we risk missing out on a rich area of human relations, which will enrich the field of cultural

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    Bilateral decent is a kinship system in which individuals trace their kinship relationships through both parents. Relatives to both parents are equal in importance in this kinship system. Unilineal decent is a system that relatives use to trace their connection through only one line, patrilineal or matrilineal. With unilineal decent the line is an importance placed on whatever side has the standing for tracing kinship relationships. In a Unilineal decent system, the people in the line that are the

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    6 Balbacal, Mikaella C. P1B Anti political dynasty Political dynasty is a well known method of politicians in the Philippines wherein the members of the family is made also a member of the government in order for them to not lose power but to gain more power. This act is an unfair and unjust because the government is not a business that a family can run by themselves, but the government is for all and other people should be given chances wherein they can be the one that leads a community. The

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    person receiving the support or by someone in the family (Riley, 2014). Aboriginals don’t have cousins comparable to modern cultures; they have brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers (Riley, 2014). Totems Totems comprise the second level of the kinship system; they create a balance among the nations (Riley, 2014). Every person receives their own totem which becomes their responsibility, and each person has four totems that represent their nation, clan, family and individuality (Riley, 2014). Totems

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    Non Biological Families

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    make kinships. Whether one has been raised in a biological family or non-biological family, kinship means one is still oriented to the family they have. In a story where two babies were born in the same hospital, they were switched at birth. These two women grew up in non-biological families, but still consider their non-biological family a family. There are many disagreements whether non-biological kinships are actually real families. However, no one tends to argue about biological kinships, even

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    Chinese Kinship Systems Works Cited Missing It would be impossible to disagree with the statement that “Chinese kinship is based on male predominance”. In fact this statement may even be under-emphasizing the control and absolute power that males wield across all levels of Chinese society. Of course, where their power initially comes from though, is through the family or termed differently the “jia”. It is this extended or ideal family that cultivates the consistent patrilineal form of control/descent

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    An indigenous person is a term used to describe the original inhabitants of a land, the people who were there before any settlers of a different land came and took over. Indigenous people will have generally retained their cultural practices and traditions that will differ greatly from that of the settlers. The term ‘Indigenous person’ is used to describe Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. (Australian Human Rights Commission, n.d.) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are the original land

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    The Iroquois

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    Iroquois Vonda Matthews Cultural Anthropology July 7, 2013 Instructor: Rebekah Zinser Kinship is the cornerstone for how people within a society relate to others and race lineages. Many societies trace their lineage through the father, which is called patrilineal, or through the mother which is called matrilineal. The Iroquois nation traced their kinship through the matrilineal decent lines. Kinship directly relates to how family groups think, act and live along side each other. The culture

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    In Philippine politics, the ultimate goal is to have professional officials in the government so that the country will be ruled properly and be successful. For this to be achieved, officials who are in high positions should give power to those who are responsible enough and can prove that they are worthy of their given position. But in reality, this ideal image is somehow violated because of nepotism. "Nepotism is defined as favoritism shown by somebody in power to relatives and friends, especially

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    Interventions with Families: Considerations and Implications for Family Therapists In the last third of the twentieth century, the nuclear family formed around marital ties and a strict division of labor based on gender, has changed to a multiple types of kinship relations. The word that best defines today's family, is the diversity, since the family now has a unique and exclusive meaning, including single-parent families and families consisting of same sex couples (Walsh, 2011). This new (or as some argue

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