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17 May 2024: Boas studied competitive gift-giving among the Kwakiutl people in North America, a practice known as the <em>potlatch</em>. ... In contemporary Vietnam, burning money is a commonplace activity whereby people supply money to ancestors, gods, or ghosts

17 May 2024: Insisting on people’s sameness may even blend into opposition to affirmative action policies. ... Moreover, the right to biological reproduction of people or groups of people of all colours was limited.

17 May 2024: Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology - State https://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry-tags/state en Jean Price-Mars https://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/jean-price-mars <div class="image"><img typeof="foaf:Image"

17 May 2024: or to do with ‘nature’ and land rather than with people and urbanised surroundings. ... Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world.

17 May 2024: Others describe lessons that can be learnt from indigenous people and their engagement with the environment, such as Amazonian or Melanesian peoples who leave a minimal ecological footprint by not altering ... Thus it affects people in different ways,

17 May 2024: Visited people and mediating specialists co-construct this experience with and for the visitors. ... They look at the visited people as objects, from a position of voyeuristic separation.

17 May 2024: People have some sense of these distinctions, but their distinctness is not culturally meaningful. ... They also argued that people in different social worlds thought differently about mental causation.

17 May 2024: What happens then is that food serves to oppose two groups of people (givers and receivers). ... How is it that people and invisible guests can eat the same food?

17 May 2024: Distant people were often portrayed as cannibals: that is, as strange, animal-like creatures. ... epidemic of kuru, the neurological disease afflicting the Fore people (Bennet et al.

17 May 2024: People in the Trobriands traditionally adhere to matrilineal descent and patrilocal post-marital residence. ... Here, people of low castes were generally not expected to return the dan gifts they receive from their superiors.