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Feminists that approach analyzing popular culture proceed from a variety of theoretical positions that carry with them a deeper social analysis and political agenda. Popular culture has been a critical part of feminist analysis. “Cultural politics are crucially important to feminism because they involve struggles over meaning” (Storey, Intro 136). Analyzing a piece of pop culture through a feminist viewpoint, whether it be a music video or any sort of media, opens up a broader discussion about the structure of our patriarchal society and the ways in which politics are constantly portrayed and

Choosing an in-law in !Kung San society is primarily arranged by the parents of the woman based on marital status, hunting ability, age, and willingness to accept the responsibilities of family life (Shostak 1981, p.116). The lack of violence and conflict between villages allows !Kung San parents to travel large distances to find an acceptable partner who is not of close relatedness to the girl being married (Shostak 1981, p.115). The almost universal taboo in modern day industrial societies prohibiting marriages between closely related kin is also followed in !Kung San society and the easiest way to avoid marrying your cousin is by marrying someone from a distant group (Shostak 1981, p.115; Allen et al. 2011). Close kinship systems tend to keep families close together so they can all benefit off the same resources. However, in harsh and unpredictable environments, like that faced by the !Kung, flexibility of movement created by non-consanguineous unions and bilateral kinship systems is essential in creating reciprocity systems that allow access to resources that are limiting and seasonal (Allen et al. 2011). Non-consanguineous

Jill Rocquin Bruce Alford English 102 April 13, 2015 Essay Four: Fatal Attraction After a Life, by Yiyun Li In her book, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Yiyun Li tells a short story titled After a Life. In the story, it is learned that Mr. and Mrs., Sue are married and have two children, a daughter named Beibei and a son named Jian. It is mentioned that Beibei suffers from extreme “mental retardation” and cerebral palsy.

The Kin group is a social group formed on the basis of recognized. A group of people who culturally view themselves as relatives, cooperate in certain activities, and share a sense of identity as kinfolk. For example, Incest Taboo is any cultural rule or norm that prohibits sexual relations between closely related persons. Nearly every society prohibits sex and marriage between nuclear family members, except in three documented cases: Ancient Hawaiians, prehistoric Incans, and Egypt Allowed only to preserve the royal family purity and bloodlines. These ancient Hawaiian, prehistoric Incans and Egypt allow sex and marriage between nuclear family members because of their ancient beliefs of passing down your gene are like their root for them. That is why they let the family have sex with each other just to pass down their genes, root, culture, and

There are many marriage rules and traditions that happen all around the globe. As an aboriginal couple they have different regulations as a male and as a women. As a male, he was permitted to have more than one spouse at the same time. But as a women, she can only remarry if she is a widow. Another thing that is interesting about the marriages in Aboriginal people is the “Blackfella Way”. Meaning the couple has not received an official church blessing or any other type of legal confirmation of their relationship. So in current times, if you do not have any confirmation about your marriage, your marriage would not exist. The other interesting thing about Aboriginals way in current time is the name of their extended family. Instead of calling their cousins, cousins, no matter if it is a boy or girl, they called them “Cousin Brother” or “Cousin Sister”. Even though this is something that makes total sense, I still find it really interesting to know that is what they call each other.

In the same vein, in the Girls’ Generation’s music video, “I got a boy”, two fold of aspects of feminine gender and sexuality are represented in the context of polycentric cultural globalization and cultural adaptation. One is cultural feminine typicality, such as aegyo, the other is girl’s empowerment, such as

According to the dictionary family is a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. Or family is from the descendants of a common ancestor. According to society family is a group, it can be related are not. My definition of family is anyone who is there for you through good and bad, someone who always have your back no matter what. Family is not just blood. However some of the best families are the ones you are not related to.

The value of kinship, or family relations is slowly but still relevantly decreasing over the years. I have a unique perspective of this situation due to the fact that I’ve experienced both the ‘American’ and ‘Indian’ culture. This gives me more room to compare and contrast between the cultures to identify the major changes and the effects of those changes. One major different I notice is that, according to the “Kingship Interview” activity we did in class, it showed that it’s less likely that kin terms are used when describing close relatives that are both older than you or the near the same age as you, like family friends or even neighbors. In my culture, it’s rare to find people using first names to call upon others, rather kin terms such as “Bhai (Brother), Kaka (Uncle), Kaki (Aunt)” even if they share no biological relation with you.

According to the Dictionary of Contemporary English, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, formed by a father, a mother and children. On the other

Connoly defines Incest as a marriage with their near consanguinity. Incest was widely practiced up to the nineteenth century. He explores the anxiety of Incest from two perspectives, phonology and physiology approach. But I got an impression that his presentation was more exploring on the latter one. One of the anxieties that came from the incest was about genetic disease. The arrival of new asylum, such as prison and hospital, and the professionalization medical and science became the key roles in prohibiting the incest. The anxiety toward incest was more because of the physiological reasons, rather than the abstract philosophical theories. The bad effect of incest is observable. In the domain of the progressive science, scientists proved the detrimental effects of incest. On the other hand, people also believe that Incest will exaggerate the bad side and the peculiarity of the family for their next generation. People not only afraid of infectious disease but also hereditary disease. The end of the 19th century was also a moment where people started to think that reproduction was also an issue. Thus, by prohibiting incest, people believed that they could reproduce a wealth family.

In his book, Lévi-Strauss discusses the social patterns of kinships. For Lévi-Strauss, the incestuous relationship and the incest prohibition are a central issue of discussion when investigating the structures of kinships. In particular, Lévi-Strauss’ book focuses on the exchange structures of marriage, and a great part of it deals with the issue of the incest prohibition. According to Lévi-Strauss, those who are involved in an incestuous relationship suffer a clash between psychobiological and psychosocial stimuli. That is to say, there is a biological stimulus that pushes human beings to sexual relationships, and which prompts a conflict with social rules when that biological stimulus deals with incestuous desires. Claude Lévi-Strauss is

There are also different types of kinship structures instead of a family structure, for some cultures that base

Inbreeding is an extremely controversial topic of debate that has been around since biblical times. The most extreme form of inbreeding is incest, which is primarily between first cousins and second-first cousins.  Inbreeding is practiced for many different reasons including royalty, religion, culture, socioeconomic class, geographic isolation, and small populations. Possibly the most dramatic instance of incest for reasons of royalty was within Habsburg Dynasty.

The music video directly intends to make the viewer aware of society 's gender norms, while it 's absence of sexuality purposefully fails to follow many of society 's expectations; this has

It seems that in order for people to have a kinship bond with each other they have to be somewhat similar in one way or another but do not have to be blood related. Radcliffe-Brown