These are some editorial reviews of the book: Book description: -In this companion volume to Parallel Worlds, Alma Gottlieb explores ideology and social practices among the Beng people of Cote d"Ivoire. ... - "This book merits a number of readings.... ... This book offers a nuanced descriptive analysis which commands authority."... Another interesting chapter in the movie, was chapter four. ... The next chapter that I will discuss is chapter two. ...

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Spence assumes the role of social historian in his book The Death of Woman Wang. ... A clear insight to T'an-ch'eng's economy and it's economic policies is explained in chapter two, The Land. ... Spence makes the history of China sound like "hell on earth" at many points in the book. ... Spence mentions in the beginning of the story is finally revealed in chapter four. ... The role of men and women of 17th century society are defined vividly in this book. ...

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I chose this book to review because it contains valuable text that is useful for all humans to read. Although the book contains chapters such as "The Evolution of Animal Mating Systems" and "The Biological Basis of Human Patterns of Mating and Marriage" I chose primarily to devote much of the focus of this essay to the latter chapters of the book ("The Social Anthropology of Marriage and Mating" and "Mating, the Family, and Marriage: A Sociological View"). The most interesting parts of the book will be summarized in this essay. ... The chapters presented some interesting variations of mati...

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The book starts with a terrific line, undeniably quoted a few hundred thousand times: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" (Chapter I). This clearly tells us that the theme of the book is marriage. The first few entertaining chapters reveal the antics of Mr. & Mrs. ... There are several proposals as well as engagements and marriages in the book. ... This is the first type of marriage introduced in book. ...

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Anderson sets the course for the theme of isolation in the first three chapters, excluding The Book of the Grotesque. The first chapter is called Hands and involves the sad story of Wing Biddlebaum. ... Mother is the third chapter of the novel and deals with another cause of isolation, the inability to communicate feelings. In this chapter, Elizabeth Willard is resented by her husband and has lost all affection from him. ... Throughout the book, different people try to help George Willard. ...

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In the chapter The Mother we are introduced to the main character Nnu Ego. ... In chapter two, The Mother's Mother, the book goes back in time. ... Ego considers her self a failed mother hence the title of the chapter. ... Chapter 9- Mother's investment Summary: In this chapter Nnu and Oshia become very sick. ... Chapter 16- A Mother of clever Children Summary: Oshia was going off t...

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For example, Flaubert spends almost an entire chapter describing Emma's and Charles" wedding using meticulous details to paint a picture of her wedding dress, the cake and the feast that followed. In contrast with, at the end of chapter four, he ends it with, "When they left Tostes in the month of March, Madame Bovary was pregnant." Emma's pregnancy is not mentioned again after several chapters. One might think that Emma's pregnancy would be a major event in the book, but Flaubert doesn't describe it in nearly as much detail as he does with, for example, the wedding dress o...

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Islamic Family and Communal Life Having spent most of the term concentrating on the history and theology of Islam, reading Chapter 14 and 15 in Denny's Introduction to Islam was a nice change of pace. Both chapters provide a comprehensive summary of Islam as it is carried out by Muslims in their every day lives; the topics span many different areas such as birthing, education, food and eating habits, inheritance, and the function of the Mosque. ... One exception pointed out in the Denney book is Egypt, where such establishments are allowed by the government, although much resistance by p...

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In chapter six, it states, "[a] certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her [ ]- (Chopin 214). ... The repeated mentioning of the ocean and its great significance near the beginning of the story lead us to believe that it would serve a greater purpose later in the book. ... Near the end of the last chapter, there is mention of "[a] bird with a broken wing [ ] circling disabled down, down to the water- (Chopin 340). ...

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In the sub-chapter "Stickability", the Lamb family work together at their new shop, with " Lester and Quick off to the markets across the rails- (Page 58) to buy new stock, Oriel barking orders and the Lamb Girls " rattling the till, climbing the ladders, shaking out tuppeny measures of jubes- (Page 59) Here we see the Lamb family working hard together, it brings happiness to Lester, which is evident in his singing and the lines "Nothing seemed to suppress his good spirits in those weeks" (page 59). ... In the last chapter, "Sun poured careless into the quiet yard where vegetables teemed in th...

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The book was written during the 1970's, while Shostak was interviewing !... Nisa was just one of those women, but her story captivated Shostak, making her wrtie the book. Mostly told by Nisa herself, Shostak writes introductions to every chapter, then lets Nisa tell her story in her own language, more or less. As I was reading the book, I became aware of the huge differences between the different cultures in the matter of a mother and her baby. ... The matter of having children is pretty obscure in the book. ...

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This takes place during the third chapter or the month of March. ... If one doesn't find out in time what will set off these explosions, the box of matches dampens, and not a single match will ever be lighted. 115-16) The author of the book then says that Tita knows this feeling. ...

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(Curran 185-6) Dabundo suggests that Wollstonecraft 'embraced the egalitarian ideas of the French Revolution and boldly called for full civil and political rights for women'. (621) This may be seen in chapter seventeen in Maria's letter addressing the court; I wish my country to approve of my conduct; but if laws exist, made strong to oppress the weak, I appeal to my own sense of justice, and declare that I will not live with the individual, who has violated every moral obligation which binds man to man. (197) The trial in itself is given 'additional significance&#...

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