The practice may take various forms, such as a religious healing ceremony, a special experience or professionally defined interaction between the healer and the client. ... Instead, the practices are usually recognized as religious ceremonies or healing exercises related to supernatural or natural powers. ... For example, African people tend to represent in dancing, singing, ceremonies and rituals what Western people...

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In the United States there are many people who know how to speak different languages because they emigrated from different countries. Language is the basis of any culture, so if you take away the language you take away the culture. It is this loss of language that has taken today's generations from their traditions and culture. Culture is the belief or behavior of a particular society and the way of life of its people. In addition, culture also is the training, development, refinement of mind, tastes, manners, and all other products of human work and thought. ...

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American Native Family Therapy Introduction "Ethnicity is deeply tied to the family, through which it is transmitted. The two concepts are so intertwined that it is hard to study one without the other- (McGoldrick, et al. 1982). The view of culture, while not specifically related to a group's ethnicity or race, is the same. A family is a small cultural group with its own set of beliefs, values, mores, and rules. Ethnicity remains a major form of group identification and a major determinant of these family patterns and belief systems. ...

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Most contemporary foraging groups, such as the !Kung and other Bushman tribes, are viewed as a "primitive- people. Some have even gone as far to say that they are "the last representatives of the Stone Age."" While it is true that these people have the most similar culture to what we believe primitive persons to have had, the analogies they can provide us with the people of the past are very inaccurate. These comparisons are so unrivaled due to factors such as time and the wrong sense of view many people have on them. ...

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Culture includes language, ideas, beliefs, customs, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, and works of art, rituals, and ceremonies, among other elements. ... But what is an abstraction of a marriage ceremony or a pottery bowl, using Kroeber and Kluckhohn's examples? ...

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Abstract Ravaged by war, violently pushed out of their home country, separated from their extended family and friends, and evacuated to a foreign country where they have no commonality, Vietnamese refugees faced the worst after the end of Vietnam War in 1975. Although they are caught between two different cultures and expectations, Vietnamese refugees and immigrants successfully adapted and integrated into America with their infinite perseverance and diligence. Vietnamese American communities have developed, grown and preserved a place within American society along with other Asian American...

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"What do we mean when we say that the greater part of Africa is uncivilised? Surely the mere enjoyment of such things as railways and telegraphs and the like do not necessarily prove their possessors to be in the front rank of civilised nations." (Bishop Tozier, 1875). Discuss the treatment of "civilisation" as portrayed in two or more works. One of the problems faced by the contemporary reader when examining texts dealing with the issues of colonisation and empire, is how to deal with the idea of civilisation. ...

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