The environment that the Ju/"hoansi live in can vary greatly depending on the particular area as well as time of year. ... It is this full knowledge of their environment which allow the Ju/"hoansi to act as effective hunter gather people. ... The limiting environment of the Ju places certain constrictions on their way of life, most clearly on the number of individuals that a camp can satisfactorily sustain. ... How many animals passed by, the species, the speed, sex, health, and even what the animal was eating and the time of day it passed by (Lee, pg. 53). ...

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Pre-Marital Medical Examination Normally, the young people would go to hospital and undergo a marital health check-up before the wedding in case of any disease unsuitable for marriage as people pay high attention to reproductive capability and quality of children. In ancient China, there was a special way of the pre-marital health examination. ... Marriage Certificate After the pre-marital health examination, the two in love can register at the local government agencies concerned, apply for the marriage certificate and become a legitimate couple. ...

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A Cross Cultural Perspective of polygyny As an institution, polygyny, the social arrangement that permits a man to have more than one wife at the same time, exists in all parts of the world. From our present knowledge, there are very few primitive tribes in which a man is not allowed to enter into more than one union. In fact, ethnologists now believe that only one to two percent of all species may be monogamous (Tucker 1985). None of the simian species are strictly monogamous; our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, practice a form of group marriage. Among the 849 human societies examined b...

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How has the issue of gender superiority evolved in China? The existence of women throughout China's history was that of total inferiority. As the Chinese society developed women became subordinate to men. Even when death comes, this lesser position was brought out in the discoveries of ancient graves. They showed the wife's corpse in a bowing position towards her husband. ...

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Money and Marriage----The matrimonial value orientation in Pride and Prejudice [Abstract] Pride and prejudice, the most popular of Jane Austen's novels, deals with the five Bennet Sisters and their search for suitable husbands. It is read widely all over the world and was written in 1813. That specific history time decided that people at that time took money more seriously. Marriage, a specific relationship, is also based on money. In this paper, the marriage cases of most characters in the book we taken as typical to analyze how money influenced their matrimonial value orientation. ...

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