"The Australian Aborigines: A Portrait of their Society" gives information about the customs, legal system, beliefs and cultures of Aborigines in Australia which is a comprehensive read for all people attempting to write an essay on Aboriginals in Australia. ... The book consists of 7 parts, 8 chapters and 181 pages. The table of contents list the page numbers of chapters so it is easy to navigate this book to look for relevant information. ... Some of the most interesting and difficult of these questions arise in conjunction with traditional Aboriginal culture- (Maddock, 1982) The auth...

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In the "Individual Autonomy and Social Structure" chapter, Dorothy Lee gave us a decent interpretation of various forms of cultures and the individual sovereignty of the people. ... The crucial problem that Dorothy Lee states in this chapter is the struggle amongst individual autonomy and social structure. ... Children are treated with admiration and there is an approach that 'parents do not have the rights to give authorization or autonomy simply because it is not within their right to give' (Lee, 1959, p.6). ... I say this because, according to Lee, it is in the parent's mind...

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Nowadays, even though world music is known for originating from local traditions and cultures, world music itself is "boundless and boundaryless" in terms of the accessibility of the music as stated by Bohlman (Bolhman, Chapter 7, 2002, p. 143). ... Instead, world music has created transnational communities bounded by the Internet and recording technology, making it possible for anyone to encounter and easily access world music (Bolhman, Chapter 7, 2002). ... The digital technologies that have inundated the global music market have made it possible for almost anyone to encounter wor...

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To have read it or to have been read it at a young age, and then read it at a later age gives two different connotations of the story. For example, in chapter six Alice comes to the home of the Duchess. ... As tradition goes croquet is the sport of choice in this story, although it is played in a bit of a unconventional way, it is the center of chapter eight. ...

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Consider the narrators sexual relationships, woman are portrayed in the novel as wanting sex and emotion, which the narrator does not want to give them. ... In the first chapter we see the boy going out hunting with aboriginal children, forbidden to identify his heritage. In the last chapter we see the man he has become embracing his heritage and finding a kind of happiness. ...

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After reading this book by Kuipers I felt it deserved a review that would make at least honest attempt to give proper credit for the wonderful insights that the author makes in this book. ... I will now try to give you a brief summary of this book as I see it. ... In chapter 3, the paragraph begins with "Scholarly literature on language "shift" and language "death" often makes these changes appear to be impersonal, structural processes. ...

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Chapter 15 discusses the "Globalization of Communications media and its organizations that distribute and regulate it. ... To give you an idea of how much further these companies are expanding around the globe, since 1990, both Time Warner and Disney have raised their foreign mad income from 15% by and additional 30-35% in the year 2000. ...

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In The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton gives us a satisfying answer. ... Hamilton is giving constant praise. ... The result was the glory of Greek civilization, which Edith Hamilton surveys in chapters on the major poets, historians, and tragedians, the comic playwright Aristophanes, and Socrates, the most famous of philosophers. ...

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The novel Carnage and Culture written by Victor Davis Hanson whom is a military historian and professor at California State University gives a new perspective on why the West always wins their wars. ... The battles are snapshots of cultural tradition of war making, not progressive chapters in a comprehensive history of Western warfare. " This statement proves to the readers and critiques that the battles do not just portray the winner of the battle, but it further shows the importance of influential factor on the soldiers fighting for the West. ...

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In Amitai Etzioni's chapter, "Back to We," strong emphasis is placed on the need for a "communitarian nexus" (124) that would be able to repair the moral infrastructure of the gesellschaft, the German term used to define a large community with few bonds (116). ... Subcommunities can learn from each other and only diversity gives us this opportunity. ...

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Monaghan and just discuss in the VSI chapter one, the advantages and disadvantages of fieldwork and objectivity. ... She may give off a rather biased study instead of solid credible information because she was so interested in learning about her own culture. ...

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Throughout history, authors use cloth as a medium to convey the cultural themes of the ancient and the present world regarding how clothing is a representation of the respect, prestige, or attention an individual receives. In addition to this, authors place a significant degree of importance on clot...

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