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Cross-cultural examples illustrate and explain the specific functions of types of age groups, various common-interest associations, and different forms of social stratificaton.
Alejandro Mamani, an elderly Aymara Indian, is the subject of this ethnographic study of mental illness and the approach of death.
Some form of artistic expression exists in all cultures. This video shows the many kinds of art and the variety of functions served by the arts: the fulfilment of the need for individual creative expression,...
A study of the Asmat, a society in western New Guinea, showing their use of religion and magic as tools of survival in a world they perceive as hostile and threatening.
In Northern Bolivia, where the heterogeneous population is socially and economically stratified, the inequalities of a sharp class division between the Spanish-speaking mestizos and the subordinate Aymara...
From the equal distribution of all goods among the !Kung to the balanced reciprocity of the Yonomamo and the Trobriand Islanders, the economies of many non-Western societies are shown to be based on...
Looks at the concepts of family and household from a cross-cultural perspective and examines the basic functions performed by the family and household units.
Focuses on enculturation, the process through which culture is passed from one generation to the next. Shows cross-cultural examples of child-rearing, socialisation, and mental illness and healing.
Looks at the complex interweaving of economics and religion known as the ‘cargo’ system, which is found among the Highland Maya of Mexico and Guatemala.
Part 1: Although kinship and descent are not particularly significant organising principles in Western cultures, these cultures do incorporate kinship and descent considerations in some ways. This programme...
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