ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nuclear Family, Betsileo People, Barbecue
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Cultural generalities may also occur in two or more different cultures by an individual development of the same cultural trait or pattern: farming, for example, originated in the eastern ( the middle east) and western ( Mexico) hemispheres by separate development: similar needs and conditions have led people to evolve in parallel ways across different lands, they have come up with the same cultural solution to a common problem, independently. One cultural generality that is prevalent in many but not all cultures is the nuclear family, a kinship that submerges the nuclear family in larger groups of kin, such as extended families, lines, and clans. In many of the technologically simple societies that survive by hunting and gathering, the nuclear family is however prevalent. Michigan: besides expanding mcdonald"s food outlets, for example, once limited to. Usa at all: as mentioned in the earlier section culture is integrated, patterned values, rituals, and practices give particular cultural traditions distinctive character.
