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Extra Credit Assignment - Meet the Neighbors New Guinea, Africa, and China

Extra Credit Assignment - Meet the Neighbors New Guinea, Africa, and China

Q ZOOM Antelope Valley College - Anthropology 102- Introduction to Cultural Anthropology – D. EarleInstructions for 5 point extra credit assignment for handout posted on Canvas: Unit 2Meet the Neighbors:Kin groups in Melanesia - Africa - China1) You will want to carefully read the above handout.2) You will want to prepare a paragraph stating or describing what the characteristics or elements are of a basic ‘family corporation’ as it would exist under conditions where there is no centralized government. This obviously means that each family corporation has to be responsible for protecting itself and its members. I have described these characteristics at several locations with the handout.3) several of the cultures described the handout have family corporations that are involved in the inheritance of property- what important belief and practice of a religious nature is found associated with the inheritance or passing on of farmland or other property in the case of the Tallensi, Ashante, and Chinese?

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The characteristics or elements are of a basic ‘family corporation’ as it would exist under conditions where there is no centralized government are as follows: • The family would be patrilineal or matrilineal. • There would be the concept of egalitarianism followed by the members of the group.