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This 5 page paper examines kinship patterns and energy efficiency and progress in society. Various issues posed by a student are explored. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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or less energy efficient as they become more elaborate? Why are humans more or less free as these cultures evolve? First, kinship should be explored. How is its nature relevant
to issues of energy procurement patterns? Strathern (1992, as cited in Franklin & McKinnon, 2000) helps to redefine kinship: "Because, in Euro-American cultures, kinship is a medium through which relations
are naturalized and naturalized relations are transformed into cultural form, kinship articulations bring into being what will count as the difference between nature and culture-between what is considered given in
the nature of things and what must be created " (p. 275). Kinship patterns are assumingly natural but they are a social construction. After all, things that are found in
the world are attached to certain socially prescribed patters as opposed to being simply available for all human beings. Halperin (1994) explains that cultural ecologists in the past did pay
attention to various types of livelihood processes but new ecologists simply look at food procurement as a separate issue and look at economic processes separately. Ellen however sees energy procurement
as a separate entity (Halperin, 1994). It is not only that society has changed, but that sociologists and anthropologists look at things differently true. When significant problems of living arise,
the relationship between human beings and their environments, along with strategies of adaptation, are very much on the minds of ecological anthropologists (Halperin, 1994). This field is starting to
address economic issues and subsistence patterns also receive a good deal of attention (Halperin, 1994). Energy use and food procurement are important concerns as well (Halperin, 1994). White for example,
would study culture and focused on energy as an important factor in terms of change in cultures (Halperin, 1994). The amount of energy utilized in a particular culture would
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