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A Tri-Cultural Look At Legitimacy And Illegitimacy Using An Evolutionary Model, Mara D. Giles

Nebraska Anthropologist

The rules for legitimacy and illegitimacy are not universal, yet every culture classifies its children into valid and invalid A review of the literature, including Teichman, Hendrix, and Davis, has indicated that legitimacy is a status of marriage. This status is determined by several factors including race, class, inheritance patterns, lineage systems, the role of fathers, and the position of women. European and subSaharan African cultures use these factors differently to validate the boundaries separating the legitimate from the illegitimate. Until as recently as thirty years ago, English culture asserted that a man had to be proven to be the …

Comparison Of The Traditional And Contemporary Extended Family Units Of The Hopi And Lakota (Sioux): A Study Of The Deterioration Of Kinship Structures And Functions, Benjamin Grant Purzycki

Nebraska Anthropologist

Drawing on a body of classical and contemporary ethnographic resources, one finds a number of coriflicting conclusions and assumptions in not only the evolutionary role of the extended family and its functions, but also-in a post-colonial context-how these units as well as their roles and functions change. When comparing a number of sources, we find that extended families are explained in diametrically opposed terms (e.g. some say extended families result from hunter-gatherer societies while others attribute it to agricultural groups), creating conflicting theory obviously not considered together as often enoughhence the necessity of comparative study between traditionally agricultural Hopi and …

Extrinsic Factors That Effect The Preservation Of Bone, Kyle Baxter

Nebraska Anthropologist

This article provides an overview of bone composition and the taphonomic processes that affect the representation of skeletal elements in archaeological deposits. Soil chemistry and composition, bone size, and other variables affect these processes.

Systemic Nesting Among The Anasazi: Ad 900-1140, Carl G. Drexler

Nebraska Anthropologist

Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have proposed a number of models and hypotheses to explain the growth andfluorescence of the Anasazi system based in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. This paper gives an overview of some of those models, then explores how World System Theory (WSJ) might be used to understand the social and economic processes at work during the pinnacle of settlement in Chaco Canyon.

Evolutionary Theory In Anthropology: Providing Ultimate Explanations For Human Behavior, Kyle Gibson

Nebraska Anthropologist

This short essay will elucidate one of the main benefits of using an evolutionary approach when studying human behavior; the ability to answer questions ultimately.

Native American Survival In A Colonial United States, Charles Marr

Nebraska Anthropologist

The persecution of Native Americans in the United States has not yet come to an end. There are many policies still in place that lead to the reduction of the unique culture of the Native Americans. This can have disastrous impacts for their own survival and well being. These policies reduce their language, culture, selfdetermination, their knowledge of the environment, and increases their poverty. The United States government can help to solve these problems by eliminating the Bureau of Indian Affairs and forming a think-tank that would be composed of Tribal leaders, lawyers who specialize in Native American Law, and …

Nebraska Anthropologist Volume 19: 2003-2004 Table Of Contents

Nebraska Anthropologist

ARTICLES

1 Evolutionary Theory in Anthropology: Providing Ultimate Explanations for Human Behavior (Kyle Gibson)

4 A Tri-Cultural Look at Legitimacy and Illegitimacy Using an Evolutionary Model (Mara Giles)

16 Comparison of the Traditional and Contemporary Extended Family Units of the Hopi and Lakota (Sioux): A Study ofthe Deterioration of Kinship Structures and
Functions (Benjamin Grant Purzycki)

32 Native American Survival in a Colonial United States (Charles Marr)

38 Extrinsic Factors That Effect The Preservation of Bone (Kyle Baxter)

46 Systemic Nesting Among the Anasazi: AD 900-1140 (Carl G. Drexler)