blog schedule.
blogs marked * are required research for seminars
blog 42 |
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blog subject:Adults |
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resource questions for blog research:adults |
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| What are the most significant relationships in a person’s life? Who is in that network of relationships? Who influences whom? | |
| Who are the most influential people in the community? (These may include media and national as well as local figures.) | |
| If girls don’t marry, why don’t they marry and who looks after them? | |
| What is the division of labor between men and women? | |
| Who made people? How were they made? | |
| How important are family relationships? What are the outer boundaries of the extended family group? | |
| How many different ranks of status are recognized? | |
| How does a person mark the transition from one rank of status to the next? | |
| Is supernatural power available to both sexes? | |
| Are any age groups recognised? | |
| Are there any voluntary associations? Are they graded in status? | |
| What is the status of widows? Widowers? Who looks after them? | |
| What are their: topics of conversation? | |
| Who are the most loyal family members? Who are the least loyal? Are there some marginal members? | |
| What different professions are recognised? | |
| Is there any kind of election or choosing for leadership? | |
| How does one become a warrior? | |
| What kind of class distinctions are there? | |
| How does one become a worker? | |
| How does one become a hunter? | |
| Do different spirits favour different sexes? | |
| Is there any struggle for spiritual power? | |
| Are there judges who will classify people? | |
| How does one become a counselor? | |
| How does one become a wise man? | |
| How does one become leader? | |
| How does one become a medicine man? | |
| Does a person need a sponsor from above to move up in status? Does he need supernatural sponsorship? | |
| Must one have power in order to become a man of worth? | |
| Is there any struggle for status? | |
| Can one lose one’s status? | |
| Can one rise in status? | |
| Can women become leaders? In what areas? | |
| Does the wife of a leader have any more authority than an ordinary woman? | |
| Can a foreigner be accepted into the social group? Can he/she initiate this? | |
| Can rank be inherited? Through what lineage? | |
| For what purposes is the family important? Marriage? Festivity? Soul power? Status? | |
| How does one earn rank? | |
| What is the division of labor between leaders and followers? | |