Some German and Austrian scolars have increased cultural anthropology as both legal anthropology reagarding " other " societies and anthropology of Western civilization.

Some anthropologists, such as Tim White, suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies prior to the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period.

Some notable pre-colonial states and societies in Africa include the Nok culture, Mali Empire, Ashanti Empire, Kingdom of Mapungubwe, Kingdom of Sine, Kingdom of Saloum, Kingdom of Baol, Kingdom of Zimbabwe, Kingdom of Kongo, Ancient Carthage, Numidia, Mauretania, the Aksumite Empire, the Ajuuraan State and the Adal Sultanate.

Some societies have forced marriage, where consent may not be required.

Some ancient societies and most modern states employ partible inheritance, under which every child inherits ( usually equally ).

Some of the teachings of Schwenckfeld included opposition to war, secret societies, and oath-taking, that the government had no right to command one's conscience, that regeneration is by grace through inner work of the Spirit, that believers feed on Christ spiritually, and that believers must give evidence of regeneration.

Some Islamic societies have religious police, who enforce the application of Islamic Sharia law.

Some believe that big societies actually need to canalize communication.

Some civilization critics point out that modern societies rely on technology to invent and promote new technology, often resulting in a degree of pro-technology propaganda, and this backpropagation would mean that mankind hands over control to a living machine.

Some societies become increasingly secular as the result of social processes, rather than through the actions of a dedicated secular movement ; this process is known as secularization.

Some political scientists thus prefer to speak of policy networks and decentralized governance in modern societies rather than of state bureaucracies and direct state control over policy.

Some consider industrial and post-industrial societies to be qualitatively different from traditional agricultural societies.

Some societies bestow status on an individual or group of people when that individual or group performs an admired or desired action.

Some academic, professional, and scientific associations describe themselves as societies ( for example, the American Mathematical Society, the American Society of Civil Engineers, or the Royal Society ).

Some traditional societies sequester females in residences, " menstrual huts ", that are reserved for that exclusive purpose until the end of their menstrual period.

Some societies have more than five genders, and some non-Western societies have three genders – man, woman and third gender.

Some evidence suggests that hunters contribute less than half the total food budget of most hunter-gatherer societies, and often much less than half, so that foraging grandmothers can contribute substantially to the survival of grandchildren at times when mothers and fathers are unable to gather enough food for all of their children.

Some Anarcho-primitivists like Ted Kaczynski argue that conditions such as anomie are directly caused by complex societies, particularly industrial and post-industrial societies due to their deprivation of individual self-determination and a relatively small reference group to relate to, such as the band, clan, or tribe.

Some societies are dedicated solely to music, some to religion, some to languages, and so on.

Some, moving north-east, ' behind ' the Nguni societies ( Xhosa and Zulu ), established the first independent republic, Natalia.

Some of them set up Vietnamese independence societies in Japan, which many viewed as a model society ( i. e. an Asian nation that had modernized, but retained its own culture and institutions ).

Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.

Some were the equivalent of Paneloux and thought that France was to blame for the calamity that had befallen it.

Some commentators thought that this tour hoped to reach out to rugby communities in Australia, as rugby league ( infamously ) started in Australia in 1908.

Some, like René Descartes, have thought that this is so ( this view is known as dualism, and functionalism also considers the mind as distinct from the body ), while others have thought that concepts of the mental can be reduced to physical concepts ( this is the view of physicalism or materialism ).

Young was once quoted as saying, " Some may have thought it was essential to know how to curve a ball before anything else.

Some contemporary philosophers and scientists ( e. g. David Deutsch in The Fabric of Reality ) employ virtual reality in various thought experiments.

Some Christians thought that Hypatia's influence had caused Orestes, the Praefectus augustalis of the Byzantine Diocese of Egypt | Diocese of Egypt, to reject all reconciliatory offerings by Cyril.

Some plants and animals thought to be extinct on surrounding islands can still be found in Dominica's forests.

Some South American plants formerly thought of as Daturas are now treated as belonging to the distinct genus Brugmansia ( Brugmansia differs from Datura in that it is woody, making shrubs or small trees, and in that it has pendulous flowers, rather than erect ones ).

Some chemists, notably Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, heavily criticized the use of structural formulas that were offered, as he thought, without proof.

Some are thought to have supported a raised granary whilst others have been shown to have supported haystacks.

Some have concluded that he thought the Arctic and Antarctic zones to be adjacent to each other.

Some of the main trends in modern Homeric scholarship have been, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Analysis and Unitarianism ( see Homeric Question ), schools of thought which emphasized on the one hand the inconsistencies in, and on the other the artistic unity of, Homer ; and in the 20th century and later Oral Theory, the study of the mechanisms and effects of oral transmission, and Neoanalysis, the study of the relationship between Homer and other early epic material.

Some sources suggest that there was another daughter by this relationship, Gundred, but it appears that she was thought as such because she was a sister of Reginald de Dunstanville but it appears that that was another person of that name who was not related to this family.

Some Western scholars maintain that there is no conflict between Palamas's teaching and Roman Catholic thought.

Some contemporaries and later commentators thought there might have been a romantic component to their friendship.

( Some critics thought he should have organized the plates in Linnaean order as befitting a " serious " ornithological treatise.

Some philosophers argue that Sartre's thought is contradictory.

Some have thought two language families, Eskimo – Aleut and Na-Dené, were distinct, perhaps the results of later migrations into the New World.

Some commentators define Modernism as a socially progressive trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve and reshape their environment with the aid of practical experimentation, scientific knowledge, or technology.

Some of these Martians are thought to have survived on the Ringworld, however.

Some macrobiotic practitioners also discourage the use of nightshades because of the alkaloid solanine, thought to affect calcium balance.

Some evidence suggests that Earth's original atmosphere might have contained fewer of the reducing molecules than was thought at the time of the Miller – Urey experiment.