There are many cultures around the world and each of them have different beliefs and practices that they abide by on a daily basis. It is these beliefs and practices that make them who they are and separate them from other cultures surrounding them. The cultural practice that I chose to discuss is practiced by the Sudanese Latuka tribe. This particular tribe is located in the Equatoria part of the South Sudan and have a population of about two hundred thousand people. They are a people that makes decisions as a group and do not believe in having one person as the authority figure ruling over everyone. However the cultural practice that the Latuka partake in that I found rather intriguing is that the males of the tribe seeking a spouse will
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From a culturally relative point of view these behaviors are looked as being things that make the Latuka stand out. They are more sensitive to others ways of life and what they believe in. They would view it as the thing that makes them unique and stand out from the rest. Someone with may look at these behaviors and say they are only practicing customs shown to them by their parents and could have been passed down from generation to generation. This is all they know and what they have been taught their entire lives. These actions that are being carried out are not absurd and merely show what the Latuka believe in. Maybe the men are not viewing this action as disrespectful towards the women, they may see it as the ultimate sign of affection. Another way of looking at it is that maybe the women are alright with this. Growing up a part of the Latuka tribe they must know that this is how the men in the tribe go about finding a spouse. This has become natural to them and to not do it would be weird to them. People cannot be so quick to judge another culture before first learning about what they truly …show more content…
Guest author of Essential of Cultural Anthropology: A toolkit for a Global Age culture is defined a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, and institutions that are created, learned, and shared by a group of people (Guest, 33). An anthropologist viewing the Latuka tribe would see this as a pattern of behavior that makes them who they are and distinguishes them from other cultures. Although this tribes views on how to carry out the process of marriage is not like most of the rest of the world it makes them unique. What makes a culture a culture is having beliefs that are your own and that is exactly what the Latuka are doing. In the book written by Kenneth Guest under the heading titled “Norms” there is a small section about marriage and how some of the different cultures around the world carry out the process. Guest speaks briefly on the idea that in many cultures choosing who you want to marry is a personal choice, however in others marriage is decided by the families of the two parties involved (Guest, 36). The Latuka could somewhat fall in between both of those categories. It is a personal choice by the male to go out and pick his future wife, after that the male members will go to the female’s family to seek his approval for the marriage. These are the same actions taken by an American male when he is going through the marriage process. You just have to look at it from their point of view and then in a sense it starts to look similar
From a culturally relative point of view these behaviors are looked as being things that make the Latuka stand out. They are more sensitive to others ways of life and what they believe in. They would view it as the thing that makes them unique and stand out from the rest. Someone with may look at these behaviors and say they are only practicing customs shown to them by their parents and could have been passed down from generation to generation. This is all they know and what they have been taught their entire lives. These actions that are being carried out are not absurd and merely show what the Latuka believe in. Maybe the men are not viewing this action as disrespectful towards the women, they may see it as the ultimate sign of affection. Another way of looking at it is that maybe the women are alright with this. Growing up a part of the Latuka tribe they must know that this is how the men in the tribe go about finding a spouse. This has become natural to them and to not do it would be weird to them. People cannot be so quick to judge another culture before first learning about what they truly …show more content…
Guest author of Essential of Cultural Anthropology: A toolkit for a Global Age culture is defined a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, and institutions that are created, learned, and shared by a group of people (Guest, 33). An anthropologist viewing the Latuka tribe would see this as a pattern of behavior that makes them who they are and distinguishes them from other cultures. Although this tribes views on how to carry out the process of marriage is not like most of the rest of the world it makes them unique. What makes a culture a culture is having beliefs that are your own and that is exactly what the Latuka are doing. In the book written by Kenneth Guest under the heading titled “Norms” there is a small section about marriage and how some of the different cultures around the world carry out the process. Guest speaks briefly on the idea that in many cultures choosing who you want to marry is a personal choice, however in others marriage is decided by the families of the two parties involved (Guest, 36). The Latuka could somewhat fall in between both of those categories. It is a personal choice by the male to go out and pick his future wife, after that the male members will go to the female’s family to seek his approval for the marriage. These are the same actions taken by an American male when he is going through the marriage process. You just have to look at it from their point of view and then in a sense it starts to look similar