Grand Valley Dani Summary

Grand Valley Dani In the film presented in class, we watched and study the Dani. The Dani is a tribe that lives in the highlands (Indonesia), they are a horticulture tribe. A hollow cloths is the only clothing that the Dani wear (is called a penis sheath). They survive upon their lands. In the documentary, I saw that the women do the part that has to be with planting, weeding and harvesting the lands. However, the men have to do the parts that implicate the cleaning of the irrigation systems, and the lands. If the man is single, he must have to accomplish the part that would correspond to his wife. A single man should do the planting, weeding and harvesting on their own lands, if he have not women to help him. The Dani’s tribe cultivated things like sweet potatoes, banana etc. The Dani survie upon their own Also, I saw that the Dani have many symbolic beliefs. Apparently the Dani like to fight for their territory, they have warfare system. Attacks happen every several year. In the war the Dani used tools like arrow, or pointed knives to fight the enemies. The kids also use the pointed sticks to play against each other. They believe that after a person is killed during a …show more content…
The film show and explain how these people live and what they cultivated in their lands. This film makes me think about many things, like how they decided what women have to do and what men have to do. I feel that women have the harder part of the work that is planting, weeding and harvesting, but my feelings are different from my thoughts. Instead I think that this mean women have more freedom than they regularly have in this kind of tribe. In our society most of the women does not really have a hard work. And this make me think that the Dani people give more opportunity to their women so their can show their strength and not just be considered as weak