The world is full of diverse cultures. They used to be separated in a world without the ability to quickly travel vast distances. With the creation of more and more advanced technologies, the airplane opened the doors for fairly convenient world exploration. Now cultures weave in and out of each other, delicately or violently mixing. Bruce Knauft shares his discoveries and challenges with the Gebusi culture in his book, The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World.…
The culture group that I found intriguing was the Tiwi people. They inhabit the Melville and Bathurst islands, which spans out to roughly three thousand square miles. I grew up on a farm with about six thousand acres of land used for cattle and planting crops. I always perceived my area of land to be quite extensive, but after learning about the Tiwi’s plot of land I realized how small my farm actually is. The two islands are described as being heavily forested.…
Joshua Reid brings about the history of the People of the Cape, who came to be known as the Makah, through an aquatic voyage. The Makah’s culture and identities were shaped off of the reliance on the marine habitat. The indigenous people were located in the Northwest Coast where waters had abundant marine life and natural wealth, which attracted many Native and non-Native people. Reid explains the Makah’s troubles with the borderlands and their practices to control the seas and resources as the Europeans and Americans arrived. Chapter one explores the borderland and indigenous, marine characteristics.…
The Karankawa were speculated to be descendants of the “Carib” indians who according to Wikipedia, arrived by sea from the Caribbean basin in the seventeenth century. They were observed to be taller than any of the other indians in the region, and resembled the Caribs. The Karankawa Indians lived in the Coastal Plains region, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Their territory extended from the west end of present day Galveston down to Corpus Christi. We know that there were several tribes or bands in this area.…
In the Auerbach reading, Explorers in Eden, the author discusses the life of Frank Hamilton Cushing and his journey as the first Anglo American to become a participating observer amongst the Zuni people. Cushing was introduced as a staff member of the Smithsonian Institute in the late 19th century. During this time, the director of the Smithsonian, Spencer F. Baird, advised Cushing to go on the Stevenson expedition to gain information about the Zuni people in New Mexico (18). As a young ethnographer at the time, Cushing accepted the invitation and eagerly left Washington D.C. on a journey of self-transformation (20). In his first few months amongst the Zuni people, Cushing framed the Zuni as Middle Eastern images and continuously compared…
While reading about the Northwest Coast we learned a lot about how the Natives lived different life styles than other Natives. We got to dive into Benedict’s view of how she says the Kwakiutl Natives. We also got to dive into Goodman and Swan view on the Makah Natives. In class we talked about how some rituals had to be done underground because a lot of observes didn’t like their traditions. Later on they were allowed back in their society.…
The Anasazi Long before Europe settled in North America, Native Americans dominated the land. From the Cherokee in the Mountains of North Carolina, to the Sioux in the North and the Navajo in the Southwest, Native American tribes were here hundreds of years before America was discovered. And during that time of isolation, these tribes had time to develop their own culture. And each tribe was different from the other. But the most memorable of these tribes was the Anasazi.…
Just imagine, living in the 19 century and having to hunt and gather your own food, plant and distribute food to neighbors for other food, trade things with other tribes, among other things. In this article, I will discuss the culture of the Hodenosaunee and how it relates to their society. The environment the Hodenosaunee lived in was located in “Northern New York State in North America called Mohawk Valley” (Murdock, 1934, p. 1). Mohawk Valley was a fertile territory that was between the Genesee River, Adirondack Mountains and some of Pennsylvania.…
The Kaurna People of Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains know to the Aboriginal people as Kaurna Jantanya (Red Kangaroo Place) was owned by 300 Native Aboriginal peoples until the colonisation in 1896. Adelaide and the surrounding plains was an open, grassy plain with patches of trees and shrubbery where the Kaurna people lived and managed the land skilfully. The area karrawirra pari (red gum forest river) now known as the river Torrens of Adelaide was a favoured camping ground of the Kaurna people as it provided fresh water, fish and other foods. The suburb of St peters (where the centre is located) was a clear land reserve full of shrubbery, greenery and wild animals, when colonised the area became solely residential, small cottages along the…
They are bordered on the north by the Hamam River, on the northwest by the Nomad River and the Nomad government station, and on the south by the Rentoul River. The intense speed at which the Gebusi culture changed between 1982 and 1998 is unique. Incredible culture changes occurred especially in Gebusi customs of religion, marriage, sexual maturation, perception of time and traditional rituals. It is important that the reader understands the idea of kogwayay.…
Tlingit Indians KAI MOORE Tlingit Indians are fascinating people and many people don't know a lot about them at all. That's what this paper is for. To inform you on the daily life of the Tlingit Indians. So, if you’re reading this I hope you’ll enjoy it. First off, the Tlingit lived Bands or groups.…
Low Lifespan ` Native Hawaiians have been statistically shown to have a lower lifespan. In 2005 the average age for Native Hawaiians was 24.6 years which is the lowest in the state compared to the median age for Non-Native Hawaiians that was 38.5 (Naya, 2007, 15). This low representation of elderly Native Hawaiians can be related back to their low socioeconomic status. It has been shown that Native Hawaiians in general have a higher rate of obesity, many chronic conditions, and greater poverty than many other ethnic groups in Hawai’i (Ko’opua, et. al., 2011).…
He recently completed his doctoral fieldwork in Kenya on the Samburu who are also pastoralists and survive on cattle herding. The Samburu share similarities to the Nuer with their language, culture, resources, education, and environment (Holtzman 2008: 10). Holtzman was intrigued with the notion of the Nuer immigrating to the United States as he could not fathom the idea of the Samburu leaving their country with the contrast of rural life in East Africa to that of life in the United States. His friends among the Samburu would be unprepared and possibly experience culture shock from the differences between lifestyles. With these thoughts, Holtzman sought contact with the Nuer community with expectations of learning more about them and to try and help them with their transition (Holtzman 2008: 10).…
In 1926 E.E. Evans Pritchard, a highly regarded English anthropologist, began his first fieldwork study among the Azande, a people from the upper Nile area in Sudan, Africa. As a colonial anthropologist, Evans-Pritchard arrived among the Azande with certain assumptions of what he would find based on the biased social climate in England and the common belief that the peoples in places like Sudan were savages. What he found in Zandeland was a foreign, but fairly open people from who he learned much from. Evans-Pritchard was particularly fascinated with the Azande’s practices of witchcraft which led him to stay for an extended amount of time with them as well as served as the aim for his famous work Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande,.…
Anthropology 104 Research Essay: Blackbirding in 19th Century Peru and Rapa Nui: In the nineteenth century, Islands in the Pacific were able to develop like any place on earth. With ranges of different climates and land that at their disposal, the islands inhabitants were able to work together on their own to identify how best to keep their land rich in produce in order to keep their people happy and healthy. That is until forced migration being a defining factor for the future outcomes of the pacific islands in a negative way; and in some ways a positive in other bigger countries like the U.S. and the U.K. Migration can be a good thing in some senses. It can teach others about different cultures that may not have fully experienced. However…