Marlowe Chapter 5

For this week, there were four parts. First there were the Marlowe chapters: five and ten. Then, there were the Chagnon chapters: one and two. First, I would like to talk about chapter five from the Marlowe reading. Chapter five seemed very bland to me. Also, it seems to categorize many groups into perfect generalizations. I disliked this very much because even though some groups are similar, they also have their cultural differences. I do understand that these generalizations are to help understand how different groups get their food supply, but it just seemed to ignore a lot of the finer details. The chapter got a little bit more interesting when the author started talking about the finer details when it came to the Hadza. For example, he …show more content…
Also, I wonder if this time we take in the morning is something our ancestors did as well. Next, I will discuss some of the ideas from chapter ten. In the beginning of this chapter, Marlowe makes a claim stating that when higher developed societies came to be, they essentially wiped out all traces of foragers. I would disagree with this statement. In fact, I would argue that many of are still foragers. However, our foraging has adapted. Now instead of going out into the wilderness, we venture out to the grocery store and bring the food we found/bought back home to cook and eat. So as I stated, we did not wipe out foragers, we simply adapted into better ones and found other ways to get reliable food sources as well. Chapter one of Chagnon’s writing was much more informal and easy to read. He relied mainly on anecdotes that I felt expressed the culture of the tribe very well. For example, he discussed how if someone stole one of his items he had to pretend to be very angry and take one of their items to get his item back. I found this to be a very interesting technique and most would probably say that it was barbaric. However, I would