The Lost Tribe: The Timbubba’s Culture
Enculturation is the process whereby individuals learn their group’s culture, through experience, observation, and instruction. As a part of this process, an individual learns and establishes a context of boundaries and accepted behaviors that dictates what is acceptable and not acceptable within the framework of that society. The influences that shape and direct the individual include parents, other adults, and peers (which can be either deliberate or unintentional). If successful, enculturation results in competence in the rituals of the culture, values, and language. Culture provides the environment in which languages develop, even as it influences how they are used and interpreted. The most important …show more content…
The Timbubbas had dozens of terms for grains, including eight for wheat alone. For years, many civilizations depended on grains for food. Corn, rice, and wheat are common grains that can be cultivated and stored for long term food supplies. Wheat can be prepared in a variety of ways, including basic bread recipes, whole wheat, and can even be ground into flour; which makes it excellent food for long term survival. The Timbubbas could have also possibly been either vegetarian or vegan; they had words to designate cow, pig, calf, and sheep but no terms for beef, pork, veal, leather, or mutton. This may suggest that they did not eat meat at all, and strictly used the animals to preserve and nourish their …show more content…
All children go through the same stages of language learning and childhood is a critical period of language development. This may have been why the Timbubba tribe had several words for children, one of which translates as “wise small one”. The word for sex translates as “to plant a wise one”; which could possibly mean sex is strictly a form a reproduction. Some primitive people fail to connect the act of physical, sexual intercourse with resultant pregnancy. Person living in a society where every person is involved full-time in subsistence activity (such as cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding and breeding livestock) are less likely to engage in recreational activity when
Enculturation is the process whereby individuals learn their group’s culture, through experience, observation, and instruction. As a part of this process, an individual learns and establishes a context of boundaries and accepted behaviors that dictates what is acceptable and not acceptable within the framework of that society. The influences that shape and direct the individual include parents, other adults, and peers (which can be either deliberate or unintentional). If successful, enculturation results in competence in the rituals of the culture, values, and language. Culture provides the environment in which languages develop, even as it influences how they are used and interpreted. The most important …show more content…
The Timbubbas had dozens of terms for grains, including eight for wheat alone. For years, many civilizations depended on grains for food. Corn, rice, and wheat are common grains that can be cultivated and stored for long term food supplies. Wheat can be prepared in a variety of ways, including basic bread recipes, whole wheat, and can even be ground into flour; which makes it excellent food for long term survival. The Timbubbas could have also possibly been either vegetarian or vegan; they had words to designate cow, pig, calf, and sheep but no terms for beef, pork, veal, leather, or mutton. This may suggest that they did not eat meat at all, and strictly used the animals to preserve and nourish their …show more content…
All children go through the same stages of language learning and childhood is a critical period of language development. This may have been why the Timbubba tribe had several words for children, one of which translates as “wise small one”. The word for sex translates as “to plant a wise one”; which could possibly mean sex is strictly a form a reproduction. Some primitive people fail to connect the act of physical, sexual intercourse with resultant pregnancy. Person living in a society where every person is involved full-time in subsistence activity (such as cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding and breeding livestock) are less likely to engage in recreational activity when