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autobiographies of Linda Hogan and Etty Hillesum tackle this issue. Their writing shows that the body is an essential part of religious experience. Hogan’s and Hillesum’s writing shows that the body is important because it holds memory, contains traces of ancestors, is an expression of emotion and desire, and it allows us to perform sacred acts. Linda Hogan talks about the importance of the body in that it stores memory. Linda Hogan writes a lot about memory and identity in her autobiography The…

During the week of peace you were not suppose to be harsh to anyone it was a week to be kind to all those around you even if you didn’t like them or they had done something to you. Any disturbance during the week of peace was disrespectful to the ancestors and gods, “we live in peace with fellows to honor our great Goddess of the earth without whose blessing our crops will not grow”(Achebe 32). Even with a single person making a disturbance during the week of peace was fault on the whole village…

cruelty of the Puritan society, by recollecting his ancestors ' experiences, depicting Hester’s banishment, and by the diction he uses throughout the novel in order to reveal his negative opinion about the corruption in Puritan ideology. When an author begins his writing process, he or she begins with a reason to why their writing a particular subject. Nonetheless, Hawthorne found his inspiration in his family’s history, by recollecting his ancestors’ experiences. This made him able to write…

that animals and plants give spiritual enlightenment. Dreaming ancestors are affiliated with animism since they can possibly taking place in the form of a totem. Dreaming tracks are spiritual paths across the sky. Keep in mind that these were not sources for navigation. Aborigines would use music to pass down knowledge. Songs would contain details about the “dreaming” aspect of aboriginal life, such as details on Dreaming ancestors. Music was vital in understanding how family lineages…

that humans from the dawn of time were constructed evil. Through the parable of “ Young Goodman Brown” Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays through a friendly Devil that humans are so fundamentally evil and corrupt through Faith, Goodman Brown, and Brown’s ancestors. Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrates a casual devil that people are born wicked through Mr. Brown. Early in his…

The funeral figures of the Cameroon Grasslands, the Fang and the Kota are similar in usage, but take different forms. This is because of the placement of the communities. It is also because of the constant moving of the Fang and Kota communities, due to enemies pushing them out of the area. During the Cry-Die ceremony, which is Creole for funeral, people of the Cameroon Grasslands mourn the passing of a loved one. Elaborately beaded, cotton, crocheted hats worn by chiefs are worn. Other people…

The Neanderthals are the extinct cousins that we all share and the closest relatives of modern humans. As our Homo sapiens ancestors parted from Africa and walked across the Eurasian landmass, they encountered members of this other ancestral human lineage, who also began in Africa but had migrated to Eurasia long before our ancestors arrived. Only separated by tens of thousands of generations, humans and Neanderthals were still able to interbreed, and using anthropological and genetic evidence,…

Determining ancestry involves various techniques of tracing your lineage. Some societies trace the ancestors on both sides of the family which is often referred to as bilateral kinship. While others just trace the ancestors who are relative to one side of the family. This is usually a unilinear descent system. In the following paragraphs, differences between two unilineal systems will be discussed and also how these systems help not just the individual but also their society. Lineage is…

Basso soon learned that every word the Apache spoke or named a certain thing would describe what they were seeing with their own eyes. The companions explained to him that the ancestors were there a long time ago. They were poor and had very little belongings and needed to pick the perfect place for the families to live. They needed to be close to water, which was extremely important to them for basic living but also for spiritual…

For 250 years the African American race was enslaved. African Americans are now asking that they be reparated for the enslavement of their ancestors. They feel as if a moral debt is owed to them for the years of pain and suffering of their ancestors. African Americans are not the only ones seeking reparations. People of all races who see that what their ancestors went through are asking that they be reparated or recieve financial compensation. In 1988, reparations were made to victims of World…