Bushmen

Shostak’s own observations and research on !Kung society and culture. Shostak wished to study the !Kung women, and understand their lives and perspective on their culture and society. When her key cultural consultant, Nisa was growing up, the !Kung bushmen of Dobe area of Botswana were foragers who practiced hunting and gathering, a way of life that allows for plentiful leisure time, peace, and relatively equal treatment of people within the society. Women in !Kung society enjoyed some the…

There were the Bushmen and Hottentots who are said to be the modern times ancestors to the Khoisan people who lived in their communities as fishermen, hunters and gatherers (Thompson, 2001, p6). Men in these communities had skills ranging from wood and stone tool making…

it’s done. Women do not hunt, but they sometimes go along to throw nets, set traps, or scare game out of hiding for the men to shoot. In some of the traditional cultures you are not seen as a man until you’ve made your first kill. For example, the Bushmen…

Many of us take for granted that our life today is better than it would have been a thousand years ago, and better still than ten thousand years before then. In his essay, “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race”, Jared Diamond, noted scientist and author, argues the opposite. He suggests that the human race’s transition from bands of hunter-gatherers to societies based on farming was a terrible error, and one that we have yet to recover from. He bases his argument on two major…

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Abstract: This paper reveals the birth of mathematics. Representing quantities in some way is considered the first invention of mathematics. We use mathematics every day in one way or another. Sometimes we even use mathematics unconsciously, as in the case of filing a cup of water for cooking. The measure cup is readily available to us and all we have to do is fill it out, but who started this type of measurement? How old is mathematics? Specifically, how old is counting? When was representing…

Economy is an important aspect of culture. Different society has different view and perception on economics such as consumption and object value. The hunting-gathering society is perceived to be traditional and poor. A research done by Sahlins (1972) shows that Hunting-gathering society is actually content with what they have and Gusinde (as cited by Riza Wahyuna, 17 January 2015) remarked that they consider tangible objects to be a burden. However, to modern societies, tangible objects are…

I. Pre-reading Assignment 1. Big History is a course that tells about the 13.8 billion year during history. Big History interrelates professional thinking about the universe into a coherent story and looks at the entire span of history at different scales, up to the greatest scale. It is told chronologically using disciplinary tools. It’s a modern, scientific version of an origin story. It is a way to look at our history and understand human's place in the world that incorporates all of time.…