Himba

This anthropological research assignment will provide an examination of the Himba, an indigenous entity of 12,000 to 18,000 people geographically located in Namibia. The Himba tribe are semi-nomadic pastoralist who sustain themselves from the product of their cattle. As previously established in the analytical paper, the Himba people have been relatively successful in maintaining their traditional lifestyle for the last 300 years. However, since the rise of South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) to power in the Namibian government, the Himba began facing social, cultural, and political change. SWAPO perceives the Himba to be “primitive” people that needs to adapt to the capitalist, globalize economy (Champion & Shields, 2002). The…

Something that surprised me and intrigued me greatly is the topic of the arranged marriage that the Himba culture participates in. The families of both parties are very much involved in the picking of the bride relative to the groom. If we were to relate this to a similar, more well-known situation in the 21st century, many marriages in Asia are also arranged as read from an article published in PschologyToday by Ph.D psychologist Jefferson Fish. But a major difference that I was perplexed by…

out of saplings, bound together with palm leaves, mud and dung formed in a cone shape. In the Himba tribe they do not have a form of currency they mainly rely on there live stock and some rain fed crops such as maize(corn) and millet. “In the Himba culture a sign of wealth is not the beauty or quality of a tombstone, but rather the cattle you had owned during your lifetime…” Mikael, C. (2013, March 18) The Himba Of Namibia Retrieved from stories.Namibiatourism.com.na. Women tend to perform…

525). This phenomenon has not only been observed in the Seminole, but also more recently the Himba tribe of northern Namibia. The Himba tribe only has five words for colors. Caperos, Linnell, Bremner, De Fockert and Davidoff (2013), conducted a study to see how this difference in color naming impacted how the Himba saw colors. In the Himba language, one of the five words used to describe colors encompaces what in English we would call light greens and all blues, while another one of their…

However one question that appeared to me while watching this was if color was an evolutionary gene, especially in the eastern hemispheres. For instance, suppose the Himba tribe processed different cons that affected their color vision to help them survive in the hot deserts, such as making their eyes adjust to very light colors. This theory would then support why they see certain color greens, and not blues. But then the theory of wavelengths contradicts this idea by stating color is primarily…

The Maasai were the first to develop an eco-tourist conservation lodge, and while it has brought them profits that they would otherwise not have had access to, it has also required them to change their way of life. They have to restrict how much their cattle can graze, so as to preserve land for the wildlife that attracts tourists. The men who work in the lodge are also expected to act in a different way. In the film, one of them remarks that he has to prepare meals for the tourists, when…

The village that Ponijao lives in is rural and is surrounded by savannah and rocky terrain. Ponijao’s family and friends live in small huts made of mud and thatch. The village is dependent on livestock for their food and income. Ponijao spends almost all of her time outside, and she has multiple different family members helping to care for her. Her parents use traditional Himba methods in their parenting approach, such as carrying her on their back for travel and breastfeeding on demand. She is…

essentialist or socially constructed in order to better understand how a woman knows herself to be a woman. Whether aesthetic judgments of the female body are objective or subjective has also been a matter of longstanding debate. I will examine the construction of beauty to argue that while there are no universal beauty standards, beauty is still a factor, but not the only factor, in the construction of the feminine identity. 2. How do women construct judgments of female physical beauty?…

Searle, the Background is a set of “know-hows,” of knowing how things are and how to do things, that are taken for granted in our lives. They are nonrepresentational and pre-Intentional mental and physical capacities that can be characterized as the deep and local cultural Background. In general, the deep Background consists of universal modalities of perception such as, vision, audioception, olfaction, tactition, gustation, proprioception, aesthetic, linguistic, social, and moral. Human beings…

have watched a few documentaries that included Africa and changed my view of the continent. When most people think of Africa, they think of warring tribes that use sticks to fight one another; they think of failing countries and terrorists. However, Africa is very abundant and manifold in culture. There are many different ethnic groups throughout Africa that have their own food, music, art, and oral stories that make them who they are. They have unique customs and traditions just as people…