Hunter-gatherers

Majority of the Europeans were immune to these diseases due to the fact that they raised live stock for quite some time. Therefore, the Native Americans had no immunity to these diseases, because they did not tend to livestock, they were strictly hunter gatherers. But, Native Americans were generally healthier than the European for several reasons. First, they had better diets, and secondly, they migrated to North America during the cold harsh winter, which may have acted as a…

Before conversion, the Guarani lived off the land and had a spiritual religion. They knew nothing of Christianity. The Europeans were not an agricultural, or hunter/gatherer society. They relied on the lower level citizens to give them what they needed, with the wealthy living more comfortably. The Guarani were not colonizers, either. They were peaceful people that did not like outsiders. The Europeans were conquerors…

spread all around North America. However, unlike the rest of the world the Americas did not domesticate many animals, in fact, dogs and turkeys were domesticated only before the Spanish arrived in the 1500s. This helped the society to move from nomadic-hunter lifestyle and rather domesticate the animals and plants, creating each one of them a special role in the society. Nowadays the Americas has domesticated even more plants and significantly more animals. People nowadays have strong bonds with…

controlled by one party leading to an increase in trade. Cultural exchange happened on the silk road but the mongols are also blamed for the quick spreading of the black death. Even with empires and new civilizations hunter and gatherer societies still existed. The Igbo was still a hunter gather society but had dense population and extensive trade networks. In north america the Iroquois speaking people had a loose alliance connecting the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, cayuga, and…

Amongst all the Native American tribes in the history of the United States, the Seminole Indians are one of the most notable tribes to ever exist. They first originated in North Florida and then even moved south to the area around the Everglades. Proof that this tribe was dominant is the fact that it still exists today. While land expansion continued in the Early America days, the Native Americans were commonly forcefully removed out of their land. However, the Seminoles refused to surrender…

and social expectations in their children, their role as such has shifted to a symbolic dominance. Mothers, in actuality, primarily maintain the family as they are saddled with most of the domestic, emotional, and child rearing labor. In early hunter-gatherer societies, the “division of labor is based only on sex…

Based on a collection of inuit native american myths the film “the fast runner” exposes the beautiful and intricate cultural practices of the native peoples while telling a entertaining and enriching story. The main character Atanarjuat, must face many obstacles to ensure his safety and that of his love Atuat. In the film, the people of Antanarjuat’s camp have been plagued with a curse for the past generation. Through the cohesion between Atanarjuat and the films main Antagonist Oki the curse on…

Anthropology in the 19th century was composed more so of the evolutionism of ideas, which differentiated cultural structures through different stages of evolution using the single deductive theory. Learning from the failures of the horticultural dependency dilemmas, the Neolithic Revolution began allowing people not to depend on nature to gather food, but rather produce their own food through labor. Which later developed a whole new world for humans, transcending from hunting and gathering to…

In an article written by reporter Steve Connor, Fry and Soderberg introduce the idea that certain tribes of hunter-gatherers find war to be a foreign invention to them. Fry and Soderberg studied 184 lethal incidents occurring within the hunter-gatherer societies and found that only a small section of the violence was an actual act of war, while the other portion was one person against another (Connor). These individually-based…

Robert H. Bates’ book “Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development” takes an in-depth look at how the two factors of either prosperity or violence work hand in hand in the development of the modern world. The different political structures of today have all come about because of prosperity and violence in different phases of each nation’s development taking it from the near egalitarian agricultural societies of the ancient world to the more modern nation-states that fill the…