Mbuti

Africa is a continent cloaked in ambiguity. Outsiders have viewed it with disdain in the past mostly due to a lack of a fundamental understanding of the continent and its people. Once seen as a backwards place that couldn’t get things right or every truly be civilized due to inferior genetics. In the next few paragraphs I would like to discuss this concept and reasons it could be true and more importantly why it is not true. Vast portions of this continent were truly a dark isolated place…

claim that the division between genders in the workforce is present in every society. Citing clearly that in some societies, man and women have equal responsibilities and women do the work that is usually so male driven. She used the example of the Mbuti Pygmies, a society in Congo, who had no division of labour. When…

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…