The Zulu enivorment
The climate of the Zulu community is mainly cold with a lot of thunderstorms mixed into it. A typical day the tempature averages about 28 degrees Celisus. The thunderstorms were not always a good thing for the Zulu tribes. The storms often scared the people so they would not get anything done or even talk to one another during the storms.The physcial adaption is mainly for the women because in the Zulu tribe men are rulers of everything. The women did the work of the house while bowing and respecting their men. Women did the work of keep the home in order and men defended thier home and their wives. The cultural adaption is the living situations. While some live on rural land others moved to urban areas to live. I would classify the Zulu as Hispanic because of the way use the religion and belief of their ancestors. I think as an anthroplogist it would be better to study the culture of the Zulu instead of the phyical adaptions.
http://www.google.com/baraza/en/thread?tid=2fe601ba4bd01082
http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Rwanda-to-Syria/Zulu.html
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Discussion 1
Five Words
Hierarchy
Magic Seekers
Ritual
Harsh
Listeners
Hierarchy
I chose Hierarchy because Miner talked a lot about the kind of government they had in the beginning in this article. Some examples of the are in the first couple paragraphs. They subject to higher more powerful individuals in the society. They are the ones with the most shrines in their homes. They had their medicine men higher than most people in the society.
Magic Seekers
This culture is built on shrines and body rituals. The shrines are something that every family must have. They use them to store charms after they serve their purpose. The charms are used to better help others.
Ritual
They base their entire culture on rituals. The boxes for the shrines are a ritual for every family, The charms are a ritual that the medicine men have to cure people in the culture. They also have a ritual that each day the family memebers bow their before shrine.
Harsh
I chose this word because of the latipso ceremonies. They take small children away from the temple because they say that is where you go to die. Going into the temple requires you to be naked which they do not do even in their own home. The men are helped and taken care of by maidens. The women are often scrutized, manipulated and poked at by the medicine mens.
Listeners
They listen to the medicine men because they think that they will help them. The men go to temple. They listen to the medicine men and then get help from vestal maidens. The women listen to the medicine men and they get scrutinzed, maniuplated, and proded by the medicine men. The women often get in more when they listen then the men do.
Part B:
1. I feel they describe America relatively well because a lot of America is this way.
2. My words are all very biased with my own culture. None of my words are free from biased. All them have biased tendicias.
3. Harsh could be switched out for words like tough and rough.
4. If you are biased when looking into other cultures you will make unfair judgements. You are bound to be biased when investigating because there are always things that you do not agree with no matter where you go. Espeically looking into other cultures.
Hierarchy
Magic Seekers
Ritual
Harsh
Listeners
Hierarchy
I chose Hierarchy because Miner talked a lot about the kind of government they had in the beginning in this article. Some examples of the are in the first couple paragraphs. They subject to higher more powerful individuals in the society. They are the ones with the most shrines in their homes. They had their medicine men higher than most people in the society.
Magic Seekers
This culture is built on shrines and body rituals. The shrines are something that every family must have. They use them to store charms after they serve their purpose. The charms are used to better help others.
Ritual
They base their entire culture on rituals. The boxes for the shrines are a ritual for every family, The charms are a ritual that the medicine men have to cure people in the culture. They also have a ritual that each day the family memebers bow their before shrine.
Harsh
I chose this word because of the latipso ceremonies. They take small children away from the temple because they say that is where you go to die. Going into the temple requires you to be naked which they do not do even in their own home. The men are helped and taken care of by maidens. The women are often scrutized, manipulated and poked at by the medicine mens.
Listeners
They listen to the medicine men because they think that they will help them. The men go to temple. They listen to the medicine men and then get help from vestal maidens. The women listen to the medicine men and they get scrutinzed, maniuplated, and proded by the medicine men. The women often get in more when they listen then the men do.
Part B:
1. I feel they describe America relatively well because a lot of America is this way.
2. My words are all very biased with my own culture. None of my words are free from biased. All them have biased tendicias.
3. Harsh could be switched out for words like tough and rough.
4. If you are biased when looking into other cultures you will make unfair judgements. You are bound to be biased when investigating because there are always things that you do not agree with no matter where you go. Espeically looking into other cultures.
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