Anthology the Enga Tribe
The Enga Horticulturalist Tribe of Papau New Guinea
Hypothesis:
The Enga culture was unique to the Enga society; it was their acceptable traditional way of life that worked for them for many generations.
Introduction
The Enga Tribes were from the hilly highland terrain of Papau New Guinea. All Enga were horticulturalists, in other words farmers working small fields in which the planted and gave special individual attention to large mounds of tubers (taros and sweet potatoes) that constituted the bulk of their diet, but they also produced large quantities of sugar cane, bananas and leafy vegetables. (Nowak & Laird, 2010) They had livestock for protein however; pigs were the valuable wealth items. They were a fairly laid-back, sedentary set of people who respected the terrain in which they lived and adapted various aspects of their culture to deal with the changes in their natural surroundings, environment and the social climate. (Nowak & Laird, 2010) Their culture was what defined the tribes; it was the way in which they behaved, it was what they believed, and what set them apart from the other tribes. The Enga culture was unique to the Enga society; it was their acceptable traditional way of life that worked for them. It was not anybody else’s to judge them or try to change them to fit into what is considered normal in the western world.
Kinship
Kinship or social and family relationship was at the core of the Enga culture. The family, however strange the cultural practices, is the first group that provides satisfaction for the basic need to belong. Humans are social beings and do not exist in isolation. People have a deep-down desire to belong and to be associated with a group of one kind or the other. The Enga tribes believed that they were descendants of one common person/being; hence the kinship or family was rather extended. As Horticulturalists, the Enga people developed specific farming practices and passed them down through the generations
Hypothesis:
The Enga culture was unique to the Enga society; it was their acceptable traditional way of life that worked for them for many generations.
Introduction
The Enga Tribes were from the hilly highland terrain of Papau New Guinea. All Enga were horticulturalists, in other words farmers working small fields in which the planted and gave special individual attention to large mounds of tubers (taros and sweet potatoes) that constituted the bulk of their diet, but they also produced large quantities of sugar cane, bananas and leafy vegetables. (Nowak & Laird, 2010) They had livestock for protein however; pigs were the valuable wealth items. They were a fairly laid-back, sedentary set of people who respected the terrain in which they lived and adapted various aspects of their culture to deal with the changes in their natural surroundings, environment and the social climate. (Nowak & Laird, 2010) Their culture was what defined the tribes; it was the way in which they behaved, it was what they believed, and what set them apart from the other tribes. The Enga culture was unique to the Enga society; it was their acceptable traditional way of life that worked for them. It was not anybody else’s to judge them or try to change them to fit into what is considered normal in the western world.
Kinship
Kinship or social and family relationship was at the core of the Enga culture. The family, however strange the cultural practices, is the first group that provides satisfaction for the basic need to belong. Humans are social beings and do not exist in isolation. People have a deep-down desire to belong and to be associated with a group of one kind or the other. The Enga tribes believed that they were descendants of one common person/being; hence the kinship or family was rather extended. As Horticulturalists, the Enga people developed specific farming practices and passed them down through the generations