Sanema Tribe and Modern Threats
Describe the traditional way of life of the Sanema tribe and discuss modern threats to it.
The Sanema are a sub-cultural tribe. They are one which branch off from the larger group and category of the Yanomamo Indians. The location of this particular tribe is in the rainforests of northern Brazil and Southern Venezuela.
Subsistence is the action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level, or even simply, the means of doing this. There are many modes of Subsistence; these being the following: Hunting, fishing, foraging, horticulture, agriculture and livestock. The Sanema have a few of these. The modes in which the Sanema have are, Fishing, hunting, foraging and horticulture; horticulture being that on a small scale. There are some threats to these. Settlement and the process of over-hunting and the using up of limited resources. Encroaching industry is also a big problem; due to logging and mining etc. The Sanema have no authority to over-rule or control the decisions of the industries who wish to do things with the land surrounding the tribe. Even though the rainforests are the homes of these people, they revolve outside of the political government of Brazil and Venezuela meaning that they have no given physical or political authority of the land.
The Shaman follow strict beliefs and rituals in their everyday lives. The rituals in which they perform are called ‘Shamanising’. They do this by using dried up tree sap and a variety of leaves, ground up into a powdering texture and sniff it as a hallucinogenic drug. They believe that they have the power to communicate with spirits who guard them and give them healing powers; these spirits also visit the Shaman in their dreams. Each of the spirits are named after various animals. The spirits give them comfort, faith, hope and answers to questions in which they do not know the answer.
The Shaman are vulnerable to physical and natural illnesses. They have no natural immunity to diseases. When
The Sanema are a sub-cultural tribe. They are one which branch off from the larger group and category of the Yanomamo Indians. The location of this particular tribe is in the rainforests of northern Brazil and Southern Venezuela.
Subsistence is the action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level, or even simply, the means of doing this. There are many modes of Subsistence; these being the following: Hunting, fishing, foraging, horticulture, agriculture and livestock. The Sanema have a few of these. The modes in which the Sanema have are, Fishing, hunting, foraging and horticulture; horticulture being that on a small scale. There are some threats to these. Settlement and the process of over-hunting and the using up of limited resources. Encroaching industry is also a big problem; due to logging and mining etc. The Sanema have no authority to over-rule or control the decisions of the industries who wish to do things with the land surrounding the tribe. Even though the rainforests are the homes of these people, they revolve outside of the political government of Brazil and Venezuela meaning that they have no given physical or political authority of the land.
The Shaman follow strict beliefs and rituals in their everyday lives. The rituals in which they perform are called ‘Shamanising’. They do this by using dried up tree sap and a variety of leaves, ground up into a powdering texture and sniff it as a hallucinogenic drug. They believe that they have the power to communicate with spirits who guard them and give them healing powers; these spirits also visit the Shaman in their dreams. Each of the spirits are named after various animals. The spirits give them comfort, faith, hope and answers to questions in which they do not know the answer.
The Shaman are vulnerable to physical and natural illnesses. They have no natural immunity to diseases. When