Zulu Tribe Final Paper Joseph C. Duron ANT101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor: Katie Custer 4/8/13 Way before the Zulu tribe became a thriving nation of their time‚ they were partly nomadic separated family groups. These groups were very self-sufficient based on their knowledge of herding cattle and horticulture. The Zulu might be the largest ethnic group in South Africa today because of their chiefdom separations and the military conquests they occurred. In this paper I
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BLACKFOOT TRIBE The Blackfoot People are one of the many Native American Indian tribes that roamed America in the early 1700s. Like many tribes they were nomadic hunters that lived in the Great Plains of Montana and the Canadian provinces of Alberta. The name is said to have come from the colour of the peoples shoes that were made of leather. They had typically dyed or painted the soles of their shoes black. SOCIETY: The society is hierarchical within the Blackfoot Nation; there were different
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The 1930’s were a time when social changes were happening at a much faster pace than in recent years passed. The fair culture of America was also changing. It was sort of evolving into what was to become an unrecognizable creation‚ both in the physical sense and the ideological sense. The fairs of the 1930’s however‚ while being the first time in history where we see large additions of amusement without purpose‚ as in today’s massive regional amusement parks. The old splendor of educational dioramas
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Reaction Paper on the "Krippendorf’s Tribe" 1. Approaches and Methods The quest of the Krippendorf’s family for a lost tribe in New Guinea demonstrates the participant observation method of research as James together with his wife Jennifer and their three children‚ tried living with the observed people‚ learning how they see things and experience things. Unfortunately‚ the family’s search fails despite their best efforts. After Jennifer’s death‚ James as a single father has been living off
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gorilla head. The Dr.’s reaction is that the store owner is ignorant‚ not only because the head he thinks is a gorilla‚ is actually a chimpanzee‚ but also because his belief that the medicine actually works. The Dr.’s take a trip and arrive at a small village outside the Congo Forrest. The next morning they head into the forest via boats. The water is so shallow that they have to struggle through mud on foot. They gradually reach dry ground and soon later reach a tribe with a community of
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Mbuti Tribe Trisha Kelly ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Dr. Carleen Sanchez December 3‚ 2012 I. In the Ituri Forest in Africa you will find the Mbuti tribe. The Mbuti tribe is one of several indigenous pygmy groups in the Conga region of Africa. The Mbuti are a foraging society filled with hunters and gatherers. In this paper I will focus on the Mbuti kinship‚ their beliefs and values‚ and their political organization. II. The Mbuti tribe‚ also known as “the forest people”
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The Winnebago tribe has two bands. One band of the Winnebago people resides in many places of Wisconsin and the other band of the Winnebago people resides on the reservation in Winnebago Nebraska. The Winnebago people migrated from the Mayans in Mesoamerica to Nebraska. There were plenty of epidemic diseases and wars that caused migrations to the Native American people. Before the Europeans invaded the New World‚ the Native American people didn’t have a written language‚ therefore oral traditions
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Algonquin lived in villages of small round buildings called wigwams. With tribes originally numbering in the hundreds The Algonquin were semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers‚ collecting food primarily from fishing and hunting. The Algonquin were first encountered by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1603. "Algonquin" was the French name for the tribe. The French were probably trying to pronounce elehgumoqik‚ the Maliseet word for "our allies‚" or Algoomaking‚ a Mi’kmaq place name. The Algonquins
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Over 50 years ago‚ Horace Miner published a study on the Nacirema Tribe. In the study he talked about their body rituals‚ and revealed to the world every strange ritual these people had. After reading this study‚ I decided to do one for myself. So I visited the Nacirema tribe. The things I observed still puzzles me. I noticed that everyday around the same time at daybreak‚ young Naciremas are awaken by an unusual noise coming from some sort of object. I have never in my life heard such an agitating
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My tribe is interesting in that they treated war differently than European countries did. The Crow Tribe along with other Plains Tribes (category of tribes that mine is in) didn’t fight necessarily over territory but more for reputation and courage. The Plains Indians also rarely fought to the death or destroyed each other’s villages. Instead‚ their war customs were mostly just injuring their opponent in battle but without harming him‚ stealing an enemy’s weapon or horse‚ or forcing the other tribe’s
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