Culture Shock If I knew I was going to be visiting and studying the Yanomamo‚ I would have tried to prepare myself with as much information on their heritage and culture as I possibly could. Being prepared for a culture shock which will most likely happen because no matter how well prepared you think you might be‚ being in an unfamiliar culture and around people who you are not accustomed to seeing can be a eye opener for anyone. So having some sort of knowledge of their culture and heritage will
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Greeting Differences & Yanomamö Tradition Application Assignment #1 Juliana Pineros Chaucanas Greenville Technical College February 4‚ 2015 Greeting Differences & Yanomamö Tradition Remember that time when you travel to other country and noticed that people didn’t speak your language? Or when you were greeting someone and they greeted you differently. When you experience this‚ you are experiencing cultural shock. Cultural shock is when you are feeling disoriented‚ uncertain‚ out of place‚
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We have no tradition of shamanism; modern day society is terrified of madness because the western mind is a house of cards‚ and the people who built that house of cards know that it is a house of cards. We have a great phobia about the mind and hesitate when first principles are questioned‚ Rarer than corpses are the untreated mad and this is because we cant come to terms with it. As Terence McKenna says in a lecture on this subject: “a shaman is someone who swims in the same motion as a schizophrenic
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evidence of racism occurring in our decisions to help when he found that blacks were much more likely to help a black drunk‚ and whites a white drunk. This suggests that we are less likely to help those with the least genes in common with us.<br><br>Chagnon &
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Food is needed as a source of energy and to sustain our bodies. Besides a need for survival‚ it is sustains our heart and mind. As the book states‚ “food practices of many societies can reflect religious and cultural taboos”. In all cultures‚ people sit down while eating their meals‚ whether it be families‚ friends‚ coworkers‚ and classmates. It is a time to share ideas‚ stories‚ whether formal or informal‚ creating traditions‚ and rules of what to do and what not to do while having their meal.
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Culture Shock Amanda SOC/120 July 24‚ 2013 Robert Bruce Culture Shock If I was visiting and studying the Yanomamo I would have went in with an open mind and tried to adapt to their way of life as well as I could. I do not think there is really a sufficient way to prepare yourself for a culture shock because you will always go in the situation without knowing everything about that culture. For instance my sister in law explained to me what it was like on her cruise to Jamaica and how
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also vary on what kind of society or group – i.e. Horticulturist‚ Pastoralist or other. Horticulturist Society Horticulturist used sharpened digging sticks and wooden hoes to plant their gardens. This was all until the 1950s. The horticulturists Yanomamo people used crude stone or wooden axes to down trees in the primary forest‚ with the wood they built their homes. Today they use machetes and steel axes (Scupin 2012) Pastoralist Society This group relied on moving around for their survival which
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Marvin Harris’s extensive research into the ancient world and the peoples who lived in it give an insightful perspective of the modern world. Though this work of non-fiction does not focus on a central thesis‚ its plethora of information makes one easy to extract: that human nature is‚ although many would like to deny it‚ inherently competitive‚ and therefore violent. Although heavily focused in on the Aztecs‚ Harris proves that across all walks of life that human nature is to be inherently violent
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Discuss evolutionary explanations of group displays of aggression The adaptive and functional benefits of aggressive behaviour must outweigh the possible costs in order for it to be favourable. Acquisition of status and access to mates are some of the primary motivators of aggression in non-human animals‚ but there are many theories as to why humans have adapted. One of them is the Power-Threat Hypothesis‚ which represents the fear of a political power being in the hands of a minority group. If a
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1. In the film Yanomami: The Dying Tribe‚ how was the Yanomami’s mode of production changing‚ and why? The Yanomami are classified as horticulturalists‚ using natural resources from the rainforest in order to survive. They take no more than they need to get by‚ in order to preserve these necessities and not endure ‘revenge’ from the Amazon itself. However‚ it has become increasingly more difficult for the Yanomami to continue to gather‚ garden‚ and hunt successfully. The supply of fruitful
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