Gender Distinctions Between The Sonqo People And The Yanomamo People

In the book written by Holly Peters-Golden, Culture Sketches, the Azande social customs such as dating, engagement and marriage share some similarities to our culture in that traditionally the groom initiates the marriage proposal and asks for the bride's hand in marriage from her father. However, after that, the events leading up to the wedding vary greatly from ours. Their culture also has homosexuality resembling other cultures (6-7). The Azande people also have political organizations called chiefdoms, like a kingdom, that are well-isolated. According to Holly Peters-Golden, author of Culture Sketches, "Chiefs functioned as military leaders, economic leaders, and political leaders" (5).We can compare Azande chiefs to other rulers and leaders who care for and protect their people. Lastly, in Culture Sketches, Holly Peters-Golden educates the reader about the Azande foundation of their economic system, which lies in their settlements and individual family homes

In the Mundugumor societies, they have standardized the behavior of both men and women as “actively masculine, virile, and without the softening and mellowing characteristics that we are accustomed to believe are inalienably womanly” (165). The Mundugumor women disliked childbearing and even disliked children. Unlike the Arapesh, both sexes of the Mundugumor people were angry and aggressive.

and the North American culture that we have adapted to, but just at there is

Different cultures have different ways of experiencing aspects of their culture. There are many similarities and differences between the Yanomamo and Samoan peoples. Cultural differences and similarities need to be paid attention to. Also, the similarities need to be celebrated. The Samoans and Yanomamo have different and similar subsistence methods, division of labor, occupational specialization, exchange of goods, and the economic link to power. The differences and similarities between the Yanomamo and Samoan peoples are striking and deserve thorough examination.

3.For the Fayu people, their religion was, and still is, Christianity, for the Eurasian people, religion caused major conflict between them, and for the Bantu people, they believed in survival of ancestors. In gender roles, the Fayu people had a single family way of life by the father going hunting and the mother stays home, the Eurasian people were pretty open minded with women and had them equal to men, and the Bantu people were also

Today we live in a globalized world, the world is interlinked on so many social, political, and economic levels that everyone’s culture has somewhat bled into each other’s. So it is extremely rare for anthropologist to find tribes like the Yanomami. “The Yanomami are a tribe of roughly twenty thousand Amazonian Indians living in 200 to 250 villages along the border between Venezuela and Brazil.” (Borofsky, R., & Albert, B. 2005). The Yanomami have been studied by anthropologist since the 1950’s and are said to be important to anthropologist because of the unique lifestyle they live mostly unpolluted by the western world (Tiffany,S., Adams, K., 2002). When people are as isolated as the Yanomami, it gives anthropologist an amazing opportunity to study the unique development of a society. A product of society is social construction, a social construct is basically a set of rules that a society establishes for themselves over time, the members of that society may follow those rules but the rules aren’t inherent. The world that we know and the most rules that we follow are socially constructed. One of the biggest social constructions is gender, gender is a social construct that can seep into every area of life, this paper will explore the Yanomamis childrearing, politics and religion through the lens of gender. While the Yanomami live very unique lives that we can and should learn so much from, today the Yanomamis way of life is under threat.

The difference between the culture of the Yanomano and the culture of mine are very different. For example, the Yanomano men believe in fighting as it is stated in the text. “The Yanomano are still conducting warefare. It is in the nature of man to fight, according to one of their myths, because of the blood of “Moon’ spilled on this layer of the cosmos, causing men to be fierce” (13). In reading that I immediately came to the conclusion that in terms of settling issues the men of the Yanomano and the men of the culture I am in now are completely different, because the Yanomano fight to survive and the men of my culture fight out of pure ignorance most of the time.

The woman spend most of their time fetching water, caring for their children, and visiting with one another. The woman of the tribe often spend a good deal of time weaving baskets and other small crafts and also engage to some degree in fishing. The other main responsibilities include cooking, gathering firewood and berries and fruits. The men of the tribe are responsible for the distribution of food for the Yanomamo people. Males do the majority of the fishing and hunting and while they do not eat the animals they hunt, rather they share their meat with others within the tribe. The favor is returned by other male hunters within the tribe. Male Yanomamis also spend time

The Yanomami Tribe of Brazil and Venezuela has been in existence for over 15,000 years and have migrated between Asia and America to South America. The current population of the tribe is at a low of approximately 32,000 living in two hundred to two hundred fifty villages. In my research I will explore some events in the history of the Yanomami tribe the have contributed to the reduction of the tribe and challenges that women of the tribe

In earlier Sumerian-Akkadian times, within these societies it was heavily felt that all were collective members of the same family, that all were equally servants beneath the same gods. The Code of Ur-Nammu relied on this concept of collective members of the same family, in that an elemental understanding by the people of appropriate

#3 Surviving evidence enables people to reconstruct the beliefs of the unseen of Paleolithic humans. Their spiritual world shows that the time is cyclical, which is mirrored in the life of women. Such examples were birth, menstruation, pregnancy, and death, showing Paleolithic people’s strong feminine dimensions. Some people were either polytheistic or monotheistic; however, polytheistic religions contained many levels of spiritual beings, such as the Creator deity, spirits of the dead, and other lesser gods. Also, to certain tribe members saw natural forces that were contained within natural elements. Paleolithic people’s interaction with spiritual world contained many ceremonies, but without any professional priests. Talented tribe members

Anthropologist Thomas Gregor said that there are continuities of masculinities across cultural boundaries. If continuities concerning “manly” behavior are present among men of varying societies, why is this so? What is the reason for males to be placed under pressure to “act like a man” or to “man up” and why is it a common theme found in so many different places? Why do boys often find themselves in situations that are meant to test or indoctrinate them before they are allowed to be considered a man? Male and female are two distinctions that all societies make, and all provide roles appropriate for the two sexes.

Today we live in a globalized world, the world is interlinked on so many social, political, and economic levels that everyone’s culture has somewhat bled into each other’s. So it is extremely rare for anthropologist to find tribes like the Yanomami. “The Yanomami are a tribe of roughly twenty thousand Amazonian Indians living in 200 to 250 villages along the border between Venezuela and Brazil.” (Borofsky, R., & Albert, B. 2005). The Yanomami have been studied by anthropologist since the 1950’s and are said to be important to anthropologist because of the unique lifestyle they live mostly unpolluted by the western world (Tiffany,S., Adams, K., 2002). When people are as isolated as the Yanomami, it gives anthropologist an amazing opportunity to study the unique development of a society. A product of society is social construction, a social construct is an invented idea that is created according to specific criteria that is established within a social system, the world that we know and the most rules that we follow are socially constructed. One of the biggest social constructions is gender, gender is a social construct that can seep into every area of life the gendered practices of the Yanomami are across most areas of their life, from childrearing to politics and religion the Yanomami live very unique lives that we can and should learn so much from, however, today the Yanomamis way of life is under threat.

We live in a world today that is consistent change. We are discovering our forgotten past and connecting the dots on how our society came to be. Among connecting these dots, in 1964, Napoleon Chagnon, a young anthropologist, traveled to the Amazon and came upon the indigenous tribe, the Yanomami. Through observation, and engagement, Napoleon Chagnon, brought to better hindsight of the inter-webbing of the inclusive Yanomami. Chagnon's research resulted a break through in the field of Anthropology. As time has passed, other Anthropologists have analyzed and some agreed and some have begun to scrutinize Chagnon's methods.

To start off, the duties and or responsibility of each gender should be identified. The Yanomamo females are baby makers and are expected to always deliver a male as the first child to their husband. After this, the wife arbitrarily kills or welcomes babies of any gender. The village encourages the birth of males more than that of females, so they can be trained to win wars and women as spoils of war. On the other hand, the infanticide of female babies is unknown to the men as they are mostly concerned with the affairs of their standing with their neighboring villages. Depending on their allies and enemies, they either get an easier access to meat or an even harder path. The Yanomamos have long exhausted their carrying capacity and have to search even further when they go hunting for any trace of meat. This is essential to them as they need the