Human Behaviors : The Roles Of The Yanomamo Men

In the Yanomamo culture, warfare is practiced as a way to demonstrate the strength of a village, or individual. Overall, warfare is practiced in the Yanomamo culture because of a combination of factors. One of the proximate, or indirect, causes of the violence include seeking revenge for villagers who have been killed. Another proximate cause of violence that it is used to steal women from other villages in order to increase the number of available wives. Also, villages must appear intimidating and tough so that other villages do not raid them. These are a few of the proximate causes of violence. Competition over scarce resources is one ultimate, or root, cause of violence. Men who are violent may gain greater social status, which encourages violence overall. Another ultimate cause of the violence is the lack of strong political leadership within the villages. These villages do not have leaders to stop violence or structure violence in productive ways. Without such leaders, villagers are more likely to rely on violence in impulsive ways. Hostility between villages often results in violence, as there are no leaders to resolve the hostility. In addition, another ultimate cause of violence is the geographical environment of the Yanomamo. Since the Yanomamo territory is restricted, and often invaded by outsiders, available land becomes more scarce. This causes competition for land to increase, which increases violence. Since people of the Yanomamo cannot move into areas

Yanomami were very simple, innocent, and flawless people. No social class, no God, no leader and no money concept exist between them. They depend on the forest for their needs.

In the Ibo tribe, women and children were seen as inferior compared to men in the eyes of society. Women have weddings arranged by their parents. After getting married, the women are considered to be the property of the husband. The main purpose of women in the Ibo society was staying home and taking care of the home and children. It was very important for a woman to give birth to a child, preferably a boy so that

“The Feast of the New Yam… was an occasion for giving thanks to Ani, the earth goddess and the source of all fertility” (36). The importance of this goddess demonstrates that women have a place of power in Ibo religion as well.

There were a ton of gender differences going on in both Sonqo and Yanomamo. In Sonqo, the major gender differences, to me, were shown numerously in traditional rituals performed. Every tradition was performed by a man and the men always played the most important part. An example of this was when they would share the bundles of coca for chewing. During the exchange of these, men always received it

Like in most hunter-gatherer societies, The Mukogodo and Hadza both have a sexual division of labor, where the men and women often engage in different types of work. These two communities are similar in the fact that men are often the ones who are often spending more time foraging or gaining wealth and women often take care of the more domestic work and child rearing. For example, in both societies women are the ones who are fetching water and firewood for the home, and in the Mukogodo world it is common to see women carrying as many as thirty liters of water. Among the Mukogodo women spend 16% of their time taking care of domestic needs, while men only spend about 4%. However, Mukogodo men outweigh woman in earning wages, where they spend 11% of their time doing so. In both societies the women are the ones who do the processing and cooking of food. Another similarity in regards to labor, is that children from both societies start working and foraging from a young age. Among the Hadza, by the time children are 8 years old they go foraging with the women

Yam, the king of crops, was a man’s crop” (Achebe, 1994, p.22-23). This proves that there are gender roles in every aspect of the Igbo culture including the growing of crops. It is a man job to do the yams because yams are the main food staple of the Igbo culture. In this culture is a man’s job to provide for the family. The yams also show masculinity because it shows they're not afraid of hard work. Even if Igbo faction are sophisticated in male/ female jobs and partnership others may argue that Igbo faction are

The men and women on Wogeo both lead very different lives, this is made clear by the distinct rituals that each sex participates in throughout their life, the roles held in tribal events as well as the strict customs that are adhered to in the daily life. Now, though the men and women have very different customs that they practice, both sexes of Wogeo are noticeably similar on a social scale. The truth is that on the island of Wogeo the tribes are male dominated. Through practiced customs and social norms the women of Wogeo are able to increase their social status to be on par with that of the men.

Another similar topic of interest was the children in the movie. Again, the gender of children was discriminated by how males were favored over females. This is of course due to the fact that the male would be able to carry on the family line, while the female would not be able to. The reason why Qiu Ju’s husband was kicked in the groin was for saying that the village political head “could only breed hens,” it was said with such condescending tone that clearly displayed how males are favored over females. On the contrary, Ermo taunts her neighbor about the virility of her husband since he has not been able to produce a male yet. The neighbor does not take these comments lightly and retorts with her own remarks of Ermo’s husband’s virility.

The Mbuti people are known as foragers because their main source of survival lies on hunting and gathering as they move from one place to another. They originated from a region in Africa called Congo. The Mbuti people even with their fairly decent population prefer to be grouped into smaller groups or bands which are mostly made up of close relatives. They live in the rainforests of central Africa, where they have lived popularly for more than 6000 years now.

Deep in the Mukogodo forest located in west central Kenya is where you will find the last of the Mukogodo people. Throughout history there have been significant changes for the Mukogodo people as they try to transition their culture and ethnicity to be Maasai. Before the transition in the early 1920’s to Maasai, Mukogodos were foraging, bee keeping people with their language, Yaaku, and lived in rock caves. Now they are pastoralists who speak only Maa, and no longer live in caves. Sadly even after all the changes they have made, Mukogodos are still not accepted as Maasai and are viewed as the bottom rung of the regional hierarchy.

When I went exploring in Eastern Africa my favorite kingdom was Oromo, the political features are very interesting and very different, the social features I thought where very interesting because they speech such an odd language and just like any other language there is lots of slang, and the econimic feature would have to be that they don't have much it is so different from the U.S.

Things Fall Apart. In the Igbo culture, there is a grave amount of restrictions on what women can, and cannot do due to male dominance. The yam, is a significant element of the Igbo culture which meant food and life for the women, but meant so much more to the Igbo men. Achebe writes, “His mother and sisters worked hard enough, but they grew women’s crops, like coco-yams, beans, and cassava.

Gender roles have influenced the thought process of societies for decades. They have been used as a template that dictates what women and men should or should not do, promoting illiberal practices that keep civilizations away from reaching gender equity. We see a micro-example of this when Ramo, a Kurdish man, desperately waits for news while his wife, Havar, gives birth to their baby. Ramo combs his hair a certain way and begs god for the baby to be a boy. A few moments after, with the help of the women of the community, a baby girl was successfully born, which destroyed Ramo expectations making him upset at the fact that his baby was a girl. This reaction clearly implies the immense importance of gender within Ramo’s family. The film I

Thus, more and more profound changes are taking place in the traditionally and social construction of gender roles according to sex, leading to a conception of the masculine and differentiated and hierarchical in terms of importance, according to which they were attributed to the man roles and responsibilities in the public domain, livelihoods, and results orientation, Competitiveness, and strength, and to women 's private, home-based and family-based roles, on the basis of In more emotional and relational characteristics