Kung Wealth Analysis

This past weekend I was fortunate enough to go on a trip to Washington DC to attend an International Convention for Phi Theta Kappa Honors society. Little did I know that at about 4 a.m on a McDonalds run in the heart of DC I would have my “ah ha” moment for my Term paper. Our Uber (taxi) driver arrived to pick us up at our hotel and I was fortunate enough to hear his story about his journey from Africa to America. He has been living in Washington DC now for 27 years and it almost seems as if he incorporated every ounce of knowledge from Benjamin Franklins “Way to Wealth”. Our Uber driver informed us that he came to America to give himself a better quality of life. He wanted to make a name for himself, and to provide for his family. This man in a way incorporates Benjamin Franklins quote “early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise”. Although he doesn’t have quite the same sleep schedule as Benjamin Franklin he does live by the same

It is clear that the reasoning behind the color-blind parenting approach can be argued and in this case proven to be unrealistic expectations that do no match reality. But why does this matter? Is it really that big of a deal if white children learn about race from social media and believe that race does not affect them? Yes, because in our current day and age, race issues have not gone away, and do not seem to be going away anytime soon. The book “The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide” is written entirely about how even after hundreds of year, America still has an astonishing racial wealth divide, this book even states “for every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family

The Indians and English’s definition of wealth often differed due to the way their respective societies functioned. While both groups understood the concept of wealth, their definitions were far from the same. For Indians, wealth is not defined by the property that one possesses or the amount of money in a bank account. Rather, their definition of wealth has a greater dependence on a social power than financial success. This definition was derived by the way they functioned within their society. The lifestyle they led was that of a mobile one. This lifestyle did not support the owning of multiple goods because of the burden it placed on traveling (Cronon 53). As a result, they typically only own goods that would benefit them in some aspect of life, such as tools for farming or hunting, or they would dispose of their belongings was deemed useless (Cronon, 61). The English, on the other hand, viewed wealth as less of a social aspect and more of a financial

There are several different theories relating to the !Kung people as to their being equals and as stated by Russell Dekema, which conflicts to Friedl and Nisa, “It is known that there is a large social division among the !Kung and it is between men and women”. In NISA, the !Kung are stated to be something of an anomaly” and in a society of ancient traditions,

In the early 1960s Richard Lee did a study that will agues the ideas of the many anthropologists on the !Kung and how they lived as foragers.Many anthropologists thought the hunter gathers lived from hand to mouth. (Placeholder1). The Kung are a group of hunter gathers who live in small groups, share all food they have gathered with equal shares. They grather vegetables within a six mile radius of a watering well they live by. A two to three day supply of dry meat and plants are on hand most of the time. The !Kung do collect food every third to fourth day as an on going process. Vegetable foods are collected by the women and men collect plants and small animals.and hunt large game. The mongongo nut is a large part of their diet about 50 %. In the dry season, and they will walk many miles to gather the nut. Even when large game is not avaible the vegetable foods are, so they do not go hungrey. The Kung are a self-sufficent group. They have strong ethics on sharing and everyone getting an equal porition to eat.

The San people of the Kalahari Desert were ‘discovered’ by the outside world in the 1950s. The San are one of the oldest indigenous populations on earth. They have been around for 20, 000 years or more, with a history of living in small family bands. They were a people that never cared about riches or personal possessions as everything was shared among their people. Their populations survived through hunting and gathering in the desert and semi-desert environment of the Kalahari. Things have changed with the advent of the modern world and “civilization”. Today, most San live scattered over many Southern African countries, far away from their original traditional hunting grounds. Some of them are city “squatters”, some farm laborers, and

The Bakongo religion focuses on ancestor and spirit cults, which moreover have an impact in social and political affiliation. A strong tradition of prophetism and messianism among the Bakongo has given climb in the twentieth century to nativistic, political-religious improvements, generally xenophobic. The most profitable masterful expression from this range is the nkisi objects, which come in all shapes, mediums, and sizes. The stratification of Bakongo society realized an awesome piece of the craftsmanship being planned for those of high status, and the nkisi figures were one of the principle structures open to

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*Lee went to Botswana to visit the !Kung society in order to study their hunting and gathering subsistence economy. In order to accomplish this, it was essential for Lee not to intrude on their hunter- gatherer system by providing them with food, sharing his food or interfere with their food gathering activities in any way. However, scarce handouts of tobacco and medical supplies were appreciated, they were scarcely adequate to erase the glaring disparity

We all know stories of the rich unnecessarily splurging on overpriced luxury items, such as a ten thousand dollar box of chocolates, a forty-five thousand dollar shirt, or even a one million and six hundred thousand dollar pair of sandals. Imagine if that money could be put towards something benevolent, such as feeding millions of people who suffer from starvation. The current issue plaguing the world’s inhabitants is the ever-widening gap between the wealthy and impoverished, resulting in social and economic troubles. As wealth continues to leave the hands of the poor, only to drop in the hands of the rich, the common people become ensnared by the various complications that arise. The excessive wealth inequality between the wealthy and poor

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Thesis- Our modern world may not be as affluent as primitive hunter-gatherers because of the gap between unlimited human wants and insufficient means to get what humans want.

A 2010 special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Current Anthropology shows a fascinating way in which anthropology can emerge from current debates and quarrels in American culture, even while it looks at traditional "hunter-gatherer" societies. The special issue's stated theme for research is "Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and Inequality in Premodern Societies". If the reader is inclined to practice anthropology upon the anthropologists contributing to this journal, then it would have to be noted that this 2010 examination of this issue in premodern societies may come from an increased awareness of the issue within the anthropologists' own modern society. Between Bush-era debates and policy shift on the subject of the so-called "death tax" and Obama-era public protests about the "99 percent," the subject of inherited wealth, and inequality of wealth, is a serious topic for public debate in America itself. It is within this social context that the work in Current Anthropology's 2010 special issue begs to be understood. The first article in the special issue, "Wealth Transmission and Inequality among Hunter-Gatherers," brings together ten separate authors to consider the question which has come foremost in American culture by examining five sample populations in South America, sub-Saharan Africa, southeast Asia, and Melanesia. The work of Smith, Hill, Marlowe et al. in the article must be examined to understand how these anthropologists define their terms, find

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In immediate- return societies “every individual has a share of the social product, regardless of how much he or she has contributed to it” (Lee and Daly 1999). This indicates the importance of a fair distribution of resources such as food that may become scarce at certain times during the year amongst hunter- gatherers. Among the Ju/’hoansi, the distribution of meat in particular is noted as a symbolic social event, whereby the arrangement of the pieces of meat can take up to an hour in order to ensure that each recipient is given the right proportion (Lee 1993:50). This ritual of sharing is also evident amongst the Hadza and !Kung tribes, with Woodburn suggesting that hoarding food when another person is hungry would be socially unacceptable (Woodburn 1982). Thus, perhaps food sharing in such a distinct social context can be interpreted as a sort of insurance policy that reduces the risk of starvation and hunger within the community as a whole, showing that the hunter- gather ethos values society over the individual. Despite many hunter-