Long Neck in Thailand

In this documentary, The Split Horn Life of a Hmong Shaman in America focuses on the religious containment of the Hmong people. Their rich history goes back to the time in a village in North East Asia where they believed that the Shaman were the great healers for the sick. The Hmong were living a peaceful life until the Vietnam war broke out and destroyed their village. Many of the Hmong villagers fled their beloved homeland in order to seek refuge form the war. Many were fortunate enough to find shelter in Thailand where they stayed for the majority of the conflict. Some were even lucky enough to get a sponsorship to America. As they slowly came to America the Hmong were worried that they might lose their religious roots to the American customs.

Southwest Asia is home to a variety of cultures as well as religions. It has an significant past with three major religions: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. It is quite remarkable that Southwest Asia has been a holy place for all three, and although it causes turmoil it is important to understand the three religions and their customs. Such information may help us not to judge so quickly or perhaps to grow in our knowledge about the world. Hopefully this will help everyone to have a wider view of the world than just the town they reside in or even the country they live in.

As defined above, ethnicity is the shared customs, values and beliefs that the cultural group shares that set them apart from other groups. The religion described within Knauft’s research is applicable to majority of those elements, making it a vital part of kogwayay. One of the Gebusi’s traditions is presented in the suicide description of chapter three. Dugawe, one of the men of tribe, was found after hanging himself, and in Gebusi tradition the women massage the body and cover themselves in the bodily fluids oozing from the decomposing body. While ethnocentrism may come out in a majority of people, this is part of the Gebusi beliefs and customs that set them apart from certain groups and bring individuals together.

Mongolian religion was different, they were animist/shamanists, who believed that medicine men-like shamans were able to communicate with the gods, heal the sick and predict the future. Tengri- ruler of heaven was the supreme Mongol deity. They used horses as

In our society today, culture is not what it used to be hundreds of years ago. There is no more “pure” culture. Our culture today is enriched with many different traditions and customs that are being shared and adopted. Due to emigration and immigration, a variety of diverse customs, beliefs, and knowledge moved with every exiting and entering human being. Thus, changing and shaping the culture of many. Throughout the world, the beliefs and religious views of culture are dissimilar around the world. By taking the time to read, listen and learn about certain people’s culture, there will be knowledge and understanding that will be gained.

Collars, which can be seen as the human equivalent of a necklace, can be dated back to at least the Egyptian times now that lavish collars have been unearthed from tombs. Then, collars signified ownership and wealth.

Kachowism is a religion based off of lightning. The religion is found wherever there is thunder forecasts all year round in villages, on mountaintops, but mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, especially in Australia, Brazil, and New Zealand.

I found these two companies are historically different from one another in such big ways. The Burma-Shave Co. advertising tactics were innovative for their time. In fact, so much so that they enjoyed a thirty-seven-year run. They initially started out with very slow sales. Then the founding members took a few hundred dollars and bought some wood and poles and created their signs. A series of short poems broken down in to one liners that were spread out over short distances along the highways of America. A part form theses signs they had very little if any ad space in media like magazines and newspapers. One short poem along the highway read “Our fortune / Is your / Shaven face / It's our best / Advertising space / Burma- Shave”. That short roadside ad really sums up Burma- Shave’s ad campaign. They wanted to connect with as many buyers as possible for the cheapest price possible. Advertising along America’s most traveled highways of the time was the best most efficient way to do so. In fact the many they saved on marketing most likely made it possible to do product promotions like large give-a-ways. One Burma-Shave

William of Rubruck’s was a Flemish monk who wrote a detailed description of the Mongolian culture. Mongolia is a land locked nation located in Central Asia. About 2.6 million people by the 2000 census inhabit the country. This paper underscores the features of Mongolian political practice and ceremony as from William of Rubruck’s Account.

These groups of humans and the culture that they believe in is very harsh due to all the different rituals and ceremonies that they have. The culture that they believe in also dictates

The Kapauku culture was based on a belief that universe is made and designed by Ugatame which means 'The Creator' in the form of males and females, like the sun and the moon and also believed in the flat surface of earth which has water on the sides and it goes as down as far as there is to go(Peters-Golden 2002b: 137). Kapauku

Everyone has different culture and their own belief. In Kansas City Hmong has their own culture and they have express their culture in the mural on the 751 Minnesota Ave. That whole Murals tells Hmong story and how they come to United State and start living on the Kansas.

The main religion of the Hmong people is animist which is the belief in the spirit world and the interconnection between all living things. It revolves around an important figure in each hmong village called the Txiv Neeb or shaman which is a master of spirits, this shaman can be a man or woman and they have the power to access the spirit world. When someone gets ill or suffers misfortune the Hmong believe it is the evil spirits called dabs who have scared off or kidnapped the person’s soul. When this occurs it is the job of the shaman to perform rituals in order to ward of the dabs and bring back the soul thus restoring health and harmony to the person’s

everywhere they go, we like piercings because it makes us feel more like ourselves. We like to

Animism often grows out of primal religions and mixed with one or more world religions. This occurs when there is an advent of a world religion in an area where animistic religions are already practiced. With the introduction of world religion in an area, it may seem like predominate, however its tenets and practices are usually followed alongside with folk customs based on spirit belief (Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) International, n.d.). The Karen people are one of the societies that still practiced the traditional belief of animism until today besides the world