The Dorze Community is located in the African Country of Ethiopia. This rural community has lived in the Guge Mountains for over five hundred years and are famous for their beehive shaped homes made from false banana trees. Their large beehive homes are considered genius by many because they last on average about sixty to ninety years. In order to reach Dorze a person . The name Dorze applies both to the community and the name of the ethnic tribe. The Dorze people living in several villages in the mountain mainly in the Dorze and Chencha Villages. They are part of the Omotic family and were once warriors. Although many of the Dorze people migrate to the nearby urban cities the majority stay and live a sedentary lifestyle. The Dorze community is known for their craftsmanship along with farming is their main source of living. Their skills in weaving and carpentry are exceptional which is why their homes last much longer than the typical hut. Modernism has a huge impact on the way that the Dorze have lived their life because they are slowly switching from beehive huts to a more rectangular shaped iron roof homes. The majority of the beehive homes today are mainly used for tourist attraction and have been converted to hotels. They wear traditional colorful garments made from the cotton that is grown there but there has been a large increase in “Western” style clothing. The impact of development due to the Dutch organizations have contributed to the cultural loss of the people.
Africa, like many other continents, was a very tremendous and a very diverse civilization that is very complicated to introduce due to all its wonderful but also diverse features and beliefs. From the differences between its society and language to its religion and politics, Africa always had the reputation that its empires, cities, and kingdoms never progressed in the developments and achievements for their civilization. Many people believed that the Europeans were actually the cause of Africa’s achievements and advanced developments for their civilizations. However, this is further than the whole truth. Before the arrival of the Europeans between the 15th and 16th century, African kingdoms, empires, and cities had many achievements and accomplishments
In the book “The Dobe Ju/’hoansi”, the author Richard B. Lee, an anthropologist, provides a detailed look into the lives of the South African tribe known as the Dobe Ju/’hoansi. Lee did a great job capturing one of the only societies that live a way of life very similar to our ancestors. I believe each and every reader will take from this book that living this way was not easy and will be grateful for all that we are blessed from in our western societies. Throughout his time with one of the only foraging societies that still exist today Lee takes us on a journey through the Dobe Ju/’hoansi traditional way of life. With this rare lifestyle may question their way of life and its sustainability. When reflecting back on this great read we can grasp their impact on their environment and how globalization can impact the Dobe Ju/’hoansi way of life.
The transportation of people, goods, and information is one of the crucial matters in the lives of human beings. Both developing and developed countries measure their development in respect to the reliability of their transportation, its safety, coverage, availability and the technologies used. The Ethiopian transportation system uses some of the United State transportation systems and technologies. However, the U.S. and Ethiopia transportation systems have very huge differences in terms of accessibility, technology, coverage, type and cost.
It is plain to see that Amish society is quite unique with their traditional lifestyles, refuse to use any modern technology, and strict set of morals and values. This uniqueness leaves the modern world completely baffled on how these communities can sustain themselves. People pass by the Amish communities and see this society almost as amazing as a reenactment show rather than a group of real people trying to go about their daily life. So to better understand this faction of people and their society, it is pertinent to analyze this phenomena from a sociological perspective in terms of culture and structure.
Imagine if there was no home to live, we were not assigned this topic to write. It is obvious to have different techniques and materials in every country and culture. It is different even in the same country, but different city or state; countryside and in a capital city. It is some advantage and disadvantage to the environment when a country made a home. There are two main differences between my country, Ethiopia and in the United States in order to the Materials and the benefits to the environment.
The first thing that strikes me about The Star of Ethiopia is the stark difference in structure and style. The structure itself does not revolve around a single person or character but rather of a peoples as a whole. The plot follows an entire race of people through history, and the urgency of the story is not lost, but rather it is amplified. Likewise, the style of the show requires a unification of collaboration to create a spectacle for show. DuBois gives a freedom to a production to make a production of his pageant specific to their wants in needs while also still ensuring that a truthful history is given. The theme of these two aspects is a collectivism that permeates the psychology and culture of people of color, which truly separates this show from the other theatre of the time. The collectivism that DuBois uses in The Star of Ethiopia is illustrated as a collective retelling the history of African Americans, but also sets in motion a redefining of what it means to be African American and how they
WH9 Kaulike Jansen Africa DBQ January 6, 2016 Before the Europeans arrived to the empires, kingdoms, and cities of Africa, the African civilization flourished in many achievements with Art, political status, trade, and culture. The Africa we know today is not like the Africa we knew before the Europeans arrived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Africa traders have used their skills to trade with other lands. Beautiful cities were built with an advanced political structure like the city of Kilwa. They even maintained a thriving culture.
The Nez Perce lived together in groups of families, in small villages by streams or rivers. They made large dwellings for ceremonial purposes or for housing large amounts
During the age of cross-cultural interactions, regions went through similar changes and continuities. These regions allowed consistent causes and effects to emerge and change their societies. These changes and continuities are evident in the regional societies located within Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas from 600 to 1450 CE, opportunities for women changed, however religion and labor continued to influence society.
The image that I first selected was the Cahokia Mounds. The land covered about 2,000 acres and ranged from 10,000-30,000 people (64). According to the image, the inhabitants live by farming and they had great architectures. They had a well organized community and it looks to follow a certain order. Basically, the community was well kept and organized. The image shows a society that is proper and that everyone in the community has an important part in the community. That each individual has a certain part in the community that keeps it rolling. Overall, the inhabitants had a structure of their society that showed how organized and well put the community was.
Their great Ogashes, massive animals with eight legs and hard shells on their backs, carry housing for many in the clan. The rest carry along with it, herd animals with a great caravan through the grasses. Several Ogashes could be with the largest clans. Merchandise of all kinds come with, and great packs of seed and plant as well to plant and grow the world, or feed their animals. The homes on the backs of the Ogashes would be made of basic wood or tents, not much compared to the great manors in the Polar City States. Many great tents are carried along as well, so that when the clan stops, a whole village can be set up in only a few hours, and taken down even quicker. Bright vibrant colors fill the caravan, and the stench of dried meat and dung as well. Water is always at hand, always.
I have lived in Ethiopia and in the United States. When I came to the United States before 5 years ago I was having a hard time to get used to with the time flow. It was a summer time and at 8:00 pm it looks like a day I was surprised I have never seen something like that in my life before. I will never forget what happened once I registered for class at 1:30 pm and I was so confused with the time since we don’t use AM and PM time division in Ethiopia. I thought that my class was a morning class and when I came to the school 30 minutes early nobody was there. I asked the security guy and he told me that my class is in the afternoon. Ethiopia and the United States have differences in traditions, language, and economy.
showed us the many traditions and the ways that they lived. On the map they are close together, but were
“ETHIOPIA IS BLEEDING.” Well-educated, trained, and experienced sons and daughters of the motherland are flooding from the ups, downs, hills, and mountains to the rest of the world. There is no much more affected nation by the brain drain than Ethiopia in the continent – Africa. In Ethiopia the brain drain issue is becoming controversial. It can be mouth fully said that regarding this human capital flight, no national consensus is reached at all. The government and the intellectual public look at the case from different points of view. Of course, both the good and the bad perspectives have merits, and demerits. On the one hand, the nation can neither control the outflow of skill nor ignore its consequences on the larger community, because of
Human origins, evolution, and diffusion are important for understanding the history of Africa. African historians take pride in the fact that Africa is most certainly the birthplace of humanity. There is evidence showing that humanity began in Africa by remains left behind by human groups and societies. They have retrieved fossils of living organisms, and even written records, like cave drawings. Dating back millions of years ago Africa provides the best time line of human development because other parts of the world do not have evidence dating back as far as in Africa. Where did humanity and human history begin? There are theories supporting both that, humans evolved from various parts of the world, and that humans rose in Africa then migrated to other parts of the world and continued to develop. The theory that has the most support is that humanity rose in Africa then moved to other regions of the world. Africa is indeed the home of humanity but because Africa is where humanity began they were not able to be at the top of the evolutionary ladder because their global location did not allow them to develop faster. Human history in general is difficult to understand but we can look at the past to learn more about where we came from and how our societies have developed.