ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture 4: January 26th
18 Oct 2015
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The sambians (cid:224) studied by gilbert herdt (1970"s: located in the south pacific, in papua new guinea, port moresby is the capital, we look at the highland region (which is really remote, very tropical and difficult to get to, organized in small clusters of villages, that live in the jungle and practice farming, semi romanic: tend to move frequently to avoid enemies and prevent taxing their resources and resource depletion, grow crops for their own personal use, not agriculture. With 100 people or so they can deplete the environment very quick so they constantly move around to prevent this: live in close proximity to about 20 30 different tribes, each with different languages but with similar cultural practices, male gender roles, warriors, tribe leaders in charge of politics and decisions regarding their tribe, hunters and guardians of their ancestry, culture, traditions, beliefs and creation story.
