ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tapa Cloth, Maisin Language, Zande People
5 Feb 2018
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Hunters and bombers society innu labrador- native tribe of people, nato military based for airforce, recently started affecting innu life, innu people end up protesting, innu people end up going to prison, theyve been seen as children. Universal, socially approved union, assumed to be permanent, economic politic norms, govern sexual access exogamy. Social arrangement where marriage is allowed only outside a social group endogamy. The practice of marrying within a specific ethnic group, class, or social group. Nayar people live in india, matrilineal, horticulturists, no marriage. Creates larger families, demographic imbalance, creates status polyandry. Hedican states (cid:1688)beliefs and patterns (actions) used to confront important patterns(cid:1689) Big questions that religion answers: birth/endings, death/endings, misfortunes/anxieties. Repeated, patterned behaviour which may be associated with the supernatural (religious ritual) or not (secular ritual) ex: tapa cloth for maisin. Rituals are places in which communities practice and express values central to the group - collective values/ meanings/ symbols.
