ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Transhumance, Wet Season
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All aspects of the nuer (beliefs, environment, productive systems, etc. ) Nuer tend to define all social processes and relationships in terms of cattle. Their social idiom is a bovine idiom idiom=language, bovine=cattle isc. An environmental system which directly conditions nuer life and influences their social structure . Go up hills in wet season to protect cattle from diseases. Wet season grain and meat (no access to fish but access to gardens) Don"t kill cattle but use them for protein and food all year round. Cattle must be kept in dry areas. Movement of people when they move their animals over landscape with cyclical patterns; characteristic of the group of people. Tie to cow"s horns to fermentate it to yogurt. Livelihood cultural adaptation that takes material form. Create swampy area with mounds of dry lands. Stocks dry but roots have constant access to water. Manipulate environment to extentuate production of grain. Sparse settlements, small, separate political groups: segmentation.
