How can the nature of marriage and sexuality within the Dobe Ju/’hoansi and the Trobriand Islanders of these elements of their society help us to understand the worldview of these communities?
The Trobriand Islanders are a stratified social structure which is divided into owners and workers. they believe in the idea of sorcery. When death occurs Tuma is a place where the spirits go and where babies come from. There are certain taboos and ideas that after death, no joyful activities can take place. Certain good foods such as yams, fish, or pigs during the next days after the burial are also taboo. It is also taboo for a widow to talk to anyone, smoke or chew Betel nuts. If a man dies some is deliberately trying to weaken the matrilineage and …show more content…
During the mourning period, the village remains ritually closed with branches across the main routeways. The village is quiet and devoid of singing and dancing. All owners are trying to figure out how to accumulate vast amounts of wealth for the period ahead. Since Sorcery is the ultimate threat that causes death, therefore, everyone is a suspect. The elderly own spells and passes along information, as well as fame through the kula exchange and kayasa. Not all spells are bad, some are good and used for caring for the yam …show more content…
He’s at the center of social life. It takes a village and everyone works together to reinforce the egalitarian system.
Although joking link sexuality and aging in certain circumstance where they might have an avoidance relationship with mother and son, compared to grandfather and granddaughter where they have a joking link. Therefore, if any relationship can have a joking relationship, this means it’s a potential wife or marriage.
As the elderly are the most influential in a group this shows how powerful they are but many of the old does not have the typical old age diseases such as atherosclerosis, hearing loss, hypertension, stress diseases. They do have in the other hand sight loss, walking difficulties, respiratory diseases, tooth wear.
As far as the paranormal goes, Ghosts (//Gangwasi) are thought to be a cause of illness. They are believed to cause illness because they want the ill one to be with the spirit or gangwasi. In terms of the healing trance the N/um or a healer that can obtain energy or power assist with the ill but sometimes requires more than one healer to cure someone especially if the gangwasi is too
The Trobriand Islanders are a stratified social structure which is divided into owners and workers. they believe in the idea of sorcery. When death occurs Tuma is a place where the spirits go and where babies come from. There are certain taboos and ideas that after death, no joyful activities can take place. Certain good foods such as yams, fish, or pigs during the next days after the burial are also taboo. It is also taboo for a widow to talk to anyone, smoke or chew Betel nuts. If a man dies some is deliberately trying to weaken the matrilineage and …show more content…
During the mourning period, the village remains ritually closed with branches across the main routeways. The village is quiet and devoid of singing and dancing. All owners are trying to figure out how to accumulate vast amounts of wealth for the period ahead. Since Sorcery is the ultimate threat that causes death, therefore, everyone is a suspect. The elderly own spells and passes along information, as well as fame through the kula exchange and kayasa. Not all spells are bad, some are good and used for caring for the yam …show more content…
He’s at the center of social life. It takes a village and everyone works together to reinforce the egalitarian system.
Although joking link sexuality and aging in certain circumstance where they might have an avoidance relationship with mother and son, compared to grandfather and granddaughter where they have a joking link. Therefore, if any relationship can have a joking relationship, this means it’s a potential wife or marriage.
As the elderly are the most influential in a group this shows how powerful they are but many of the old does not have the typical old age diseases such as atherosclerosis, hearing loss, hypertension, stress diseases. They do have in the other hand sight loss, walking difficulties, respiratory diseases, tooth wear.
As far as the paranormal goes, Ghosts (//Gangwasi) are thought to be a cause of illness. They are believed to cause illness because they want the ill one to be with the spirit or gangwasi. In terms of the healing trance the N/um or a healer that can obtain energy or power assist with the ill but sometimes requires more than one healer to cure someone especially if the gangwasi is too