As in many societies different groups of people are connected by similar
traits. People of hunting and gathering societies also share similar qualities.
Although the Kung, Shoshone, and Mbuti live in unique environments they still
share numerous common characteristics because of there life styles.
The Kung San and Shoshone make critical decisions in similar ways. The
people of the Shoshone and Kung are much like a modern community in that they
live together but for the most part live separate lives. They come together to
hunt, like we to work, but when the hunt is over they get paid, in the form of
meat, and go home to their families. If they should choose to any group may
leave the whole at anytime. The Mbuti choose to live as a whole. They act as
one family. All decisions are made by the community as a whole. If the group
cannot reach consensus on a problem then the group may split for that time but
will rejoin once the projects are completed. Unlike the Kung and Shoshone the
Mbuti stay together, for the most part, throughout the year and do not diffuse
when supplies become more plentiful.
The two most important things a person needs is food and water. Many
different foods are consumed by the Mbuti. There diet consists of meats, fruits,
berries, roots, fungus and insects. The Mbuti's food supply is always plentiful,
this is due to the habitat they live in and the small number of people living
off of any given area. The Shoshone on the other hand live more like a
scavengers because of their environment. Meat is rare, they tend to live off
the plant life in the forest. A large portion of the Shoshone's diet is plant
life. The Kung have a fairly balanced diet of plants and animals but water is a
limited resource. For the Kung the reason for moving is to stay where the water
is. In the dry season the Kung will all live in close quarters near the
permanent water holes. But as the rainy season comes they will be able to
spread throughout the region.
Foraging societies share three major traits. All of these societies share
the work that must be done in the camp. They all live in camps, meaning they
never stay in an area for an extended amount of time.
The Timucua Indians lived and survived in many unusual ways; but they did it the best way that they could with the little that they had. The landscape included, grass prairies interspersed with hardwood forests of oak, hickory and beech. There villages had about twenty five houses that were small and circular, with about two hundred people living in one village
Marjorie Shostak, an anthropologist who had written this book had studies the !Kung tribe for two years. Shostak had spent the two years interviewing the women in the society. The !Kung tribe resided n the Dobe area of Northwest Botswana, that’s infused with a series of clicks, represented on paper by exclamation points and slashes. Shostak had studied that the people of the tribe relied mostly on nuts of the mongongo, which is from an indigenous tree that’s part of their diet.
How Did The Environment Affect The Native American Indians With Particular Reference To The Woodland Indians?
Nomads of the Rainforest is a film which focuses on a tribe in Ecuador called the Waorani. The purpose of this documentary is to discover how this culture has maintained their cultural identity amidst Western culture and remained an enigma. The Waorani were known as savages and likely to attack any outside influence indiscriminately. These people were a mystery due to the fact that their savagery was brushed against the landscape of an egalitarian society in which all people were equal and must contribute to their society. The message of the film is to describe the Waorani lifestyle and how the rainforest is critical to their maintaining their nomadic lifestyle that has been a part of their culture for centuries.
Although we have yet to discover complete equality among the sexes in any pre-existing or presently existing society, the !Kung people are among the closest to reach such equality. The !Kung are an egalitarian society, meaning everyone has access to the valued resources. While the amount of access does vary, just the fact that everyone is includedat least on some levelwhen it comes to meeting the essential needs of living is significant.
As a result, their habitat is being destroyed, leaving them with no place to live and to nest their young. They are also being disturbed by human activities near their habitat.
In the text “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari”, Richard Borshay Lee is exposed to the lifestyle of the !Kung. Some of the advantages of researching in a remote unfamiliar location might be in terms of exploring the area. Because
Ethnographically, people like the !Kung bushmen are very specialized. In actuality, any and all of the remaining societies that have survived outside of mainstream culture must be very specialized. There are few places in the world untouched by civilized man (perhaps none at all), and the only places that have managed to elude him thus far are the regions that are generally unwanted. These places, like the Kalahari, Arctic Circle, and South American Jungle, are the only locations containing native people living in their traditional ways. All of the people living in these places have to live in a very specific way, or they simply cannot survive on what the land gives them. Of, course all of the ethnographic records we have show highly specialized people, we killed all the ones that lived where they could be more generalized and still survive.
Reporting party (RP) stated that she visits her friends at the facility almost every other day. Her friends are a married couple who reside in room #215 (RP did not provide their names). RP stated that the facility is short staff and that often times, the residents have to wait a long time for assistance. RP stated that yesterday (05/20/18), there was just one caregiver on the floor. RP stated that there are usually 2 caregivers per floor. The wife ambulates with a walker and the husband is wheelchair bound. RP stated that it took over twenty minutes for staff to take her back to her room from the dinning hall. Staff finally took her to the restroom, but the husband remained downstairs and waited even longer. RP stated that somehow, he was
Nadav Kander’s photographic gallery Yangtze – The Long River catalogues the everyday living environment the Chinese live along the Yangtze River. Kander claims:
Native Americans chose to live off the land such as animals and the trees for houses from the time of early civilization in the Americas to when Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic. In Thomas Morton’s writing he said “they gather poles in the woods and put eh great end of them in the ground, placing them in form of a circle.”
Urban landscape has caused habitat fragmentation to various habitats by reducing wildlife areas to tiny sections, or has wiped out animal habitats, cause animals to cross dangerous areas like roads and train tracks, and has cause pollution and minimal animal wildlife activity in the fragmented areas. Due to the human population growing, more houses, apartment buildings, office buildings, etc. Every time each house or other building is built, the habitat size is reduced, even destroying habitats and removing any necessitative resources for animals in that ecosystem. As well, since urban landscapes reduce the size of wildlife areas through human developments like roads, animals
Downies will also nest in city parks. About the only place you won't find them
Kung people of the Kalahari, are a very primitive group of nomads that travel in groups throughout the Dobe desert in Southern Africa (Kinsley 1996:39). There are several groups of Kalahari throughout this region, they are hunters and gatherers, which migrate to different watering holes during dry periods. The fact that they live so freely, openly, and untouched by modern society is amazing. Kinsley (1996:39-40) says, regardless of their primitive culture, they are a fairly healthy group of individuals, which work together, sharing what they have with everyone in the group. Kung healers can be anyone within the group that wants to learn or are given healing powers from Gods, ancestors, or severe illnesses they have overcome giving them the
The !Kung is a small population of people who are hunters and gathers. They travel in small groups that consist of 20-60 people because they are always migrating to different locations. The !Kung live in the Kalahari Desert of northwest Botswana, the Cuando-Cubango Province in southeast Angola and NE Namibia. The Angola!Kung tribe live in the tropical open woodlands. One-third of the Kung! The Tribe continues their traditional nomadic lifestyles. These few people are divided into separate groups who cannot understand each other 's languages. The !Kung people first was discovered on October 1963. There was two type of groups living in the Dobe area the first were the cattle and goat herding people. The Kung tribe started to settle in small, kinship-based, mobile bands. They would move many times