The Mbuti Culture

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Mbuti Culture Introduction The Mbuti people are known as foragers because their main source of survival lies on hunting and gathering as they move from one place to another. They originated from a region in Africa called Congo. The Mbuti people even with their fairly decent population prefer to be grouped into smaller groups or bands which are mostly made up of close relatives. They live in the rainforests of central Africa, where they have lived popularly for more than 6000 years now. Different anthropologists such as Nowak and Laird (2010), and Butler (2006), recommended that these residents of jungles contain an exclusive background; position, morals and everyday life is entirely through big adjustment. It can be said that the Mbuti people live in their own world. This paper will discuss the kinship system and the social organization of the culture as far as how they practice equal sharing of food after engaging in hunting and gathering. This paper will also discuss how the Mbuti culture uses gender relation to determine their hunting ages. Discussion In 1958, their population was approximately 40,000. The pursuant gatherers of Mbuti people are separated into several subgroups. They lived within their individual region, where they have their own languages and engage in their hunting practices. Each Mbuti subgroup uses a language of a nearest person and they do not have a text method. Their sizes are usually small and average; they also have naturally brown skin and churlish hairs. Mbuti persons exist in bands of 15 to 60. They live in hot, sticky and plentiful precipitation forest which is sprinkled with lakes and rivers. It also has a wealthy variety of flowers and animals. The Mbuti have exte... ... middle of paper ... ...y people also stay around in some of the mountains and forests etc. References Angeles, Los. (2009). African arts. Volume 28. Published by African Studies Center, University of California. Nowak, B., & Laird, P. (2010). Cultural anthropology. San Diego, Bridgepoint Education, Inc. American Anthropologist, pp. 896-913. Robert, Bellah, (2011): Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age: Published by Harvard University Press: ISBN 0674061438, 9780674061439: 345- 348. Robert, Hellenga, (2010): Snakewoman of Little Egypt: Published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA: ISBN 1608192628, 9781608192625: 150-153. Theodore, J. Kaczynski, (2010): Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, A.k.a. “The Unabomber:” Published by Feral House: ISBN 1932595805, 9781932595802: 240-245.

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