ANTHRCUL 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Trobriand Islands, Zande People

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Holly Peters- Golden

Document Summary

Women"s wealth: deal in skirts/bundles (doba) as currency. Time and space: tried to live far from one another. Zande scheme: british introduced cash cropping ot them and gave them indiv. Contested violence: chagnon stated they were fierce/violent people; fights would often break out during meals someone would insult food. Hekura spirits: causes illness by consuming portion of people"s soul; beautiful; usually sent on behest of enemy village. Cultural changes: wildcat miners/gold rush 1987 brought heavy guns/disease; destroyed their way of life. Robert ritter believed they were susceptible to higher crime rates simply bc they were biologically born with those traits led to sterilization and deportation to concentration camps. Marginallity: faced hundred of years of racism, discrimination; levels of ed, health, and employment all lower than surrounding european counterparts. Imaginary gypsie; mysterious, ppl thought they were dangerous, unwanted, trickery, egypt. Came from china, laos, thailand ethnic minority group.