The Culture That Make It Up In Avatar's Culture

Avatar One of the most interesting aspects of the movie Avatar is the culture that makes it up. The Na’vi is an entirely made up and brand new culture with language, norms, relationships, religion, and beliefs. Western civilization tries to move in on their land and their ways, believing the Na’vi are savage and primordial who must be living in the past due to their lack of modern technology uses and spending their every day and night in nature. The Na’vi have very close ties to their ancestors and believe that they themselves make up the land. Their life revolves greatly around nature, and it is significantly respected by the researchers who are using participation observation with them-living among their tribe and thoroughly studying their lives. It is very similar to anthropologists today who study diverse indigenous tribes and respected their beliefs regardless of the differences to their own society. It is very important for the researchers in the movie, just as
Researchers spent years studying their complicated language, beliefs on nature and Eywa, ancestral ties, and so much more. After that, they still didn’t arrive person to person with them; they had to turn themselves into a Na’vi and practice how to move, how to eat, and basic understand of what it is like to truly be in their place. Plenty of location and animal study was involved as well. With the planet they lived on, dangers were around every corner in relation to the creatures that resided. The Na’vi’s did not kill them, however, but had learned to live among them in peace. If something should happen where defense was needed, a prayer was said to the dead animal to put there soul at one with the land and with Eywa. They were very skeptical of outsiders. It was outstanding that the humans were able to provide Jake because he was the first to get first hand lessons about the Na’vi way of