The ngarrindjeri people had a distinct and unique culture, they had their own language and did not share any common words with the neighbouring tribes, this is thought to be because they did not have a great relationship with their neighboring tribes. The kaurna people to the west who had a radically different culture with some of the key differences being they practiced circumcision and were known to use red ochre, rather than the traditional white ochore.…
The beliefs and practices of the indigenous peoples of the ethnogeographic group of Pacific Islands known as Polynesia (from Greek poly ‘many’ and nēsoi ‘islands’). Polynesia encompasses a huge triangular area of the east-central Pacific Ocean. The triangle has its apex at the Hawaiian Islands in the north and its base angles at New Zealand (Aotearoa) in the west and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in the east. It also includes (from northwest to southeast) Tuvalu, Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna, Samoa (formerly Western Samoa), American Samoa, Tonga, Niue, theCook Islands, French Polynesia (Tahiti and the other Society Islands, the Marquesas Islands, the Austral Islands, and the Tuamotu Archipelago, including the Gambier Islands [formerly the Mangareva Islands]), and Pitcairn Island. At the turn of the 21st century, about 70 percent of the total population of Polynesia resided in Hawaii.…
Humans have a unique way of communicating with one another. We have the ability to connect with one another by various linguistics and languages. Since the world is so diverse, there are going to be countless languages that will allow us to communicate. Having multiple languages under our belts would not only grant us access to verbalize with different people around the world but also let us get connected with different cultures.…
Every culture in the world has its own set of beliefs and values that they value and practice to make up their culture. East Asian culture has been around for hundreds of years, so their culture has been around and evolving for a long time. They have many cultural ideas and values that are similar to ours, and they even help shape how we live today in Western Civilization. But, along with the similarities, there are many differences between the two cultures and the ways they think about life and the world around them.…
It is important to understand that an individual 's perspective of death and dying is greatly impacted by their culture. In this paper I will discuss how the Japanese culture approaches death and dying. I will also discuss the unique concept of organ transplantation that surrounds that Japanese culture. This paper presents the law of organ transplantation in Japan, which allows people to decide whether brain death can be used to determine their death in agreement with their family. Japan could become a unique example of individual choice in the definition of death if the law is revised to allow individuals choose definition of death independently of their family. The death and dying rituals involved in the Japanese culture will be discussed.…
According to Merriam Webster website, culture is define as the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations, the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group. It includes thoughts, styles of communicating, ways of interacting, views on roles and relationships, values, practices, and customs. Culture is shaped by multiple influences, including race, ethnicity, nationality, language, and gender, but it also extends to socioeconomic status, physical and mental ability, sexual orientating, and occupation, among other factors. The purpose of this paper is to gain knowledge about a different culture other than my own. I choose the Asian Indian Culture.…
Japan's cultural history has always had close ties to religion. From China and Korea came Buddhism, which to Japan brought not only new religion, but also new culture. Buddhist ideas, such as karma, impermanence, and simplicity were extremely influential in forming the contents and aesthetic ideals of Japanese poetry and art in general. Buddhist art, paintings and sculpture, as well as its architecture helped shape Japanese arts and architecture in general. However, Japanese culture is unique from that of China's and Korea's. This comes in part from a mixed religious atmosphere.…
Business has had a captivation over my intellectual interests ever since my freshmen year of high school. I chose to be independent and wanted to make my own path in my field of my interests and hence chose finance. I wish to make an impact on the business world and also be a successful entrepreneur. I have started early and taken the steps to ensure my success in the field.…
Literature review of Murray Li, Tania (1999): "Compromising Power: Developement, Culture, and Rule in Indonesia". In: Cultural Anthropology 14(3), pp. 295-322…
I. Introduction Feminist scholarship since the eighties (e.g. Yanagisako 1979; Yanagisako and Collier 1987; Rapp 1987; Scott 1988; Yi E. K. 1986; Ginsburg and Tsing 1990; Peletz 1994; 1995; Thorne 1992; Weston 1990) has widely criticized the conceptual oppositions of family and work, production and reproduction, domestic and public, as long used in Western social science. According to the feminist critique of “androcentric” Western social theory, the analytic dichotomies of work/ family or production/reproduction have led to a lack of attention to women’s political and productive activities in Western social science. As Scott points out, women have not been treated as historical subjects because of these conceptual oppositions. Because gender is seen as relevant only to the private sphere of family, the discussion of labor or work in industrial society has been “production-centered,” overlooking the workers’ family and gender identities (Joyce 1987, 9; Bielby 1992, 283; Scott 1988; Yanagisako and Collier 1987, 24). Family or “domestic” life also has been treated as if it is set apart from the wider social, economic and political spheres. Insulated from the wider society, it has been viewed as the hold of tradition, “the focal point of all sorts of reproduction” (Yanagisako and Collier 1987, 22). In this analytic division, “universal” gender inequality has been ultimately explained in terms of the woman’s reproductive role in the family.…
South Sulawesi divided into 20 regencies. One of them is called Tana Toraja, which is located on plateau in the north of capital city of South Sulawesi, Makassar. South Sulawesi known with their various ethnic groups such as: Suku Bugis, Suku Makassar, and Suku Toraja. The latest ethnic group, Suku Toraja, is the ethnic group that most of them live in Tana Toraja. According to a book Tana Toraja: A Social History of an Indonesian People, “Toraja itself is formed from word ‘to’ means people and word ‘riaja’ means highlands.” So, it means “People who living in the highlands” or highlanders.…
The Yajur Veda is related to yajna, which is not just sacrifice, but also means creative reality. The mantras (verse with archetypal meanings) of the Rig Veda are adapted to certain melodies and this collection is named Sama Veda, and the Atharva Veda deals with the peace and prosperity of human society and is concerned with the daily life of man.…
Culture is the idea, value and beliefs of a particular civilization at a particular period. It is more than anything else, ‘A State of Mind’. It is the way we behave, react to certain things, the way we perceive and interpret our values and beliefs. In its varied manifestations it forms the basic principles, ethics, workings and behavior. To define culture and limit it to these words would be an understatement. It’s like trying to control tornado and limit it to a corner. It’s a system of emancipation which continues to absorb within itself and pass on the society all that is activated by different races and religions, which come in close proximity with each other, giving it a new flavor and coloring it in a spectrum of new colors, over period of time. Culture is the mixture of several things like fashion, music, artistry, behavior, social norms, architecture and even food and dress sense. A living, vibrating, and dynamic activity which engulfs the whole of living, in a certain period of time. This is what makes up the whole panorama of our social fabric filtering down from the upper strata to the basic roots, to the common man on the street. The Indian Culture as we know it today is an assimilation of several social behaviors.…
In the north, the indigenous tradition of sculpture survived the zealous proselytizing of the Roman…
Communities who live in this world have their own norm and culture to show their identity which makes them different to others. One of the communities which still use original culture in Indonesia is Baduy Dalam community who lives in Banten, Indonesia. This research is conducted in order to know the deep information about the greeting language which is used by them. Method which is applied in this study is descriptive qualitative by using sociolinguistics approach. Data got from the field by interviewing some people in Baduy Dalam. The results showed that (1) the usual greeting used as ‘salam’ for Baduy Dalam to show familiarity and politeness among other such as, Tabe’ pun ka girang? which means ‘excuse’ in English or by saying ‘Maap bae’…